Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in Central London

Architectural Design
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 110 110
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +58
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 26 21 31
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.29% 0.92% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.99% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £359 £450 £494
25th Percentile £414 £473 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -5.45% +12.70%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £789
90th Percentile £703 £784 £823
London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +70.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,822 2,112 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.24% 92.35% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,316 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in Central London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in Central London

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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 -2 22 £546 -15.96% 27
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £725 -
Architectural Design
London

Architectural Design
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 2 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.69%) Firebase
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Redis
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (7.69%) SQLite
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) CouchDB
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) JIRA
3 5 (19.23%) Xcode
4 3 (11.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (11.54%) JUnit
4 3 (11.54%) Maven
4 3 (11.54%) Mockito
4 3 (11.54%) Postman
4 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
4 3 (11.54%) SoapUI
4 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
4 3 (11.54%) Subversion
4 3 (11.54%) XCTest
5 2 (7.69%) CocoaPods
5 2 (7.69%) Crashlytics
5 2 (7.69%) fastlane
6 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Law
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) iOS Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Integration Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Migration Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) REST
2 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.54%) Bootstrap
3 3 (11.54%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) CSS3
3 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
3 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 3 (11.54%) HTML5
3 3 (11.54%) J2EE
3 3 (11.54%) JPA
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 3 (11.54%) Material-UI
3 3 (11.54%) Middleware
3 3 (11.54%) SOAP
3 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 3 (11.54%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Spring MVC
3 3 (11.54%) Swagger
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Animation
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 6 (23.08%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Code Quality
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Microservices
4 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
4 5 (19.23%) MVC
4 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
4 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 4 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 3 (11.54%) Concurrent Programming
6 3 (11.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Java
1 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.54%) Groovy
4 2 (7.69%) Objective-C
4 2 (7.69%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Swift
5 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
5 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) ProC
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) GIAC
3 3 (11.54%) ISACA
4 2 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.85%) CCSP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) CISSP
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) OSCP
5 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.54%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Apple
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Aruba
4 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) Juniper
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud