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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,601 1,287 1,565
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.80% 9.53% 9.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.72% 10.27% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 827 1,039
10th Percentile £479 £463 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile £52.55 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £56.38 £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 £88.38 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.83 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.20% +3.57% -0.12%

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 18,953 12,528 15,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.78% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,219 8,384 10,288
10th Percentile £363 £325 £347
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 184
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.61
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £74.06
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +13 349 £625 -4.65% 154
West London -16 30 £650 +44.44% 28
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 13
South London -16 9 £650 -7.74% 7
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 10 September 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.

1 747 (28.72%) Azure
2 656 (25.22%) Security Cleared
3 590 (22.68%) AWS
4 540 (20.76%) SC Cleared
5 460 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 446 (17.15%) Roadmaps
7 431 (16.57%) Migration
8 427 (16.42%) AI
9 357 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
10 350 (13.46%) Microsoft
11 320 (12.30%) Data Modelling
12 315 (12.11%) DevOps
13 311 (11.96%) Analytics
14 296 (11.38%) CI/CD
15 292 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
16 288 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 280 (10.77%) Data Architecture
18 264 (10.15%) Agile
19 262 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
20 227 (8.73%) GCP
21 205 (7.88%) TOGAF
22 204 (7.84%) Architectural Patterns
23 199 (7.65%) Security Architecture
24 188 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
25 186 (7.15%) Data Governance
26 184 (7.07%) Event-Driven
27 177 (6.81%) Power Platform
28 173 (6.65%) Decision-Making
29 169 (6.50%) Translating Business Requirements
30 168 (6.46%) Databricks

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 (1.50%) SAS
2 34 (1.31%) Apache
3 30 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 24 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.85%) Confluence
6 18 (0.69%) CMS
7 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.23%) Appian
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.038%) Revit
4 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) 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
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 747 (28.72%) Azure
2 590 (22.68%) AWS
3 227 (8.73%) GCP
4 177 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 110 (4.23%) Entra ID
6 108 (4.15%) SaaS
7 100 (3.84%) Serverless
8 87 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.15%) GitHub
10 77 (2.96%) Snowflake
11 66 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (2.15%) PaaS
13 50 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.73%) Amazon S3
15 41 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 35 (1.35%) OCI
16 35 (1.35%) PowerApps
17 34 (1.31%) dbt
17 34 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.96%) Network Security
2 47 (1.81%) Firewall
3 30 (1.15%) WAN
4 28 (1.08%) VPN
5 22 (0.85%) LAN
6 18 (0.69%) DNS
7 13 (0.50%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.31%) BGP
9 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) 4G
10 7 (0.27%) 5G
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.23%) MPLS
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.50%) Power BI
2 98 (3.77%) Metadata
3 97 (3.73%) Data Lake
4 80 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (1.00%) Big Data
6 26 (1.00%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (0.88%) Delta Lake
9 21 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
12 16 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
13 14 (0.54%) Star Schema
13 14 (0.54%) Tableau
14 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
16 11 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (1.38%) JIRA
2 33 (1.27%) Git
3 28 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.65%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.27%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.27%) RStudio
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) Maven
8 5 (0.19%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) JMeter
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) MSI
11 2 (0.077%) Postman
11 2 (0.077%) Selenium
General
1 531 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 467 (17.95%) Finance
3 284 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 167 (6.42%) Banking
5 147 (5.65%) Retail
6 134 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 54 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (1.85%) Legal
10 43 (1.65%) Marketing
11 42 (1.61%) Billing
12 40 (1.54%) Law
13 30 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 15 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.58%) Military
15 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.50%) Police
17 12 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.92%) REST
2 120 (4.61%) Terraform
3 83 (3.19%) .NET
4 80 (3.08%) Kafka
5 69 (2.65%) SOAP
6 63 (2.42%) Middleware
7 51 (1.96%) OAuth
8 34 (1.31%) PySpark
9 33 (1.27%) .NET Framework
9 33 (1.27%) JSON
10 28 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 26 (1.00%) OpenID
11 26 (1.00%) XML
12 24 (0.92%) React
13 23 (0.88%) SAML
14 22 (0.85%) RESTful
15 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.73%) JWT
16 19 (0.73%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 254 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 85 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 73 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 67 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 56 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 51 (1.96%) CMDB
10 51 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
12 34 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.27%) Taxonomies
14 32 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
17 22 (0.85%) IoT
18 20 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.46%) Linux
2 30 (1.15%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
4 11 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.077%) CentOS
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
10 2 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 446 (17.15%) Roadmaps
3 431 (16.57%) Migration
4 427 (16.42%) AI
5 357 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
6 320 (12.30%) Data Modelling
7 315 (12.11%) DevOps
8 311 (11.96%) Analytics
9 296 (11.38%) CI/CD
10 292 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
11 288 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 280 (10.77%) Data Architecture
13 264 (10.15%) Agile
14 262 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
15 205 (7.88%) TOGAF
16 204 (7.84%) Architectural Patterns
17 199 (7.65%) Security Architecture
18 188 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
19 186 (7.15%) Data Governance
20 184 (7.07%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 146 (5.61%) Python
2 136 (5.23%) SQL
3 111 (4.27%) Java
4 64 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 41 (1.58%) C#
7 32 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 22 (0.85%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Ruby
12 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.38%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
16 6 (0.23%) ABAP
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 656 (25.22%) Security Cleared
2 540 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 76 (2.92%) Degree
4 72 (2.77%) CISSP
5 65 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 55 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 50 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.54%) CISM
9 38 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 38 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 11 (0.42%) CCSP
18 10 (0.38%) CCNP
18 10 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.42%) NIST
3 86 (3.31%) GDPR
4 77 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.00%) GRC
6 31 (1.19%) NCSC
7 27 (1.04%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.65%) SEPA
10 16 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.46%) SLA
14 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 61 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.73%) Docker
3 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
6 4 (0.15%) Varnish
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) NFS
7 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 107 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.54%) Ansible
3 22 (0.85%) Grafana
4 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.15%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.077%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.077%) Istio
10 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) Avamar
11 1 (0.038%) CASB
11 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.038%) VxRail
Vendors
1 350 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 168 (6.46%) Databricks
3 157 (6.04%) Oracle
3 157 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 145 (5.57%) SAP
5 118 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 68 (2.61%) Google
7 49 (1.88%) Cisco
8 39 (1.50%) CyberArk
9 34 (1.31%) Workday
10 33 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 31 (1.19%) Foundry
11 31 (1.19%) IBM
12 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 24 (0.92%) Palo Alto
13 24 (0.92%) VMware
14 22 (0.85%) Adobe
15 21 (0.81%) Ariba
16 20 (0.77%) Splunk
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx