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 25 November 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 174 201 291
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.82% 8.46% 10.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.46% 9.09% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 128 204
10th Percentile £478 £474 £521
25th Percentile £569 £550 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 £663
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +0.34% -3.81%
75th Percentile £738 £752 £775
90th Percentile £813 £816 £850
London median daily rate £645 £630 £670
% change year-on-year +2.38% -5.97% -0.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,839 2,211 2,728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 93.02% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,377 1,940
10th Percentile £325 £363 £340
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £684 £688
90th Percentile £760 £775 £813
London median daily rate £535 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 19
10th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £32.19 £20.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +34.62% -39.18%
75th Percentile £41.75 £74.38 £56.88
90th Percentile £58.15 £124.75 £69.75
London median hourly rate £26.78 £37.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -28.59% +3.22% +3.80%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 0 170 £650 -3.70% 54
City of Westminster -2 3 £550 +4.76% 3
West End of London +2 1 £650 +11.30% 2
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, 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 67 (38.51%) Azure
2 51 (29.31%) AWS
3 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
4 31 (17.82%) Roadmaps
5 25 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
7 23 (13.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 23 (13.22%) Migration
7 23 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (12.07%) Agile
8 21 (12.07%) TOGAF
9 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
10 19 (10.92%) Integration Patterns
11 18 (10.34%) GCP
12 17 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (9.77%) Data Modelling
12 17 (9.77%) SC Cleared
13 16 (9.20%) Microservices
14 15 (8.62%) AI
14 15 (8.62%) Analytics
14 15 (8.62%) CI/CD
14 15 (8.62%) Cloud Security
14 15 (8.62%) Data Architecture
14 15 (8.62%) Databricks
14 15 (8.62%) DevOps
14 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
14 15 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (8.62%) Security Architecture
15 14 (8.05%) GDPR
15 14 (8.05%) 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 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Confluence
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.15%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.57%) CICS
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.30%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.15%) Endur
5 2 (1.15%) Summit
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.57%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.57%) Maximo
6 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.57%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.57%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.57%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 67 (38.51%) Azure
2 51 (29.31%) AWS
3 18 (10.34%) GCP
4 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.75%) SaaS
7 8 (4.60%) IaaS
7 8 (4.60%) PaaS
8 7 (4.02%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.45%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.87%) dbt
10 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.30%) Boomi
11 4 (2.30%) Serverless
12 3 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) Network Security
1 9 (5.17%) WAN
2 7 (4.02%) Firewall
2 7 (4.02%) LAN
3 6 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.87%) DNS
4 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.72%) DHCP
5 3 (1.72%) VPN
6 2 (1.15%) SAN
6 2 (1.15%) SSL
7 1 (0.57%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) IPsec
7 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.57%) MPLS
7 1 (0.57%) OSPF
7 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) Power BI
2 11 (6.32%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.87%) Metadata
5 3 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.15%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) JIRA
2 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 76 (43.68%) Finance
2 46 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.09%) Banking
4 10 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.02%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.45%) Legal
9 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.87%) Retail
10 4 (2.30%) Billing
10 4 (2.30%) Marketing
11 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Back Office
13 1 (0.57%) Law
13 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.02%) .NET
2 6 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.87%) Kafka
3 5 (2.87%) REST
3 5 (2.87%) RESTful
4 4 (2.30%) Web Services
5 3 (1.72%) Middleware
5 3 (1.72%) OAuth
5 3 (1.72%) OpenID
5 3 (1.72%) SAML
6 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.15%) JSON
6 2 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.15%) SOAP
7 1 (0.57%) ADO
7 1 (0.57%) HTML
7 1 (0.57%) JDBC
7 1 (0.57%) LDAP
7 1 (0.57%) ODBC
7 1 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.72%) CMDB
5 3 (1.72%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) FMCG
6 2 (1.15%) IoT
6 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.15%) PKI
6 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Linux
2 6 (3.45%) Windows
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) AIX
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Solaris
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.82%) Roadmaps
2 25 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 24 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
4 23 (13.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 23 (13.22%) Migration
4 23 (13.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (12.07%) Agile
5 21 (12.07%) TOGAF
6 19 (10.92%) Integration Patterns
7 17 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (9.77%) Data Modelling
8 16 (9.20%) Microservices
9 15 (8.62%) AI
9 15 (8.62%) Analytics
9 15 (8.62%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.62%) Cloud Security
9 15 (8.62%) Data Architecture
9 15 (8.62%) DevOps
9 15 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (8.62%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.75%) Python
2 9 (5.17%) SQL
3 6 (3.45%) Java
4 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.15%) Bicep
6 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (0.57%) Bash
7 1 (0.57%) COBOL
7 1 (0.57%) CodeQL
7 1 (0.57%) Go
7 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) R
7 1 (0.57%) Swift
7 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.17%) Degree
4 5 (2.87%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.72%) CISSP
6 3 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.15%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) CASP
8 1 (0.57%) CCIE
8 1 (0.57%) CCSP
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.05%) GDPR
2 13 (7.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.87%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.30%) NCSC
5 4 (2.30%) NIST
5 4 (2.30%) QA
6 3 (1.72%) COBIT
7 2 (1.15%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.57%) GRC
8 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.57%) MiFID
8 1 (0.57%) PMO
8 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.87%) Docker
3 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (7.47%) Terraform
2 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.30%) Ansible
4 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.57%) SELinux
6 1 (0.57%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.62%) Databricks
3 14 (8.05%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.17%) SAP
4 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.02%) Google
6 6 (3.45%) IBM
6 6 (3.45%) Workday
7 5 (2.87%) IFS
7 5 (2.87%) Oracle
8 4 (2.30%) Cisco
9 3 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.72%) Informatica
9 3 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Guidewire
10 2 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.15%) Okta
10 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto