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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 102 108
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +69
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 10 22 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.56% 1.05% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.14% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 25
10th Percentile £449 £450 £468
25th Percentile £503 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £775
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -16.13% +14.81%
75th Percentile £728 £675 £875
90th Percentile £786 £784 £884
Central London median daily rate £368 £650 £775
% change year-on-year -43.46% -16.13% +14.81%
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 1,686 1,923 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.14% 92.10% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,231 1,943
10th Percentile £325 £388 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.94% +27.27% -35.29%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design 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 13 September 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 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Architect
2 6 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) FinOps
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft