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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 106 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +70
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 15 25 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.88% 1.18% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.28% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 20
10th Percentile £378 £450 £498
25th Percentile £400 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £783
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -16.93% +20.38%
75th Percentile £563 £675 £877
90th Percentile £608 £780 £888
Central London median daily rate £371 £650 £783
% change year-on-year -42.88% -16.93% +20.38%
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 1,613 1,951 2,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.33% 92.07% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,209 1,783
10th Percentile £325 £367 £373
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £768 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

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 13 October 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 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Boomi
3 1 (6.67%) Datadog
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Sumo Logic
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) CouchDB
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) CocoaPods
3 1 (6.67%) Crashlytics
3 1 (6.67%) fastlane
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Xcode
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Architect
3 2 (13.33%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Integration Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) AVFoundation
2 1 (6.67%) Core Animation
2 1 (6.67%) Core Data
2 1 (6.67%) Memcached
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Next.js
2 1 (6.67%) RxSwift
2 1 (6.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Animation
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (13.33%) AI
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) CRM
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (13.33%) FinOps
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Apple
1 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (6.67%) Dell
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) Informatica
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud