Digital Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Digital Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Digital Architect daily rate in the City of London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 115 121
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.058% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.062% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £694 - £780
25th Percentile £713 - £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £900
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £775 - £1,231
90th Percentile - - £1,430
Central London median daily rate £750 - £900
% change year-on-year - - +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,283 1,617 2,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 93.58% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,521 1,019 1,434
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.35 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.83 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +44.29% -35.00%
75th Percentile £42.83 £63.75 £32.03
90th Percentile £59.72 £92.13 £45.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -6.26% +7.67% -22.86%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Digital Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Digital Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 20 June 2026, Digital Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Digital Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Presales
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
3 1 (12.50%) Business Development
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) CMS
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving

Digital Architect Skill Set
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 (12.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
1 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Presales
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) AI
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Business Development
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
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