Architect Contracts in Central London

Architect
London > Central London

The median Architect daily rate in Central London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 238 368 388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 9.67% 9.50% 8.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.16% 9.96% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 209 289
10th Percentile £513 £525 £513
25th Percentile £571 £585 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £738
90th Percentile £875 £900 £813
London median daily rate £674 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -3.75% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
London median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,343 3,693 4,279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 95.33% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,665 2,527 3,262
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
75th Percentile £684 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 29 50
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.30 £85.66 £62.83
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 0 221 £650 -3.70% 44
West End of London +6 6 £625 -3.85% 5
City of Westminster -2 2 £700 -16.42%
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 73 (30.67%) Finance
2 71 (29.83%) Azure
3 55 (23.11%) Microsoft
4 49 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 34 (14.29%) AWS
6 31 (13.03%) Banking
7 29 (12.18%) Agile
8 28 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 26 (10.92%) Security Cleared
9 26 (10.92%) Python
9 26 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (10.50%) SC Cleared
11 23 (9.66%) Data Modelling
12 22 (9.24%) PowerShell
12 22 (9.24%) Public Sector
13 21 (8.82%) Degree
13 21 (8.82%) Migration
14 20 (8.40%) Analytics
15 19 (7.98%) Business Strategy
16 18 (7.56%) DevOps
16 18 (7.56%) Power Platform
16 18 (7.56%) Security Architecture
17 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
17 17 (7.14%) ITIL
17 17 (7.14%) Active Directory
17 17 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
17 17 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (7.14%) CI/CD
18 16 (6.72%) Microservices
18 16 (6.72%) Data Loss Prevention

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 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.10%) CMS
4 3 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.84%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Primavera
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.83%) Azure
2 34 (14.29%) AWS
3 26 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (7.56%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.30%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.62%) SaaS
7 10 (4.20%) Power Automate
7 10 (4.20%) WhatsApp
8 9 (3.78%) GCP
8 9 (3.78%) IaaS
8 9 (3.78%) PaaS
9 8 (3.36%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.94%) Serverless
11 6 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.10%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.68%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.88%) Firewall
2 6 (2.52%) WAN
3 5 (2.10%) LAN
4 4 (1.68%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.68%) Network Security
5 3 (1.26%) DNS
5 3 (1.26%) HTTP
5 3 (1.26%) Intranet
5 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.26%) WLAN
6 2 (0.84%) Internet
6 2 (0.84%) VoIP
6 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.42%) DHCP
7 1 (0.42%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.42%) MPLS
7 1 (0.42%) Multicast
7 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.36%) Metadata
2 8 (3.36%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.94%) Power BI
4 6 (2.52%) Data Vault
5 5 (2.10%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.26%) Big Data
7 3 (1.26%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.84%) MySQL
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.42%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.42%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.42%) Parquet
9 1 (0.42%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.84%) Git
2 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.42%) ERwin
3 1 (0.42%) JIRA
3 1 (0.42%) MSI
3 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
General
1 73 (30.67%) Finance
2 49 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.03%) Banking
4 22 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.04%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.94%) Publishing
9 6 (2.52%) Legal
9 6 (2.52%) Local Government
10 5 (2.10%) Law
11 4 (1.68%) Billing
11 4 (1.68%) Retail
12 2 (0.84%) Advertising
12 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.84%) Marketing
13 1 (0.42%) Police
13 1 (0.42%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.88%) REST
2 11 (4.62%) SAML
3 9 (3.78%) .NET
4 8 (3.36%) JSON
4 8 (3.36%) XML
5 7 (2.94%) OpenID
5 7 (2.94%) XACML
6 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.68%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.68%) Middleware
8 3 (1.26%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.26%) LDAP
8 3 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.26%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.84%) JSON Schema
9 2 (0.84%) Kafka
9 2 (0.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.78%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.10%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.10%) Reference Data
3 4 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.68%) IVR
3 4 (1.68%) Mainframe
3 4 (1.68%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.68%) PKI
3 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
3 4 (1.68%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.26%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.84%) CMDB
5 2 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (0.84%) IoT
5 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.84%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.78%) Windows
2 7 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (0.84%) Solaris
3 2 (0.84%) VMS
4 1 (0.42%) CentOS
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (12.18%) Agile
2 28 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 23 (9.66%) Data Modelling
4 21 (8.82%) Migration
5 20 (8.40%) Analytics
6 19 (7.98%) Business Strategy
7 18 (7.56%) DevOps
7 18 (7.56%) Security Architecture
8 17 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 17 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (7.14%) ITIL
9 16 (6.72%) Data Loss Prevention
9 16 (6.72%) Microservices
10 15 (6.30%) Computer Science
11 14 (5.88%) Cloud Security
11 14 (5.88%) Data Architecture
11 14 (5.88%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (5.46%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.92%) Python
2 22 (9.24%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.04%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.62%) Java
4 11 (4.62%) SQL
5 3 (1.26%) C#
5 3 (1.26%) C++
5 3 (1.26%) Go
5 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.84%) Ruby
7 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.42%) Bash
7 1 (0.42%) Perl
7 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.50%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.82%) Degree
4 14 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.10%) CISSP
6 5 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.68%) CCSK
8 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.42%) CRISC
10 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.42%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.78%) GDPR
2 7 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.94%) NIST
3 4 (1.68%) QA
3 4 (1.68%) SLA
4 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.26%) NCSC
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.84%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.84%) SEPA
6 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) KVM
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.20%) Ansible
3 7 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.52%) Terraform
5 5 (2.10%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.68%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.26%) Grafana
8 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.84%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) Consul
9 1 (0.42%) Kibana
9 1 (0.42%) logstash
9 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.42%) Packer
9 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.04%) Oracle
3 11 (4.62%) Citrix
4 10 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.94%) IBM
5 7 (2.94%) Okta
6 6 (2.52%) Adobe
6 6 (2.52%) Genesys
6 6 (2.52%) Google
6 6 (2.52%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.52%) Sparx
7 5 (2.10%) SAP
8 3 (1.26%) Cisco
8 3 (1.26%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.26%) Juniper
8 3 (1.26%) VMware
9 2 (0.84%) Aruba
9 2 (0.84%) New Relic
9 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty