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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,630 1,283 1,562
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.02% 9.53% 9.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.96% 10.27% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 831 1,014
10th Percentile £491 £463 £488
25th Percentile £531 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £807 £800 £838
England median daily rate £620 £625 £635
% change year-on-year -0.80% -1.61% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £52.20 £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 - £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £67.58 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -1.53%

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 18,843 12,491 15,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.75% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,370 10,243
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
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 £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 206 181
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.23% -13.57% -5.25%
75th Percentile £63.43 £51.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +14 349 £625 -3.85% 305
West London -19 30 £650 +44.44% 44
East London +2 13 £675 - 14
South London -13 13 £650 -8.26% 15
North London 0 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 760 (28.90%) Azure
2 679 (25.82%) Security Cleared
3 584 (22.21%) AWS
4 562 (21.37%) SC Cleared
5 488 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 466 (17.72%) Roadmaps
7 439 (16.69%) AI
8 428 (16.27%) Migration
9 371 (14.11%) Enterprise Architecture
10 359 (13.65%) Microsoft
11 325 (12.36%) DevOps
12 314 (11.94%) Analytics
12 314 (11.94%) Data Modelling
13 306 (11.63%) CI/CD
14 299 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
15 283 (10.76%) Data Architecture
16 277 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 269 (10.23%) Agile
18 267 (10.15%) Integration Patterns
19 227 (8.63%) GCP
20 218 (8.29%) TOGAF
21 207 (7.87%) Security Architecture
22 204 (7.76%) Architectural Patterns
23 196 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
24 191 (7.26%) Data Governance
25 182 (6.92%) Decision-Making
26 181 (6.88%) Event-Driven
27 172 (6.54%) Databricks
28 171 (6.50%) Power Platform
29 165 (6.27%) Machine Learning

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 (1.48%) SAS
2 33 (1.25%) Apache
3 28 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 24 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (0.87%) Confluence
6 16 (0.61%) CMS
7 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.23%) Appian
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.15%) Camunda
10 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.15%) nginx
11 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.076%) JBoss
12 2 (0.076%) Mendix
12 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.076%) Revit
5 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.038%) Notion
5 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 67 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
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 IBP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 760 (28.90%) Azure
2 584 (22.21%) AWS
3 227 (8.63%) GCP
4 171 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 119 (4.52%) Entra ID
6 107 (4.07%) SaaS
7 100 (3.80%) Serverless
8 85 (3.23%) GitHub
9 80 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
10 77 (2.93%) Snowflake
11 72 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.02%) PaaS
13 49 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 42 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (1.56%) Amazon S3
16 40 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (1.44%) Power Automate
18 36 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
18 36 (1.37%) PowerApps
19 35 (1.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.66%) Network Security
2 47 (1.79%) Firewall
3 29 (1.10%) WAN
4 27 (1.03%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 18 (0.68%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
8 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.27%) NGFW
9 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
9 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
10 6 (0.23%) 4G
10 6 (0.23%) BGP
10 6 (0.23%) MPLS
10 6 (0.23%) Wireless
11 5 (0.19%) DMZ
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (4.11%) Power BI
2 102 (3.88%) Metadata
3 97 (3.69%) Data Lake
4 79 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (0.95%) Big Data
7 25 (0.95%) Delta Lake
8 24 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.76%) NoSQL
10 19 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
12 15 (0.57%) Data Vault
12 15 (0.57%) Star Schema
13 14 (0.53%) Tableau
14 12 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 38 (1.44%) JIRA
2 34 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.18%) Git
4 21 (0.80%) GitLab
5 8 (0.30%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.30%) RStudio
6 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.27%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) Postman
9 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.076%) Flyway
11 2 (0.076%) Liquibase
General
1 529 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 469 (17.83%) Finance
3 296 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.31%) Banking
5 150 (5.70%) Retail
6 128 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (3.00%) Telecoms
9 52 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (1.71%) Legal
11 41 (1.56%) Marketing
12 40 (1.52%) Billing
13 38 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (1.14%) Law
16 17 (0.65%) Military
17 16 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.49%) Automotive
18 13 (0.49%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.49%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.86%) REST
2 132 (5.02%) Terraform
3 84 (3.19%) .NET
4 83 (3.16%) Kafka
5 69 (2.62%) SOAP
6 64 (2.43%) Middleware
7 52 (1.98%) OAuth
8 36 (1.37%) PySpark
9 35 (1.33%) .NET Framework
10 34 (1.29%) JSON
11 29 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (1.03%) OAuth2
13 26 (0.99%) OpenID
13 26 (0.99%) XML
14 24 (0.91%) React
14 24 (0.91%) SAML
15 21 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
15 21 (0.80%) RESTful
16 20 (0.76%) SailPoint
17 19 (0.72%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 254 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 91 (3.46%) Onboarding
3 81 (3.08%) AI Agents
4 71 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 69 (2.62%) Product Ownership
6 62 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 57 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 52 (1.98%) CMDB
11 51 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 40 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
13 35 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 33 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.25%) Taxonomies
15 32 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.10%) Public Cloud
17 23 (0.87%) IoT
17 23 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 21 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.37%) Linux
2 31 (1.18%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
3 12 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Android
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.11%) AIX
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.076%) CentOS
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.076%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 466 (17.72%) Roadmaps
3 439 (16.69%) AI
4 428 (16.27%) Migration
5 371 (14.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 325 (12.36%) DevOps
7 314 (11.94%) Analytics
7 314 (11.94%) Data Modelling
8 306 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 299 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
10 283 (10.76%) Data Architecture
11 277 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 269 (10.23%) Agile
13 267 (10.15%) Integration Patterns
14 218 (8.29%) TOGAF
15 207 (7.87%) Security Architecture
16 204 (7.76%) Architectural Patterns
17 196 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 191 (7.26%) Data Governance
19 182 (6.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 138 (5.25%) Python
2 132 (5.02%) SQL
3 107 (4.07%) Java
4 64 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 39 (1.48%) C#
7 35 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 26 (0.99%) Bicep
9 21 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.30%) C++
12 8 (0.30%) Ruby
13 7 (0.27%) ABAP
13 7 (0.27%) R
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
14 6 (0.23%) Rust
14 6 (0.23%) Scala
14 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 679 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 562 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 78 (2.97%) Degree
4 69 (2.62%) CISSP
5 68 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 63 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 56 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 44 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 39 (1.48%) CISM
11 28 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.49%) CISA
17 12 (0.46%) CCSP
18 10 (0.38%) CCNP
19 9 (0.34%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.38%) NIST
3 86 (3.27%) GDPR
3 86 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (1.94%) GRC
5 38 (1.44%) NCSC
6 26 (0.99%) QA
7 21 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (0.68%) SEPA
9 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 16 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 11 (0.42%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.30%) PMO
16 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 69 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.71%) Docker
3 18 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) 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 (0.11%) NFS
7 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) IAG
8 2 (0.076%) 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
1 114 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.71%) Ansible
3 28 (1.06%) Grafana
4 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.34%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.076%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.076%) Istio
11 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.076%) QRadar
12 1 (0.038%) Control-M
12 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.038%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 359 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 172 (6.54%) Databricks
3 160 (6.08%) ServiceNow
4 153 (5.82%) Oracle
5 149 (5.67%) SAP
6 123 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 75 (2.85%) Google
8 50 (1.90%) Cisco
9 42 (1.60%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.33%) MuleSoft
10 35 (1.33%) Workday
11 30 (1.14%) IBM
12 29 (1.10%) Foundry
13 28 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.91%) VMware
15 22 (0.84%) Splunk
16 21 (0.80%) Sparx
17 20 (0.76%) Adobe
18 18 (0.68%) Ariba