Architect Contracts

Architect
UK

The median Architect daily rate in the UK 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 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4,520 5,262 8,309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 9.47% 9.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.23% 10.02% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,882 3,635 5,533
10th Percentile £497 £510 £513
25th Percentile £550 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £655 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £749 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 67 25
10th Percentile £58.75 £35.15 £53.20
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.44%
75th Percentile £85.99 £75.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £80.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
% change year-on-year - +14.90% +1.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK 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
England +4 3,919 £650 -2.69% 900
UK excluding London +5 2,135 £650 - 535
London 0 1,776 £650 -7.14% 346
Work from Home +3 1,579 £650 - 448
South East +4 677 £650 - 130
North of England +17 506 £625 - 145
South West +3 466 £650 -2.48% 68
North West +25 326 £625 +2.59% 93
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% 55
Scotland +3 100 £675 +3.85% 23
East Midlands +1 78 £571 -13.48% 34
North East +15 16 £631 +5.21% 11
Wales -7 12 £600 - 20
Northern Ireland +4 10 £650 +18.18% 9
Isle of Man - 3 - - 3

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,417 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 984 (21.77%) Azure
3 867 (19.18%) Finance
4 799 (17.68%) SC Cleared
5 795 (17.59%) Social Skills
6 717 (15.86%) Agile
7 707 (15.64%) AWS
8 598 (13.23%) Microsoft
9 550 (12.17%) DV Cleared
10 549 (12.15%) Migration
11 544 (12.04%) Public Sector
12 485 (10.73%) Roadmaps
13 483 (10.69%) DevOps
14 389 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
15 374 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 370 (8.19%) Degree
17 347 (7.68%) Banking
18 332 (7.35%) Data Modelling
19 299 (6.62%) Security Architecture
20 277 (6.13%) Microservices
21 276 (6.11%) GCP
22 268 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
22 268 (5.93%) Enterprise Architecture
22 268 (5.93%) TOGAF
23 266 (5.88%) SAP
24 263 (5.82%) CI/CD
25 259 (5.73%) Java
25 259 (5.73%) Python
26 257 (5.69%) Analytics
27 248 (5.49%) Firewall

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 117 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 61 (1.35%) Confluence
3 43 (0.95%) Apache
4 40 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 39 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 21 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 18 (0.40%) CMS
8 14 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 12 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 11 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 11 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 10 (0.22%) IIS
12 9 (0.20%) SAS
13 8 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 7 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (0.13%) Appian
15 6 (0.13%) JBoss
16 4 (0.088%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 64 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 37 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 16 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
8 2 (0.044%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.044%) Revit
9 1 (0.022%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 92 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 82 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 57 (1.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 34 (0.75%) Teamcenter
5 19 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 18 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 16 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
8 15 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
10 13 (0.29%) Oracle AGIS
11 12 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
12 11 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
13 10 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 10 (0.22%) Primavera
13 10 (0.22%) SAP EWM
13 10 (0.22%) SAP FI
14 9 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
14 9 (0.20%) SAP CO
14 9 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 984 (21.77%) Azure
2 707 (15.64%) AWS
3 276 (6.11%) GCP
4 204 (4.51%) Power Platform
5 186 (4.12%) SaaS
6 166 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
7 139 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
7 139 (3.08%) PaaS
8 129 (2.85%) IaaS
9 95 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (2.10%) Entra ID
10 86 (1.90%) Serverless
11 84 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
12 62 (1.37%) Snowflake
13 46 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.02%) GitHub
14 45 (1.00%) dbt
15 42 (0.93%) PowerApps
16 41 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
17 40 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 248 (5.49%) Firewall
2 199 (4.40%) WAN
3 161 (3.56%) LAN
4 109 (2.41%) VPN
5 106 (2.35%) Network Security
6 87 (1.92%) SSL
7 66 (1.46%) MPLS
8 60 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 56 (1.24%) VoIP
10 43 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
11 42 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
12 41 (0.91%) BGP
12 41 (0.91%) DNS
13 39 (0.86%) PBX
14 32 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
15 23 (0.51%) Internet
16 22 (0.49%) WLAN
17 21 (0.46%) SAN
18 19 (0.42%) NetScaler
18 19 (0.42%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (3.21%) Data Lake
3 113 (2.50%) Power BI
4 104 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 98 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 96 (2.12%) Big Data
7 86 (1.90%) Metadata
8 53 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
9 49 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 46 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
11 45 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 44 (0.97%) Data Vault
13 38 (0.84%) Tableau
14 36 (0.80%) BigQuery
14 36 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
15 33 (0.73%) Apache Arrow
15 33 (0.73%) Dremio
16 32 (0.71%) Apache Ignite
17 26 (0.58%) DB2
18 25 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 102 (2.26%) JIRA
2 62 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.11%) Git
4 24 (0.53%) ERwin
5 22 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
6 20 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 14 (0.31%) GitLab
8 14 (0.31%) MSI
9 12 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 10 (0.22%) ER Studio
11 7 (0.15%) Selenium
11 7 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.13%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.11%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.088%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.088%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.088%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.088%) Vagrant
General
1 867 (19.18%) Finance
2 795 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 544 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 347 (7.68%) Banking
5 268 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 215 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 156 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 108 (2.39%) Retail
9 106 (2.35%) Marketing
10 104 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 96 (2.12%) Electronics
12 57 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 54 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 49 (1.08%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.04%) Legal
17 44 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
18 42 (0.93%) Front Office
19 33 (0.73%) Financial Institution
20 32 (0.71%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (2.52%) Web Services
2 104 (2.30%) .NET
3 103 (2.28%) REST
4 85 (1.88%) Middleware
5 82 (1.81%) SAML
6 74 (1.64%) XML
7 73 (1.62%) Node.js
8 68 (1.50%) JSON
9 67 (1.48%) SOAP
10 61 (1.35%) Kafka
11 56 (1.24%) OpenID
12 55 (1.22%) OAuth
13 54 (1.19%) React
14 49 (1.08%) SailPoint
15 45 (1.00%) HTML
16 41 (0.91%) RESTful
17 37 (0.82%) CSS
17 37 (0.82%) LDAP
18 35 (0.77%) gRPC
19 33 (0.73%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 164 (3.63%) Data Centre
2 128 (2.83%) Product Ownership
3 105 (2.32%) PKI
4 101 (2.23%) Public Cloud
5 88 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 87 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 73 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 65 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 56 (1.24%) Reference Data
10 49 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 47 (1.04%) Onboarding
12 46 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 46 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
13 45 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 42 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
15 39 (0.86%) Mainframe
16 37 (0.82%) Derivative
16 37 (0.82%) IoT
17 36 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 239 (5.29%) Windows
2 135 (2.99%) Linux
3 96 (2.12%) Windows Server
4 69 (1.53%) Android
5 68 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 29 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.62%) Unix
8 19 (0.42%) VMS
8 19 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.33%) Solaris
10 11 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.18%) CentOS
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.088%) AIX
14 3 (0.066%) zOS
15 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.022%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (15.86%) Agile
2 549 (12.15%) Migration
3 485 (10.73%) Roadmaps
4 483 (10.69%) DevOps
5 389 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
6 374 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 332 (7.35%) Data Modelling
8 299 (6.62%) Security Architecture
9 277 (6.13%) Microservices
10 268 (5.93%) Enterprise Architecture
10 268 (5.93%) TOGAF
11 263 (5.82%) CI/CD
12 257 (5.69%) Analytics
13 247 (5.46%) Data Architecture
14 237 (5.24%) Cybersecurity
15 223 (4.93%) Business Strategy
16 206 (4.56%) Business Intelligence
17 205 (4.54%) Architectural Design
18 197 (4.36%) Computer Science
18 197 (4.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 259 (5.73%) Java
1 259 (5.73%) Python
2 248 (5.49%) SQL
3 134 (2.96%) JavaScript
4 125 (2.77%) PowerShell
5 69 (1.53%) C#
6 60 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 35 (0.77%) C
7 35 (0.77%) C++
8 23 (0.51%) Scala
9 22 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 19 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.35%) Bash
13 14 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.24%) ABAP
14 11 (0.24%) Bicep
15 5 (0.11%) Go
15 5 (0.11%) PHP
15 5 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 1,417 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 799 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 550 (12.17%) DV Cleared
4 370 (8.19%) Degree
5 125 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 94 (2.08%) CISSP
7 83 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 68 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 64 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 63 (1.39%) CISM
11 60 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 57 (1.26%) AWS Certification
13 42 (0.93%) CISA
14 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 36 (0.80%) CCNP
16 23 (0.51%) CCIE
17 19 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 19 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 16 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (2.81%) NIST
2 103 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 95 (2.10%) GDPR
4 92 (2.04%) QA
5 81 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 45 (1.00%) NCSC
8 31 (0.69%) SLA
9 28 (0.62%) Accessibility
10 26 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 23 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 23 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 17 (0.38%) COBIT
13 15 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (0.33%) GRC
14 11 (0.24%) GAAP
15 10 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 9 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
17 7 (0.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 199 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 115 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.55%) Docker
4 40 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (0.82%) vSphere
6 33 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 19 (0.42%) RACF
8 14 (0.31%) KVM
9 13 (0.29%) ACF2
9 13 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.29%) IAG
10 10 (0.22%) Firmware
11 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.11%) vCloud
14 4 (0.088%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
14 4 (0.088%) XenApp
14 4 (0.088%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 161 (3.56%) Terraform
2 99 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 77 (1.70%) Ansible
4 57 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.58%) Endace
7 24 (0.53%) SCCM
8 19 (0.42%) CSIRT
9 14 (0.31%) WMI
10 13 (0.29%) Puppet
11 12 (0.27%) Grafana
11 12 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.24%) Kibana
13 10 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.20%) logstash
14 9 (0.20%) PingFederate
15 8 (0.18%) Prometheus
15 8 (0.18%) VxRail
16 6 (0.13%) zSecure
Vendors
1 598 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 266 (5.88%) SAP
3 205 (4.54%) Oracle
4 201 (4.45%) Cisco
5 159 (3.52%) VMware
6 150 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 137 (3.03%) Google
7 137 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 117 (2.59%) Juniper
9 91 (2.01%) Databricks
10 80 (1.77%) IBM
11 71 (1.57%) Sparx
12 61 (1.35%) F5
13 54 (1.19%) CyberArk
14 44 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 37 (0.82%) Dell
16 35 (0.77%) Okta
17 33 (0.73%) Informatica
18 32 (0.71%) Adobe
19 31 (0.69%) BeyondTrust