Architect Contracts in the City of London

Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Architect daily rate in the City of London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 221 359 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 10.23% 10.05% 8.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.75% 10.58% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 205 261
10th Percentile £513 £527 £513
25th Percentile £566 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £788 £738
90th Percentile £885 £875 £801
Central London median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,055 3,394 4,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 95.04% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 2,305 3,050
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £677
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £595 £561
% change year-on-year -7.56% +6.01% +6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 54
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +102.96%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.31
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 70 (31.67%) Azure
2 66 (29.86%) Finance
3 57 (25.79%) Microsoft
4 47 (21.27%) Social Skills
5 31 (14.03%) AWS
6 30 (13.57%) Banking
7 27 (12.22%) Agile
7 27 (12.22%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 25 (11.31%) Python
10 22 (9.95%) SC Cleared
10 22 (9.95%) Security Cleared
10 22 (9.95%) PowerShell
10 22 (9.95%) Degree
10 22 (9.95%) DevOps
11 21 (9.50%) Analytics
12 20 (9.05%) Power Platform
12 20 (9.05%) Migration
13 19 (8.60%) Data Modelling
14 18 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
14 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
14 18 (8.14%) Public Sector
14 18 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (8.14%) Business Strategy
15 17 (7.69%) CI/CD
15 17 (7.69%) Security Architecture
16 16 (7.24%) Computer Science
16 16 (7.24%) ITIL
17 15 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree

Architect Skill Set
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 18 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) CMS
3 3 (1.36%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.45%) Primavera
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 70 (31.67%) Azure
2 31 (14.03%) AWS
3 27 (12.22%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.98%) GCP
6 11 (4.98%) Power Automate
7 10 (4.52%) WhatsApp
8 9 (4.07%) IaaS
8 9 (4.07%) PaaS
8 9 (4.07%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.17%) Serverless
10 6 (2.71%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (2.71%) SaaS
11 5 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.26%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.81%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.43%) Firewall
2 6 (2.71%) WAN
3 4 (1.81%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.81%) Network Security
3 4 (1.81%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.81%) VoIP
4 3 (1.36%) DNS
4 3 (1.36%) WLAN
5 2 (0.90%) CTI
5 2 (0.90%) Intranet
5 2 (0.90%) LAN
5 2 (0.90%) MPLS
5 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.45%) DHCP
6 1 (0.45%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) Multicast
6 1 (0.45%) VPN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.17%) Metadata
2 7 (3.17%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.17%) Power BI
3 6 (2.71%) Data Vault
4 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.81%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.36%) Big Data
6 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.90%) MySQL
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.45%) DB2
8 1 (0.45%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.45%) OLAP
8 1 (0.45%) OLTP
8 1 (0.45%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.90%) Git
2 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.45%) ERwin
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 66 (29.86%) Finance
2 47 (21.27%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.57%) Banking
4 18 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.79%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.98%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.71%) Legal
9 6 (2.71%) Local Government
9 6 (2.71%) Publishing
9 6 (2.71%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.81%) Retail
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.98%) SAML
2 10 (4.52%) REST
3 7 (3.17%) .NET
3 7 (3.17%) JSON
3 7 (3.17%) OpenID
3 7 (3.17%) XACML
4 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (2.71%) Middleware
4 6 (2.71%) XML
5 4 (1.81%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.36%) LDAP
6 3 (1.36%) React
6 3 (1.36%) Web Services
7 2 (0.90%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.90%) Kafka
7 2 (0.90%) Node.js
7 2 (0.90%) OAuth
7 2 (0.90%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.71%) IVR
1 6 (2.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.26%) Reference Data
3 4 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.81%) Mainframe
3 4 (1.81%) PKI
3 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.36%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.90%) CMDB
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.90%) Video on Demand
5 2 (0.90%) Wiki
6 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.62%) Windows
2 5 (2.26%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Solaris
3 2 (0.90%) VMS
4 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (12.22%) Agile
2 26 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 22 (9.95%) DevOps
4 21 (9.50%) Analytics
5 20 (9.05%) Migration
6 19 (8.60%) Data Modelling
7 18 (8.14%) Business Strategy
7 18 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 17 (7.69%) Security Architecture
9 16 (7.24%) Computer Science
9 16 (7.24%) ITIL
10 15 (6.79%) Data Loss Prevention
10 15 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (6.33%) Microservices
11 14 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (6.33%) TOGAF
12 13 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (5.43%) Change Management
13 12 (5.43%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.31%) Python
2 22 (9.95%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.52%) Java
3 10 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.07%) SQL
5 4 (1.81%) C#
6 3 (1.36%) C++
6 3 (1.36%) Go
6 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.90%) Ruby
8 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
8 1 (0.45%) Bicep
8 1 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (9.95%) Degree
1 22 (9.95%) SC Cleared
1 22 (9.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.62%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.71%) CISSP
4 6 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.36%) CCSK
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.45%) CCSP
9 1 (0.45%) CEH
9 1 (0.45%) CISM
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (3.17%) NIST
2 6 (2.71%) GDPR
3 5 (2.26%) SLA
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.36%) NCSC
4 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.36%) QA
5 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) KVM
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (4.07%) Ansible
3 8 (3.62%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.71%) Terraform
5 5 (2.26%) PingFederate
6 4 (1.81%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.90%) Grafana
7 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.90%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) Consul
8 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.45%) Packer
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.43%) Citrix
3 10 (4.52%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.07%) Oracle
4 9 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.62%) Google
6 7 (3.17%) Genesys
6 7 (3.17%) IBM
6 7 (3.17%) Okta
7 6 (2.71%) Cisco
7 6 (2.71%) Sparx
8 5 (2.26%) Adobe
9 4 (1.81%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.81%) SAP
9 4 (1.81%) VMware
10 2 (0.90%) Aruba
10 2 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.90%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.90%) New Relic
10 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty