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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 99 98
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +60
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 24 19 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.13% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 15
10th Percentile £423 £450 £510
25th Percentile £463 £473 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £569 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -18.68% +16.67%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £781
90th Percentile £703 £790 £795
Central London median daily rate £569 £569 £700
% change year-on-year -0.09% -18.68% +19.15%
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 & 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 1,716 1,675 2,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.19% 91.68% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,006 1,523
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 13
10th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.95 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £37.25 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +62.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £46.29 £64.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £55.54 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.09% +25.85% -17.60%

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 February 2026.

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 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.17%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) Firebase
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (8.33%) SQLite
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) CouchDB
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) CocoaPods
3 2 (8.33%) Crashlytics
3 2 (8.33%) fastlane
3 2 (8.33%) Xcode
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Information Assurance Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) iOS Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior iOS Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Information Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Middleware
2 3 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) AVFoundation
3 2 (8.33%) Core Animation
3 2 (8.33%) Core Data
3 2 (8.33%) RxSwift
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) UIKit
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.17%) Memcached
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Animation
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Agile
1 6 (25.00%) Analytics
1 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (20.83%) AI
2 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
2 5 (20.83%) Use Case
3 4 (16.67%) AIOps
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 4 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 4 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (16.67%) LLM
3 4 (16.67%) Logistics
3 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) Objective-C
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Swift
3 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) PHP
3 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.17%) ProC
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) GIAC
3 3 (12.50%) ISACA
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) CCSP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) OSCP
5 1 (4.17%) SANS
5 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Apple
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) Informatica
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk