Architect Contracts in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3,919 4,425 6,438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 10.54% 9.40% 9.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.35% 9.95% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 3,140 4,335
10th Percentile £490 £513 £513
25th Percentile £558 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £668 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £745 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £831 £825
UK median daily rate £650 £655 £650
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 62 16
10th Percentile - £36.28 £53.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.25 £56.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year - +13.42% +2.86%
75th Percentile £86.32 £75.38 £80.06
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £81.45
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 1,776 £650 -7.14% 336
South East +4 677 £650 - 129
North of England +17 506 £625 - 143
South West +3 466 £650 -2.48% 70
North West +25 326 £625 +2.59% 91
Midlands +7 266 £625 -3.85% 100
West Midlands +7 187 £650 - 66
Yorkshire +10 167 £600 -7.69% 41
East of England +6 163 £600 -9.23% 54
East Midlands +1 78 £571 -13.48% 34
North East +15 16 £631 +5.21% 11
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,318 (33.63%) Security Cleared
2 838 (21.38%) Azure
3 713 (18.19%) SC Cleared
4 710 (18.12%) Finance
5 673 (17.17%) Social Skills
6 649 (16.56%) Agile
7 612 (15.62%) AWS
8 535 (13.65%) DV Cleared
8 535 (13.65%) Microsoft
9 457 (11.66%) Public Sector
10 451 (11.51%) Migration
11 421 (10.74%) DevOps
12 419 (10.69%) Roadmaps
13 329 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
14 325 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 320 (8.17%) Degree
16 296 (7.55%) Data Modelling
17 272 (6.94%) Security Architecture
18 264 (6.74%) Banking
19 241 (6.15%) Enterprise Architecture
20 236 (6.02%) GCP
21 234 (5.97%) Python
22 232 (5.92%) TOGAF
23 231 (5.89%) Firewall
23 231 (5.89%) Microservices
24 229 (5.84%) CI/CD
24 229 (5.84%) Windows
25 225 (5.74%) Analytics
26 222 (5.66%) Java
27 218 (5.56%) Analytical Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 106 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.28%) Confluence
3 40 (1.02%) Apache
4 39 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 38 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 17 (0.43%) CMS
9 11 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 10 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.18%) SAS
13 6 (0.15%) Appian
13 6 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 6 (0.15%) IIS
13 6 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.077%) Drupal
14 3 (0.077%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 42 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 30 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.46%) AutoCAD
4 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.051%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.051%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.051%) Revit
9 1 (0.026%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 73 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 61 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 21 (0.54%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 14 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
7 10 (0.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.20%) Primavera
8 8 (0.20%) SAP BPC
8 8 (0.20%) SAP EWM
8 8 (0.20%) Temenos T24
9 7 (0.18%) Loan IQ
9 7 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.15%) SAP FI-AP
10 6 (0.15%) SAP HR
11 5 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.13%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 838 (21.38%) Azure
2 612 (15.62%) AWS
3 236 (6.02%) GCP
4 177 (4.52%) Power Platform
5 168 (4.29%) SaaS
6 153 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 130 (3.32%) PaaS
8 115 (2.93%) Dynamics 365
8 115 (2.93%) IaaS
9 79 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
9 79 (2.02%) Entra ID
10 78 (1.99%) Serverless
11 76 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (1.48%) Snowflake
13 43 (1.10%) dbt
14 42 (1.07%) GitHub
15 40 (1.02%) Amazon S3
16 34 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 34 (0.87%) PowerApps
17 32 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 231 (5.89%) Firewall
2 184 (4.70%) WAN
3 146 (3.73%) LAN
4 99 (2.53%) VPN
5 88 (2.25%) Network Security
6 87 (2.22%) SSL
7 62 (1.58%) MPLS
8 53 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 46 (1.17%) VoIP
10 43 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
11 41 (1.05%) BGP
11 41 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
12 39 (1.00%) DNS
13 37 (0.94%) PBX
14 30 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
15 23 (0.59%) Internet
16 20 (0.51%) SAN
17 19 (0.48%) WLAN
18 18 (0.46%) DHCP
19 17 (0.43%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (3.47%) Data Lake
2 135 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (2.50%) Power BI
4 96 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 90 (2.30%) SQL Server
6 89 (2.27%) Big Data
7 78 (1.99%) Metadata
8 52 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (1.12%) Data Vault
10 43 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
11 41 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 36 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
13 35 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 34 (0.87%) BigQuery
14 34 (0.87%) Tableau
15 33 (0.84%) Apache Arrow
15 33 (0.84%) Dremio
16 32 (0.82%) Apache Ignite
17 24 (0.61%) Hadoop
18 23 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 89 (2.27%) JIRA
2 59 (1.51%) Jenkins
3 42 (1.07%) Git
4 24 (0.61%) ERwin
5 22 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (0.38%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.36%) MSI
9 13 (0.33%) GitLab
10 11 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.20%) ER Studio
12 7 (0.18%) Selenium
12 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.15%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.13%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.13%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 4 (0.10%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.10%) Postman
15 4 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 710 (18.12%) Finance
2 673 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 457 (11.66%) Public Sector
4 264 (6.74%) Banking
5 218 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 186 (4.75%) Telecoms
7 146 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 102 (2.60%) Marketing
9 95 (2.42%) Electronics
10 87 (2.22%) Retail
11 82 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 52 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.28%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 43 (1.10%) Legal
17 42 (1.07%) Front Office
18 40 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
19 33 (0.84%) Financial Institution
20 32 (0.82%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (2.48%) Web Services
2 87 (2.22%) .NET
3 82 (2.09%) REST
4 68 (1.74%) SAML
5 67 (1.71%) Node.js
6 61 (1.56%) Middleware
6 61 (1.56%) XML
7 60 (1.53%) JSON
8 58 (1.48%) Kafka
9 49 (1.25%) OAuth
10 48 (1.22%) React
10 48 (1.22%) SOAP
11 43 (1.10%) OpenID
12 39 (1.00%) HTML
13 38 (0.97%) RESTful
14 35 (0.89%) gRPC
15 34 (0.87%) CSS
16 33 (0.84%) Protocol Buffers
17 32 (0.82%) Pandas
17 32 (0.82%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 149 (3.80%) Data Centre
2 114 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 102 (2.60%) PKI
4 93 (2.37%) Public Cloud
5 82 (2.09%) Cloud Native
6 73 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 62 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 57 (1.45%) Data Structures
9 51 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 46 (1.17%) Onboarding
10 46 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 45 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 44 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 43 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
14 40 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (0.94%) Derivative
16 36 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 35 (0.89%) Analogue Electronics
18 34 (0.87%) Equities
18 34 (0.87%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 229 (5.84%) Windows
2 121 (3.09%) Linux
3 94 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 67 (1.71%) Android
5 66 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.74%) Windows 10
7 24 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (0.51%) Unix
9 19 (0.48%) VMS
9 19 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.33%) Solaris
11 11 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.20%) CentOS
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.077%) zOS
15 2 (0.051%) AIX
15 2 (0.051%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.026%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.026%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (16.56%) Agile
2 451 (11.51%) Migration
3 421 (10.74%) DevOps
4 419 (10.69%) Roadmaps
5 329 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
6 325 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 296 (7.55%) Data Modelling
8 272 (6.94%) Security Architecture
9 241 (6.15%) Enterprise Architecture
10 232 (5.92%) TOGAF
11 231 (5.89%) Microservices
12 229 (5.84%) CI/CD
13 225 (5.74%) Analytics
14 216 (5.51%) Data Architecture
15 211 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
16 207 (5.28%) Business Strategy
17 180 (4.59%) Technical Leadership
18 179 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
19 174 (4.44%) Architectural Design
20 166 (4.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 234 (5.97%) Python
2 222 (5.66%) Java
3 214 (5.46%) SQL
4 121 (3.09%) PowerShell
5 117 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 61 (1.56%) C#
7 57 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 35 (0.89%) C
9 32 (0.82%) C++
10 22 (0.56%) Scala
11 20 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 18 (0.46%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.33%) Bash
16 9 (0.23%) ABAP
17 8 (0.20%) Bicep
18 5 (0.13%) R
19 4 (0.10%) Go
19 4 (0.10%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,318 (33.63%) Security Cleared
2 713 (18.19%) SC Cleared
3 535 (13.65%) DV Cleared
4 320 (8.17%) Degree
5 101 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 86 (2.19%) CISSP
7 62 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 58 (1.48%) CISM
9 57 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 51 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 49 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 48 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 48 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 38 (0.97%) CISA
14 33 (0.84%) CCNP
15 31 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.48%) CCIE
17 16 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (0.41%) PhD
18 15 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (2.96%) NIST
2 90 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 85 (2.17%) GDPR
4 81 (2.07%) QA
5 70 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 38 (0.97%) NCSC
8 26 (0.66%) SLA
9 24 (0.61%) Accessibility
10 23 (0.59%) JSP 440
11 22 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 16 (0.41%) COBIT
14 14 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.28%) GRC
16 8 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.18%) RMADS
18 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
18 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 174 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 100 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (1.56%) Docker
4 37 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (0.84%) vSphere
6 29 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 14 (0.36%) RACF
8 13 (0.33%) KVM
9 10 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 8 (0.20%) ACF2
10 8 (0.20%) IAG
10 8 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.15%) Firmware
13 5 (0.13%) vCloud
14 4 (0.10%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.10%) XenApp
14 4 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 3 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 141 (3.60%) Terraform
2 87 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 72 (1.84%) Ansible
4 48 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.66%) Endace
7 24 (0.61%) SCCM
8 18 (0.46%) CSIRT
9 14 (0.36%) WMI
10 12 (0.31%) Grafana
10 12 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.31%) Puppet
11 10 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.23%) Kibana
13 8 (0.20%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.18%) logstash
14 7 (0.18%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.15%) PingFederate
15 6 (0.15%) zSecure
16 5 (0.13%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 535 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 205 (5.23%) SAP
3 184 (4.70%) Cisco
4 146 (3.73%) Oracle
5 140 (3.57%) VMware
6 126 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 124 (3.16%) Google
8 115 (2.93%) Juniper
9 110 (2.81%) ServiceNow
10 72 (1.84%) Databricks
11 71 (1.81%) IBM
12 66 (1.68%) Sparx
13 51 (1.30%) F5
14 43 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 34 (0.87%) Dell
16 30 (0.77%) Adobe
17 29 (0.74%) CyberArk
17 29 (0.74%) Informatica
18 26 (0.66%) Citrix
18 26 (0.66%) NetApp