Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,417 1,412 1,767
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.27% 10.46% 10.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.21% 11.21% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 924 1,273
10th Percentile £463 £491 £488
25th Percentile £513 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £756
90th Percentile £807 £800 £875
England median daily rate £617 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £53.95 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £83.44 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £61.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 18,298 12,595 16,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.29% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,030 8,505 11,864
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 194 304
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.83 £16.07
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.17% -25.68%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.13 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +17 373 £625 -8.42% 122
West London -15 28 £625 +25.00% 23
South London -2 22 £723 +2.56% 1
East London +4 16 £672 +14.87% 9
North London -3 1 £650 -3.70% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 July 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.

1 695 (28.75%) Azure
2 635 (26.27%) Security Cleared
3 570 (23.58%) AWS
4 540 (22.34%) SC Cleared
5 404 (16.71%) Migration
6 378 (15.64%) AI
6 378 (15.64%) Roadmaps
7 320 (13.24%) Microsoft
8 314 (12.99%) DevOps
8 314 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 284 (11.75%) CI/CD
10 273 (11.29%) Data Modelling
11 267 (11.05%) Analytics
12 266 (11.01%) Enterprise Architecture
13 248 (10.26%) Agile
14 246 (10.18%) Data Architecture
15 241 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 223 (9.23%) Integration Patterns
17 216 (8.94%) GCP
18 214 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
19 202 (8.36%) TOGAF
20 200 (8.27%) Architectural Patterns
21 190 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
22 168 (6.95%) Problem-Solving
23 162 (6.70%) Architectural Design
24 155 (6.41%) Python
24 155 (6.41%) Security Architecture
25 152 (6.29%) Microservices
26 148 (6.12%) Event-Driven
27 147 (6.08%) Machine Learning

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 42 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.24%) Confluence
3 24 (0.99%) Apache
3 24 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.58%) SAS
6 11 (0.46%) nginx
7 10 (0.41%) CMS
8 9 (0.37%) Camunda
8 9 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.33%) Appian
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.17%) Mule
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.083%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.083%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.041%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.041%) Notion
4 1 (0.041%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.25%) Endur
7 5 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.17%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.083%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 695 (28.75%) Azure
2 570 (23.58%) AWS
3 216 (8.94%) GCP
4 147 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 98 (4.05%) SaaS
6 92 (3.81%) Serverless
7 89 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 80 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (2.98%) GitHub
10 65 (2.69%) Snowflake
11 64 (2.65%) PaaS
12 61 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (2.11%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (1.82%) IaaS
15 44 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
16 37 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.93%) Network Security
2 73 (3.02%) Firewall
3 48 (1.99%) VPN
4 39 (1.61%) DNS
5 31 (1.28%) WAN
6 18 (0.74%) LAN
6 18 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.54%) BGP
9 12 (0.50%) OSPF
10 10 (0.41%) 5G
10 10 (0.41%) MPLS
10 10 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.41%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.33%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.33%) NGFW
13 7 (0.29%) 4G
14 5 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.39%) Power BI
2 84 (3.48%) Data Lake
3 74 (3.06%) Metadata
4 68 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 30 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.16%) Big Data
8 26 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 26 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.62%) Delta Lake
13 14 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 14 (0.58%) Tableau
14 12 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.46%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.46%) Star Schema
16 10 (0.41%) Db2
Development Applications
1 41 (1.70%) JIRA
2 40 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 39 (1.61%) Git
4 16 (0.66%) GitLab
5 10 (0.41%) ERwin
6 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.33%) MLflow
8 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.21%) Maven
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.17%) Snyk
12 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.12%) JMeter
12 3 (0.12%) Storybook
12 3 (0.12%) VTune
13 2 (0.083%) Claude Code
13 2 (0.083%) REST Assured
General
1 464 (19.20%) Finance
2 452 (18.70%) Social Skills
3 281 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 163 (6.74%) Banking
5 124 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 121 (5.01%) Retail
7 78 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 69 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 52 (2.15%) Legal
11 43 (1.78%) Law
12 39 (1.61%) Billing
13 31 (1.28%) Marketing
14 27 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.95%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.41%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.41%) Military
19 9 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (4.92%) REST
2 84 (3.48%) Middleware
3 82 (3.39%) .NET
4 59 (2.44%) SOAP
5 50 (2.07%) Kafka
6 37 (1.53%) OAuth
6 37 (1.53%) OpenID
7 32 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 32 (1.32%) SAML
8 31 (1.28%) React
9 29 (1.20%) .NET Framework
10 28 (1.16%) LDAP
11 20 (0.83%) AngularJS
11 20 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
11 20 (0.83%) OAuth2
11 20 (0.83%) PySpark
12 18 (0.74%) RESTful
13 17 (0.70%) JSON
14 14 (0.58%) HTML
14 14 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 246 (10.18%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.19%) Onboarding
3 69 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 65 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 58 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (2.11%) AI Agents
8 50 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 50 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 46 (1.90%) CMDB
10 45 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 27 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 26 (1.08%) Mainframe
16 25 (1.03%) Taxonomies
17 24 (0.99%) NHS
18 22 (0.91%) Data Structures
18 22 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.61%) Linux
2 33 (1.37%) Windows
3 11 (0.46%) Android
3 11 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.41%) Unix
5 9 (0.37%) zOS
6 8 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.17%) Solaris
10 3 (0.12%) AIX
11 2 (0.083%) CentOS
11 2 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (16.71%) Migration
2 378 (15.64%) AI
2 378 (15.64%) Roadmaps
3 314 (12.99%) DevOps
3 314 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (11.75%) CI/CD
5 273 (11.29%) Data Modelling
6 267 (11.05%) Analytics
7 266 (11.01%) Enterprise Architecture
8 248 (10.26%) Agile
9 246 (10.18%) Data Architecture
10 241 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 223 (9.23%) Integration Patterns
12 214 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
13 202 (8.36%) TOGAF
14 200 (8.27%) Architectural Patterns
15 190 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 168 (6.95%) Problem-Solving
17 162 (6.70%) Architectural Design
18 155 (6.41%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 155 (6.41%) Python
2 127 (5.25%) SQL
3 106 (4.39%) Java
4 49 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.49%) C#
7 26 (1.08%) Bicep
8 25 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.70%) Bash
11 15 (0.62%) Ruby
12 8 (0.33%) Scala
13 7 (0.29%) R
13 7 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.25%) C++
14 6 (0.25%) Go
15 5 (0.21%) Cypher
16 4 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.17%) Rust
17 3 (0.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 635 (26.27%) Security Cleared
2 540 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 82 (3.39%) Degree
4 66 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.65%) CISSP
6 56 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 43 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.41%) CISM
10 33 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.62%) CCNP
15 14 (0.58%) CCSP
15 14 (0.58%) CISA
16 10 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.52%) GDPR
2 80 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 76 (3.14%) NIST
4 68 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (1.82%) NCSC
6 32 (1.32%) QA
7 22 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.87%) GRC
9 16 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.66%) SEPA
10 15 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
13 10 (0.41%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 7 (0.29%) IFRS
17 6 (0.25%) COBIT
17 6 (0.25%) HL7
18 4 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 60 (2.48%) Docker
2 50 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 8 (0.33%) Varnish
7 7 (0.29%) Postfix
8 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.21%) NFS
10 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.041%) HDFS
13 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.041%) IAG
13 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 137 (5.67%) Terraform
2 135 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 47 (1.94%) Ansible
4 29 (1.20%) Grafana
5 24 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.46%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.29%) Consul
9 7 (0.29%) HAProxy
10 6 (0.25%) Argo
11 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.17%) Puppet
12 4 (0.17%) SCCM
13 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (0.083%) Istio
14 2 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.083%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.083%) QRadar
14 2 (0.083%) VxRail
Vendors
1 320 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 135 (5.59%) Databricks
4 134 (5.54%) Oracle
5 129 (5.34%) SAP
6 108 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 50 (2.07%) Cisco
8 49 (2.03%) Google
9 44 (1.82%) CyberArk
10 39 (1.61%) Splunk
11 33 (1.37%) MuleSoft
12 32 (1.32%) IBM
12 32 (1.32%) Workday
13 31 (1.28%) OpenAI
14 28 (1.16%) Foundry
15 26 (1.08%) VMware
16 24 (0.99%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.87%) Ariba
18 19 (0.79%) Dynatrace
19 16 (0.66%) Sparx