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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 19 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 236 194 254
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.52% 9.59% 9.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.16% 10.32% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 120 188
10th Percentile £463 £487 £516
25th Percentile £515 £572 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £666 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £775
90th Percentile £834 £800 £877
London median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.46%

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 2,114 1,880 2,449
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 92.98% 95.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,216 1,748
10th Percentile £350 £363 £333
25th Percentile £446 £463 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £679
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 32
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.76 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +14.17% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £45.31 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.56 £112.00 £50.10
London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year - +23.89% -19.29%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +4 229 £650 -3.70% 101
City of Westminster 0 2 £425 -19.05% 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £813 -
West End of London +1 1 - - 3
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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 69 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 61 (25.85%) AWS
3 61 (25.85%) Azure
4 43 (18.22%) Roadmaps
5 38 (16.10%) AI
6 36 (15.25%) Microsoft
7 30 (12.71%) Migration
8 28 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (11.44%) TOGAF
10 25 (10.59%) GCP
10 25 (10.59%) Generative AI
11 24 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
12 22 (9.32%) CI/CD
13 21 (8.90%) DevOps
14 20 (8.47%) Architectural Design
15 19 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
15 19 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (7.63%) Data Architecture
16 18 (7.63%) Enterprise Architecture
17 17 (7.20%) Data Modelling
17 17 (7.20%) Databricks
17 17 (7.20%) Machine Learning
17 17 (7.20%) Network Security
18 16 (6.78%) Microservices
18 16 (6.78%) SAP
18 16 (6.78%) Technical Architecture
18 16 (6.78%) Terraform
19 15 (6.36%) Agile

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 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.42%) Apache
2 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.42%) Camunda
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.27%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.27%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.27%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.27%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.42%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.85%) AWS
1 61 (25.85%) Azure
2 25 (10.59%) GCP
3 10 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.39%) SaaS
5 7 (2.97%) GitHub
6 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.54%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.54%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.12%) Boomi
7 5 (2.12%) iPaaS
7 5 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.12%) Serverless
8 4 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (1.69%) PaaS
8 4 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.27%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.20%) Network Security
2 12 (5.08%) WAN
3 10 (4.24%) LAN
4 8 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.54%) Firewall
6 5 (2.12%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.69%) DNS
8 3 (1.27%) VPN
9 2 (0.85%) DHCP
9 2 (0.85%) DMZ
9 2 (0.85%) Internet
9 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.42%) 3G
10 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.42%) Extranet
10 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.42%) LTE
10 1 (0.42%) SMS
10 1 (0.42%) SSL
10 1 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (3.39%) Power BI
2 5 (2.12%) Metadata
2 5 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.42%) Big Data
6 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.42%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Git
2 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.42%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.42%) Snyk
4 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 58 (24.58%) Finance
2 44 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 14 (5.93%) Banking
4 13 (5.51%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.97%) Military
8 6 (2.54%) Billing
9 5 (2.12%) Legal
9 5 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.69%) Retail
11 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Law
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.36%) Middleware
2 5 (2.12%) .NET
3 4 (1.69%) Kafka
3 4 (1.69%) Spring
4 3 (1.27%) OAuth
4 3 (1.27%) REST
4 3 (1.27%) SAML
5 2 (0.85%) OpenID
5 2 (0.85%) PySpark
5 2 (0.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.42%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.42%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.42%) J2EE
6 1 (0.42%) JSON
6 1 (0.42%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.42%) React Native
6 1 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.69%) FMCG
8 4 (1.69%) LIMS
9 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.85%) CMDB
10 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.42%) PKI
11 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.12%) Windows
2 4 (1.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (18.22%) Roadmaps
2 38 (16.10%) AI
3 30 (12.71%) Migration
4 28 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (11.44%) TOGAF
6 25 (10.59%) Generative AI
7 24 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
8 22 (9.32%) CI/CD
9 21 (8.90%) DevOps
10 20 (8.47%) Architectural Design
11 19 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
11 19 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (7.63%) Data Architecture
12 18 (7.63%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (7.20%) Data Modelling
13 17 (7.20%) Machine Learning
14 16 (6.78%) Microservices
14 16 (6.78%) Technical Architecture
15 15 (6.36%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.08%) SQL
2 11 (4.66%) Python
3 10 (4.24%) Java
4 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.69%) Ruby
5 2 (0.85%) Bash
5 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.85%) Korn
5 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.42%) C
6 1 (0.42%) C#
6 1 (0.42%) ProC
6 1 (0.42%) Scala
6 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.39%) CISSP
4 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.97%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.97%) Degree
5 6 (2.54%) CISM
5 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.85%) GIAC
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CCIE
9 1 (0.42%) CCNP
9 1 (0.42%) CCSP
9 1 (0.42%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.36%) GDPR
2 12 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.39%) QA
4 7 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.54%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.12%) NCSC
7 3 (1.27%) EU AI Act
7 3 (1.27%) NIST
7 3 (1.27%) PSD2
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.85%) SEPA
8 2 (0.85%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) HL7
9 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.42%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (2.12%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (6.78%) Terraform
2 10 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.12%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) Grafana
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.42%) Kibana
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.20%) Databricks
3 16 (6.78%) SAP
4 14 (5.93%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.24%) Oracle
6 7 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.54%) Ariba
7 6 (2.54%) Google
7 6 (2.54%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.12%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.69%) IBM
9 4 (1.69%) Splunk
10 3 (1.27%) Cisco
10 3 (1.27%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.27%) Foundry
10 3 (1.27%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.27%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.27%) Sparx
10 3 (1.27%) Workday
10 3 (1.27%) Yardi