Architect Contracts in Central London

Architect
London > Central London

The median Architect daily rate in Central London is £670, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 170 222 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.91% 9.28% 9.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.55% 9.73% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 162 209
10th Percentile £500 £513 £536
25th Percentile £584 £563 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -3.70% +5.88%
75th Percentile £741 £775 £775
90th Percentile £800 £875 £868
London median daily rate £650 £661 £700
% change year-on-year -1.70% -5.54% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 1,781 2,281 3,512
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 95.36% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,606 2,395
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 23
10th Percentile £18.10 £20.04 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -22.86% -8.50%
75th Percentile £34.68 £27.81 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.75 £40.00 £87.64
London median hourly rate £31.67 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +15.17% -23.61% +2.86%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Architect 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Central London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect 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 May 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 -7 154 £675 +3.29% 53
West End of London +3 6 £650 +18.18% 5
City of Westminster +6 5 £650 -7.14% 5
Camden +6 2 £565 +2.73% 2
Southwark - 1 - -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 65 (38.24%) Azure
2 48 (28.24%) AWS
3 45 (26.47%) Finance
4 39 (22.94%) Security Cleared
5 38 (22.35%) Migration
6 36 (21.18%) SC Cleared
6 36 (21.18%) Social Skills
7 27 (15.88%) DevOps
8 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
8 25 (14.71%) CI/CD
9 23 (13.53%) Public Sector
9 23 (13.53%) Roadmaps
10 22 (12.94%) GCP
11 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (11.76%) Microservices
12 20 (11.76%) Agile
12 20 (11.76%) Banking
13 19 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (11.18%) Java
13 19 (11.18%) Cloud Security
14 18 (10.59%) SQL
14 18 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (10.00%) Cloud Native
15 17 (10.00%) Python
16 16 (9.41%) Oracle
17 15 (8.82%) TOGAF
17 15 (8.82%) Mentoring
18 14 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
18 14 (8.24%) Data Architecture
19 13 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture

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 2 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.59%) SAS
2 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.59%) Magento
3 1 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.59%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.59%) SAP MDG-S
3 1 (0.59%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.24%) Azure
2 48 (28.24%) AWS
3 22 (12.94%) GCP
4 12 (7.06%) SaaS
5 11 (6.47%) Serverless
6 10 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.29%) PaaS
8 6 (3.53%) IaaS
9 5 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.35%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.35%) dbt
10 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.76%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.76%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.76%) Collibra
11 3 (1.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.47%) Firewall
2 4 (2.35%) Modbus
2 4 (2.35%) MQTT
2 4 (2.35%) Network Security
2 4 (2.35%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (2.35%) VPN
2 4 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.76%) DNS
3 3 (1.76%) LAN
3 3 (1.76%) WAN
4 2 (1.18%) BGP
4 2 (1.18%) SAN
4 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.59%) DHCP
5 1 (0.59%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.59%) IPsec
5 1 (0.59%) OSPF
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.29%) Big Data
2 7 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.12%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.94%) Power BI
4 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.76%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Tableau
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.35%) MSI
2 2 (1.18%) GitLab
2 2 (1.18%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Maven
3 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.59%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (26.47%) Finance
2 36 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.76%) Banking
5 5 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.35%) Back Office
7 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.76%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.76%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.76%) Military
7 3 (1.76%) Retail
7 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Legal
8 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.59%) Police
9 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.53%) JSON
1 6 (3.53%) Node.js
2 5 (2.94%) AngularJS
2 5 (2.94%) Kafka
3 4 (2.35%) GraphQL
3 4 (2.35%) OAuth
3 4 (2.35%) OpenID
3 4 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.35%) SAML
3 4 (2.35%) Spring
3 4 (2.35%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.35%) Web Services
4 3 (1.76%) CSS
4 3 (1.76%) HTML
4 3 (1.76%) Middleware
4 3 (1.76%) React
4 3 (1.76%) REST
4 3 (1.76%) XML
5 2 (1.18%) JPA
5 2 (1.18%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.94%) CMDB
4 5 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.35%) IoT
5 4 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.76%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.76%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.76%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.18%) iSeries
7 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Linux
2 6 (3.53%) Windows
3 4 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.35%) Migration
2 27 (15.88%) DevOps
3 25 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 23 (13.53%) Roadmaps
5 21 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (11.76%) Agile
6 20 (11.76%) Microservices
7 19 (11.18%) Cloud Security
7 19 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (8.82%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.82%) TOGAF
10 14 (8.24%) Data Architecture
10 14 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (7.06%) Analytics
12 12 (7.06%) Machine Learning
12 12 (7.06%) Security Architecture
13 11 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
14 10 (5.88%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.18%) Java
2 18 (10.59%) SQL
3 17 (10.00%) Python
4 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.94%) C#
6 3 (1.76%) Bicep
6 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (0.59%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.59%) Bash
8 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.47%) CISSP
4 10 (5.88%) Degree
5 8 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.53%) CISM
7 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.35%) CCNP
10 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.76%) GIAC
10 3 (1.76%) OCP
10 3 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.18%) CASP
11 2 (1.18%) CCNA
11 2 (1.18%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.06%) NIST
2 11 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.88%) GDPR
4 4 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.76%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.18%) NCSC
6 2 (1.18%) QA
6 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.59%) DICOM
7 1 (0.59%) GRC
7 1 (0.59%) HL7
7 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.18%) Docker
4 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.47%) Terraform
3 6 (3.53%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.18%) SELinux
5 1 (0.59%) CASB
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.59%) Puppet
5 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.41%) Oracle
3 10 (5.88%) Cisco
4 9 (5.29%) Databricks
4 9 (5.29%) SAP
5 8 (4.71%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.12%) Google
7 5 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.35%) IBM
8 4 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.76%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.76%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.76%) Splunk
10 2 (1.18%) Informatica
10 2 (1.18%) Juniper
10 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.18%) VMware
10 2 (1.18%) Workday