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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 234 192 250
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.67% 9.37% 9.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.33% 10.08% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 120 185
10th Percentile £463 £487 £513
25th Percentile £525 £570 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £670 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £753 £775
90th Percentile £834 £801 £875
London median daily rate £630 £650 £663
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.89% -1.85%

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 2,065 1,904 2,459
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.16% 92.92% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 1,218 1,756
10th Percentile £350 £363 £328
25th Percentile £446 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £680
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 32 19 33
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.29 £30.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £43.86 £41.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.64 £112.00 £49.95
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -1.44% +21.74% -17.86%

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 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 9 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 +4 227 £650 -6.47% 58
City of Westminster 0 2 £425 -19.05% 3
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £813 -
West End of London +2 1 - -
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 68 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 62 (26.50%) Azure
3 61 (26.07%) SC Cleared
4 59 (25.21%) AWS
5 44 (18.80%) Roadmaps
6 38 (16.24%) AI
7 36 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 30 (12.82%) Migration
9 28 (11.97%) TOGAF
10 27 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (10.68%) GCP
12 24 (10.26%) Generative AI
12 24 (10.26%) Integration Patterns
13 20 (8.55%) Architectural Design
13 20 (8.55%) DevOps
14 19 (8.12%) CI/CD
14 19 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
15 18 (7.69%) Data Architecture
15 18 (7.69%) Databricks
16 17 (7.26%) Enterprise Architecture
16 17 (7.26%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.26%) SAP
17 16 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (6.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (6.84%) Network Security
18 15 (6.41%) Agile
18 15 (6.41%) Data Modelling
18 15 (6.41%) Middleware
18 15 (6.41%) 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 (1.28%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.43%) Apache
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.43%) Camunda
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.28%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.28%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.28%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.28%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.43%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.50%) Azure
2 59 (25.21%) AWS
3 25 (10.68%) GCP
4 10 (4.27%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.27%) SaaS
5 6 (2.56%) Boomi
5 6 (2.56%) iPaaS
5 6 (2.56%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.14%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.14%) GitHub
6 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.14%) Serverless
7 4 (1.71%) IaaS
7 4 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.28%) AWS KMS
8 3 (1.28%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.84%) Network Security
2 12 (5.13%) WAN
3 10 (4.27%) LAN
4 8 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (2.56%) Firewall
6 5 (2.14%) DNS
6 5 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.28%) VPN
8 2 (0.85%) DHCP
8 2 (0.85%) DMZ
8 2 (0.85%) Internet
8 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.43%) 3G
9 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.43%) Extranet
9 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) LTE
9 1 (0.43%) SSL
9 1 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.42%) Power BI
3 5 (2.14%) Metadata
3 5 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.43%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Git
1 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) ERwin
3 1 (0.43%) MLflow
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.43%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.43%) Snyk
3 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (23.93%) Finance
2 43 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 15 (6.41%) Banking
4 12 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.99%) Military
8 6 (2.56%) Billing
8 6 (2.56%) Legal
9 5 (2.14%) Retail
9 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Front Office
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.41%) Middleware
2 5 (2.14%) .NET
3 4 (1.71%) Kafka
3 4 (1.71%) Spring
4 3 (1.28%) OAuth
4 3 (1.28%) REST
4 3 (1.28%) SAML
5 2 (0.85%) OpenID
5 2 (0.85%) PySpark
5 2 (0.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.43%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.43%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.43%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.43%) React Native
6 1 (0.43%) RESTful
6 1 (0.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.71%) FMCG
7 4 (1.71%) LIMS
8 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) CMDB
9 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) PKI
9 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.43%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.56%) Windows
2 4 (1.71%) Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (18.80%) Roadmaps
2 38 (16.24%) AI
3 30 (12.82%) Migration
4 28 (11.97%) TOGAF
5 27 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (10.26%) Generative AI
6 24 (10.26%) Integration Patterns
7 20 (8.55%) Architectural Design
7 20 (8.55%) DevOps
8 19 (8.12%) CI/CD
8 19 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
9 18 (7.69%) Data Architecture
10 17 (7.26%) Enterprise Architecture
10 17 (7.26%) Machine Learning
11 16 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (6.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (6.41%) Agile
12 15 (6.41%) Data Modelling
12 15 (6.41%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.13%) SQL
2 9 (3.85%) Python
3 8 (3.42%) Java
4 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.85%) Korn
5 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.85%) Ruby
6 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.43%) Bash
6 1 (0.43%) C
6 1 (0.43%) C#
6 1 (0.43%) ProC
6 1 (0.43%) Scala
6 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 61 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.42%) CISSP
4 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.99%) Degree
5 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.14%) CISM
7 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) GIAC
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CCIE
10 1 (0.43%) CCNP
10 1 (0.43%) CCSP
10 1 (0.43%) CEH
10 1 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) GDPR
2 12 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.42%) QA
4 6 (2.56%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.14%) NCSC
6 3 (1.28%) EU AI Act
6 3 (1.28%) NIST
6 3 (1.28%) PSD2
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.85%) SEPA
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.43%) TARGET2
System Software
1 5 (2.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (6.41%) Terraform
2 10 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.14%) Ansible
4 2 (0.85%) Grafana
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
5 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.69%) Databricks
3 17 (7.26%) SAP
4 15 (6.41%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.42%) Oracle
6 7 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.56%) Ariba
7 6 (2.56%) Google
8 5 (2.14%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.71%) IBM
9 4 (1.71%) Splunk
10 3 (1.28%) Cisco
10 3 (1.28%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.28%) IFS
10 3 (1.28%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.28%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.28%) Sparx
10 3 (1.28%) Workday