Architect Contract Job Trends in Central London

Architect
London > Central London

The median Architect daily rate in Central London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +18 -4 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 371 165 199
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 14.35% 8.01% 8.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.22% 8.61% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 106 143
10th Percentile £483 £525 £508
25th Percentile £523 £610 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% - -
75th Percentile £738 £750 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £836
London median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.00 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.50% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £62.00 - -
London median hourly rate £61.00 £82.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.06% +37.50% -7.69%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,438 1,916 2,182
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 93.05% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,649 1,278 1,479
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 30 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.51 £18.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.56
Median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%
75th Percentile £45.37 £50.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.38 £67.89 £137.50
London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.54 £33.07
% change year-on-year +26.97% -10.69% -12.97%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Architect job vacancy trend in Central London

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Central London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Central London

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Central London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in Central London

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 Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. 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 +17 338 £625 -7.41% 127
West End of London -4 8 £623 +1.22% 1
City of Westminster -4 7 £500 -23.08% 22
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £900 -
Architect
London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 11 August 2026, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 105 (28.30%) Azure
2 100 (26.95%) Security Cleared
3 79 (21.29%) SC Cleared
4 64 (17.25%) Roadmaps
5 63 (16.98%) AWS
6 58 (15.63%) Migration
7 57 (15.36%) AI
8 55 (14.82%) Microsoft
9 51 (13.75%) Data Modelling
10 50 (13.48%) Analytics
11 43 (11.59%) CI/CD
12 40 (10.78%) Data Architecture
13 38 (10.24%) Integration Patterns
13 38 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (9.43%) DevOps
15 34 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 33 (8.89%) Enterprise Architecture
16 33 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 30 (8.09%) Event-Driven
18 29 (7.82%) GCP
19 28 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
19 28 (7.55%) Data Governance
19 28 (7.55%) Machine Learning
19 28 (7.55%) TOGAF
20 27 (7.28%) Agile
20 27 (7.28%) Databricks
20 27 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
21 25 (6.74%) ERP
22 24 (6.47%) Decision-Making
23 23 (6.20%) Architectural Patterns

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.54%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) nginx
4 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.27%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (28.30%) Azure
2 63 (16.98%) AWS
3 29 (7.82%) GCP
4 22 (5.93%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.31%) SaaS
6 15 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (4.04%) GitHub
7 12 (3.23%) Serverless
8 11 (2.96%) PaaS
9 10 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.43%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.62%) Azure AI
12 6 (1.62%) Azure AKS
12 6 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.62%) OCI
13 5 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.31%) Network Security
2 10 (2.70%) Firewall
3 6 (1.62%) LAN
4 4 (1.08%) WAN
5 3 (0.81%) DNS
5 3 (0.81%) VPN
6 2 (0.54%) SAN
6 2 (0.54%) SMS
7 1 (0.27%) 3G
7 1 (0.27%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.27%) 5G
7 1 (0.27%) BGP
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) FTP
7 1 (0.27%) LTE
7 1 (0.27%) NAS
7 1 (0.27%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.27%) TACACS
7 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.58%) Power BI
2 13 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 12 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (3.23%) Metadata
4 6 (1.62%) Semantic Layer
5 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.81%) Big Data
7 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.54%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Git
2 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.54%) JIRA
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 66 (17.79%) Finance
2 65 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 35 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 25 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.47%) Telecoms
6 22 (5.93%) Banking
7 19 (5.12%) Retail
8 14 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.35%) Legal
12 4 (1.08%) Marketing
13 3 (0.81%) Billing
13 3 (0.81%) Local Government
13 3 (0.81%) Military
13 3 (0.81%) Police
14 2 (0.54%) Automotive
14 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Law
14 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.12%) REST
2 15 (4.04%) Middleware
2 15 (4.04%) SOAP
3 8 (2.16%) OAuth
3 8 (2.16%) PySpark
4 7 (1.89%) .NET
5 6 (1.62%) JSON
6 5 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.08%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.08%) SAML
7 4 (1.08%) Spring
7 4 (1.08%) XML
8 3 (0.81%) Kafka
8 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.54%) JWT
9 2 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.54%) MACH
9 2 (0.54%) OpenID
9 2 (0.54%) RESTful
10 1 (0.27%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.23%) CMDB
3 12 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.43%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.16%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.89%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.35%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.08%) LIMS
10 3 (0.81%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.81%) Replication
10 3 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.70%) Linux
2 4 (1.08%) Windows
3 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) AIX
4 1 (0.27%) CentOS
4 1 (0.27%) Solaris
4 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (17.25%) Roadmaps
2 58 (15.63%) Migration
3 57 (15.36%) AI
4 51 (13.75%) Data Modelling
5 50 (13.48%) Analytics
6 43 (11.59%) CI/CD
7 40 (10.78%) Data Architecture
8 38 (10.24%) Integration Patterns
8 38 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (9.43%) DevOps
10 34 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (8.89%) Enterprise Architecture
11 33 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (8.09%) Event-Driven
13 28 (7.55%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (7.55%) Data Governance
13 28 (7.55%) Machine Learning
13 28 (7.55%) TOGAF
14 27 (7.28%) Agile
14 27 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.20%) Python
2 16 (4.31%) SQL
3 13 (3.50%) Java
3 13 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.62%) Bicep
4 6 (1.62%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.35%) Ruby
6 3 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.54%) Bash
7 2 (0.54%) C#
7 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.27%) DAML
8 1 (0.27%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.27%) Go
8 1 (0.27%) Rust
8 1 (0.27%) Solidity
8 1 (0.27%) SOQL
8 1 (0.27%) SOSL
8 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 79 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.96%) CISSP
4 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.89%) CISM
5 7 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (1.62%) Degree
7 5 (1.35%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.54%) CISA
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CCNP
11 1 (0.27%) CCSP
11 1 (0.27%) CEH
11 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.50%) GDPR
3 12 (3.23%) NIST
4 11 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.62%) GRC
6 5 (1.35%) NCSC
7 4 (1.08%) Government Security Classifications
7 4 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 3 (0.81%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.81%) QA
9 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.54%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.54%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.27%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.35%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.54%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.23%) Terraform
2 3 (0.81%) Ansible
2 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.28%) Databricks
3 21 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.39%) SAP
5 19 (5.12%) Oracle
6 14 (3.77%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.23%) Cisco
7 12 (3.23%) Google
8 9 (2.43%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.62%) Ariba
9 6 (1.62%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.62%) VMware
10 5 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.35%) Workday
11 4 (1.08%) Foundry
12 3 (0.81%) Yardi
13 2 (0.54%) Dell
13 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.54%) Red Hat