Architect Contracts in the North of England

Architect
England > North of England

The median Architect daily rate in the North of England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 28 22
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 487 324 538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.27% 5.88% 7.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.04% 6.16% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 223 378
10th Percentile £463 £486 £505
25th Percentile £531 £544 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.65%
75th Percentile £715 £745 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
England median daily rate £650 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £43.50 £35.00 -
25th Percentile - £66.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +40.67%
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile £72.35 - £64.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
% change year-on-year - +13.42% +4.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,410 5,258 6,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.43% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,721 3,683 5,047
10th Percentile £263 £270 £204
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £598 £563
90th Percentile £670 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 163 272
10th Percentile £11.09 £14.05 £11.35
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.70 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +45.32% +11.99%
75th Percentile £47.50 £45.62 £33.96
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.60 £62.70
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the North of England

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +22 310 £636 +3.33% 93
Yorkshire +8 163 £600 -7.69% 45
North East +15 17 £631 +5.21% 19
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 113 (23.20%) Azure
2 99 (20.33%) Agile
3 98 (20.12%) DevOps
4 75 (15.40%) Risk Management
5 72 (14.78%) Finance
6 71 (14.58%) Security Cleared
7 69 (14.17%) Social Skills
8 67 (13.76%) SC Cleared
8 67 (13.76%) AWS
9 63 (12.94%) Firewall
10 62 (12.73%) CI/CD
11 61 (12.53%) Windows
11 61 (12.53%) Security Architecture
12 60 (12.32%) Migration
13 59 (12.11%) Microsoft
14 56 (11.50%) Public Sector
14 56 (11.50%) Design Patterns
15 51 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 50 (10.27%) Apple iOS
16 50 (10.27%) Android
17 49 (10.06%) Windows Server
17 49 (10.06%) Banking
18 47 (9.65%) VPN
19 46 (9.45%) Microservices
19 46 (9.45%) Node.js
20 44 (9.03%) Mobile Device Management
21 43 (8.83%) TOGAF
21 43 (8.83%) Architectural Design
21 43 (8.83%) Zero Trust
22 42 (8.62%) Roadmaps

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 15 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.44%) Confluence
4 6 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.44%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.62%) Aareon QL
4 2 (0.41%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 113 (23.20%) Azure
2 67 (13.76%) AWS
3 23 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (4.72%) GCP
4 22 (4.52%) SaaS
5 19 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.29%) PaaS
8 15 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (2.87%) IaaS
10 13 (2.67%) Serverless
11 12 (2.46%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.64%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 7 (1.44%) Apigee
15 7 (1.44%) Cloudflare
15 7 (1.44%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.44%) Kong
15 7 (1.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (12.94%) Firewall
2 47 (9.65%) VPN
3 29 (5.95%) Network Security
4 7 (1.44%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (1.44%) LAN
4 7 (1.44%) WAN
5 4 (0.82%) DNS
5 4 (0.82%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.62%) MQTT
6 3 (0.62%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.62%) VoIP
7 2 (0.41%) DHCP
7 2 (0.41%) IP Telephony
7 2 (0.41%) PBX
7 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.21%) Internet
8 1 (0.21%) SAN
8 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (3.29%) Big Data
2 16 (3.29%) Data Lake
3 11 (2.26%) Hadoop
4 10 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.85%) Power BI
6 8 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.44%) Metadata
7 7 (1.44%) OLAP
7 7 (1.44%) OLTP
8 6 (1.23%) Oracle OLAP
8 6 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.03%) GIS
10 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.49%) JIRA
2 14 (2.87%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.67%) Git
4 2 (0.41%) GitLab
4 2 (0.41%) webpack
5 1 (0.21%) ERwin
General
1 72 (14.78%) Finance
2 69 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 56 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 49 (10.06%) Banking
5 16 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.46%) Retail
8 11 (2.26%) Automotive
9 10 (2.05%) Legal
10 8 (1.64%) Local Government
10 8 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.03%) Marketing
12 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.62%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.45%) Node.js
2 19 (3.90%) Kafka
3 17 (3.49%) SOAP
4 15 (3.08%) REST
5 12 (2.46%) XML
6 11 (2.26%) Web Services
7 8 (1.64%) JSON
7 8 (1.64%) Middleware
7 8 (1.64%) SailPoint
8 7 (1.44%) IBM Integration Bus
8 7 (1.44%) J2EE
8 7 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (1.44%) Spring
9 6 (1.23%) Apache Camel
9 6 (1.23%) React
9 6 (1.23%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.23%) Spring Integration
10 5 (1.03%) HTML
10 5 (1.03%) OAuth
11 4 (0.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.39%) Public Cloud
2 15 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.87%) NHS
4 9 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 8 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.44%) DataPower
7 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.23%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.03%) CMDB
8 5 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.03%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.03%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.82%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.53%) Windows
2 50 (10.27%) Android
2 50 (10.27%) Apple iOS
3 49 (10.06%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.44%) Linux
5 6 (1.23%) Unix
6 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.41%) zOS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (20.33%) Agile
2 98 (20.12%) DevOps
3 75 (15.40%) Risk Management
4 62 (12.73%) CI/CD
5 61 (12.53%) Security Architecture
6 60 (12.32%) Migration
7 56 (11.50%) Design Patterns
8 51 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 46 (9.45%) Microservices
10 44 (9.03%) Mobile Device Management
11 43 (8.83%) Architectural Design
11 43 (8.83%) TOGAF
11 43 (8.83%) Zero Trust
12 42 (8.62%) Roadmaps
13 41 (8.42%) Threat Intelligence
14 40 (8.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 40 (8.21%) Enterprise Architecture
15 39 (8.01%) Technology Strategy
16 38 (7.80%) Business Strategy
16 38 (7.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.39%) Java
2 22 (4.52%) SQL
3 20 (4.11%) Python
4 9 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.62%) C
7 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.41%) Bicep
7 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 71 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.01%) Degree
4 13 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.64%) CISSP
6 7 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.23%) CCNP
8 4 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.82%) CCIE
8 4 (0.82%) CCIE Security
9 3 (0.62%) CISM
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMP
11 1 (0.21%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.87%) Data Quality
1 14 (2.87%) NIST
2 13 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.05%) QA
5 2 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (2.05%) Active Directory
1 10 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.82%) Docker
3 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) ACF2
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) RACF
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.46%) Terraform
2 10 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.21%) Istio
7 1 (0.21%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.72%) Google
3 16 (3.29%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.08%) Oracle
5 14 (2.87%) F5
6 11 (2.26%) Adobe
6 11 (2.26%) SAP
7 10 (2.05%) Cisco
8 9 (1.85%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.85%) VMware
9 7 (1.44%) Brio
9 7 (1.44%) IBM
9 7 (1.44%) TSYS
10 6 (1.23%) Databricks
11 5 (1.03%) Apple
11 5 (1.03%) AVEVA
11 5 (1.03%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.03%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.03%) Sparx
12 4 (0.82%) Mitel