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 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 165 189 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.46% 8.15% 9.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.08% 8.66% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 123 214
10th Percentile £505 £501 £521
25th Percentile £605 £560 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +3.05%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £775
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
London median daily rate £650 £650 £675
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £82.50 £86.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +32.97% -13.33%

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 1,817 2,183 3,044
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 94.09% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,408 2,117
10th Percentile £315 £363 £329
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +3.54%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £781 £800
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 13
10th Percentile £18.51 £20.36 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.75 £24.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.75 £42.13 £42.32
90th Percentile £64.11 £115.00 £65.50
London median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -13.57% -6.27% +14.89%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect 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 September 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 18 September 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 0 159 £660 -2.22% 90
West End of London +2 4 £650 +7.08% 2
City of Westminster 0 3 £650 +6.73% 2
Camden +1 1 £550 -9.39% 1
Southwark - 1 - -
Architect
London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 67 (40.61%) Finance
2 64 (38.79%) Azure
3 47 (28.48%) AWS
4 41 (24.85%) Social Skills
5 33 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 33 (20.00%) Banking
6 29 (17.58%) Microsoft
7 25 (15.15%) Agile
8 24 (14.55%) Security Cleared
8 24 (14.55%) Migration
9 23 (13.94%) SC Cleared
10 22 (13.33%) Microservices
10 22 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (12.12%) Cloud Native
12 19 (11.52%) GCP
12 19 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (11.52%) Enterprise Architecture
12 19 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (10.30%) TOGAF
14 16 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (9.70%) DevOps
14 16 (9.70%) Integration Patterns
14 16 (9.70%) Event-Driven
15 15 (9.09%) Data Modelling
16 14 (8.48%) Analytics
16 14 (8.48%) CI/CD
16 14 (8.48%) Architectural Patterns
16 14 (8.48%) Cloud Security
17 13 (7.88%) Power Platform
17 13 (7.88%) SaaS

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.64%) Confluence
2 5 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.21%) NServiceBus
4 2 (1.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) CICS
5 1 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.61%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.64%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.82%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.21%) Endur
3 2 (1.21%) Summit
4 1 (0.61%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.61%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.61%) Maximo
4 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.61%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 64 (38.79%) Azure
2 47 (28.48%) AWS
3 19 (11.52%) GCP
4 13 (7.88%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.88%) SaaS
5 11 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.85%) PaaS
7 6 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.64%) IaaS
7 6 (3.64%) Serverless
8 5 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.03%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.42%) Collibra
9 4 (2.42%) dbt
9 4 (2.42%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.42%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Firewall
2 5 (3.03%) LAN
2 5 (3.03%) WAN
2 5 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.42%) DNS
3 4 (2.42%) Network Security
4 2 (1.21%) SAN
4 2 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.21%) VLAN
5 1 (0.61%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.61%) 4G
5 1 (0.61%) 5G
5 1 (0.61%) DHCP
5 1 (0.61%) IPsec
5 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.61%) MPLS
5 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
5 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) Data Lake
1 9 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (4.85%) Power BI
3 5 (3.03%) Big Data
3 5 (3.03%) Metadata
3 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.21%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.24%) JIRA
2 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.61%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.61%) Git
3 1 (0.61%) Maven
3 1 (0.61%) MLflow
3 1 (0.61%) Postman
General
1 67 (40.61%) Finance
2 41 (24.85%) Social Skills
3 33 (20.00%) Banking
4 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.64%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Legal
7 4 (2.42%) Retail
8 3 (1.82%) Back Office
8 3 (1.82%) Billing
8 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Military
9 2 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.85%) Kafka
2 7 (4.24%) .NET
3 5 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (3.03%) REST
3 5 (3.03%) RESTful
3 5 (3.03%) Web Services
4 4 (2.42%) Spring
4 4 (2.42%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.82%) JSON
5 3 (1.82%) XML
6 2 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.21%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.21%) Node.js
6 2 (1.21%) OAuth
6 2 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.21%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.21%) SOAP
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.21%) CSOC
6 2 (1.21%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.21%) PKI
6 2 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.64%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
3 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) AIX
4 1 (0.61%) Android
4 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.61%) Solaris
4 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 25 (15.15%) Agile
3 24 (14.55%) Migration
4 22 (13.33%) Microservices
4 22 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (11.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 19 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (10.30%) TOGAF
7 16 (9.70%) DevOps
7 16 (9.70%) Event-Driven
7 16 (9.70%) Integration Patterns
7 16 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (9.09%) Data Modelling
9 14 (8.48%) Analytics
9 14 (8.48%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (8.48%) CI/CD
9 14 (8.48%) Cloud Security
10 13 (7.88%) Data Governance
10 13 (7.88%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.88%) Python
2 10 (6.06%) Java
2 10 (6.06%) SQL
3 4 (2.42%) C#
3 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.21%) Bicep
5 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.61%) COBOL
6 1 (0.61%) CodeQL
6 1 (0.61%) Go
6 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.61%) R
6 1 (0.61%) Scala
6 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.45%) Degree
4 8 (4.85%) CISSP
5 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.03%) CISM
7 3 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.82%) GIAC
7 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.21%) CASP
8 2 (1.21%) CCNA
8 2 (1.21%) CCSP
8 2 (1.21%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.21%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (6.67%) GDPR
3 9 (5.45%) NIST
4 7 (4.24%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.82%) COBIT
5 3 (1.82%) NCSC
5 3 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.82%) QA
6 2 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) MiFID
7 1 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (4.24%) Kubernetes
1 7 (4.24%) Terraform
2 2 (1.21%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.21%) SELinux
2 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.61%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 29 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.27%) Databricks
3 11 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.45%) Google
5 8 (4.85%) SAP
5 8 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.03%) Cisco
6 5 (3.03%) IBM
7 4 (2.42%) Oracle
8 3 (1.82%) IFS
8 3 (1.82%) Informatica
8 3 (1.82%) Okta
8 3 (1.82%) Splunk
8 3 (1.82%) Workday
9 2 (1.21%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.21%) OpenLink
9 2 (1.21%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.21%) Pega
9 2 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) Zscaler