Systems Architect Contracts in Central London

System Architect
London > Central London

The median System Architect daily rate in Central London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 175 197
Rank change year-on-year +49 +22 -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.16% 0.026% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.027% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £560 £700
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £750 £493 £665
% change year-on-year +52.28% -25.94% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,313 3,670 4,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 95.20% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 2,509 3,264
10th Percentile £348 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 51
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.75
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in Central London

Systems Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Architect in Central London

Systems Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
City of London +52 4 £750 +33.93%
Systems Architect
London

Systems Architect Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Systems 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 Central London region featuring Systems Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) XML Parsing
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 4 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD

Systems Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) XML Parsing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft