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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 220 362 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 10.12% 10.02% 8.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.65% 10.54% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 206 260
10th Percentile £509 £528 £513
25th Percentile £563 £602 £563
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 £889 £888 £813
Central London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
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 2,066 3,434 4,005
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 95.10% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,338 3,022
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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
1 66 (30.00%) Azure
2 54 (24.55%) Microsoft
3 48 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 30 (13.64%) AWS
5 28 (12.73%) Banking
6 26 (11.82%) Python
6 26 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (10.91%) Agile
7 24 (10.91%) SC Cleared
7 24 (10.91%) Security Cleared
7 24 (10.91%) Roadmaps
8 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 21 (9.55%) Migration
9 21 (9.55%) Analytics
10 20 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 19 (8.64%) Degree
11 19 (8.64%) DevOps
11 19 (8.64%) Business Strategy
11 19 (8.64%) Public Sector
12 18 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (8.18%) Power Platform
13 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Exchange
13 17 (7.73%) Active Directory
14 16 (7.27%) ITIL
14 16 (7.27%) Security Architecture
14 16 (7.27%) CI/CD
15 15 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (6.82%) Data Loss Prevention

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 4 (1.82%) CMS
4 3 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.36%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
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
4 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.45%) Primavera
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (30.00%) 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
7 9 (4.09%) IaaS
7 9 (4.09%) PaaS
8 8 (3.64%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.64%) Serverless
9 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.73%) SaaS
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.91%) Firewall
2 7 (3.18%) WAN
3 4 (1.82%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.82%) Network Security
3 4 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.36%) DNS
4 3 (1.36%) Intranet
4 3 (1.36%) LAN
4 3 (1.36%) WLAN
5 2 (0.91%) MPLS
5 2 (0.91%) VoIP
5 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.45%) DHCP
6 1 (0.45%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.45%) Multicast
6 1 (0.45%) VPN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.91%) 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%) Amazon RDS
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%) 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 48 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.73%) Banking
4 19 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.64%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.73%) Legal
8 6 (2.73%) Local Government
8 6 (2.73%) Publishing
9 2 (0.91%) Advertising
9 2 (0.91%) Law
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing
9 2 (0.91%) Retail
9 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.45%) Billing
10 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.00%) REST
1 11 (5.00%) SAML
2 7 (3.18%) .NET
2 7 (3.18%) JSON
2 7 (3.18%) OpenID
2 7 (3.18%) XACML
2 7 (3.18%) XML
3 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (2.27%) Middleware
5 4 (1.82%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.36%) LDAP
6 3 (1.36%) React
7 2 (0.91%) HTML
7 2 (0.91%) HTML5
7 2 (0.91%) Kafka
7 2 (0.91%) Node.js
7 2 (0.91%) OAuth
7 2 (0.91%) SailPoint
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 24 (10.91%) Agile
1 24 (10.91%) Roadmaps
2 21 (9.55%) Analytics
2 21 (9.55%) Migration
3 20 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 19 (8.64%) Business Strategy
4 19 (8.64%) DevOps
5 18 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (7.27%) CI/CD
6 16 (7.27%) ITIL
6 16 (7.27%) Security Architecture
7 15 (6.82%) Data Loss Prevention
7 15 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (6.36%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (6.36%) Computer Science
8 14 (6.36%) Microservices
9 13 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (5.91%) TOGAF
10 12 (5.45%) Data Architecture
10 12 (5.45%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.82%) Python
2 22 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.00%) Java
3 11 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.09%) SQL
5 4 (1.82%) 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%) Bicep
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 6 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.27%) CISSP
5 5 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.36%) CCSK
8 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.45%) CCSP
9 1 (0.45%) CEH
9 1 (0.45%) CISM
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (2.73%) NIST
2 4 (1.82%) GDPR
2 4 (1.82%) QA
2 4 (1.82%) SLA
3 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (1.36%) NCSC
4 2 (0.91%) ISO 22301
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) PMO
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 8 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.18%) Terraform
5 6 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.27%) PingFederate
7 4 (1.82%) CSIRT
8 3 (1.36%) Grafana
9 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.91%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) Consul
10 1 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) logstash
10 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.45%) Packer
10 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.00%) Citrix
3 10 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.09%) Oracle
4 9 (4.09%) ServiceNow
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 4 (1.82%) Cisco
7 4 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.82%) SAP
8 3 (1.36%) VMware
9 2 (0.91%) Charles River
9 2 (0.91%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.91%) Freshdesk
9 2 (0.91%) HP
9 2 (0.91%) Juniper