Systems Architect Contracts in the City of London

System Architect
Central London > City of London

The median System Architect daily rate in the City of London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 175 191
Rank change year-on-year +48 +16 -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.027% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.028% 0.025%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £750 £560 £700
% change year-on-year +33.93% -20.00% -

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 2,111 3,519 4,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 95.24% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,375 3,064
10th Percentile £350 £350 £365
25th Percentile £450 £469 £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 £789 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.68% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 28 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +77.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £85.99 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -24.11% -6.04% +77.47%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in the City of London

Systems Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Architect in the City of London

Systems Architect Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 City of 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 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:

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