Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,585 1,297 1,597
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.88% 9.70% 9.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.80% 10.43% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 838 1,099
10th Percentile £482 £468 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% -5.52%
75th Percentile £725 £737 £756
90th Percentile £807 £813 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £51.85 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £95.63 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,727 12,432 15,297
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.95% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,132 8,375 10,592
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 206 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.53 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.54 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -11.27% -11.24%
75th Percentile £61.13 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.69
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Architect job vacancy trend in London

Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in London

Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Architect in London

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 Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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 +15 351 £625 -4.58% 75
West London -11 33 £640 +42.22% 32
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 9
South London -18 8 £688 +1.51% 6
North London -2 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 August 2026, 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 London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 744 (28.78%) Azure
2 662 (25.61%) Security Cleared
3 595 (23.02%) AWS
4 550 (21.28%) SC Cleared
5 432 (16.71%) Roadmaps
6 430 (16.63%) Migration
7 427 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 413 (15.98%) AI
9 348 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 344 (13.31%) Microsoft
11 318 (12.30%) DevOps
12 310 (11.99%) Analytics
13 308 (11.91%) Data Modelling
14 302 (11.68%) CI/CD
15 284 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 276 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
17 273 (10.56%) Data Architecture
18 266 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
19 260 (10.06%) Agile
20 226 (8.74%) GCP
21 199 (7.70%) Architectural Patterns
22 198 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
22 198 (7.66%) TOGAF
23 188 (7.27%) Security Architecture
24 185 (7.16%) Event-Driven
25 181 (7.00%) Data Governance
26 174 (6.73%) Power Platform
27 169 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
27 169 (6.54%) Databricks
28 165 (6.38%) Decision-Making

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 39 (1.51%) SAS
2 35 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.32%) Apache
4 32 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.93%) Confluence
6 20 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) CMS
8 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 744 (28.78%) Azure
2 595 (23.02%) AWS
3 226 (8.74%) GCP
4 174 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 109 (4.22%) Entra ID
6 107 (4.14%) SaaS
7 97 (3.75%) Serverless
8 85 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.17%) GitHub
10 75 (2.90%) Snowflake
11 67 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (2.28%) PaaS
13 48 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 44 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 37 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (1.35%) IaaS
19 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.21%) Network Security
2 49 (1.90%) Firewall
3 32 (1.24%) WAN
4 31 (1.20%) VPN
5 21 (0.81%) DNS
6 20 (0.77%) LAN
7 15 (0.58%) VXLAN
8 12 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.43%) BGP
10 10 (0.39%) MPLS
10 10 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.31%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) 5G
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
13 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.23%) SMS
14 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (4.76%) Power BI
2 99 (3.83%) Data Lake
3 85 (3.29%) Metadata
4 80 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.12%) Big Data
7 28 (1.08%) Delta Lake
8 26 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 24 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 24 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.54%) Tableau
12 13 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
13 12 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (1.55%) Git
2 36 (1.39%) JIRA
3 28 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) MLflow
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) RStudio
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 5 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
10 2 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 510 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 461 (17.83%) Finance
3 292 (11.30%) Public Sector
4 158 (6.11%) Banking
5 146 (5.65%) Retail
6 138 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 79 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Legal
10 51 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.66%) Law
11 43 (1.66%) Marketing
12 41 (1.59%) Billing
13 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 18 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Police
19 12 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (6.03%) REST
2 123 (4.76%) Terraform
3 84 (3.25%) .NET
4 75 (2.90%) Kafka
5 71 (2.75%) Middleware
6 70 (2.71%) SOAP
7 51 (1.97%) OAuth
8 33 (1.28%) PySpark
9 31 (1.20%) JSON
10 30 (1.16%) .NET Framework
11 29 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (1.04%) OAuth2
13 26 (1.01%) React
14 24 (0.93%) OpenID
14 24 (0.93%) SAML
14 24 (0.93%) XML
15 23 (0.89%) RESTful
16 20 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
17 19 (0.74%) JWT
18 17 (0.66%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 255 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 82 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.06%) AI Agents
4 77 (2.98%) Data Centre
5 69 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 63 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.05%) CMDB
11 51 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.08%) Taxonomies
17 26 (1.01%) Public Cloud
18 25 (0.97%) Mainframe
19 23 (0.89%) IoT
20 22 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.62%) Linux
2 29 (1.12%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) zOS
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (16.71%) Roadmaps
2 430 (16.63%) Migration
3 427 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 413 (15.98%) AI
5 348 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
6 318 (12.30%) DevOps
7 310 (11.99%) Analytics
8 308 (11.91%) Data Modelling
9 302 (11.68%) CI/CD
10 284 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 276 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
12 273 (10.56%) Data Architecture
13 266 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
14 260 (10.06%) Agile
15 199 (7.70%) Architectural Patterns
16 198 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 198 (7.66%) TOGAF
17 188 (7.27%) Security Architecture
18 185 (7.16%) Event-Driven
19 181 (7.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 153 (5.92%) Python
2 139 (5.38%) SQL
3 113 (4.37%) Java
4 62 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.43%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.97%) Bicep
9 20 (0.77%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 662 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 550 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 78 (3.02%) Degree
4 67 (2.59%) CISSP
5 64 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 60 (2.32%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.43%) CISM
9 34 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.58%) CISA
15 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.46%) CCNP
17 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 9 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 92 (3.56%) GDPR
3 87 (3.37%) NIST
4 76 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.01%) GRC
6 31 (1.20%) NCSC
7 27 (1.04%) QA
8 20 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.66%) SEPA
11 14 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.35%) SLA
16 7 (0.27%) IFRS
16 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 60 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 48 (1.86%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Varnish
6 6 (0.23%) Postfix
7 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 5 (0.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
8 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.077%) IAG
10 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.039%) Firmware
11 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.039%) Squid
Systems Management
1 111 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 44 (1.70%) Ansible
3 25 (0.97%) Grafana
4 20 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.15%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 3 (0.12%) Istio
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 1 (0.039%) Control-M
11 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 344 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.54%) Databricks
3 156 (6.03%) Oracle
4 150 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 146 (5.65%) SAP
6 120 (4.64%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.59%) Google
8 54 (2.09%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.35%) Workday
11 34 (1.32%) IBM
12 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.97%) VMware
16 24 (0.93%) Ariba
17 23 (0.89%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.81%) Adobe
19 20 (0.77%) Splunk
20 19 (0.74%) Sparx