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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,276 1,291 1,797
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.04% 10.47% 10.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.96% 11.19% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 844 1,294
10th Percentile £475 £500 £488
25th Percentile £515 £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 £819 £800 £871
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £53.60 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £57.75 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £88.13 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £101.80 £93.50 £61.85
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 17,568 11,533 16,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.54% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,592 7,808 11,861
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 166 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.12 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.45 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% +20.26% -23.33%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.69 £46.48
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.38 £66.80
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +15 348 £625 -7.41% 122
West London -5 31 £640 -4.48% 46
South London 0 22 £723 +0.52% 5
East London +3 15 £669 +14.36% 13
North London 0 1 £650 -3.70% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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.

1 652 (28.65%) Azure
2 636 (27.94%) Security Cleared
3 545 (23.95%) SC Cleared
4 541 (23.77%) AWS
5 372 (16.34%) Migration
6 326 (14.32%) Roadmaps
7 323 (14.19%) AI
8 307 (13.49%) Microsoft
9 296 (13.01%) DevOps
10 274 (12.04%) CI/CD
11 266 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 243 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 241 (10.59%) Analytics
13 241 (10.59%) Data Modelling
14 240 (10.54%) Integration Patterns
15 230 (10.11%) Data Architecture
16 219 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
17 218 (9.58%) Agile
18 215 (9.45%) GCP
19 199 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
20 194 (8.52%) Architectural Patterns
21 188 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
22 179 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
23 176 (7.73%) Python
24 175 (7.69%) TOGAF
25 161 (7.07%) Architectural Design
26 147 (6.46%) Security Architecture
27 141 (6.20%) Event-Driven
28 138 (6.06%) Microservices
28 138 (6.06%) ServiceNow

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 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.19%) Confluence
3 21 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.83%) Apache
5 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.53%) nginx
7 9 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.40%) Camunda
7 9 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.31%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.31%) SAS
9 5 (0.22%) Mule
10 3 (0.13%) Appian
10 3 (0.13%) CMS
10 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.088%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.044%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 4 (0.18%) Endur
7 4 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.088%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.088%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 652 (28.65%) Azure
2 541 (23.77%) AWS
3 215 (9.45%) GCP
4 136 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 92 (4.04%) Serverless
6 85 (3.73%) SaaS
7 77 (3.38%) Entra ID
8 70 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
9 61 (2.68%) GitHub
10 57 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 55 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (2.42%) Snowflake
12 53 (2.33%) PaaS
13 51 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 37 (1.63%) IaaS
16 33 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.00%) Network Security
2 68 (2.99%) Firewall
3 45 (1.98%) VPN
4 41 (1.80%) DNS
5 40 (1.76%) WAN
6 22 (0.97%) LAN
7 21 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.62%) BGP
10 13 (0.57%) OSPF
11 10 (0.44%) MPLS
11 10 (0.44%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.40%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.35%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.35%) 5G
13 8 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
14 7 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.26%) NGFW
16 5 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.31%) Power BI
2 78 (3.43%) Data Lake
3 58 (2.55%) Metadata
4 57 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.45%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 31 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 22 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (0.97%) Delta Lake
10 21 (0.92%) Big Data
11 20 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.66%) Tableau
13 14 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
14 13 (0.57%) Data Vault
14 13 (0.57%) Star Schema
15 12 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 45 (1.98%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.58%) JIRA
3 35 (1.54%) Git
4 20 (0.88%) GitLab
5 10 (0.44%) ERwin
6 9 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.35%) MLflow
8 7 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) Maven
9 5 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.18%) Snyk
11 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.13%) JMeter
11 3 (0.13%) Postman
12 2 (0.088%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.088%) MSI
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.088%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.088%) Robot Framework
General
1 439 (19.29%) Finance
2 430 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 264 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 145 (6.37%) Banking
5 107 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (4.00%) Retail
7 77 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 65 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 53 (2.33%) Legal
10 49 (2.15%) Law
11 33 (1.45%) Billing
12 26 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.01%) Marketing
13 23 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.48%) Military
16 9 (0.40%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.40%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.40%) REST
2 83 (3.65%) Middleware
3 74 (3.25%) SOAP
4 70 (3.08%) .NET
5 57 (2.50%) LDAP
6 44 (1.93%) Kafka
7 39 (1.71%) OpenID
8 33 (1.45%) OAuth
8 33 (1.45%) SAML
9 29 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
10 27 (1.19%) React
11 22 (0.97%) .NET Framework
12 21 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.79%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.79%) RESTful
14 17 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
14 17 (0.75%) PySpark
15 15 (0.66%) Spring
16 13 (0.57%) J2EE
16 13 (0.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 232 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 74 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 67 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 57 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 52 (2.28%) Security Posture
9 47 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 47 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 46 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 44 (1.93%) CMDB
12 37 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.14%) Mainframe
14 23 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
14 23 (1.01%) Public Cloud
15 21 (0.92%) NHS
16 20 (0.88%) Data Structures
17 18 (0.79%) IoT
17 18 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.63%) Linux
2 35 (1.54%) Windows
3 11 (0.48%) Android
3 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.44%) Unix
5 9 (0.40%) zOS
6 8 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.088%) CentOS
11 2 (0.088%) VMS
11 2 (0.088%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (16.34%) Migration
2 326 (14.32%) Roadmaps
3 323 (14.19%) AI
4 296 (13.01%) DevOps
5 274 (12.04%) CI/CD
6 266 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 243 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 241 (10.59%) Analytics
8 241 (10.59%) Data Modelling
9 240 (10.54%) Integration Patterns
10 230 (10.11%) Data Architecture
11 219 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
12 218 (9.58%) Agile
13 199 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
14 194 (8.52%) Architectural Patterns
15 188 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 179 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
17 175 (7.69%) TOGAF
18 161 (7.07%) Architectural Design
19 147 (6.46%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 176 (7.73%) Python
2 124 (5.45%) SQL
3 105 (4.61%) Java
4 72 (3.16%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.27%) C#
7 25 (1.10%) Bicep
8 19 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.70%) Ruby
10 14 (0.62%) Bash
11 9 (0.40%) Scala
12 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.22%) Go
13 5 (0.22%) R
13 5 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.18%) C++
15 3 (0.13%) Korn
15 3 (0.13%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 636 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 545 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 79 (3.47%) Degree
4 66 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 59 (2.59%) CISSP
6 50 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 40 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (1.36%) CISM
11 30 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.62%) CISA
18 13 (0.57%) CCNP
18 13 (0.57%) CCSP
19 9 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.43%) GDPR
2 77 (3.38%) NIST
3 69 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 67 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 46 (2.02%) NCSC
6 38 (1.67%) QA
7 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 16 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.66%) GRC
10 13 (0.57%) SEPA
11 12 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.44%) PSD2
13 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.26%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.26%) COBIT
14 6 (0.26%) HL7
15 5 (0.22%) IFRS
16 4 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (3.12%) Active Directory
2 55 (2.42%) Docker
3 21 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.40%) Squid
6 8 (0.35%) Varnish
7 7 (0.31%) Postfix
7 7 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) NFS
8 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.088%) vSphere
11 1 (0.044%) HDFS
11 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 134 (5.89%) Terraform
2 121 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 47 (2.07%) Ansible
4 24 (1.05%) Grafana
5 22 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.31%) Consul
8 7 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.22%) Argo
10 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.18%) Puppet
11 4 (0.18%) SCCM
12 3 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.088%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.088%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.088%) QRadar
13 2 (0.088%) VxRail
Vendors
1 307 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 133 (5.84%) Databricks
4 118 (5.18%) SAP
5 112 (4.92%) Oracle
6 100 (4.39%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.90%) CyberArk
8 54 (2.37%) Cisco
9 47 (2.07%) Google
10 40 (1.76%) Splunk
11 31 (1.36%) Workday
12 30 (1.32%) MuleSoft
13 28 (1.23%) IBM
14 27 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
15 26 (1.14%) Centrify
15 26 (1.14%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.14%) Palo Alto
16 25 (1.10%) Foundry
16 25 (1.10%) VMware
17 19 (0.83%) Ariba