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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 2,587 1,351 1,589
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 9.95% 9.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.78% 10.71% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,760 878 1,126
10th Percentile £481 £481 £488
25th Percentile £525 £562 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £734 £763
90th Percentile £813 £800 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £48.20 £66.25 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £54.75
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% +37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £90.68
90th Percentile £99.65 £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 18,769 12,620 15,280
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.98% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,234 8,539 10,760
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 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 200 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -10.69% -12.97%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £63.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.10 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +71.38% -44.11% +8.43%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +18 371 £625 -7.41% 160
West London -12 37 £625 +38.89% 33
South London -10 17 £724 +6.87% 6
East London +3 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 11 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.

1 728 (28.14%) Azure
2 671 (25.94%) Security Cleared
3 602 (23.27%) AWS
4 559 (21.61%) SC Cleared
5 413 (15.96%) Migration
6 411 (15.89%) Roadmaps
7 407 (15.73%) AI
8 371 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 335 (12.95%) Enterprise Architecture
10 325 (12.56%) Microsoft
11 314 (12.14%) Analytics
12 309 (11.94%) DevOps
13 304 (11.75%) Data Modelling
14 284 (10.98%) CI/CD
15 275 (10.63%) Data Architecture
15 275 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 264 (10.20%) Integration Patterns
17 256 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
18 252 (9.74%) Agile
19 227 (8.77%) GCP
20 217 (8.39%) TOGAF
21 208 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
22 184 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
23 180 (6.96%) Security Architecture
24 171 (6.61%) Event-Driven
25 167 (6.46%) Data Governance
25 167 (6.46%) Problem-Solving
26 162 (6.26%) Power Platform
27 161 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
27 161 (6.22%) 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 40 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.47%) SAS
3 34 (1.31%) Apache
4 32 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.01%) Confluence
6 18 (0.70%) 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
12 5 (0.19%) nginx
13 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.077%) Mendix
14 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 62 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.93%) 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 IBP
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 MM
10 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 728 (28.14%) Azure
2 602 (23.27%) AWS
3 227 (8.77%) GCP
4 162 (6.26%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.02%) SaaS
6 98 (3.79%) Entra ID
7 81 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 80 (3.09%) Serverless
9 74 (2.86%) GitHub
10 69 (2.67%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.40%) PaaS
12 60 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 44 (1.70%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.47%) IaaS
17 33 (1.28%) OCI
18 31 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (1.20%) PowerApps
19 28 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.59%) Network Security
2 54 (2.09%) Firewall
3 34 (1.31%) VPN
4 28 (1.08%) WAN
5 27 (1.04%) DNS
6 19 (0.73%) LAN
7 11 (0.43%) MPLS
7 11 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
7 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
8 10 (0.39%) BGP
8 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.35%) 4G
9 9 (0.35%) 5G
9 9 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
11 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
11 7 (0.27%) OSPF
12 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.23%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (4.45%) Power BI
2 95 (3.67%) Data Lake
3 78 (3.02%) Metadata
4 76 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.20%) Big Data
7 29 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
15 11 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 37 (1.43%) Git
1 37 (1.43%) JIRA
2 29 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.66%) GitLab
4 8 (0.31%) ERwin
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%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) MLflow
7 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
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%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 486 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 485 (18.75%) Finance
3 287 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.53%) Banking
5 144 (5.57%) Retail
6 128 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.32%) Telecoms
8 75 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.05%) Legal
10 52 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.66%) Law
12 38 (1.47%) Marketing
13 37 (1.43%) Billing
14 27 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 26 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.58%) Local Government
18 12 (0.46%) Aviation
18 12 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (5.49%) REST
2 88 (3.40%) .NET
3 81 (3.13%) Middleware
4 71 (2.74%) Kafka
5 66 (2.55%) SOAP
6 44 (1.70%) OAuth
7 31 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 31 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.16%) React
9 26 (1.01%) JSON
9 26 (1.01%) OAuth2
10 25 (0.97%) PySpark
11 23 (0.89%) RESTful
12 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 21 (0.81%) SAML
13 20 (0.77%) OpenID
13 20 (0.77%) XML
14 18 (0.70%) AngularJS
15 17 (0.66%) HTML
15 17 (0.66%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 247 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 76 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (2.82%) AI Agents
4 70 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 69 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 67 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 66 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 55 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 50 (1.93%) CMDB
10 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 30 (1.16%) Taxonomies
15 27 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 25 (0.97%) 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 (0.43%) 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
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.19%) zOS
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
1 413 (15.96%) Migration
2 411 (15.89%) Roadmaps
3 407 (15.73%) AI
4 371 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 335 (12.95%) Enterprise Architecture
6 314 (12.14%) Analytics
7 309 (11.94%) DevOps
8 304 (11.75%) Data Modelling
9 284 (10.98%) CI/CD
10 275 (10.63%) Data Architecture
10 275 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 264 (10.20%) Integration Patterns
12 256 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
13 252 (9.74%) Agile
14 217 (8.39%) TOGAF
15 208 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
16 184 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 180 (6.96%) Security Architecture
18 171 (6.61%) Event-Driven
19 167 (6.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 145 (5.60%) Python
2 134 (5.18%) SQL
3 108 (4.17%) Java
4 64 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.55%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.89%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 671 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 559 (21.61%) SC Cleared
3 74 (2.86%) Degree
4 70 (2.71%) CISSP
5 67 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 61 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 41 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 37 (1.43%) CISM
10 32 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 29 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.54%) CCSP
15 14 (0.54%) CISA
15 14 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.43%) CCNP
17 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 93 (3.59%) GDPR
3 78 (3.02%) NIST
4 71 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.93%) GRC
6 32 (1.24%) NCSC
7 30 (1.16%) QA
8 20 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.73%) SEPA
10 18 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
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 57 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.09%) Docker
3 17 (0.66%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.077%) Squid
9 2 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (4.60%) Terraform
2 117 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.66%) Ansible
4 24 (0.93%) Grafana
5 19 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 19 (0.73%) 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%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.077%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 2 (0.077%) VxRail
12 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 325 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.15%) Oracle
3 150 (5.80%) ServiceNow
4 145 (5.60%) Databricks
5 141 (5.45%) SAP
6 119 (4.60%) Salesforce
7 60 (2.32%) Google
8 47 (1.82%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) Workday
10 35 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.35%) IBM
11 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.12%) Foundry
13 26 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.97%) Ariba
14 25 (0.97%) Splunk
15 23 (0.89%) VMware
16 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx
18 18 (0.70%) Adobe