Architect Contract Job Trends in Central London

Architect
London > Central London

The median Architect daily rate in Central London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 306 178 235
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.46% 8.90% 9.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.15% 9.59% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 107 176
10th Percentile £475 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £575 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £656 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +0.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £775
90th Percentile £825 £794 £881
London median daily rate £625 £640 £672
% change year-on-year -2.34% -4.76% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% +4.17% -2.04%

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 2,327 1,856 2,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 92.80% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,202 1,643
10th Percentile £350 £339 £350
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 21 31
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.75 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +16.28% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £35.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -21.99%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +13 290 £650 -3.53% 109
City of Westminster +2 5 £500 -21.88%
West End of London -5 3 £625 +7.20%
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £813 -
Southwark +1 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 90 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 74 (24.18%) Azure
4 63 (20.59%) AWS
5 51 (16.67%) AI
6 47 (15.36%) Migration
7 44 (14.38%) Microsoft
8 42 (13.73%) Roadmaps
9 34 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 33 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
11 31 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 30 (9.80%) Analytics
13 29 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (9.15%) GCP
14 28 (9.15%) TOGAF
15 27 (8.82%) Data Modelling
16 26 (8.50%) Generative AI
17 25 (8.17%) Databricks
18 24 (7.84%) Data Architecture
18 24 (7.84%) DevOps
18 24 (7.84%) Machine Learning
19 23 (7.52%) Architectural Patterns
19 23 (7.52%) Enterprise Architecture
19 23 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 21 (6.86%) SAP
21 20 (6.54%) Data Engineering
21 20 (6.54%) Event-Driven
22 19 (6.21%) Architectural Design
22 19 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
23 18 (5.88%) LLM

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 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) nginx
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.98%) SAP EWM
2 3 (0.98%) SAP PM
2 3 (0.98%) SAP PP
2 3 (0.98%) SAP QM
2 3 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.65%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (24.18%) Azure
2 63 (20.59%) AWS
3 28 (9.15%) GCP
4 13 (4.25%) Power Platform
5 12 (3.92%) GitHub
6 11 (3.59%) SaaS
6 11 (3.59%) Serverless
7 9 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.29%) PaaS
8 7 (2.29%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.63%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.63%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.63%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.58%) Network Security
2 9 (2.94%) LAN
3 8 (2.61%) WAN
4 7 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.31%) DNS
5 4 (1.31%) Firewall
6 2 (0.65%) DMZ
6 2 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.33%) 3G
7 1 (0.33%) 4G
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Extranet
7 1 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.33%) Internet
7 1 (0.33%) LTE
7 1 (0.33%) NAS
7 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.33%) SAN
7 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.27%) Power BI
2 8 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.61%) Metadata
3 7 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.63%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.65%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.33%) Big Data
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Git
2 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.33%) ERwin
3 1 (0.33%) GitLab
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.33%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.33%) Snyk
3 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (17.97%) Finance
2 46 (15.03%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.25%) Retail
5 12 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.92%) Banking
6 11 (3.59%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.61%) Billing
8 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.29%) Military
9 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.31%) Legal
11 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Front Office
12 1 (0.33%) Law
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.25%) Middleware
2 6 (1.96%) .NET
2 6 (1.96%) Spring
3 5 (1.63%) Kafka
3 5 (1.63%) OAuth
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.63%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.31%) REST
4 4 (1.31%) SAML
5 3 (0.98%) JSON
5 3 (0.98%) OpenID
5 3 (0.98%) PySpark
5 3 (0.98%) SOAP
6 2 (0.65%) J2EE
6 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.65%) RESTful
6 2 (0.65%) XML
7 1 (0.33%) Node.js
7 1 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.31%) FMCG
7 4 (1.31%) LIMS
7 4 (1.31%) Mainframe
8 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.65%) CMDB
9 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.65%) IoT
9 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.61%) Linux
2 4 (1.31%) Windows
3 2 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) AIX
4 1 (0.33%) CentOS
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
4 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (16.67%) AI
2 47 (15.36%) Migration
3 42 (13.73%) Roadmaps
4 34 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 33 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
6 31 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (9.80%) Analytics
8 29 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (9.15%) TOGAF
10 27 (8.82%) Data Modelling
11 26 (8.50%) Generative AI
12 24 (7.84%) Data Architecture
12 24 (7.84%) DevOps
12 24 (7.84%) Machine Learning
13 23 (7.52%) Architectural Patterns
13 23 (7.52%) Enterprise Architecture
13 23 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (6.54%) Data Engineering
14 20 (6.54%) Event-Driven
15 19 (6.21%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.25%) Java
2 12 (3.92%) Python
2 12 (3.92%) SQL
3 5 (1.63%) Bicep
3 5 (1.63%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.31%) Ruby
5 3 (0.98%) Bash
5 3 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.65%) Korn
6 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.33%) C
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) ProC
7 1 (0.33%) Scala
7 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.94%) CISSP
4 7 (2.29%) CISM
5 6 (1.96%) Degree
5 6 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.65%) CISA
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.65%) GIAC
10 1 (0.33%) CCSK
10 1 (0.33%) CCSP
10 1 (0.33%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.23%) GDPR
2 11 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.94%) QA
5 6 (1.96%) NIST
6 5 (1.63%) NCSC
6 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.98%) GRC
7 3 (0.98%) PSD2
8 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.65%) SEPA
8 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.33%) HL7
9 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.33%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (2.29%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (5.88%) Terraform
2 14 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.65%) Grafana
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.17%) Databricks
3 21 (6.86%) SAP
4 15 (4.90%) Oracle
5 12 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.94%) OpenAI
8 8 (2.61%) Google
9 6 (1.96%) Ariba
10 4 (1.31%) Cisco
10 4 (1.31%) IBM
10 4 (1.31%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.31%) Yardi
11 3 (0.98%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.98%) Foundry
11 3 (0.98%) LogRhythm
11 3 (0.98%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (0.98%) Sparx
11 3 (0.98%) Splunk
12 2 (0.65%) Workday