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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 313 172 236
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.94% 8.74% 9.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.67% 9.41% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 103 174
10th Percentile £475 £500 £513
25th Percentile £513 £573 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £775
90th Percentile £825 £798 £875
London median daily rate £625 £650 £665
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -2.04%

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 2,290 1,827 2,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 92.79% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 1,181 1,629
10th Percentile £350 £338 £340
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -7.56%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £793
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 30
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.19
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £25.78
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +10.98% -26.34%
75th Percentile £52.16 £35.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £40.38
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +10.29% +24.77% -23.24%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +15 297 £650 -3.35% 85
City of Westminster +1 4 £500 -21.88% 2
West End of London -1 3 £625 +1.63% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £813 -
Southwark +2 1 £725 - 1
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 93 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 82 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 70 (22.36%) Azure
4 59 (18.85%) AWS
5 52 (16.61%) AI
6 44 (14.06%) Microsoft
6 44 (14.06%) Migration
7 42 (13.42%) Roadmaps
8 34 (10.86%) CI/CD
9 31 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
10 30 (9.58%) Analytics
11 29 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (8.63%) GCP
13 27 (8.63%) Generative AI
14 26 (8.31%) Data Modelling
14 26 (8.31%) TOGAF
15 24 (7.67%) DevOps
16 23 (7.35%) Data Architecture
16 23 (7.35%) Databricks
16 23 (7.35%) Machine Learning
17 22 (7.03%) Architectural Patterns
17 22 (7.03%) Enterprise Architecture
18 20 (6.39%) Data Engineering
18 20 (6.39%) Event-Driven
18 20 (6.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 19 (6.07%) Architectural Design
19 19 (6.07%) LLM
19 19 (6.07%) SAP
20 18 (5.75%) Agile

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 (0.96%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.32%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
3 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.64%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.64%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.64%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.64%) SAP PP
3 2 (0.64%) SAP QM
3 2 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.36%) Azure
2 59 (18.85%) AWS
3 27 (8.63%) GCP
4 12 (3.83%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.51%) GitHub
5 11 (3.51%) SaaS
5 11 (3.51%) Serverless
6 9 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.24%) PaaS
8 7 (2.24%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.60%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.60%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.60%) Azure AKS
10 5 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.60%) iPaaS
11 4 (1.28%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.79%) Network Security
2 9 (2.88%) LAN
3 7 (2.24%) WAN
3 7 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.28%) Firewall
5 3 (0.96%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) DMZ
7 1 (0.32%) 3G
7 1 (0.32%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.32%) 4G
7 1 (0.32%) 5G
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) LTE
7 1 (0.32%) NAS
7 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.32%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) SMS
7 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.88%) Power BI
2 8 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.24%) Metadata
4 5 (1.60%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (1.28%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.96%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.64%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (0.32%) ERwin
2 1 (0.32%) GitLab
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.32%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (0.32%) Snyk
2 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (17.89%) Finance
2 42 (13.42%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.47%) Retail
4 14 (4.47%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.15%) Banking
6 12 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.56%) Billing
9 7 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Military
10 5 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.96%) Legal
12 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.32%) Automotive
13 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Law
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.15%) Middleware
2 6 (1.92%) .NET
2 6 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.92%) Spring
3 5 (1.60%) Kafka
3 5 (1.60%) REST
3 5 (1.60%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.28%) OAuth
4 4 (1.28%) SOAP
5 3 (0.96%) JSON
6 2 (0.64%) J2EE
6 2 (0.64%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.64%) PySpark
6 2 (0.64%) RESTful
6 2 (0.64%) SAML
6 2 (0.64%) XML
7 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.32%) RAML
7 1 (0.32%) Spark Streaming
7 1 (0.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.60%) Mainframe
5 5 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.28%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.28%) LIMS
7 3 (0.96%) CMDB
7 3 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.64%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.64%) FMCG
8 2 (0.64%) IoT
8 2 (0.64%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.24%) Linux
2 2 (0.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.32%) AIX
3 1 (0.32%) CentOS
3 1 (0.32%) Solaris
3 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (16.61%) AI
2 44 (14.06%) Migration
3 42 (13.42%) Roadmaps
4 34 (10.86%) CI/CD
5 31 (9.90%) Integration Patterns
6 30 (9.58%) Analytics
7 29 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (8.63%) Generative AI
10 26 (8.31%) Data Modelling
10 26 (8.31%) TOGAF
11 24 (7.67%) DevOps
12 23 (7.35%) Data Architecture
12 23 (7.35%) Machine Learning
13 22 (7.03%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (7.03%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (6.39%) Data Engineering
14 20 (6.39%) Event-Driven
14 20 (6.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (6.07%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.15%) Java
2 11 (3.51%) Python
2 11 (3.51%) SQL
3 5 (1.60%) Bicep
4 4 (1.28%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.28%) Ruby
5 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.64%) Bash
6 2 (0.64%) Korn
6 2 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.32%) C
7 1 (0.32%) C#
7 1 (0.32%) ProC
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 82 (26.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.56%) CISSP
4 7 (2.24%) CISM
4 7 (2.24%) Degree
5 6 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.64%) CISA
9 2 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.64%) GIAC
10 1 (0.32%) CCSP
10 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.83%) GDPR
2 9 (2.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.88%) QA
3 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.24%) NIST
5 5 (1.60%) NCSC
6 4 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.96%) GRC
7 3 (0.96%) PSD2
8 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.64%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.64%) SEPA
8 2 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.32%) HL7
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 7 (2.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.47%) Kubernetes
1 14 (4.47%) Terraform
2 3 (0.96%) Ansible
3 2 (0.64%) Grafana
3 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.32%) Kibana
4 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.35%) Databricks
3 19 (6.07%) SAP
4 16 (5.11%) Oracle
5 12 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 10 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.88%) Google
8 6 (1.92%) Ariba
9 4 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.28%) Yardi
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco
10 3 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.96%) Foundry
10 3 (0.96%) IBM
10 3 (0.96%) LogRhythm
10 3 (0.96%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (0.96%) Splunk
11 2 (0.64%) Juniper
11 2 (0.64%) McAfee