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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,625 1,252 1,569
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.80% 9.35% 9.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 10.10% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,773 825 941
10th Percentile £495 £459 £485
25th Percentile £550 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -0.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £735 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £82.00 £58.69
25th Percentile £60.50 £83.13 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £90.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +4.13% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £95.00 £103.15
90th Percentile £89.75 - £112.57
England median hourly rate £70.00 £77.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.97% +11.07% -6.67%

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 19,058 12,391 15,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 92.55% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,277 9,836
10th Percentile £363 £335 £341
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 £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 210 171
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.20 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -25.48% -9.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +8 320 £625 -3.85% 297
West London -24 26 £650 +44.44% 50
South London -9 15 £650 -8.26% 10
East London +1 9 £700 +3.70% 15
North London -3 2 £650 -14.75% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 775 (29.52%) Azure
2 705 (26.86%) Security Cleared
3 575 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 571 (21.75%) AWS
5 532 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 510 (19.43%) Roadmaps
7 442 (16.84%) AI
8 424 (16.15%) Migration
9 381 (14.51%) Enterprise Architecture
10 358 (13.64%) Microsoft
11 338 (12.88%) DevOps
12 305 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
13 302 (11.50%) CI/CD
14 293 (11.16%) Analytics
15 292 (11.12%) Data Modelling
16 287 (10.93%) Data Architecture
17 267 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 251 (9.56%) Integration Patterns
19 248 (9.45%) Agile
20 216 (8.23%) GCP
21 210 (8.00%) TOGAF
22 204 (7.77%) Security Architecture
23 202 (7.70%) Architectural Patterns
23 202 (7.70%) Event-Driven
24 200 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
25 194 (7.39%) Data Governance
26 186 (7.09%) Decision-Making
27 174 (6.63%) Architecture Governance
28 166 (6.32%) SAP
29 160 (6.10%) 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 (1.49%) SAS
2 31 (1.18%) Apache
3 27 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.19%) Appian
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.11%) Camunda
12 3 (0.11%) IIS
12 3 (0.11%) JBoss
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.076%) Mendix
13 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.076%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.076%) Revit
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 85 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 12 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 11 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
8 8 (0.30%) SAP CO
8 8 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 8 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 7 (0.27%) SAP HCM
10 5 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
11 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 775 (29.52%) Azure
2 571 (21.75%) AWS
3 216 (8.23%) GCP
4 150 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 126 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 107 (4.08%) SaaS
7 96 (3.66%) Serverless
8 86 (3.28%) GitHub
9 82 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 60 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.79%) PaaS
13 44 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 40 (1.52%) Power Automate
16 38 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 37 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
18 36 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (1.37%) dbt
18 36 (1.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.59%) Network Security
2 50 (1.90%) Firewall
3 33 (1.26%) WAN
4 28 (1.07%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 18 (0.69%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.30%) MQTT
9 8 (0.30%) NGFW
9 8 (0.30%) Wireless
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.27%) Internet
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.23%) SSL
11 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (4.34%) Metadata
2 90 (3.43%) Power BI
3 82 (3.12%) Data Lake
4 77 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.95%) Delta Lake
6 25 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 20 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (0.76%) Big Data
9 19 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
12 15 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.53%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
15 12 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
16 11 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (1.56%) JIRA
2 34 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.18%) Git
4 19 (0.72%) GitLab
5 9 (0.34%) RStudio
6 8 (0.30%) Claude Code
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) Postman
10 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.076%) Flyway
11 2 (0.076%) Liquibase
General
1 545 (20.76%) Social Skills
2 481 (18.32%) Finance
3 305 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 180 (6.86%) Banking
5 135 (5.14%) Retail
6 116 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (3.12%) Telecoms
8 50 (1.90%) Manufacturing
9 44 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (1.68%) Marketing
10 42 (1.60%) Legal
11 41 (1.56%) Billing
12 28 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.76%) Automotive
14 20 (0.76%) Police
15 15 (0.57%) Local Government
15 15 (0.57%) Military
16 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (5.98%) REST
2 144 (5.49%) Terraform
3 90 (3.43%) Kafka
4 78 (2.97%) .NET
5 63 (2.40%) SOAP
6 60 (2.29%) Middleware
7 53 (2.02%) OAuth
8 34 (1.30%) .NET Framework
8 34 (1.30%) PySpark
9 33 (1.26%) OpenID
10 32 (1.22%) JSON
11 28 (1.07%) OAuth2
12 27 (1.03%) SAML
13 25 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
14 24 (0.91%) XML
15 23 (0.88%) JWT
16 21 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
17 19 (0.72%) React
17 19 (0.72%) Spring
18 18 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 251 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 90 (3.43%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.05%) AI Agents
4 74 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 68 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 64 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 62 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 57 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.83%) CMDB
12 40 (1.52%) Taxonomies
13 35 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
14 31 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 30 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (1.14%) Public Cloud
16 24 (0.91%) Mainframe
17 23 (0.88%) Operational Technology
18 22 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.45%) Linux
2 35 (1.33%) Windows
3 14 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.38%) Unix
5 7 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
6 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.15%) Android
8 3 (0.11%) VMS
9 2 (0.076%) AIX
9 2 (0.076%) CentOS
9 2 (0.076%) macOS
9 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.076%) Solaris
9 2 (0.076%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (20.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 510 (19.43%) Roadmaps
3 442 (16.84%) AI
4 424 (16.15%) Migration
5 381 (14.51%) Enterprise Architecture
6 338 (12.88%) DevOps
7 305 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
8 302 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 293 (11.16%) Analytics
10 292 (11.12%) Data Modelling
11 287 (10.93%) Data Architecture
12 267 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 251 (9.56%) Integration Patterns
14 248 (9.45%) Agile
15 210 (8.00%) TOGAF
16 204 (7.77%) Security Architecture
17 202 (7.70%) Architectural Patterns
17 202 (7.70%) Event-Driven
18 200 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
19 194 (7.39%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 132 (5.03%) SQL
2 123 (4.69%) Python
3 98 (3.73%) Java
4 57 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.41%) C#
7 36 (1.37%) Bicep
8 34 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.61%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.34%) ABAP
13 8 (0.30%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.19%) Ruby
17 4 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 705 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 575 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 77 (2.93%) Degree
3 77 (2.93%) DV Cleared
4 67 (2.55%) CISSP
5 65 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 58 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 57 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 44 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 39 (1.49%) CISM
10 30 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.50%) CCSP
17 12 (0.46%) CCNP
17 12 (0.46%) CISA
18 10 (0.38%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (4.99%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (3.12%) GDPR
4 78 (2.97%) NIST
5 48 (1.83%) GRC
6 40 (1.52%) NCSC
7 22 (0.84%) QA
8 18 (0.69%) SEPA
9 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.53%) SLA
11 13 (0.50%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 11 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (0.38%) PMO
15 9 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 8 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 50 (1.90%) Docker
3 21 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) IAG
8 2 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.076%) Postfix
8 2 (0.076%) Varnish
9 1 (0.038%) Ceph
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 47 (1.79%) Ansible
3 31 (1.18%) Grafana
4 18 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.30%) Argo
6 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.23%) Puppet
8 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.15%) SCCM
9 2 (0.076%) CASB
9 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.076%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.076%) Istio
9 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.076%) QRadar
10 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.038%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 358 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.32%) SAP
3 160 (6.10%) Databricks
4 145 (5.52%) Oracle
5 141 (5.37%) ServiceNow
6 116 (4.42%) Salesforce
7 82 (3.12%) Google
8 54 (2.06%) Cisco
9 38 (1.45%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 31 (1.18%) OpenAI
12 29 (1.10%) Workday
13 28 (1.07%) IBM
14 27 (1.03%) VMware
15 26 (0.99%) Palo Alto
16 24 (0.91%) Foundry
17 23 (0.88%) Ariba
17 23 (0.88%) Splunk
18 22 (0.84%) Dynatrace
19 21 (0.80%) Adobe