Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 18 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 173 235 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.53% 8.81% 9.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.44% 9.51% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 186
10th Percentile £450 £450 £481
25th Percentile £534 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £610 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -2.40% -
75th Percentile £700 £688 £698
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
South East median daily rate £610 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -6.15% - +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 6
10th Percentile £73.50 - £62.46
25th Percentile £75.00 £81.88 £72.31
Median hourly rate £79.50 £87.46 £75.34
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +16.09% -
75th Percentile £84.50 £87.53 £75.67
90th Percentile £86.30 £89.75 £77.96
South East median hourly rate £82.00 £87.46 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.24% +16.61% +7.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,391 2,472 2,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 92.69% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,358 1,886
10th Percentile £263 £213 £303
25th Percentile £400 £389 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £605
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.77% +1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 205 87
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.85 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% -3.06% +180.64%
75th Percentile £68.44 £65.00 £68.11
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.46 £77.87
South East median hourly rate £31.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -38.00% - +138.10%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 June 2025. 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
Berkshire +6 155 £600 - 77
Buckinghamshire +3 18 £700 +14.29% 24
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 62 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 49 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 44 (25.43%) Telecoms
3 44 (25.43%) Agile
4 43 (24.86%) Roadmaps
5 42 (24.28%) Azure
6 40 (23.12%) DV Cleared
7 34 (19.65%) Migration
8 32 (18.50%) Finance
8 32 (18.50%) Public Sector
9 30 (17.34%) Active Directory
10 28 (16.18%) AWS
11 27 (15.61%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (15.61%) Windows
12 26 (15.03%) SAP
12 26 (15.03%) PowerShell
13 25 (14.45%) Marketing
14 24 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 24 (13.87%) Identity Access Management
15 22 (12.72%) Enterprise Architecture
16 21 (12.14%) Digital Marketing
16 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
16 21 (12.14%) Manufacturing
16 21 (12.14%) Programme Management
16 21 (12.14%) Electronics
17 20 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 20 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence
18 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
19 18 (10.40%) TOGAF

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (3.47%) Camunda
2 4 (2.31%) Smallworld
3 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.73%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.73%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.16%) Confluence
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) Documentum
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.31%) Avolution ABACUS
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.28%) Azure
2 28 (16.18%) AWS
3 15 (8.67%) SaaS
4 9 (5.20%) GCP
5 7 (4.05%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.05%) PaaS
6 6 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.89%) Serverless
7 5 (2.89%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.31%) IaaS
8 4 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.73%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.16%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.09%) Firewall
2 8 (4.62%) SD-WAN
3 7 (4.05%) VoIP
4 5 (2.89%) WAN
5 4 (2.31%) BGP
5 4 (2.31%) GPON
5 4 (2.31%) HTTP
5 4 (2.31%) MPLS
5 4 (2.31%) Network Security
6 3 (1.73%) 4G
6 3 (1.73%) 5G
6 3 (1.73%) DOCSIS
6 3 (1.73%) LTE
6 3 (1.73%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.73%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.73%) VPN
6 3 (1.73%) xDSL
7 2 (1.16%) Converged Networks
7 2 (1.16%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.78%) Big Data
2 5 (2.89%) GIS
3 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.73%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.73%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.16%) Power BI
5 2 (1.16%) Tableau
6 1 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.16%) JIRA
1 2 (1.16%) Terragrunt
2 1 (0.58%) ERwin
General
1 49 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 44 (25.43%) Telecoms
3 32 (18.50%) Finance
3 32 (18.50%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.45%) Marketing
5 21 (12.14%) Electronics
5 21 (12.14%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.20%) Retail
7 7 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Back Office
9 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.31%) General Ledger
9 4 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Banking
10 3 (1.73%) Legal
11 2 (1.16%) Billing
11 2 (1.16%) Local Government
12 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.05%) Middleware
2 6 (3.47%) Kafka
3 5 (2.89%) REST
3 5 (2.89%) Web Services
4 4 (2.31%) Ajax
4 4 (2.31%) CSS
4 4 (2.31%) HTML
4 4 (2.31%) SAML
4 4 (2.31%) SOAP
4 4 (2.31%) XML
5 3 (1.73%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.73%) Apache Axis
5 3 (1.73%) OAuth
5 3 (1.73%) OpenID
5 3 (1.73%) PostGIS
6 2 (1.16%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.16%) OpenJDK
6 2 (1.16%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.58%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.20%) Cloud Native
1 9 (5.20%) Data Protection Act
1 9 (5.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.47%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.89%) CMDB
4 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.89%) TM Forum
5 4 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (1.73%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.16%) EPoS
7 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.16%) PKI
7 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.16%) SCADA
8 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.58%) CESG
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.61%) Windows
2 4 (2.31%) Linux
3 3 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.16%) VMS
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.43%) Agile
2 43 (24.86%) Roadmaps
3 34 (19.65%) Migration
4 27 (15.61%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (13.87%) Identity Access Management
5 24 (13.87%) Test Automation
6 22 (12.72%) Enterprise Architecture
7 21 (12.14%) Digital Marketing
7 21 (12.14%) Programme Management
8 20 (11.56%) Artificial Intelligence
8 20 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (10.40%) TOGAF
10 16 (9.25%) Decision-Making
11 15 (8.67%) ITIL
11 15 (8.67%) Machine Learning
12 14 (8.09%) Microservices
13 12 (6.94%) Risk Management
14 11 (6.36%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (6.36%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.03%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.62%) Java
3 7 (4.05%) Python
3 7 (4.05%) SQL
4 6 (3.47%) C#
5 4 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.31%) Magik
6 3 (1.73%) Bash
7 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.16%) Ruby
8 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.12%) DV Cleared
3 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.20%) CISSP
4 9 (5.20%) Degree
5 7 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.47%) CCNP
7 5 (2.89%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.73%) CEH
8 3 (1.73%) CISM
8 3 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.16%) CCNA
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.89%) GDPR
2 5 (2.89%) NCSC
2 5 (2.89%) NIST
3 4 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.16%) OASIS TOSCA
5 1 (0.58%) COBIT
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (17.34%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) NFS
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.31%) Terraform
3 2 (1.16%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.16%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.58%) CASB
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (15.03%) SAP
2 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.51%) Cisco
4 9 (5.20%) Oracle
4 9 (5.20%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.62%) VMware
6 6 (3.47%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.31%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.73%) ESRI
8 3 (1.73%) Google
8 3 (1.73%) Splunk
9 2 (1.16%) Amdocs
9 2 (1.16%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.16%) Huawei
9 2 (1.16%) Meraki
9 2 (1.16%) NetCracker
9 2 (1.16%) Nokia
9 2 (1.16%) Qualys
9 2 (1.16%) Red Hat
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