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 27 December 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 20 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 +11
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 183 207 263
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.01% 8.95% 9.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.65% 9.66% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 135 194
10th Percentile £483 £475 £520
25th Percentile £563 £544 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
75th Percentile £738 £750 £775
90th Percentile £813 £810 £836
London median daily rate £640 £630 £665
% change year-on-year +1.59% -5.26% -1.48%

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 1,897 2,142 2,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 92.61% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,352 1,827
10th Percentile £330 £363 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +1.77% -1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £762 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 21
10th Percentile £19.90 £19.66 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +34.62% -22.96%
75th Percentile £37.44 £61.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £46.05 £112.00 £65.00
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 -4 177 £650 - 100
City of Westminster +1 3 £488 -7.14%
West End of London +2 1 - - 2
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 27 December 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 58 (31.69%) Azure
2 52 (28.42%) AWS
3 37 (20.22%) Security Cleared
4 34 (18.58%) Microsoft
4 34 (18.58%) SC Cleared
5 32 (17.49%) Roadmaps
6 28 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (12.57%) Migration
8 22 (12.02%) Enterprise Architecture
8 22 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (10.38%) AI
11 18 (9.84%) Agile
11 18 (9.84%) DevOps
11 18 (9.84%) Microservices
11 18 (9.84%) TOGAF
12 17 (9.29%) Integration Patterns
13 16 (8.74%) GCP
14 15 (8.20%) CI/CD
14 15 (8.20%) Cloud Security
14 15 (8.20%) Terraform
15 14 (7.65%) Architectural Design
15 14 (7.65%) Data Architecture
15 14 (7.65%) Data Modelling
16 13 (7.10%) Analytics
16 13 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (7.10%) Databricks
16 13 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (7.10%) Salesforce
16 13 (7.10%) Security 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 4 (2.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.09%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) CICS
4 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.64%) SAP EWM
3 3 (1.64%) SAP PM
3 3 (1.64%) SAP PP
3 3 (1.64%) SAP QM
4 2 (1.09%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.09%) Endur
4 2 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.09%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.55%) Maximo
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.55%) Summit
5 1 (0.55%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 58 (31.69%) Azure
2 52 (28.42%) AWS
3 16 (8.74%) GCP
4 11 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.83%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (3.28%) IaaS
6 6 (3.28%) SaaS
7 5 (2.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.73%) dbt
7 5 (2.73%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.73%) Serverless
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.19%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.56%) WAN
2 10 (5.46%) LAN
2 10 (5.46%) Network Security
3 7 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (3.28%) DNS
4 6 (3.28%) Firewall
4 6 (3.28%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.64%) DHCP
5 3 (1.64%) VPN
6 2 (1.09%) Internet
6 2 (1.09%) SSL
7 1 (0.55%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.55%) BGP
7 1 (0.55%) Extranet
7 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.55%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.55%) MPLS
7 1 (0.55%) OSPF
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.46%) Power BI
2 8 (4.37%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.19%) Metadata
5 3 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.09%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.19%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) Git
2 2 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.55%) MLflow
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
3 1 (0.55%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 65 (35.52%) Finance
2 43 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.48%) Banking
4 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.83%) Legal
7 5 (2.73%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.73%) Military
7 5 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.19%) Billing
8 4 (2.19%) Marketing
8 4 (2.19%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.09%) Law
9 2 (1.09%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.28%) .NET
2 5 (2.73%) Kafka
3 4 (2.19%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (2.19%) Middleware
3 4 (2.19%) REST
4 3 (1.64%) RESTful
4 3 (1.64%) SAML
5 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (1.09%) OAuth
5 2 (1.09%) OpenID
5 2 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.09%) SOAP
5 2 (1.09%) Web Services
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.55%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.55%) React Native
6 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.37%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.19%) FMCG
7 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.09%) IoT
8 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.09%) PKI
8 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.55%) CMDB
9 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.73%) Windows
2 4 (2.19%) Linux
3 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) AIX
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (17.49%) Roadmaps
2 28 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (12.57%) Migration
4 22 (12.02%) Enterprise Architecture
4 22 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (10.38%) AI
7 18 (9.84%) Agile
7 18 (9.84%) DevOps
7 18 (9.84%) Microservices
7 18 (9.84%) TOGAF
8 17 (9.29%) Integration Patterns
9 15 (8.20%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.20%) Cloud Security
10 14 (7.65%) Architectural Design
10 14 (7.65%) Data Architecture
10 14 (7.65%) Data Modelling
11 13 (7.10%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (7.10%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.92%) Python
1 9 (4.92%) SQL
2 8 (4.37%) Java
3 4 (2.19%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.64%) C#
5 2 (1.09%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.55%) Bash
6 1 (0.55%) Bicep
6 1 (0.55%) Go
6 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.55%) Korn
6 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.55%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.55%) ProC
6 1 (0.55%) Ruby
6 1 (0.55%) Scala
6 1 (0.55%) Swift
6 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.28%) Degree
4 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.09%) CISSP
7 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) CCIE
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.56%) GDPR
1 12 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.37%) QA
3 5 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.73%) NCSC
3 5 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.19%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) COBIT
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) MiFID
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) PSD2
6 1 (0.55%) SEPA
6 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (3.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (8.20%) Terraform
2 6 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.73%) Ansible
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.55%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.10%) Databricks
2 13 (7.10%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.01%) SAP
4 9 (4.92%) Oracle
5 7 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.28%) IBM
7 5 (2.73%) Google
8 4 (2.19%) IFS
8 4 (2.19%) Workday
9 3 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.64%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.64%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.64%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.09%) Pega
10 2 (1.09%) Sparx