Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Architect
Central London > City of Westminster

The median Architect daily rate in the City of Westminster is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 6.82% 9.43% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.33% 10.00% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £440 £375 -
25th Percentile £481 £413 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £875
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -40.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 - £938
90th Percentile £630 £626 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £665 £664
% change year-on-year -2.22% +0.15% -1.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of Westminster. 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 Westminster with a recognized job title 36 50 45
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.82% 94.34% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 44
10th Percentile £350 £368 £174
25th Percentile £441 £446 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £891
90th Percentile £655 £778 £1,000
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £18.57 - -
25th Percentile £18.69 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £22.81 - -
90th Percentile £24.79 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -2.78% -15.29%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Architect job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the City of Westminster

Architect
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Paddington -5 2 £488 -7.14% 1
Westminster - 1 £650 - 1
Architect
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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 Westminster region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) CASP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
1 1 (33.33%) CSSLP
1 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
1 1 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
1 1 (33.33%) SABSA
1 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CASP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CREST Certified
1 1 (33.33%) CSSLP
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki