Architect Contracts in the City of London

Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Architect daily rate in the City of London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 14 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 220 359 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.99% 9.87% 8.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.52% 10.37% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 201 265
10th Percentile £511 £525 £513
25th Percentile £568 £585 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £738
90th Percentile £888 £888 £813
Central London median daily rate £650 £675 £647
% change year-on-year -3.70% +4.41% +7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 City of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 66 (30.00%) Finance
2 65 (29.55%) Azure
3 54 (24.55%) Microsoft
4 46 (20.91%) Social Skills
5 30 (13.64%) AWS
6 29 (13.18%) Banking
7 26 (11.82%) Python
7 26 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (11.36%) Agile
9 24 (10.91%) SC Cleared
9 24 (10.91%) Security Cleared
9 24 (10.91%) Roadmaps
10 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
11 21 (9.55%) Migration
11 21 (9.55%) Data Modelling
12 19 (8.64%) Degree
12 19 (8.64%) Analytics
12 19 (8.64%) Business Strategy
12 19 (8.64%) Public Sector
13 18 (8.18%) DevOps
13 18 (8.18%) Power Platform
14 17 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
14 17 (7.73%) ITIL
14 17 (7.73%) Active Directory
14 17 (7.73%) CI/CD
15 16 (7.27%) Security Architecture
15 16 (7.27%) Data Loss Prevention
16 15 (6.82%) Microservices
16 15 (6.82%) Documentation Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.27%) CMS
4 3 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.36%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.91%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.91%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.45%) Primavera
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 65 (29.55%) Azure
2 30 (13.64%) AWS
3 26 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.91%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 10 (4.55%) WhatsApp
7 9 (4.09%) GCP
8 8 (3.64%) IaaS
8 8 (3.64%) PaaS
8 8 (3.64%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.18%) SaaS
9 7 (3.18%) Serverless
10 6 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.27%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.82%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.91%) Firewall
2 6 (2.73%) WAN
3 4 (1.82%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.82%) Network Security
4 3 (1.36%) DNS
4 3 (1.36%) Intranet
4 3 (1.36%) LAN
4 3 (1.36%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.36%) WLAN
5 2 (0.91%) VoIP
5 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.45%) DHCP
6 1 (0.45%) HTTP
6 1 (0.45%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.45%) MPLS
6 1 (0.45%) Multicast
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.64%) Metadata
3 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.18%) Power BI
4 6 (2.73%) Data Vault
5 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.91%) MySQL
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.45%) Parquet
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
9 1 (0.45%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.91%) Git
2 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.45%) ERwin
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.45%) MSI
3 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 66 (30.00%) Finance
2 46 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.18%) Banking
4 19 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.18%) Publishing
9 6 (2.73%) Legal
9 6 (2.73%) Local Government
9 6 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Law
10 3 (1.36%) Retail
11 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 2 (0.91%) Billing
11 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.91%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.45%) REST
2 11 (5.00%) SAML
3 8 (3.64%) .NET
3 8 (3.64%) XML
4 7 (3.18%) JSON
4 7 (3.18%) OpenID
4 7 (3.18%) XACML
5 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.82%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.82%) Middleware
7 3 (1.36%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.36%) LDAP
7 3 (1.36%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.91%) HTML5
8 2 (0.91%) Kafka
8 2 (0.91%) Node.js
8 2 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
1 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
1 5 (2.27%) Reference Data
2 4 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (1.82%) IVR
2 4 (1.82%) Mainframe
2 4 (1.82%) PKI
2 4 (1.82%) Product Ownership
2 4 (1.82%) Security Posture
3 3 (1.36%) Credit Risk
3 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.91%) CMDB
4 2 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.91%) Video on Demand
4 2 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.09%) Windows
2 7 (3.18%) Linux
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (0.91%) Solaris
3 2 (0.91%) VMS
4 1 (0.45%) CentOS
4 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (11.36%) Agile
2 24 (10.91%) Roadmaps
3 21 (9.55%) Data Modelling
3 21 (9.55%) Migration
4 19 (8.64%) Analytics
4 19 (8.64%) Business Strategy
5 18 (8.18%) DevOps
6 17 (7.73%) CI/CD
6 17 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (7.73%) ITIL
7 16 (7.27%) Data Loss Prevention
7 16 (7.27%) Security Architecture
8 15 (6.82%) Microservices
9 14 (6.36%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (6.36%) Computer Science
9 14 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (5.91%) Cloud Security
10 13 (5.91%) TOGAF
11 12 (5.45%) Data Architecture
11 12 (5.45%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.82%) Python
2 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.00%) Java
5 8 (3.64%) SQL
6 3 (1.36%) C#
6 3 (1.36%) C++
6 3 (1.36%) Go
6 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.91%) Ruby
8 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
8 1 (0.45%) Perl
8 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 24 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.64%) Degree
3 13 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.18%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.27%) CISSP
6 5 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.82%) CCSK
8 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.45%) CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) CISA
10 1 (0.45%) CRISC
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PMP
10 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (3.18%) NIST
2 5 (2.27%) GDPR
3 4 (1.82%) QA
3 4 (1.82%) SLA
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.36%) NCSC
5 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.91%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.91%) KVM
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.55%) Ansible
3 7 (3.18%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.73%) Terraform
5 5 (2.27%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.82%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.36%) Grafana
8 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.91%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Consul
9 1 (0.45%) Kibana
9 1 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.45%) Packer
9 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.00%) Citrix
3 10 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 10 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.09%) Oracle
5 7 (3.18%) IBM
5 7 (3.18%) Okta
6 6 (2.73%) Adobe
6 6 (2.73%) Genesys
6 6 (2.73%) Google
6 6 (2.73%) Sparx
7 5 (2.27%) SAP
8 4 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.36%) Cisco
9 3 (1.36%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.36%) VMware
10 2 (0.91%) Charles River
10 2 (0.91%) HP
10 2 (0.91%) New Relic
10 2 (0.91%) PagerDuty