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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 306 180 235
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.44% 9.01% 9.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.12% 9.72% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 110 179
10th Percentile £475 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £575 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £659 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +1.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £775
90th Percentile £825 £800 £878
London median daily rate £625 £643 £675
% change year-on-year -2.72% -4.81% -3.57%
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% +9.09%

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 2,333 1,852 2,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 92.74% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,192 1,658
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £794
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 32
10th Percentile £18.63 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £21.81
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £25.78
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +12.76% -26.34%
75th Percentile £45.03 £35.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £43.38
London median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year +9.56% +22.26% -20.54%

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 1 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 1 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 +10 291 £650 -3.70% 89
City of Westminster +3 5 £500 -21.88%
West End of London -2 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 1 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 91 (29.74%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.82%) 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 43 (14.05%) Roadmaps
9 34 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
10 31 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 29 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (9.48%) TOGAF
12 28 (9.15%) Analytics
13 27 (8.82%) GCP
14 26 (8.50%) Generative AI
15 25 (8.17%) Data Modelling
15 25 (8.17%) DevOps
16 24 (7.84%) Databricks
16 24 (7.84%) Machine Learning
16 24 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (7.52%) Data Architecture
17 23 (7.52%) Enterprise Architecture
18 22 (7.19%) Architectural Patterns
19 21 (6.86%) SAP
20 19 (6.21%) Architectural Design
20 19 (6.21%) Data Engineering
20 19 (6.21%) Terraform
21 18 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
21 18 (5.88%) Event-Driven

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 2 (0.65%) Apache
2 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.33%) Camunda
3 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) nginx
3 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 27 (8.82%) GCP
4 12 (3.92%) GitHub
4 12 (3.92%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.27%) SaaS
5 10 (3.27%) Serverless
6 9 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.29%) PaaS
7 7 (2.29%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.63%) Azure AI
9 5 (1.63%) Azure AKS
9 5 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.31%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.31%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.23%) Network Security
2 12 (3.92%) LAN
3 11 (3.59%) WAN
4 8 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.63%) Firewall
6 4 (1.31%) DNS
6 4 (1.31%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.98%) VPN
8 2 (0.65%) DMZ
9 1 (0.33%) 3G
9 1 (0.33%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.33%) DHCP
9 1 (0.33%) Extranet
9 1 (0.33%) FTP
9 1 (0.33%) Internet
9 1 (0.33%) NAS
9 1 (0.33%) SAN
9 1 (0.33%) SMS
9 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.94%) Power BI
2 8 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.29%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.29%) Metadata
4 5 (1.63%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.65%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) Big Data
8 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.33%) Semantic Layer
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 54 (17.65%) Finance
2 47 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.19%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.92%) Retail
6 11 (3.59%) Banking
7 9 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.61%) Billing
8 8 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.29%) Military
10 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.31%) Legal
12 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Front Office
13 1 (0.33%) Law
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.25%) Middleware
2 7 (2.29%) .NET
3 6 (1.96%) Spring
4 5 (1.63%) OAuth
4 5 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.63%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.31%) Kafka
5 4 (1.31%) REST
5 4 (1.31%) SAML
6 3 (0.98%) JSON
6 3 (0.98%) OpenID
6 3 (0.98%) SOAP
7 2 (0.65%) J2EE
7 2 (0.65%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.65%) PySpark
7 2 (0.65%) RESTful
7 2 (0.65%) XML
8 1 (0.33%) RAML
8 1 (0.33%) React Native
8 1 (0.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.31%) FMCG
8 4 (1.31%) LIMS
8 4 (1.31%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.65%) IoT
10 2 (0.65%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.65%) Security Posture
10 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 43 (14.05%) Roadmaps
4 34 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 34 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
5 31 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (9.48%) TOGAF
7 28 (9.15%) Analytics
8 26 (8.50%) Generative AI
9 25 (8.17%) Data Modelling
9 25 (8.17%) DevOps
10 24 (7.84%) Machine Learning
10 24 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (7.52%) Data Architecture
11 23 (7.52%) Enterprise Architecture
12 22 (7.19%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (6.21%) Architectural Design
13 19 (6.21%) Data Engineering
14 18 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.58%) Java
2 11 (3.59%) Python
2 11 (3.59%) 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 91 (29.74%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.94%) CISSP
4 7 (2.29%) CISM
5 6 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.96%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.96%) Degree
5 6 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.65%) CISA
9 2 (0.65%) GIAC
10 1 (0.33%) CCIE
10 1 (0.33%) CCNP
10 1 (0.33%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.23%) GDPR
2 11 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.94%) QA
4 6 (1.96%) NIST
5 5 (1.63%) NCSC
5 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.98%) GRC
6 3 (0.98%) PSD2
7 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.65%) SEPA
7 2 (0.65%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) HL7
8 1 (0.33%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (1.96%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (6.21%) 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 24 (7.84%) 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 5 (1.63%) Cisco
11 4 (1.31%) IBM
11 4 (1.31%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.31%) Yardi
12 3 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.98%) Foundry
12 3 (0.98%) LogRhythm
12 3 (0.98%) PeopleSoft
12 3 (0.98%) Sparx
12 3 (0.98%) Splunk
13 2 (0.65%) BiZZdesign