Architectural Design Contracts in the City of London

Architectural Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 104 129
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 +38
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 10 19 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.90% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.99% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 21
10th Percentile £708 £503 £419
25th Percentile £719 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £794 £738 £875
90th Percentile £813 £830 £884
Central London median daily rate £390 £650 £750
% change year-on-year -40.00% -13.33% +11.11%

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 1,653 1,927 3,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.76% 91.07% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,337 2,114
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

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 3 (30.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
2 7 (70.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 2 (20.00%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) iSeries
1 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
1 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) FinOps
3 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow