Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Architect daily rate in Work from Home 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 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,579 2,406 4,553
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.76% 10.08% 10.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.51% 10.58% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 1,716 3,191
10th Percentile £500 £510 £513
25th Percentile £550 £566 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% +8.51%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £731
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £655 £650
% change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 15
10th Percentile £53.60 £53.50 £55.40
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.00 £56.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% +14.78%
75th Percentile £86.23 - -
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £68.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% +13.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,716 22,731 42,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.23% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,231 16,123 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.58
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +32.81% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.33 £58.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architect.

Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Architect.

Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Architect over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Architect hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Architect in the job title.

1 398 (25.21%) Azure
2 383 (24.26%) Finance
3 365 (23.12%) Security Cleared
4 297 (18.81%) SC Cleared
5 288 (18.24%) Social Skills
6 284 (17.99%) AWS
7 240 (15.20%) Agile
8 235 (14.88%) Migration
9 203 (12.86%) Public Sector
10 183 (11.59%) Microsoft
11 182 (11.53%) DevOps
12 177 (11.21%) Banking
13 171 (10.83%) Roadmaps
14 141 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 136 (8.61%) Degree
16 130 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
17 120 (7.60%) Microservices
18 115 (7.28%) Data Modelling
19 107 (6.78%) Change Management
20 105 (6.65%) GCP
21 102 (6.46%) SAP
22 99 (6.27%) Python
22 99 (6.27%) DV Cleared
23 94 (5.95%) Enterprise Architecture
23 94 (5.95%) Oracle
24 93 (5.89%) Security Architecture
25 92 (5.83%) SQL
26 91 (5.76%) TOGAF
27 89 (5.64%) Analytics
27 89 (5.64%) Cybersecurity

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 51 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.46%) Confluence
3 22 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (1.33%) Apache
5 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.63%) CMS
7 8 (0.51%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.32%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.32%) IIS
10 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.32%) SAS
11 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.25%) JBoss
12 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.063%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 26 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Gliffy
5 2 (0.13%) Revit
6 1 (0.063%) CATIA
6 1 (0.063%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 37 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.08%) Teamcenter
4 14 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 13 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
6 12 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
7 11 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
8 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
9 8 (0.51%) Oracle AGIS
9 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
10 6 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
10 6 (0.38%) Primavera
11 5 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
11 5 (0.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.32%) SAP HCM
11 5 (0.32%) SAP SD
11 5 (0.32%) Temenos T24
12 4 (0.25%) SAP EWM
12 4 (0.25%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 398 (25.21%) Azure
2 284 (17.99%) AWS
3 105 (6.65%) GCP
4 80 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (2.79%) SaaS
8 38 (2.41%) Entra ID
9 36 (2.28%) PaaS
10 35 (2.22%) IaaS
11 32 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (1.71%) dbt
12 27 (1.71%) Serverless
13 25 (1.58%) Snowflake
14 23 (1.46%) GitHub
15 21 (1.33%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.27%) PowerApps
17 17 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (0.95%) Power Automate
19 14 (0.89%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.56%) Firewall
2 46 (2.91%) Network Security
3 45 (2.85%) WAN
4 41 (2.60%) SSL
5 31 (1.96%) LAN
6 24 (1.52%) VPN
7 19 (1.20%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
9 15 (0.95%) VoIP
10 14 (0.89%) NetScaler
11 10 (0.63%) 4G
11 10 (0.63%) CTI
12 9 (0.57%) MPLS
12 9 (0.57%) WLAN
13 8 (0.51%) 3G
13 8 (0.51%) ATM
13 8 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
14 7 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (0.44%) DNS
15 6 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (3.04%) Data Lake
3 36 (2.28%) Power BI
4 35 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 31 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 26 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
7 25 (1.58%) Oracle Database
8 23 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.27%) Big Data
10 19 (1.20%) Apache Arrow
10 19 (1.20%) Dremio
11 18 (1.14%) Apache Ignite
12 15 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 13 (0.82%) Metadata
14 12 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (0.70%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (0.57%) DB2
16 9 (0.57%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 37 (2.34%) JIRA
2 14 (0.89%) Git
2 14 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.38%) ERwin
3 6 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.19%) GitLab
5 3 (0.19%) Postman
5 3 (0.19%) Selenium
6 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.13%) Bugzilla
6 2 (0.13%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.13%) JMeter
6 2 (0.13%) JUnit
6 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.13%) TestNG
6 2 (0.13%) TestRail
6 2 (0.13%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.063%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.063%) Visual Studio
General
1 383 (24.26%) Finance
2 288 (18.24%) Social Skills
3 203 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 177 (11.21%) Banking
5 81 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 74 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (3.17%) Retail
8 44 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 42 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (2.28%) Marketing
11 24 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.52%) Investment Banking
12 23 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.27%) Front Office
14 16 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (0.95%) Electronics
16 14 (0.89%) General Ledger
17 12 (0.76%) Local Government
18 11 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.51%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (3.99%) Web Services
2 46 (2.91%) REST
3 44 (2.79%) .NET
4 42 (2.66%) Middleware
5 39 (2.47%) SAML
6 33 (2.09%) JSON
7 27 (1.71%) OpenID
8 24 (1.52%) SOAP
8 24 (1.52%) XML
9 23 (1.46%) React
10 22 (1.39%) Node.js
10 22 (1.39%) OAuth
11 19 (1.20%) gRPC
11 19 (1.20%) Protocol Buffers
11 19 (1.20%) RESTful
11 19 (1.20%) SailPoint
12 18 (1.14%) NumPy
12 18 (1.14%) Pandas
12 18 (1.14%) SciPy
13 16 (1.01%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 46 (2.91%) Data Centre
2 44 (2.79%) Public Cloud
3 42 (2.66%) Cloud Native
3 42 (2.66%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.41%) PKI
5 34 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 28 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.39%) Derivative
8 22 (1.39%) Mainframe
9 21 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.20%) Equities
11 19 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 19 (1.20%) Hedge funds
12 18 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.95%) IVR
14 14 (0.89%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.36%) Windows
2 49 (3.10%) Linux
3 17 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.95%) Android
5 13 (0.82%) Unix
6 12 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.44%) Solaris
8 7 (0.44%) VMS
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (15.20%) Agile
2 235 (14.88%) Migration
3 182 (11.53%) DevOps
4 171 (10.83%) Roadmaps
5 141 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 130 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (7.60%) Microservices
8 115 (7.28%) Data Modelling
9 107 (6.78%) Change Management
10 94 (5.95%) Enterprise Architecture
11 93 (5.89%) Security Architecture
12 91 (5.76%) TOGAF
13 89 (5.64%) Analytics
13 89 (5.64%) Cybersecurity
14 82 (5.19%) Architectural Design
15 77 (4.88%) CI/CD
16 71 (4.50%) Data Architecture
17 70 (4.43%) Data Migration
18 69 (4.37%) Architectural Patterns
19 65 (4.12%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (6.27%) Python
2 92 (5.83%) SQL
3 87 (5.51%) Java
4 61 (3.86%) JavaScript
5 28 (1.77%) C#
5 28 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 19 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 12 (0.76%) C++
7 12 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.70%) C
9 9 (0.57%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.32%) ABAP
10 5 (0.32%) Bash
10 5 (0.32%) Bicep
10 5 (0.32%) Scala
11 3 (0.19%) Clojure
11 3 (0.19%) Go
11 3 (0.19%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 365 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 297 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 136 (8.61%) Degree
4 99 (6.27%) DV Cleared
5 48 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.84%) CISSP
8 28 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.52%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.33%) CISM
11 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.95%) CISA
14 13 (0.82%) CCNP
15 10 (0.63%) SAP Certification
16 9 (0.57%) CCIE
17 8 (0.51%) CREST Certified
18 7 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.42%) NIST
2 41 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 39 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.22%) GDPR
5 31 (1.96%) NCSC
6 28 (1.77%) QA
7 17 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.70%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.63%) COBIT
10 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (0.44%) GAAP
11 7 (0.44%) SLA
12 6 (0.38%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.19%) GPG13
16 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 79 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.46%) Docker
4 9 (0.57%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.57%) vSphere
5 7 (0.44%) RACF
6 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.32%) KVM
7 5 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.13%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.063%) ACF2
9 1 (0.063%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.063%) IAG
9 1 (0.063%) UAG
9 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (3.04%) Terraform
2 31 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.70%) Ansible
6 6 (0.38%) CSIRT
6 6 (0.38%) SCCM
6 6 (0.38%) VxRail
6 6 (0.38%) zSecure
7 4 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
8 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.063%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.063%) Control-M
10 1 (0.063%) HP SIM
10 1 (0.063%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.063%) WSUS
Vendors
1 183 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.46%) SAP
3 94 (5.95%) Oracle
4 49 (3.10%) Cisco
5 48 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.85%) Google
7 44 (2.79%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.53%) VMware
9 38 (2.41%) Databricks
10 25 (1.58%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.58%) IBM
11 23 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.33%) Citrix
13 20 (1.27%) F5
13 20 (1.27%) NetApp
13 20 (1.27%) Sparx
14 16 (1.01%) Genesys
14 16 (1.01%) Okta
15 15 (0.95%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.89%) Pega