Applications Architect Contracts in London

Application Architect
England > London

The median Application Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 376 436
Rank change year-on-year +44 +60 +132
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Architect 29 27 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 29
10th Percentile £500 £564 £563
25th Percentile £615 £663 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £765 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% -0.92%
75th Percentile £695 £823 £800
90th Percentile £729 £890 £836
England median daily rate £617 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.59% - +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 12,718 16,153 23,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 94.12% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,611 11,527 17,408
10th Percentile £331 £331 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 268 267
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.79 £21.66 £22.95
Median hourly rate £30.90 £31.61 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -18.96% +11.43%
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
% change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in London

Applications Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Architect in London

Applications Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Architect in London

Applications Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Architect in London

Applications Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Central London 0 2 £744 +38.33% 1
Applications Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, Applications 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 London region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (37.93%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (37.93%) Unqork
4 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (27.59%) Azure
5 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
5 8 (27.59%) Agile
6 6 (20.69%) Java
6 6 (20.69%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 5 (17.24%) React
7 5 (17.24%) AWS
7 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
7 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.79%) .NET
8 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (13.79%) GDPR
8 4 (13.79%) Application Security
9 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.34%) SOAR
9 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
9 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
9 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (10.34%) API Development
9 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
9 3 (10.34%) TypeScript

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (3.45%) Anypoint
1 1 (3.45%) Mule
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Unqork
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) OCI
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) AMQP
2 1 (3.45%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) React
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Camel
3 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.90%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Vue
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (37.93%) Technical Leadership
2 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (27.59%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) Microservices
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Application Security
7 3 (10.34%) API Development
7 3 (10.34%) Business Analysis
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
7 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
7 3 (10.34%) Information Security
7 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (10.34%) Security Testing
7 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) SOAR
7 3 (10.34%) Threat Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) Bash
2 3 (10.34%) PHP
2 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) DataWeave
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (10.34%) CEH
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.34%) CISSP
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.90%) QA
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.45%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (3.45%) Blue Prism
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) UiPath