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 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 210 193 256
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.27% 9.22% 9.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.93% 9.95% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 116 188
10th Percentile £468 £477 £522
25th Percentile £538 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £660
Median % change year-on-year - -1.55% -2.19%
75th Percentile £738 £762 £775
90th Percentile £830 £809 £875
London median daily rate £630 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%

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 1,921 1,939 2,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.64% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,199 1,777
10th Percentile £350 £359 £333
25th Percentile £435 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 18 36
10th Percentile £19.51 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.85 £32.19 £20.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%
75th Percentile £42.12 £38.94 £38.50
90th Percentile £52.64 £67.73 £57.63
London median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £28.16
% change year-on-year -13.33% +33.19% -13.87%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +2 204 £650 -3.35% 77
City of Westminster +1 3 £488 -7.14%
West End of London +4 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £725 -
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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 57 (27.14%) Azure
2 53 (25.24%) AWS
3 52 (24.76%) Security Cleared
4 49 (23.33%) SC Cleared
5 37 (17.62%) Microsoft
6 31 (14.76%) AI
7 30 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 30 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (10.48%) Migration
8 22 (10.48%) TOGAF
9 21 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 21 (10.00%) Generative AI
9 21 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (9.52%) GCP
11 19 (9.05%) Integration Patterns
12 18 (8.57%) CI/CD
12 18 (8.57%) Data Architecture
12 18 (8.57%) Microservices
13 17 (8.10%) Databricks
14 16 (7.62%) Machine Learning
15 15 (7.14%) Agile
15 15 (7.14%) Architectural Design
15 15 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
15 15 (7.14%) Data Modelling
15 15 (7.14%) DevOps
15 15 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (6.67%) Cloud Security
16 14 (6.67%) Event-Driven
16 14 (6.67%) GDPR
16 14 (6.67%) Salesforce

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 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) Apache
3 1 (0.48%) Camunda
3 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.48%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.43%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.43%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.43%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.43%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.95%) Endur
4 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.48%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.48%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.48%) Summit
4 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (27.14%) Azure
2 53 (25.24%) AWS
3 20 (9.52%) GCP
4 8 (3.81%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.81%) SaaS
5 6 (2.86%) Boomi
5 6 (2.86%) iPaaS
5 6 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.38%) Serverless
6 5 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.90%) dbt
7 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.90%) IaaS
7 4 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.43%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.67%) WAN
2 13 (6.19%) Network Security
3 12 (5.71%) LAN
4 9 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (3.33%) DNS
6 6 (2.86%) Firewall
6 6 (2.86%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.90%) VPN
8 3 (1.43%) DHCP
9 2 (0.95%) DMZ
9 2 (0.95%) Internet
9 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.48%) BGP
10 1 (0.48%) Extranet
10 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.48%) IPsec
10 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.48%) MPLS
10 1 (0.48%) OSPF
10 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.33%) Power BI
2 6 (2.86%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.38%) Metadata
4 4 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.95%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.95%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) GitLab
2 2 (0.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.48%) ERwin
3 1 (0.48%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) MLflow
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.48%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (27.14%) Finance
2 44 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.62%) Banking
4 11 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
4 11 (5.24%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.81%) Billing
6 7 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.33%) Legal
6 7 (3.33%) Military
7 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.90%) Retail
8 3 (1.43%) Marketing
8 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.95%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Front Office
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.81%) Middleware
2 5 (2.38%) Kafka
3 4 (1.90%) .NET
4 3 (1.43%) REST
5 2 (0.95%) OpenID
5 2 (0.95%) PySpark
5 2 (0.95%) SAML
5 2 (0.95%) Spring
5 2 (0.95%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.48%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.48%) DOM
6 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.48%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.48%) J2EE
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.48%) RESTful
6 1 (0.48%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.48%) SOAP
6 1 (0.48%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.90%) FMCG
6 4 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.95%) IoT
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.95%) NHS
8 2 (0.95%) PKI
8 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.90%) Windows
2 3 (1.43%) Linux
2 3 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (14.76%) AI
2 30 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 30 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (10.48%) Migration
3 22 (10.48%) TOGAF
4 21 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 21 (10.00%) Generative AI
4 21 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (9.05%) Integration Patterns
6 18 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 18 (8.57%) Data Architecture
6 18 (8.57%) Microservices
7 16 (7.62%) Machine Learning
8 15 (7.14%) Agile
8 15 (7.14%) Architectural Design
8 15 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
8 15 (7.14%) Data Modelling
8 15 (7.14%) DevOps
8 15 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (6.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.76%) Python
2 9 (4.29%) Java
2 9 (4.29%) SQL
3 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.95%) Korn
5 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.95%) Ruby
6 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.48%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) C
6 1 (0.48%) C#
6 1 (0.48%) Go
6 1 (0.48%) ProC
6 1 (0.48%) Scala
6 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 49 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 6 (2.86%) CISSP
3 6 (2.86%) Degree
4 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.43%) CISM
6 3 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.95%) GIAC
8 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.48%) CCIE
8 1 (0.48%) CCNP
8 1 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.67%) GDPR
2 10 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.29%) QA
4 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.86%) NCSC
5 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.95%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) PSD2
6 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.95%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) HL7
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (2.86%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (6.67%) Terraform
2 7 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.38%) Ansible
4 2 (0.95%) Grafana
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.48%) Kibana
5 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.10%) Databricks
3 14 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.24%) SAP
5 10 (4.76%) Oracle
6 6 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.38%) Google
7 5 (2.38%) IBM
7 5 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.90%) IFS
8 4 (1.90%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.43%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.43%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.43%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.43%) Sparx
9 3 (1.43%) Splunk
9 3 (1.43%) Workday
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco