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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,592 1,365 1,610
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 10.07% 9.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.79% 10.82% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 890 1,133
10th Percentile £475 £480 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £811 £800 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £49.85 £66.25 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £82.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £90.68
90th Percentile £98.58 £96.75 £107.59
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 18,802 12,610 15,273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 92.99% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,272 8,525 10,790
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 204 199
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.28% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.13 £54.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.54% -42.22% +4.65%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +17 370 £625 -7.41% 178
West London -16 35 £625 +38.89% 31
South London -16 18 £723 +6.68% 10
East London +1 13 £700 +3.70% 8
North London -4 1 £650 -17.46% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 732 (28.24%) Azure
2 675 (26.04%) Security Cleared
3 609 (23.50%) AWS
4 565 (21.80%) SC Cleared
5 410 (15.82%) Migration
5 410 (15.82%) Roadmaps
6 406 (15.66%) AI
7 364 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 333 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
9 323 (12.46%) Microsoft
10 317 (12.23%) Analytics
11 312 (12.04%) DevOps
12 303 (11.69%) Data Modelling
13 289 (11.15%) CI/CD
14 275 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 274 (10.57%) Data Architecture
16 267 (10.30%) Integration Patterns
17 256 (9.88%) Agile
17 256 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
18 232 (8.95%) GCP
19 222 (8.56%) TOGAF
20 209 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
21 184 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
22 176 (6.79%) Security Architecture
23 173 (6.67%) Event-Driven
24 170 (6.56%) Data Governance
25 166 (6.40%) Microservices
26 165 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
27 161 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
28 160 (6.17%) Translating Business Requirements

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 41 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.47%) SAS
3 35 (1.35%) Apache
4 34 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 18 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.46%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
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
1 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 7 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.23%) Endur
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 732 (28.24%) Azure
2 609 (23.50%) AWS
3 232 (8.95%) GCP
4 157 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.01%) SaaS
6 97 (3.74%) Entra ID
7 83 (3.20%) Serverless
8 81 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (2.82%) GitHub
10 68 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (2.39%) PaaS
12 47 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 45 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
14 41 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.47%) IaaS
16 33 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.23%) OCI
18 31 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 31 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.67%) Network Security
2 55 (2.12%) Firewall
3 34 (1.31%) VPN
4 28 (1.08%) DNS
4 28 (1.08%) WAN
5 19 (0.73%) LAN
6 11 (0.42%) MPLS
6 11 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.35%) 4G
7 9 (0.35%) 5G
7 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
8 8 (0.31%) BGP
8 8 (0.31%) NGFW
9 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
9 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
9 7 (0.27%) OSPF
10 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.23%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.36%) Power BI
2 97 (3.74%) Data Lake
3 78 (3.01%) Metadata
4 76 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.27%) Big Data
6 32 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (0.81%) Delta Lake
12 20 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.46%) Data Vault
15 12 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
15 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
15 12 (0.46%) Tableau
16 11 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (1.47%) Git
1 38 (1.47%) JIRA
2 30 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.58%) GitLab
4 8 (0.31%) ERwin
4 8 (0.31%) MLflow
5 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) Maven
6 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.15%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.077%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.077%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 490 (18.90%) Finance
2 481 (18.56%) Social Skills
3 292 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.60%) Banking
5 146 (5.63%) Retail
6 128 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Legal
10 43 (1.66%) Law
11 37 (1.43%) Billing
11 37 (1.43%) Marketing
12 27 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (0.58%) Local Government
14 15 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.42%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.42%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (5.36%) REST
2 87 (3.36%) .NET
3 86 (3.32%) Middleware
4 71 (2.74%) Kafka
5 65 (2.51%) SOAP
6 43 (1.66%) OAuth
7 31 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.16%) .NET Framework
8 30 (1.16%) React
9 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
9 26 (1.00%) PySpark
10 24 (0.93%) JSON
11 23 (0.89%) RESTful
12 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 21 (0.81%) OpenID
12 21 (0.81%) SAML
13 20 (0.77%) XML
14 18 (0.69%) AngularJS
15 17 (0.66%) HTML
15 17 (0.66%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 251 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 76 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
3 72 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 68 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 67 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 54 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (1.93%) CMDB
9 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 40 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
13 32 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.16%) Taxonomies
15 27 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 25 (0.96%) Public Cloud
17 22 (0.85%) NHS
18 21 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.66%) Linux
2 31 (1.20%) Windows
3 11 (0.42%) 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%) zOS
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
11 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (15.82%) Migration
1 410 (15.82%) Roadmaps
2 406 (15.66%) AI
3 364 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 333 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
5 317 (12.23%) Analytics
6 312 (12.04%) DevOps
7 303 (11.69%) Data Modelling
8 289 (11.15%) CI/CD
9 275 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 274 (10.57%) Data Architecture
11 267 (10.30%) Integration Patterns
12 256 (9.88%) Agile
12 256 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
13 222 (8.56%) TOGAF
14 209 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
15 184 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 176 (6.79%) Security Architecture
17 173 (6.67%) Event-Driven
18 170 (6.56%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 150 (5.79%) Python
2 137 (5.29%) SQL
3 106 (4.09%) Java
4 64 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.62%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.54%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.89%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.69%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 10 (0.39%) C++
13 9 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.35%) Scala
14 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 675 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 565 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 76 (2.93%) Degree
4 70 (2.70%) CISSP
5 67 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 38 (1.47%) CISM
10 33 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CCSP
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 12 (0.46%) CCNP
18 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 93 (3.59%) GDPR
3 74 (2.85%) NIST
4 68 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.93%) GRC
6 32 (1.23%) NCSC
7 30 (1.16%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.69%) SEPA
10 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.31%) PSD2
18 7 (0.27%) IFRS
19 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (2.24%) Docker
2 56 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.077%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) HDFS
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 121 (4.67%) Terraform
3 41 (1.58%) Ansible
4 25 (0.96%) Grafana
5 20 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.077%) Consul
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.077%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.077%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 323 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 158 (6.10%) Oracle
3 149 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 147 (5.67%) Databricks
5 143 (5.52%) SAP
6 118 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.20%) Google
8 46 (1.77%) Cisco
9 38 (1.47%) Workday
10 35 (1.35%) IBM
11 34 (1.31%) CyberArk
12 32 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.96%) Ariba
15 25 (0.96%) Splunk
16 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.85%) VMware
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx
18 18 (0.69%) Adobe