Architecture Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Architecture Roadmaps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 148
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +37
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 12 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.69% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £567 £764 -
25th Percentile £576 £768 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £799 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +33.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £843 £647
90th Percentile £666 £855 £664
Central London median daily rate £610 £772 £600
% change year-on-year -20.98% +28.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Architecture Roadmap 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 1,625 1,920 2,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.09% 91.87% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,213 1,872
10th Percentile £321 £369 £363
25th Percentile £419 £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 £700
90th Percentile £766 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.40 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.88 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £32.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +19.09% -35.29%
75th Percentile £56.75 £107.13 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Roadmap in the City of London

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architecture Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architecture Roadmap

Architecture Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architecture Roadmap within the City of London region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
Architecture Roadmap
Central London

Architecture Roadmap
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (25.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Figma
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Miro
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Back Office
6 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modeller
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IT Director
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
4 1 (8.33%) Service Designer
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (41.67%) ITIL
2 5 (41.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) IT Governance
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Service Management
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) COBIT
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Basel II
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Workday
3 2 (16.67%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe