Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £672 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 16 16 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,781 2,469 3,751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.06% 9.23% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.79% 9.69% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,724 2,465
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 £700 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £751 £775 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £850
England median daily rate £650 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +11.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - £34.58 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £35.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £77.19 -
90th Percentile - £84.45 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London 0 235 £650 -3.70% 62
West London +13 28 £575 -17.86% 16
East London -8 16 £723 -3.67% 10
South London +4 10 £725 +6.62% 4
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 464 (26.05%) Azure
2 417 (23.41%) Finance
3 359 (20.16%) AWS
4 348 (19.54%) Social Skills
5 329 (18.47%) Security Cleared
6 291 (16.34%) Agile
7 285 (16.00%) SC Cleared
8 264 (14.82%) Microsoft
9 247 (13.87%) Public Sector
10 245 (13.76%) Migration
11 238 (13.36%) Data Modelling
12 209 (11.73%) Roadmaps
13 176 (9.88%) DevOps
14 167 (9.38%) Data Architecture
15 165 (9.26%) GCP
16 152 (8.53%) Python
17 151 (8.48%) Banking
18 141 (7.92%) Security Architecture
19 139 (7.80%) Analytics
19 139 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
20 137 (7.69%) Microservices
21 129 (7.24%) Business Intelligence
22 126 (7.07%) Enterprise Architecture
22 126 (7.07%) Data Governance
23 125 (7.02%) SQL
24 118 (6.63%) Power Platform
25 117 (6.57%) Degree
26 113 (6.34%) Data Integration
27 108 (6.06%) Java
28 107 (6.01%) TOGAF

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 64 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.85%) Apache
3 25 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.12%) Confluence
6 13 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.56%) CMS
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.34%) SAS
11 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.056%) Drupal
13 1 (0.056%) JBoss
13 1 (0.056%) Mule
13 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 26 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.056%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 54 (3.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 47 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.79%) Distributed Ledger
5 8 (0.45%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.28%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.28%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.22%) Primavera
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.11%) Maximo
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 464 (26.05%) Azure
2 359 (20.16%) AWS
3 165 (9.26%) GCP
4 118 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 96 (5.39%) SaaS
6 92 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (3.87%) Dynamics 365
8 60 (3.37%) IaaS
9 58 (3.26%) PaaS
10 55 (3.09%) Serverless
11 51 (2.86%) Entra ID
12 46 (2.58%) Snowflake
13 39 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (1.68%) dbt
15 26 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.24%) GitHub
17 21 (1.18%) OCI
18 20 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (1.07%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.82%) Firewall
2 39 (2.19%) Network Security
3 19 (1.07%) LAN
3 19 (1.07%) WAN
4 14 (0.79%) DNS
5 12 (0.67%) SAN
6 11 (0.62%) SSL
7 10 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 10 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.51%) Internet
8 9 (0.51%) MPLS
9 7 (0.39%) HTTP
9 7 (0.39%) Intranet
9 7 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.39%) Wireless
10 6 (0.34%) VoIP
11 5 (0.28%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.28%) SNMP
11 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (4.60%) Data Lake
3 79 (4.44%) Power BI
4 78 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 67 (3.76%) Big Data
6 64 (3.59%) Metadata
7 46 (2.58%) SQL Server
8 43 (2.41%) Data Vault
9 33 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (1.80%) Tableau
11 29 (1.63%) Relational Database
12 28 (1.57%) Metadata Repository
13 27 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 21 (1.18%) Apache Arrow
15 21 (1.18%) Dremio
16 20 (1.12%) Apache Ignite
16 20 (1.12%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 33 (1.85%) ERwin
3 26 (1.46%) JIRA
4 13 (0.73%) ER Studio
4 13 (0.73%) Git
5 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.28%) GitLab
7 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.17%) Selenium
9 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) Subversion
10 2 (0.11%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.056%) Storybook
General
1 417 (23.41%) Finance
2 348 (19.54%) Social Skills
3 247 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 151 (8.48%) Banking
5 90 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (3.09%) Marketing
6 55 (3.09%) Retail
7 47 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 42 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 34 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 34 (1.91%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.85%) Electronics
14 26 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.35%) Front Office
15 24 (1.35%) Legal
16 22 (1.24%) Publishing
17 20 (1.12%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.03%) .NET
2 48 (2.70%) REST
3 45 (2.53%) SAML
4 34 (1.91%) JSON
5 31 (1.74%) Middleware
6 30 (1.68%) React
7 29 (1.63%) Kafka
7 29 (1.63%) XML
8 24 (1.35%) OpenID
9 23 (1.29%) gRPC
10 21 (1.18%) Protocol Buffers
11 20 (1.12%) HTML
11 20 (1.12%) NumPy
11 20 (1.12%) Pandas
11 20 (1.12%) SciPy
11 20 (1.12%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.07%) OAuth
12 19 (1.07%) Web Services
13 18 (1.01%) LDAP
13 18 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 52 (2.92%) Cloud Native
1 52 (2.92%) Data Centre
2 43 (2.41%) Reference Data
3 42 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
4 40 (2.25%) Management Information System
4 40 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 38 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 35 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 25 (1.40%) Derivative
9 24 (1.35%) IoT
9 24 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.29%) Hedge funds
11 22 (1.24%) Equities
11 22 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 22 (1.24%) Mainframe
11 22 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 21 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.12%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.54%) Linux
2 45 (2.53%) Windows
3 13 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (0.62%) CentOS
5 10 (0.56%) Unix
5 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.34%) Solaris
8 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.17%) Android
9 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.056%) AIX
10 1 (0.056%) tvOS
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (16.34%) Agile
2 245 (13.76%) Migration
3 238 (13.36%) Data Modelling
4 209 (11.73%) Roadmaps
5 176 (9.88%) DevOps
6 167 (9.38%) Data Architecture
7 141 (7.92%) Security Architecture
8 139 (7.80%) Analytics
8 139 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (7.69%) Microservices
10 129 (7.24%) Business Intelligence
11 126 (7.07%) Data Governance
11 126 (7.07%) Enterprise Architecture
12 113 (6.34%) Data Integration
13 107 (6.01%) TOGAF
14 103 (5.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 102 (5.73%) Cloud Security
15 102 (5.73%) Cybersecurity
16 98 (5.50%) CI/CD
17 96 (5.39%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 152 (8.53%) Python
2 125 (7.02%) SQL
3 108 (6.06%) Java
4 82 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 55 (3.09%) PowerShell
6 40 (2.25%) TypeScript
7 38 (2.13%) C#
8 24 (1.35%) Scala
9 17 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 15 (0.84%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.51%) Go
13 7 (0.39%) Bash
14 6 (0.34%) C++
15 5 (0.28%) Ruby
16 4 (0.22%) Bicep
16 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.11%) PHP
17 2 (0.11%) R
17 2 (0.11%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (18.47%) Security Cleared
2 285 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 117 (6.57%) Degree
4 69 (3.87%) DV Cleared
5 64 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (3.20%) CISSP
7 38 (2.13%) CISM
8 31 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (1.52%) CISA
11 22 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.01%) SANS
15 15 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.67%) CRISC
18 11 (0.62%) CCSK
19 8 (0.45%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (4.49%) NIST
2 68 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.20%) GDPR
4 39 (2.19%) QA
5 36 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.46%) NCSC
7 16 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.56%) SLA
10 8 (0.45%) GRC
10 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (0.39%) COBIT
11 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.39%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.17%) GPG13
13 3 (0.17%) ISA99
13 3 (0.17%) PMO
13 3 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.68%) Docker
3 24 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.67%) RACF
6 7 (0.39%) ACF2
6 7 (0.39%) IAG
6 7 (0.39%) KVM
7 6 (0.34%) vSphere
8 4 (0.22%) vCloud
9 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.056%) Firmware
11 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (4.94%) Terraform
2 57 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 50 (2.81%) Ansible
4 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.95%) Puppet
5 17 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.79%) Grafana
7 12 (0.67%) Kibana
8 11 (0.62%) logstash
8 11 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.45%) SCCM
10 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.34%) Packer
11 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.28%) zSecure
12 4 (0.22%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.22%) VxRail
13 3 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 264 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.56%) Oracle
3 96 (5.39%) SAP
4 78 (4.38%) ServiceNow
5 70 (3.93%) Google
6 69 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 66 (3.71%) Sparx
8 52 (2.92%) Databricks
9 36 (2.02%) IBM
9 36 (2.02%) Informatica
9 36 (2.02%) VMware
10 26 (1.46%) CyberArk
11 23 (1.29%) Cisco
12 18 (1.01%) NetApp
12 18 (1.01%) Okta
13 17 (0.95%) Citrix
14 16 (0.90%) Talend
15 15 (0.84%) Adobe
16 14 (0.79%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.73%) Pega