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 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 174 193 292
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.90% 8.23% 10.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.54% 8.85% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 124 201
10th Percentile £480 £473 £521
25th Percentile £565 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £674 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +1.70% -1.85%
75th Percentile £738 £762 £775
90th Percentile £813 £821 £825
London median daily rate £650 £638 £672
% change year-on-year +1.88% -5.06% -0.44%

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 1,824 2,182 2,742
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.35% 93.09% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 1,366 1,935
10th Percentile £325 £363 £345
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.28% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 23 19
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £33.13 £20.09
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% -2.78% -11.11%
75th Percentile £37.49 £85.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £58.85 £132.40 £69.75
London median hourly rate £26.89 £37.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year -27.62% -0.93% +11.94%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +1 170 £650 -3.70% 203
City of Westminster +1 4 £600 +14.29%
West End of London +3 2 £650 +11.30% 7
Southwark - 1 £725 -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 19 November 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 68 (39.08%) Azure
2 49 (28.16%) AWS
3 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
4 31 (17.82%) Roadmaps
5 26 (14.94%) Migration
6 24 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (12.64%) Enterprise Architecture
8 21 (12.07%) Agile
8 21 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
10 19 (10.92%) GCP
10 19 (10.92%) Integration Patterns
10 19 (10.92%) TOGAF
11 17 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (9.77%) Data Modelling
11 17 (9.77%) Microservices
11 17 (9.77%) SC Cleared
12 16 (9.20%) CI/CD
12 16 (9.20%) DevOps
12 16 (9.20%) Security Architecture
13 15 (8.62%) Analytics
13 15 (8.62%) Cloud Security
13 15 (8.62%) GDPR
13 15 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
13 15 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (8.05%) AI
14 14 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
14 14 (8.05%) Data Architecture

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 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Confluence
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.15%) NServiceBus
5 1 (0.57%) CICS
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.30%) Workday HCM
4 3 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (1.15%) Endur
5 2 (1.15%) Summit
6 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.57%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.57%) Maximo
6 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.57%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.57%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 68 (39.08%) Azure
2 49 (28.16%) AWS
3 19 (10.92%) GCP
4 15 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.75%) SaaS
7 8 (4.60%) IaaS
7 8 (4.60%) PaaS
8 6 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.87%) dbt
9 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.30%) Boomi
10 4 (2.30%) Serverless
11 3 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) Network Security
1 9 (5.17%) WAN
2 7 (4.02%) Firewall
2 7 (4.02%) LAN
3 6 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.87%) DNS
4 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.72%) DHCP
5 3 (1.72%) VPN
6 2 (1.15%) SAN
6 2 (1.15%) SSL
7 1 (0.57%) BGP
7 1 (0.57%) Extranet
7 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) IPsec
7 1 (0.57%) MPLS
7 1 (0.57%) OSPF
7 1 (0.57%) VLAN
7 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) Power BI
2 11 (6.32%) Data Lake
3 10 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.87%) Metadata
5 3 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.15%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.87%) JIRA
2 3 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 78 (44.83%) Finance
2 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 29 (16.67%) Banking
4 10 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.02%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.45%) Legal
8 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.87%) Retail
9 4 (2.30%) Billing
9 4 (2.30%) Marketing
10 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.57%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.02%) .NET
2 6 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (2.87%) REST
3 5 (2.87%) RESTful
4 4 (2.30%) Kafka
4 4 (2.30%) Web Services
5 3 (1.72%) Middleware
5 3 (1.72%) OAuth
5 3 (1.72%) OpenID
5 3 (1.72%) SAML
6 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.15%) JSON
6 2 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.15%) SOAP
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Camel
7 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.57%) React Native
7 1 (0.57%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.72%) CMDB
5 3 (1.72%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) FMCG
6 2 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.15%) PKI
6 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.60%) Linux
2 7 (4.02%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) AIX
4 1 (0.57%) Android
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Solaris
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.82%) Roadmaps
2 26 (14.94%) Migration
3 24 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 24 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (12.64%) Enterprise Architecture
5 21 (12.07%) Agile
5 21 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (10.92%) Integration Patterns
6 19 (10.92%) TOGAF
7 17 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (9.77%) Data Modelling
7 17 (9.77%) Microservices
8 16 (9.20%) CI/CD
8 16 (9.20%) DevOps
8 16 (9.20%) Security Architecture
9 15 (8.62%) Analytics
9 15 (8.62%) Cloud Security
9 15 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (8.05%) Architectural Patterns
10 14 (8.05%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.75%) Python
2 9 (5.17%) SQL
3 6 (3.45%) Java
4 5 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.72%) C#
6 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.15%) Bicep
6 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (0.57%) Bash
7 1 (0.57%) COBOL
7 1 (0.57%) CodeQL
7 1 (0.57%) Go
7 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) R
7 1 (0.57%) Swift
7 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.17%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.17%) Degree
4 6 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.30%) CISSP
6 3 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.15%) CASP
7 2 (1.15%) CCNA
7 2 (1.15%) CCSP
7 2 (1.15%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.15%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.15%) GIAC
8 1 (0.57%) CCNP
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.62%) GDPR
1 15 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.45%) NIST
3 5 (2.87%) NCSC
3 5 (2.87%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.30%) QA
5 3 (1.72%) COBIT
6 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.15%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.57%) MiFID
7 1 (0.57%) PMO
7 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.87%) Docker
3 2 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (7.47%) Terraform
2 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.30%) Ansible
4 3 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.15%) SELinux
6 1 (0.57%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 39 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.05%) Databricks
2 14 (8.05%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.75%) SAP
4 9 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.02%) Google
6 6 (3.45%) IBM
6 6 (3.45%) Workday
7 5 (2.87%) IFS
7 5 (2.87%) Oracle
8 4 (2.30%) Cisco
9 3 (1.72%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.72%) Informatica
9 3 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.15%) Okta
10 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.15%) Pega