Architect Contracts in the City of London

Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Architect daily rate in the City of London is £674, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 156 222 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.93% 10.18% 10.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.61% 10.71% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 164 201
10th Percentile £500 £513 £530
25th Percentile £575 £568 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £788
90th Percentile £800 £889 £875
Central London median daily rate £670 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +3.08% -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 1,624 2,072 3,370
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 95.05% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,469 2,287
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £457 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +5.73%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £594
% change year-on-year +2.73% -7.37% +6.03%
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% -5.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 62 (39.74%) Azure
2 42 (26.92%) AWS
2 42 (26.92%) Finance
3 39 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 32 (20.51%) Migration
5 29 (18.59%) Security Cleared
6 27 (17.31%) DevOps
7 26 (16.67%) SC Cleared
8 24 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 23 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (14.74%) Agile
10 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (13.46%) Microsoft
11 21 (13.46%) Public Sector
12 20 (12.82%) Roadmaps
13 19 (12.18%) Microservices
14 18 (11.54%) GCP
14 18 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (10.90%) Banking
15 17 (10.90%) TOGAF
15 17 (10.90%) Java
15 17 (10.90%) Cloud Native
16 16 (10.26%) Oracle
16 16 (10.26%) Cloud Security
17 14 (8.97%) Python
17 14 (8.97%) Data Architecture
17 14 (8.97%) ServiceNow
17 14 (8.97%) Mentoring
18 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
18 13 (8.33%) Security Architecture

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 7 (4.49%) 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
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.74%) Azure
2 42 (26.92%) AWS
3 18 (11.54%) GCP
4 11 (7.05%) Serverless
5 9 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.77%) PaaS
5 9 (5.77%) SaaS
6 7 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.85%) IaaS
8 4 (2.56%) Boomi
8 4 (2.56%) GitHub
8 4 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.92%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.92%) OCI
9 3 (1.92%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.28%) AWS CloudTrail
10 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 8 (5.13%) Big Data
2 5 (3.21%) 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 42 (26.92%) Finance
2 39 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.90%) 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%) Documentation Skills
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%) Organisational Skills
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%) Spring
4 3 (1.92%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.92%) Web Services
5 2 (1.28%) .NET
5 2 (1.28%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.28%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.85%) CMDB
2 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 5 (3.21%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) IoT
4 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.56%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.56%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.56%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.92%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.28%) PKI
6 2 (1.28%) Reinsurance
6 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 32 (20.51%) Migration
2 27 (17.31%) DevOps
3 24 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 23 (14.74%) Agile
4 23 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 19 (12.18%) Microservices
8 18 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (10.90%) TOGAF
10 16 (10.26%) Cloud Security
11 14 (8.97%) Data Architecture
11 14 (8.97%) Mentoring
12 13 (8.33%) Security Architecture
13 12 (7.69%) Business Strategy
13 12 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
14 11 (7.05%) Machine Learning
14 11 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (6.41%) Analytics
15 10 (6.41%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.90%) Java
2 14 (8.97%) Python
3 12 (7.69%) SQL
4 9 (5.77%) 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 29 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.69%) Degree
4 9 (5.77%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (4.49%) CISSP
6 6 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.21%) CISM
8 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.56%) CCNP
8 4 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.92%) OCP
9 3 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.28%) CCIE
10 2 (1.28%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
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%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.28%) QA
5 2 (1.28%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.64%) DICOM
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) HL7
6 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.77%) 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 21 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.26%) Oracle
3 14 (8.97%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.77%) Databricks
4 9 (5.77%) SAP
5 8 (5.13%) Cisco
6 6 (3.85%) Google
7 5 (3.21%) BiZZdesign
7 5 (3.21%) IBM
7 5 (3.21%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.56%) MuleSoft
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