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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 100 106
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +65
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 22 21 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.20% 1.04% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.13% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 16
10th Percentile £414 £450 £494
25th Percentile £448 £473 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £650 £688
Median % change year-on-year -15.96% -5.45% +12.70%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £789
90th Percentile £688 £784 £823
Central London median daily rate £528 £650 £688
% change year-on-year -18.85% -5.45% +12.70%
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 1,656 1,860 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.20% 92.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,128 1,572
10th Percentile £343 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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 1 January 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 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.55%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (9.09%) Firebase
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (9.09%) SQLite
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) CouchDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) CocoaPods
3 2 (9.09%) Crashlytics
3 2 (9.09%) fastlane
3 2 (9.09%) Xcode
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) iOS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Data Integration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Information Assurance Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) AVFoundation
2 2 (9.09%) Core Animation
2 2 (9.09%) Core Data
2 2 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) RxSwift
2 2 (9.09%) UIKit
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.55%) Memcached
3 1 (4.55%) Next.js
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Animation
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 5 (22.73%) Analytics
3 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
4 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.64%) AI
5 3 (13.64%) CRM
5 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.64%) Information Assurance
5 3 (13.64%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Java
1 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.09%) Objective-C
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
1 2 (9.09%) Swift
2 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) PHP
2 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.55%) ProC
2 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) GIAC
3 3 (13.64%) ISACA
4 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (4.55%) CCSP
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.55%) CISSP
5 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.55%) OSCP
5 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Apple
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Dell
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk