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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,757 1,325 1,757
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.69% 10.34% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.55% 11.03% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 830 1,271
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.46%
75th Percentile £743 £759 £750
90th Percentile £838 £825 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.75 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.75 £39.38 £46.65
Median hourly rate £73.34 £47.50 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +54.39% -10.42% +51.51%
75th Percentile £95.00 £59.38 £59.15
90th Percentile £97.25 £64.25 £61.16
England median hourly rate £71.27 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year -1.70% -5.27% +9.33%

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 15,206 12,012 16,987
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.71% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,176 8,111 12,274
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 143 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.04 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year - +23.89% -19.29%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.22 £64.77
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 0 236 £650 -2.44% 106
West London -2 25 £633 +8.58% 16
South London +4 24 £600 -18.37% 5
East London -6 8 £543 -13.20% 15
North London 0 2 £663 -4.57%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 536 (30.51%) Azure
2 513 (29.20%) Security Cleared
3 447 (25.44%) AWS
4 435 (24.76%) SC Cleared
5 256 (14.57%) Roadmaps
6 254 (14.46%) Microsoft
7 246 (14.00%) Migration
8 244 (13.89%) DevOps
9 212 (12.07%) CI/CD
10 209 (11.90%) AI
11 202 (11.50%) Agile
11 202 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 187 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
13 185 (10.53%) GCP
13 185 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 183 (10.42%) Data Modelling
15 181 (10.30%) Integration Patterns
16 178 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
17 176 (10.02%) Analytics
18 172 (9.79%) Data Architecture
19 166 (9.45%) Python
20 162 (9.22%) Enterprise Architecture
21 145 (8.25%) TOGAF
22 131 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
22 131 (7.46%) SQL
23 130 (7.40%) Terraform
24 127 (7.23%) REST
25 125 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
26 123 (7.00%) Microservices
27 119 (6.77%) Kubernetes

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 40 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.31%) Confluence
3 17 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.63%) CMS
7 10 (0.57%) nginx
8 7 (0.40%) Apache
9 5 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.28%) Camunda
9 5 (0.28%) Mule
10 4 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Appian
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) SAS
12 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.057%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.057%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 46 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.40%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.34%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.17%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 536 (30.51%) Azure
2 447 (25.44%) AWS
3 185 (10.53%) GCP
4 93 (5.29%) Power Platform
5 76 (4.33%) Serverless
6 72 (4.10%) SaaS
7 60 (3.41%) Entra ID
8 55 (3.13%) IaaS
9 49 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 49 (2.79%) GitHub
10 48 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 42 (2.39%) PaaS
14 41 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
15 40 (2.28%) Snowflake
16 39 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 35 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 32 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.27%) Network Security
2 71 (4.04%) Firewall
3 53 (3.02%) WAN
4 41 (2.33%) VPN
5 40 (2.28%) DNS
6 30 (1.71%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.54%) LAN
8 17 (0.97%) BGP
9 16 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.85%) OSPF
11 12 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.63%) VXLAN
13 8 (0.46%) 5G
13 8 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.46%) MPLS
13 8 (0.46%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.40%) VSAN
15 6 (0.34%) Internet
16 5 (0.28%) 3GPP
16 5 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (3.59%) Power BI
2 57 (3.24%) Data Lake
3 55 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (2.68%) Metadata
5 35 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.88%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (0.91%) Big Data
11 16 (0.91%) Tableau
12 15 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.85%) Data Vault
12 15 (0.85%) DB2
12 15 (0.85%) Delta Lake
13 12 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
14 11 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 42 (2.39%) Jenkins
2 27 (1.54%) JIRA
3 25 (1.42%) Git
4 24 (1.37%) GitLab
5 10 (0.57%) ERwin
6 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.28%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
8 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.11%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.057%) ER Studio
General
1 416 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 368 (20.94%) Finance
3 211 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 127 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (6.55%) Banking
6 71 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 55 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (2.56%) Retail
9 39 (2.22%) Legal
9 39 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 37 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.05%) Law
12 29 (1.65%) Marketing
13 25 (1.42%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.37%) Billing
15 18 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.74%) Military
17 10 (0.57%) Electronics
17 10 (0.57%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (7.23%) REST
2 91 (5.18%) Middleware
3 65 (3.70%) SOAP
4 61 (3.47%) LDAP
5 43 (2.45%) OpenID
6 42 (2.39%) .NET
7 37 (2.11%) JSON
8 36 (2.05%) Kafka
9 32 (1.82%) SAML
10 28 (1.59%) OAuth
11 26 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 20 (1.14%) React
13 15 (0.85%) Spring
14 13 (0.74%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.74%) PySpark
14 13 (0.74%) Vue
15 11 (0.63%) gRPC
15 11 (0.63%) XML
16 10 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 68 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 63 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (2.85%) Security Posture
5 48 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 42 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 38 (2.16%) PKI
10 37 (2.11%) Product Ownership
11 30 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 23 (1.31%) CMDB
14 22 (1.25%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.08%) Replication
17 18 (1.02%) AI Agents
18 16 (0.91%) Private Cloud
19 15 (0.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.82%) Windows
2 23 (1.31%) Linux
3 10 (0.57%) zOS
4 5 (0.28%) Android
4 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.17%) Unix
5 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.057%) CentOS
7 1 (0.057%) Solaris
7 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (14.57%) Roadmaps
2 246 (14.00%) Migration
3 244 (13.89%) DevOps
4 212 (12.07%) CI/CD
5 209 (11.90%) AI
6 202 (11.50%) Agile
6 202 (11.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 187 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
8 185 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 183 (10.42%) Data Modelling
10 181 (10.30%) Integration Patterns
11 178 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
12 176 (10.02%) Analytics
13 172 (9.79%) Data Architecture
14 162 (9.22%) Enterprise Architecture
15 145 (8.25%) TOGAF
16 131 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
17 125 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
18 123 (7.00%) Microservices
19 115 (6.55%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 166 (9.45%) Python
2 131 (7.46%) SQL
3 88 (5.01%) PowerShell
4 70 (3.98%) Java
5 26 (1.48%) C#
6 25 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.91%) Bicep
9 13 (0.74%) Bash
10 11 (0.63%) Ruby
11 9 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.40%) Scala
13 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.23%) C++
14 4 (0.23%) Go
14 4 (0.23%) Korn
14 4 (0.23%) R
15 3 (0.17%) C
15 3 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 513 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 435 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 74 (4.21%) Degree
4 69 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 46 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.05%) CISSP
9 35 (1.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (1.08%) CISM
14 17 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.91%) CCNP
16 14 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.74%) CCIE
18 11 (0.63%) CCSP
19 5 (0.28%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.10%) GDPR
2 56 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.50%) NIST
5 42 (2.39%) NCSC
6 34 (1.94%) QA
7 27 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.57%) GRC
10 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.46%) PSD2
12 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.40%) SEPA
13 6 (0.34%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.34%) SLA
14 5 (0.28%) HL7
14 5 (0.28%) PERC
15 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (4.15%) Active Directory
1 73 (4.15%) Docker
2 28 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.97%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.46%) Squid
6 6 (0.34%) vSphere
7 5 (0.28%) Varnish
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Ceph
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Lustre
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.057%) HDFS
10 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 130 (7.40%) Terraform
2 119 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.28%) Ansible
4 24 (1.37%) Grafana
5 20 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.40%) Consul
10 4 (0.23%) Istio
10 4 (0.23%) Kibana
11 3 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.17%) VxRail
12 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 254 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.58%) SAP
3 92 (5.24%) Salesforce
4 90 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 86 (4.89%) Databricks
6 73 (4.15%) Oracle
7 60 (3.41%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.33%) Cisco
9 40 (2.28%) Google
10 34 (1.94%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.94%) Centrify
10 34 (1.94%) VMware
11 33 (1.88%) Splunk
12 27 (1.54%) IBM
13 25 (1.42%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.31%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.25%) OpenAI
15 22 (1.25%) Workday
16 19 (1.08%) Zscaler
17 17 (0.97%) Ariba