Architect Contracts in Croydon

Architect
South London > Croydon

The median Architect daily rate in Croydon is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 4 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 4.40% 6.90% 5.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.49% 6.99% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £630 £680 £613
25th Percentile £638 £692 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £681
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +6.54% -5.81%
75th Percentile £743 £738 £770
90th Percentile £798 - £799
South London median daily rate £650 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -10.34% +7.41% +7.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 89 143 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.80% 98.62% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 123
10th Percentile £380 £360 £430
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £679
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Croydon

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Architect in Croydon

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in Croydon

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Croydon region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) FinOps
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Business Development
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform