Architect Contracts in the City of London

Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Architect daily rate in the City of London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 156 220 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.88% 10.01% 9.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.55% 10.53% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 168 202
10th Percentile £500 £511 £526
25th Percentile £581 £563 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £751 £775 £788
90th Percentile £800 £888 £886
Central London median daily rate £659 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Architect
Central London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 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 City of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 63 (40.38%) Azure
2 42 (26.92%) AWS
3 41 (26.28%) Finance
4 39 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 31 (19.87%) Migration
6 28 (17.95%) Security Cleared
7 26 (16.67%) DevOps
8 25 (16.03%) SC Cleared
9 23 (14.74%) CI/CD
10 22 (14.10%) Agile
10 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (14.10%) Microsoft
11 21 (13.46%) Public Sector
11 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (12.18%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.54%) Microservices
13 18 (11.54%) TOGAF
14 17 (10.90%) GCP
14 17 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (10.26%) Cloud Native
15 16 (10.26%) Banking
15 16 (10.26%) Java
15 16 (10.26%) Oracle
16 15 (9.62%) ServiceNow
16 15 (9.62%) Cloud Security
17 14 (8.97%) Mentoring
17 14 (8.97%) Security Architecture
18 13 (8.33%) Data Architecture
18 13 (8.33%) Python
18 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.64%) SAS
2 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.92%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.92%) SAP MDG-S
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.64%) Magento
5 1 (0.64%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.38%) Azure
2 42 (26.92%) AWS
3 17 (10.90%) GCP
4 11 (7.05%) Serverless
5 9 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.77%) PaaS
6 8 (5.13%) SaaS
7 7 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.49%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.85%) IaaS
9 4 (2.56%) Boomi
9 4 (2.56%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.92%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.92%) GitHub
10 3 (1.92%) OCI
10 3 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (1.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.13%) Firewall
2 4 (2.56%) Modbus
2 4 (2.56%) MQTT
2 4 (2.56%) Network Security
2 4 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.92%) VPN
4 2 (1.28%) BGP
4 2 (1.28%) DNS
4 2 (1.28%) LAN
4 2 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.64%) DHCP
5 1 (0.64%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.64%) IPsec
5 1 (0.64%) OSPF
5 1 (0.64%) VLAN
5 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.49%) Big Data
2 4 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.92%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.28%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.64%) DB2
5 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.64%) Metadata
5 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Power BI
5 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.56%) JIRA
1 4 (2.56%) MSI
2 2 (1.28%) GitLab
2 2 (1.28%) Maven
3 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (26.28%) Finance
2 39 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.26%) Banking
5 6 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.56%) Back Office
7 3 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.92%) Retail
7 3 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 2 (1.28%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Billing
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Police
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.85%) Middleware
2 5 (3.21%) AngularJS
2 5 (3.21%) JSON
2 5 (3.21%) Node.js
3 4 (2.56%) GraphQL
3 4 (2.56%) Kafka
4 3 (1.92%) CSS
4 3 (1.92%) HTML
4 3 (1.92%) OAuth
4 3 (1.92%) OpenID
4 3 (1.92%) React
4 3 (1.92%) SailPoint
4 3 (1.92%) SAML
4 3 (1.92%) Web Services
5 2 (1.28%) .NET
5 2 (1.28%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.28%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.28%) Spring
5 2 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.49%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.85%) CMDB
4 5 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) IoT
5 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.92%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.28%) iSeries
7 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.28%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) Linux
1 5 (3.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.28%) Unix
4 1 (0.64%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.87%) Migration
2 26 (16.67%) DevOps
3 23 (14.74%) CI/CD
4 22 (14.10%) Agile
4 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (12.18%) Roadmaps
7 18 (11.54%) Microservices
7 18 (11.54%) TOGAF
8 17 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (9.62%) Cloud Security
10 14 (8.97%) Mentoring
10 14 (8.97%) Security Architecture
11 13 (8.33%) Data Architecture
12 12 (7.69%) Business Strategy
12 12 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (6.41%) Analytics
13 10 (6.41%) Machine Learning
13 10 (6.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.26%) Java
2 13 (8.33%) Python
3 11 (7.05%) SQL
4 8 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.21%) C#
6 3 (1.92%) Bicep
7 2 (1.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.28%) Ruby
8 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) Degree
4 10 (6.41%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (5.13%) CISSP
6 6 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.85%) CISM
6 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.56%) CCNP
7 4 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.92%) OCP
8 3 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (1.28%) CCIE
9 2 (1.28%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) GDPR
2 8 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (5.13%) NIST
3 4 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.28%) GRC
5 2 (1.28%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.28%) QA
5 2 (1.28%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) DICOM
6 1 (0.64%) HL7
6 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.64%) IAG
4 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.13%) Terraform
3 5 (3.21%) Ansible
4 2 (1.28%) MOM
4 2 (1.28%) PingFederate
4 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.64%) CASB
5 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.26%) Oracle
3 15 (9.62%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.05%) SAP
5 8 (5.13%) Cisco
5 8 (5.13%) Databricks
6 6 (3.85%) Google
7 5 (3.21%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (3.21%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.56%) IBM
8 4 (2.56%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.92%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.92%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.92%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.92%) Okta
9 3 (1.92%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.92%) Splunk
10 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.28%) Workday