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 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 251 192 248
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.90% 9.74% 9.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.57% 10.50% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 122 187
10th Percentile £463 £488 £518
25th Percentile £515 £571 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £670 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £775
90th Percentile £825 £800 £880
London median daily rate £625 £650 £672
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.27% -1.90%

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 2,170 1,828 2,426
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 92.70% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 1,193 1,722
10th Percentile £350 £363 £338
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £771 £763 £792
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 33
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.18 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +13.08% -24.11%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £59.40 £56.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%

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 31 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 31 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 +1 241 £650 -3.70% 121
City of Westminster +1 4 £500 -13.42% 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £813 -
West End of London 0 1 - - 8
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 73 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.10%) Azure
2 63 (25.10%) SC Cleared
3 62 (24.70%) AWS
4 44 (17.53%) Roadmaps
5 43 (17.13%) AI
6 37 (14.74%) Microsoft
7 35 (13.94%) Migration
8 30 (11.95%) TOGAF
9 29 (11.55%) Integration Patterns
9 29 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (11.16%) GCP
11 26 (10.36%) Generative AI
12 23 (9.16%) CI/CD
13 22 (8.76%) Enterprise Architecture
14 21 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (8.37%) Databricks
14 21 (8.37%) DevOps
14 21 (8.37%) Machine Learning
14 21 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (7.97%) Data Architecture
15 20 (7.97%) Data Modelling
16 19 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 18 (7.17%) Architectural Design
17 18 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
18 17 (6.77%) Agile
18 17 (6.77%) Microservices
18 17 (6.77%) SAP
18 17 (6.77%) Technical Architecture
19 16 (6.37%) Data Engineering

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 (1.20%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.40%) Apache
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.40%) Camunda
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (4.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.20%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.20%) SAP PM
2 3 (1.20%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.20%) SAP QM
2 3 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.10%) Azure
2 62 (24.70%) AWS
3 28 (11.16%) GCP
4 11 (4.38%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.59%) SaaS
5 9 (3.59%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.19%) GitHub
7 7 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.79%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.39%) Serverless
9 5 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.99%) iPaaS
9 5 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.99%) PaaS
10 4 (1.59%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.59%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 4 (1.59%) Boomi
10 4 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.59%) IaaS
10 4 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.37%) Network Security
2 11 (4.38%) LAN
2 11 (4.38%) WAN
3 8 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.99%) Firewall
5 4 (1.59%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.20%) DNS
6 3 (1.20%) VPN
7 2 (0.80%) DMZ
8 1 (0.40%) 3G
8 1 (0.40%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.40%) 4G
8 1 (0.40%) DHCP
8 1 (0.40%) Extranet
8 1 (0.40%) Internet
8 1 (0.40%) LTE
8 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.40%) SMS
8 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.40%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (3.59%) Power BI
2 6 (2.39%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.99%) Metadata
3 5 (1.99%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.40%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (1.99%) Git
2 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) ERwin
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.40%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.40%) Snyk
3 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
General
1 61 (24.30%) Finance
2 43 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 13 (5.18%) Banking
3 13 (5.18%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.19%) Retail
7 7 (2.79%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.79%) Military
8 5 (1.99%) Billing
8 5 (1.99%) Legal
8 5 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Front Office
10 1 (0.40%) Local Government
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
10 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.58%) Middleware
2 6 (2.39%) .NET
3 5 (1.99%) Spring
4 4 (1.59%) Kafka
4 4 (1.59%) OAuth
5 3 (1.20%) REST
5 3 (1.20%) SAML
5 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.80%) JSON
6 2 (0.80%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.80%) OpenID
6 2 (0.80%) PySpark
6 2 (0.80%) XML
7 1 (0.40%) DOM
7 1 (0.40%) J2EE
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.40%) RESTful
7 1 (0.40%) SOAP
7 1 (0.40%) STL
7 1 (0.40%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.59%) FMCG
7 4 (1.59%) LIMS
7 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.80%) CMDB
9 2 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) IoT
9 2 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Linux
1 4 (1.59%) Windows
2 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (17.53%) Roadmaps
2 43 (17.13%) AI
3 35 (13.94%) Migration
4 30 (11.95%) TOGAF
5 29 (11.55%) Integration Patterns
5 29 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (10.36%) Generative AI
7 23 (9.16%) CI/CD
8 22 (8.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 21 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
9 21 (8.37%) DevOps
9 21 (8.37%) Machine Learning
9 21 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (7.97%) Data Architecture
10 20 (7.97%) Data Modelling
11 19 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (7.17%) Architectural Design
12 18 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (6.77%) Agile
13 17 (6.77%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.38%) SQL
2 10 (3.98%) Java
2 10 (3.98%) Python
3 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.59%) Ruby
4 2 (0.80%) Bash
4 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.80%) Korn
4 2 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.40%) C
5 1 (0.40%) C#
5 1 (0.40%) ProC
5 1 (0.40%) Scala
5 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 63 (25.10%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.19%) CISSP
4 7 (2.79%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.39%) CISM
5 6 (2.39%) Degree
5 6 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) GIAC
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CCIE
10 1 (0.40%) CCNP
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.98%) GDPR
2 13 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.59%) QA
4 7 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.39%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.99%) NCSC
7 4 (1.59%) NIST
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.20%) EU AI Act
8 3 (1.20%) PSD2
9 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.80%) SEPA
9 2 (0.80%) SLA
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) HL7
10 1 (0.40%) TARGET2
System Software
1 6 (2.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.98%) Terraform
2 11 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (0.80%) Grafana
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Kibana
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.37%) Databricks
3 17 (6.77%) SAP
4 13 (5.18%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.98%) Oracle
6 8 (3.19%) Google
7 7 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.39%) Ariba
8 6 (2.39%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.99%) IBM
9 5 (1.99%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.59%) Cisco
10 4 (1.59%) Splunk
10 4 (1.59%) Yardi
11 3 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.20%) Foundry
11 3 (1.20%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.20%) PeopleSoft
11 3 (1.20%) Sparx
12 2 (0.80%) BiZZdesign