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 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 22 17
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 371 175 212
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 14.14% 8.64% 8.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.04% 9.29% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 107 151
10th Percentile £475 £540 £518
25th Percentile £513 £613 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £690 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £738 £754 £775
90th Percentile £815 £805 £875
London median daily rate £620 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -4.62% - -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -12.31%

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 2,466 1,883 2,255
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.94% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 1,219 1,562
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £797
London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 30 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.51 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £51.31 £34.75
90th Percentile £64.00 £67.89 £48.30
London median hourly rate £39.25 £32.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year +22.66% +15.07% -25.68%

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 8 July 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
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 8 July 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 +18 348 £625 -10.65% 105
City of Westminster -7 4 £500 -23.08% 5
West End of London -7 3 £625 -3.85% 3
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £900 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 103 (27.76%) Azure
2 99 (26.68%) Security Cleared
3 86 (23.18%) SC Cleared
4 67 (18.06%) AWS
5 61 (16.44%) AI
6 55 (14.82%) Roadmaps
7 54 (14.56%) Migration
8 51 (13.75%) Microsoft
9 43 (11.59%) Analytics
10 38 (10.24%) CI/CD
10 38 (10.24%) Data Modelling
11 35 (9.43%) GCP
12 34 (9.16%) Data Architecture
13 33 (8.89%) Integration Patterns
14 32 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (8.63%) TOGAF
15 30 (8.09%) Databricks
15 30 (8.09%) Machine Learning
16 29 (7.82%) Generative AI
16 29 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (7.55%) Agile
18 27 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
18 27 (7.28%) Enterprise Architecture
19 25 (6.74%) DevOps
20 24 (6.47%) Event-Driven
20 24 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 22 (5.93%) Architectural Design
22 21 (5.66%) Data Governance
22 21 (5.66%) Power Platform
22 21 (5.66%) SAP

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%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.27%) Apache
3 1 (0.27%) Camunda
3 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.27%) nginx
3 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 103 (27.76%) Azure
2 67 (18.06%) AWS
3 35 (9.43%) GCP
4 21 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.85%) SaaS
6 13 (3.50%) Serverless
7 12 (3.23%) GitHub
8 11 (2.96%) PaaS
9 10 (2.70%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.89%) Azure AI
11 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.89%) iPaaS
12 6 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.35%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.35%) Azure Cognitive Search
13 5 (1.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.58%) Network Security
2 9 (2.43%) Firewall
3 5 (1.35%) LAN
4 4 (1.08%) DNS
4 4 (1.08%) VPN
5 3 (0.81%) WAN
6 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.27%) 3G
7 1 (0.27%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.27%) 4G
7 1 (0.27%) DHCP
7 1 (0.27%) DMZ
7 1 (0.27%) FTP
7 1 (0.27%) LTE
7 1 (0.27%) NAS
7 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.27%) SAN
7 1 (0.27%) SMS
7 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.58%) Power BI
2 12 (3.23%) Metadata
3 11 (2.96%) Data Lake
4 10 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.81%) Big Data
7 3 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.27%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (1.62%) Git
2 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.54%) JIRA
3 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.27%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.27%) ERwin
3 1 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 62 (16.71%) Finance
2 57 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.20%) Telecoms
5 20 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.39%) Banking
6 18 (4.85%) Retail
7 10 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.16%) Billing
9 5 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.54%) Legal
10 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.54%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Military
11 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.27%) Automotive
11 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.27%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.04%) Middleware
1 15 (4.04%) REST
2 11 (2.96%) SOAP
3 7 (1.89%) .NET
4 6 (1.62%) OAuth
4 6 (1.62%) Spring
5 5 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.35%) PySpark
5 5 (1.35%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.08%) JSON
7 3 (0.81%) Kafka
7 3 (0.81%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.81%) SAML
7 3 (0.81%) XML
8 2 (0.54%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.54%) JWT
8 2 (0.54%) RESTful
9 1 (0.27%) Blazor
9 1 (0.27%) MACH
9 1 (0.27%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.70%) CMDB
4 9 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.16%) Mainframe
5 8 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.62%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.08%) LIMS
9 3 (0.81%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.54%) NHS
10 2 (0.54%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.27%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.70%) Linux
2 3 (0.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) AIX
3 1 (0.27%) CentOS
3 1 (0.27%) Solaris
3 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (16.44%) AI
2 55 (14.82%) Roadmaps
3 54 (14.56%) Migration
4 43 (11.59%) Analytics
5 38 (10.24%) CI/CD
5 38 (10.24%) Data Modelling
6 34 (9.16%) Data Architecture
7 33 (8.89%) Integration Patterns
8 32 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (8.63%) TOGAF
9 30 (8.09%) Machine Learning
10 29 (7.82%) Generative AI
10 29 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (7.55%) Agile
12 27 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (7.28%) Enterprise Architecture
13 25 (6.74%) DevOps
14 24 (6.47%) Event-Driven
14 24 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 22 (5.93%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.85%) Python
2 13 (3.50%) Java
2 13 (3.50%) SQL
3 10 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.35%) Bicep
4 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.35%) Ruby
5 2 (0.54%) Bash
5 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.27%) C#
6 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (26.68%) Security Cleared
2 86 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.16%) CISSP
3 8 (2.16%) Degree
4 7 (1.89%) CISM
4 7 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.35%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.54%) CISA
9 2 (0.54%) GIAC
10 1 (0.27%) CCNP
10 1 (0.27%) CCSP
10 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.50%) GDPR
2 12 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.16%) NIST
4 5 (1.35%) GRC
4 5 (1.35%) NCSC
4 5 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.08%) QA
6 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 3 (0.81%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.54%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.54%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.54%) SEPA
8 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (1.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.23%) Terraform
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
3 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.09%) Databricks
3 21 (5.66%) SAP
4 19 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.85%) Oracle
6 15 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.96%) Cisco
7 11 (2.96%) Google
7 11 (2.96%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.62%) Ariba
8 6 (1.62%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.35%) Foundry
10 4 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.08%) Yardi
11 3 (0.81%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (0.81%) Splunk
11 3 (0.81%) Workday
12 2 (0.54%) IBM
12 2 (0.54%) Palo Alto