Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Architectural Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 102 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +65
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 23 23 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.28% 1.10% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.20% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 20
10th Percentile £414 £450 £509
25th Percentile £444 £476 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £738
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -11.86% +13.46%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £856
90th Percentile £688 £781 £884
Central London median daily rate £525 £650 £738
% change year-on-year -19.23% -11.86% +13.46%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,916 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.90% 91.98% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,167 1,626
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £762 £788 £805
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -37.04%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (8.70%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.70%) Firebase
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQLite
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.04%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) CocoaPods
3 2 (8.70%) Crashlytics
3 2 (8.70%) fastlane
3 2 (8.70%) Xcode
4 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) iOS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Integration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Information Assurance Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) AVFoundation
1 2 (8.70%) Core Animation
1 2 (8.70%) Core Data
1 2 (8.70%) Middleware
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) RxSwift
1 2 (8.70%) UIKit
2 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.35%) Memcached
2 1 (4.35%) Next.js
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Animation
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Agile
1 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (13.04%) CRM
5 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) Information Assurance
5 3 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
6 2 (8.70%) iOS Development
6 2 (8.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) Java
1 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.70%) Objective-C
1 2 (8.70%) Python
1 2 (8.70%) SQL
1 2 (8.70%) Swift
2 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) C#
2 1 (4.35%) PHP
2 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.35%) ProC
2 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) GIAC
3 3 (13.04%) ISACA
4 2 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) CCSP
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CISSP
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) OSCP
5 1 (4.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) GRC
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Apple
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk