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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 100 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +74
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 19 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 1.19% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.30% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 18
10th Percentile £398 £450 £493
25th Percentile £450 £472 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £650 £763
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -14.75% +17.31%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £869
90th Percentile £653 £700 £884
Central London median daily rate £475 £650 £763
% change year-on-year -26.92% -14.75% +17.31%
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 1,623 1,927 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.33% 91.59% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,180 1,746
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 November 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 (10.53%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Firebase
2 2 (10.53%) GitHub
2 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.26%) Boomi
3 1 (5.26%) Datadog
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
3 1 (5.26%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQLite
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) CocoaPods
3 2 (10.53%) Crashlytics
3 2 (10.53%) fastlane
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Xcode
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (36.84%) Banking
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Information Assurance Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AVFoundation
1 2 (10.53%) Core Animation
1 2 (10.53%) Core Data
1 2 (10.53%) RxSwift
1 2 (10.53%) UIKit
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.26%) Memcached
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Next.js
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Animation
1 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Roadmaps
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) CRM
4 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) Code Coverage
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) iOS Development
5 2 (10.53%) MVVM
5 2 (10.53%) OO
5 2 (10.53%) OOP
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.53%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
1 2 (10.53%) Swift
2 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.26%) ProC
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) GIAC
3 1 (5.26%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Apple
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Dell
2 1 (5.26%) Informatica
2 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk