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 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 177 207 284
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.90% 8.60% 10.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.56% 9.27% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 133 205
10th Percentile £480 £475 £521
25th Percentile £573 £550 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £658
Median % change year-on-year - -1.22% -2.52%
75th Percentile £741 £750 £775
90th Percentile £813 £811 £845
London median daily rate £630 £625 £665
% change year-on-year +0.80% -6.02% -1.48%

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 1,851 2,232 2,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 92.77% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,286 1,405 1,875
10th Percentile £325 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £775 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 20
10th Percentile £19.42 £21.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.06 £20.67
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £24.99
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +40.08% -40.51%
75th Percentile £44.72 £56.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £59.55 £112.00 £65.88
London median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £36.31
% change year-on-year -22.08% -1.53% +3.73%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -1 172 £650 - 60
City of Westminster -1 3 £488 -7.14% 3
West End of London +3 1 - - 1
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 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 65 (36.72%) Azure
2 51 (28.81%) AWS
3 37 (20.90%) Microsoft
4 29 (16.38%) Roadmaps
5 26 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 25 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (13.56%) Enterprise Architecture
8 23 (12.99%) Migration
8 23 (12.99%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (12.43%) Agile
9 22 (12.43%) Security Cleared
10 21 (11.86%) TOGAF
11 19 (10.73%) SC Cleared
12 18 (10.17%) GCP
13 17 (9.60%) AI
13 17 (9.60%) DevOps
13 17 (9.60%) Integration Patterns
14 16 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (9.04%) CI/CD
14 16 (9.04%) Data Modelling
14 16 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (8.47%) Cloud Security
15 15 (8.47%) Databricks
15 15 (8.47%) Microservices
15 15 (8.47%) Security Architecture
15 15 (8.47%) Terraform
16 14 (7.91%) Analytics
16 14 (7.91%) Data Architecture
16 14 (7.91%) GDPR
16 14 (7.91%) Power Platform

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 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.26%) Confluence
2 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.13%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.56%) CICS
5 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (2.26%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.69%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.69%) SAP PM
4 3 (1.69%) SAP PP
4 3 (1.69%) SAP QM
5 2 (1.13%) Aladdin
5 2 (1.13%) Endur
5 2 (1.13%) Summit
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.56%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.56%) Maximo
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.56%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.56%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 65 (36.72%) Azure
2 51 (28.81%) AWS
3 18 (10.17%) GCP
4 14 (7.91%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.65%) SaaS
6 8 (4.52%) IaaS
6 8 (4.52%) PaaS
7 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (2.82%) dbt
9 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.26%) Boomi
10 4 (2.26%) Serverless
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.08%) Network Security
2 8 (4.52%) WAN
3 6 (3.39%) LAN
3 6 (3.39%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.82%) DNS
4 5 (2.82%) Firewall
5 3 (1.69%) DHCP
5 3 (1.69%) VPN
6 2 (1.13%) Internet
6 2 (1.13%) SSL
6 2 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.56%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.56%) BGP
7 1 (0.56%) Extranet
7 1 (0.56%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.56%) IPsec
7 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.56%) MPLS
7 1 (0.56%) OSPF
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) Power BI
2 10 (5.65%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.82%) Metadata
5 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.13%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.82%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.13%) Git
4 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.56%) MLflow
4 1 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 76 (42.94%) Finance
2 46 (25.99%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.69%) Banking
4 11 (6.21%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.95%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.39%) Legal
8 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.82%) Retail
9 4 (2.26%) Billing
9 4 (2.26%) Marketing
10 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Publishing
12 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.95%) .NET
2 6 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.82%) Kafka
3 5 (2.82%) REST
3 5 (2.82%) RESTful
4 4 (2.26%) Middleware
4 4 (2.26%) Web Services
5 3 (1.69%) OAuth
5 3 (1.69%) OpenID
5 3 (1.69%) SAML
6 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.13%) JSON
6 2 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.13%) SOAP
7 1 (0.56%) ADO
7 1 (0.56%) HTML
7 1 (0.56%) JDBC
7 1 (0.56%) LDAP
7 1 (0.56%) ODBC
7 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.26%) FMCG
4 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.69%) CMDB
5 3 (1.69%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) IoT
6 2 (1.13%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.13%) PKI
6 2 (1.13%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.39%) Linux
1 6 (3.39%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) AIX
3 1 (0.56%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.56%) Solaris
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.38%) Roadmaps
2 26 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (13.56%) Enterprise Architecture
5 23 (12.99%) Migration
5 23 (12.99%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (12.43%) Agile
7 21 (11.86%) TOGAF
8 17 (9.60%) AI
8 17 (9.60%) DevOps
8 17 (9.60%) Integration Patterns
9 16 (9.04%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (9.04%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.04%) Data Modelling
9 16 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (8.47%) Cloud Security
10 15 (8.47%) Microservices
10 15 (8.47%) Security Architecture
11 14 (7.91%) Analytics
11 14 (7.91%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.65%) Python
2 8 (4.52%) SQL
3 6 (3.39%) Java
4 5 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.69%) C#
6 2 (1.13%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.13%) Bicep
6 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.13%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Bash
7 1 (0.56%) COBOL
7 1 (0.56%) CodeQL
7 1 (0.56%) Go
7 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.56%) Swift
7 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.08%) Degree
4 7 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.13%) CISSP
8 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CCIE
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.91%) GDPR
2 12 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.82%) NCSC
4 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.26%) QA
6 3 (1.69%) COBIT
6 3 (1.69%) NIST
7 2 (1.13%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.13%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) GRC
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.56%) MiFID
8 1 (0.56%) PMO
8 1 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (2.82%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (8.47%) Terraform
2 6 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.26%) Ansible
4 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.56%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 37 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.47%) Databricks
3 14 (7.91%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.21%) SAP
5 9 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.52%) Google
7 6 (3.39%) IBM
7 6 (3.39%) Oracle
7 6 (3.39%) Workday
8 5 (2.82%) IFS
9 3 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.69%) Informatica
9 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.13%) Cisco
10 2 (1.13%) Citrix
10 2 (1.13%) Dell
10 2 (1.13%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.13%) OpenLink