Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,348 1,362 1,706
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.55% 9.70% 9.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.33% 10.37% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 797 1,202
10th Percentile £463 £489 £500
25th Percentile £550 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £765 £743
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £64.20 £43.39 £43.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.97 £44.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £76.93 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +61.02% -36.30%
75th Percentile £93.75 £97.90 £50.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £110.47 £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.82 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +15.61% -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 13,055 13,132 16,961
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.51% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,650 8,462 12,244
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 143 236
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.33 £23.80 £20.69
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -4.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.22% +23.80%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -3 181 £650 - 75
West London -3 21 £625 +25.00% 8
South London 0 9 £600 -9.09% 5
East London -1 9 £675 +1.89% 8
North London +5 3 £700 -1.89%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 444 (32.94%) Azure
2 357 (26.48%) Security Cleared
3 338 (25.07%) AWS
4 298 (22.11%) SC Cleared
5 213 (15.80%) Microsoft
6 187 (13.87%) Roadmaps
7 183 (13.58%) Agile
8 168 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
9 166 (12.31%) DevOps
10 164 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 157 (11.65%) Data Modelling
11 157 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 157 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
12 156 (11.57%) Migration
13 148 (10.98%) CI/CD
14 141 (10.46%) Integration Patterns
15 138 (10.24%) Enterprise Architecture
16 135 (10.01%) AI
17 132 (9.79%) Data Architecture
18 131 (9.72%) Analytics
18 131 (9.72%) Python
19 122 (9.05%) GCP
20 115 (8.53%) REST
21 112 (8.31%) Microservices
22 106 (7.86%) Terraform
23 104 (7.72%) TOGAF
24 98 (7.27%) Data Governance
24 98 (7.27%) SQL
25 94 (6.97%) Security Architecture
26 86 (6.38%) SAP

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 27 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.56%) Confluence
3 13 (0.96%) CMS
4 12 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.52%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
9 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Luigi
11 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.074%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.074%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 39 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.45%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.30%) Endur
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.22%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 444 (32.94%) Azure
2 338 (25.07%) AWS
3 122 (9.05%) GCP
4 78 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 59 (4.38%) SaaS
6 58 (4.30%) Serverless
7 51 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 46 (3.41%) IaaS
9 40 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (2.74%) GitHub
12 36 (2.67%) Amazon S3
12 36 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 28 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (2.08%) PaaS
15 27 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 27 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.75%) Firewall
2 53 (3.93%) WAN
3 47 (3.49%) Network Security
4 38 (2.82%) LAN
5 35 (2.60%) VPN
6 27 (2.00%) SD-WAN
7 25 (1.85%) DNS
8 15 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.96%) SSL
10 12 (0.89%) BGP
11 10 (0.74%) OSPF
12 7 (0.52%) Internet
13 6 (0.45%) DHCP
13 6 (0.45%) NGFW
13 6 (0.45%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 5 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (0.37%) MPLS
14 5 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.01%) Data Lake
2 49 (3.64%) Power BI
3 43 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (2.15%) Metadata
4 29 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.41%) Data Vault
8 15 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (1.04%) Delta Lake
10 13 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (0.89%) Tableau
12 11 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.74%) Spark SQL
14 9 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (0.67%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.85%) JIRA
3 18 (1.34%) GitLab
4 8 (0.59%) ERwin
4 8 (0.59%) Git
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.15%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.074%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.074%) GCC
8 1 (0.074%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.074%) MLflow
8 1 (0.074%) Postman
8 1 (0.074%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.074%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 352 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 300 (22.26%) Finance
3 162 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 110 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.12%) Banking
6 36 (2.67%) Legal
7 33 (2.45%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.37%) Retail
9 31 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.23%) Marketing
11 29 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.41%) Billing
15 16 (1.19%) Law
16 12 (0.89%) Back Office
16 12 (0.89%) Military
17 11 (0.82%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (8.53%) REST
2 63 (4.67%) SOAP
3 55 (4.08%) Middleware
4 48 (3.56%) LDAP
5 47 (3.49%) JSON
6 33 (2.45%) .NET
7 32 (2.37%) Kafka
8 27 (2.00%) OAuth
9 26 (1.93%) SAML
10 24 (1.78%) AngularJS
11 23 (1.71%) OpenID
12 17 (1.26%) PySpark
13 16 (1.19%) RESTful
14 13 (0.96%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.96%) React
15 11 (0.82%) Node.js
15 11 (0.82%) Spring
16 10 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (0.74%) Web Services
16 10 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 57 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 45 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 40 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 38 (2.82%) PKI
7 34 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 31 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 30 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 25 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.71%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.56%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.26%) Private Cloud
15 16 (1.19%) Mobile App
16 14 (1.04%) Reinsurance
16 14 (1.04%) Replication
17 13 (0.96%) CMDB
17 13 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.52%) Windows
2 21 (1.56%) Linux
3 11 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.37%) Unix
5 3 (0.22%) Android
5 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.15%) CentOS
6 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.15%) Solaris
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.074%) AIX
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
7 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (13.87%) Roadmaps
2 183 (13.58%) Agile
3 168 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (12.31%) DevOps
5 164 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 157 (11.65%) Data Modelling
6 157 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 157 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
7 156 (11.57%) Migration
8 148 (10.98%) CI/CD
9 141 (10.46%) Integration Patterns
10 138 (10.24%) Enterprise Architecture
11 135 (10.01%) AI
12 132 (9.79%) Data Architecture
13 131 (9.72%) Analytics
14 112 (8.31%) Microservices
15 104 (7.72%) TOGAF
16 98 (7.27%) Data Governance
17 94 (6.97%) Security Architecture
18 81 (6.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 131 (9.72%) Python
2 98 (7.27%) SQL
3 84 (6.23%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.93%) Java
5 32 (2.37%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.78%) TypeScript
7 22 (1.63%) C#
8 16 (1.19%) Bicep
9 12 (0.89%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.37%) Korn
12 5 (0.37%) Ruby
13 4 (0.30%) Scala
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) R
14 3 (0.22%) SOQL
15 2 (0.15%) SOSL
15 2 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 357 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 298 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 67 (4.97%) Degree
4 48 (3.56%) Azure Certification
5 46 (3.41%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 23 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.63%) CISSP
11 20 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.41%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.11%) CCNP
15 12 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.74%) CCIE
17 7 (0.52%) CCSE
17 7 (0.52%) CISM
18 6 (0.45%) JNCIE
19 5 (0.37%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.23%) GDPR
2 42 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (2.82%) QA
5 33 (2.45%) NIST
6 20 (1.48%) NCSC
7 18 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.74%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.67%) GRC
11 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.37%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.37%) PERC
14 4 (0.30%) MiFID
14 4 (0.30%) SLA
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 74 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 59 (4.38%) Docker
3 16 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.37%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.22%) Lustre
7 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) Ceph
8 2 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.074%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.074%) GPFS
9 1 (0.074%) Postfix
9 1 (0.074%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 106 (7.86%) Terraform
2 65 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.52%) Ansible
4 19 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.67%) Grafana
5 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.30%) Kibana
7 4 (0.30%) SCCM
8 3 (0.22%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.15%) Argo
9 2 (0.15%) Istio
9 2 (0.15%) Nagios
9 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.074%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.074%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 213 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 86 (6.38%) SAP
3 82 (6.08%) Salesforce
4 76 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 68 (5.04%) Databricks
6 62 (4.60%) Oracle
7 55 (4.08%) CyberArk
8 42 (3.12%) Cisco
9 34 (2.52%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (2.52%) Centrify
10 33 (2.45%) Google
11 24 (1.78%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.56%) Splunk
13 19 (1.41%) VMware
14 16 (1.19%) OpenAI
15 15 (1.11%) Fortinet
15 15 (1.11%) Pega
15 15 (1.11%) Workday
16 14 (1.04%) IBM
16 14 (1.04%) Zscaler