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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 228 190 245
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.43% 9.31% 9.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.08% 10.05% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 117 181
10th Percentile £468 £486 £513
25th Percentile £532 £569 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £670 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £751 £775
90th Percentile £825 £800 £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 2,057 1,890 2,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.60% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,202 1,743
10th Percentile £350 £363 £332
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £680
90th Percentile £771 £774 £797
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 34
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.29 £30.04 £20.48
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -27.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 £41.00 £36.95
90th Percentile £59.64 £112.00 £49.80
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -1.44% +22.81% -18.57%

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 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 4 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 +3 222 £650 -3.70% 101
City of Westminster 0 2 £425 -19.05% 1
West End of London +2 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £725 -
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 66 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.32%) AWS
2 60 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 59 (25.88%) Azure
4 36 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 36 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 34 (14.91%) AI
6 29 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (11.84%) Migration
7 27 (11.84%) TOGAF
8 24 (10.53%) GCP
9 22 (9.65%) Generative AI
9 22 (9.65%) Integration Patterns
10 21 (9.21%) Data Architecture
11 20 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (7.89%) Architectural Design
12 18 (7.89%) CI/CD
12 18 (7.89%) Databricks
12 18 (7.89%) DevOps
12 18 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
14 16 (7.02%) Data Modelling
14 16 (7.02%) GDPR
14 16 (7.02%) Machine Learning
15 15 (6.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (6.58%) Microservices
15 15 (6.58%) Network Security
15 15 (6.58%) Salesforce
15 15 (6.58%) Terraform
16 14 (6.14%) Business Intelligence

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 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.44%) Apache
2 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.44%) Camunda
2 1 (0.44%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.32%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.32%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.44%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.44%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (26.32%) AWS
2 59 (25.88%) Azure
3 24 (10.53%) GCP
4 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.95%) SaaS
5 6 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (2.63%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.19%) Boomi
6 5 (2.19%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.19%) iPaaS
6 5 (2.19%) Serverless
7 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.75%) GitHub
7 4 (1.75%) IaaS
7 4 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.58%) Network Security
2 12 (5.26%) WAN
3 10 (4.39%) LAN
4 8 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (3.07%) Firewall
6 6 (2.63%) DNS
7 5 (2.19%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.32%) DHCP
8 3 (1.32%) VPN
9 2 (0.88%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.88%) 4G
9 2 (0.88%) 5G
9 2 (0.88%) DMZ
9 2 (0.88%) Internet
9 2 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.44%) 3G
10 1 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
10 1 (0.44%) MPLS
10 1 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.51%) Power BI
3 7 (3.07%) Metadata
4 5 (2.19%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.88%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Big Data
7 1 (0.44%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.88%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) ERwin
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
3 1 (0.44%) MLflow
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.44%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.44%) Snyk
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (23.68%) Finance
2 41 (17.98%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.14%) Banking
4 11 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.07%) Military
9 6 (2.63%) Billing
9 6 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.63%) Legal
10 5 (2.19%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Marketing
13 1 (0.44%) Front Office
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.70%) Middleware
2 5 (2.19%) .NET
3 4 (1.75%) Kafka
4 3 (1.32%) REST
4 3 (1.32%) Spring
5 2 (0.88%) OAuth
5 2 (0.88%) OpenID
5 2 (0.88%) PySpark
5 2 (0.88%) SAML
5 2 (0.88%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.44%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.44%) J2EE
6 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.44%) React Native
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.75%) FMCG
7 4 (1.75%) LIMS
8 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.88%) CMDB
9 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.88%) NHS
9 2 (0.88%) PKI
9 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.19%) Windows
2 3 (1.32%) Linux
2 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (15.79%) Roadmaps
2 34 (14.91%) AI
3 29 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (11.84%) Migration
4 27 (11.84%) TOGAF
5 22 (9.65%) Generative AI
5 22 (9.65%) Integration Patterns
6 21 (9.21%) Data Architecture
7 20 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (7.89%) Architectural Design
8 18 (7.89%) CI/CD
8 18 (7.89%) DevOps
8 18 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
9 17 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
10 16 (7.02%) Data Modelling
10 16 (7.02%) Machine Learning
11 15 (6.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (6.58%) Microservices
12 14 (6.14%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (6.14%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.82%) SQL
2 9 (3.95%) Python
3 7 (3.07%) Java
4 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.88%) Korn
5 2 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.88%) Ruby
6 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.44%) Bash
6 1 (0.44%) C
6 1 (0.44%) C#
6 1 (0.44%) ProC
6 1 (0.44%) Scala
6 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.07%) AWS Certification
3 7 (3.07%) CISSP
4 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.19%) Degree
5 5 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.75%) CISM
6 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.88%) GIAC
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.44%) CCIE
9 1 (0.44%) CCNP
9 1 (0.44%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.02%) GDPR
2 11 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.51%) QA
5 6 (2.63%) NCSC
6 5 (2.19%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.32%) PSD2
8 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.88%) EU AI Act
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.88%) NIST
8 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.88%) SEPA
8 2 (0.88%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.44%) GRC
9 1 (0.44%) HL7
9 1 (0.44%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (2.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (6.58%) Terraform
2 9 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.19%) Ansible
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.44%) Kibana
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.89%) Databricks
3 15 (6.58%) Salesforce
4 14 (6.14%) SAP
5 8 (3.51%) Oracle
6 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.19%) Google
8 4 (1.75%) Ariba
8 4 (1.75%) IBM
8 4 (1.75%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.75%) Splunk
9 3 (1.32%) Cisco
9 3 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.32%) IFS
9 3 (1.32%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.32%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (1.32%) Sparx
9 3 (1.32%) Workday