Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £645, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,266 1,533 1,852
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.06% 9.70% 9.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.80% 10.35% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 916 1,329
10th Percentile £454 £497 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £631 £670
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -5.78% -0.74%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £745
90th Percentile £838 £815 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £63.00 £38.40 £39.14
25th Percentile £66.00 £43.50 £44.33
Median hourly rate £87.50 £54.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -5.68% -23.67%
75th Percentile £95.00 £87.43 £70.63
90th Percentile - £106.29 £72.50
England median hourly rate £86.25 £70.00 £75.67
% change year-on-year +23.21% -7.49% +8.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,919 14,816 18,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 93.74% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,557 9,611 13,540
10th Percentile £335 £340 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £790
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 160 217
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.10
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.33 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.57 £37.50 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% +3.21% +3.81%
75th Percentile £49.63 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.30 £80.79 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 -2 174 £650 -2.22% 64
West London +2 30 £450 -25.00% 8
South London +8 17 £625 +25.00%
East London +8 12 £675 - 9
North London +2 3 £700 -7.50%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, 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.

1 439 (34.68%) Azure
2 312 (24.64%) AWS
3 285 (22.51%) Security Cleared
4 236 (18.64%) SC Cleared
5 223 (17.61%) Microsoft
6 193 (15.24%) Agile
7 190 (15.01%) Roadmaps
8 176 (13.90%) Data Modelling
9 168 (13.27%) DevOps
9 168 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
10 166 (13.11%) Migration
11 161 (12.72%) Enterprise Architecture
12 154 (12.16%) CI/CD
13 145 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
14 136 (10.74%) Data Architecture
15 134 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 131 (10.35%) Microservices
17 125 (9.87%) Analytics
18 124 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
19 118 (9.32%) GCP
20 117 (9.24%) TOGAF
21 116 (9.16%) AI
21 116 (9.16%) Data Governance
22 109 (8.61%) Python
23 108 (8.53%) Terraform
24 96 (7.58%) Security Architecture
25 95 (7.50%) REST
26 91 (7.19%) Integration Patterns
27 90 (7.11%) Firewall
27 90 (7.11%) SQL

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 34 (2.69%) Confluence
2 22 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.03%) CMS
4 12 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.71%) Apache
7 6 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.39%) SAS
9 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.24%) Mule
10 3 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.16%) Luigi
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.079%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.079%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 35 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
4 12 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 9 (0.71%) Endur
7 7 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.47%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.47%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.39%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
10 4 (0.32%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.32%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.32%) thinkFolio
11 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 2 (0.16%) Magento
12 2 (0.16%) Summit
12 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 439 (34.68%) Azure
2 312 (24.64%) AWS
3 118 (9.32%) GCP
4 86 (6.79%) Power Platform
5 76 (6.00%) SaaS
6 54 (4.27%) IaaS
7 51 (4.03%) Entra ID
8 45 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (3.55%) Serverless
9 43 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 42 (3.32%) GitHub
11 38 (3.00%) PaaS
12 34 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (2.37%) Amazon S3
14 29 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 26 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 90 (7.11%) Firewall
2 47 (3.71%) WAN
3 45 (3.55%) LAN
4 43 (3.40%) Network Security
5 37 (2.92%) SD-WAN
6 35 (2.76%) VPN
7 29 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (2.05%) DNS
9 22 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
10 18 (1.42%) SSL
11 10 (0.79%) BGP
11 10 (0.79%) DHCP
12 8 (0.63%) Internet
12 8 (0.63%) SAN
13 7 (0.55%) OSPF
14 6 (0.47%) NAS
14 6 (0.47%) NGFW
14 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.47%) VSAN
15 5 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.50%) Data Lake
2 55 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (4.03%) Power BI
4 43 (3.40%) Metadata
5 27 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (1.42%) Data Vault
7 18 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.18%) Big Data
10 14 (1.11%) BigQuery
11 12 (0.95%) Delta Lake
12 10 (0.79%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.63%) MySQL
14 7 (0.55%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.55%) SAP BW
14 7 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (3.48%) JIRA
2 20 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.95%) ERwin
4 11 (0.87%) Git
5 10 (0.79%) GitLab
6 8 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.24%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.16%) GCC
8 2 (0.16%) MLflow
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.079%) Postman
9 1 (0.079%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.079%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 344 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 319 (25.20%) Finance
3 145 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 126 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (8.69%) Banking
6 39 (3.08%) Retail
7 37 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 33 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (2.53%) Financial Institution
10 30 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (2.13%) Legal
12 27 (2.13%) Marketing
13 26 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (1.82%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.58%) Billing
16 16 (1.26%) Back Office
17 13 (1.03%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (0.63%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (7.50%) REST
2 56 (4.42%) JSON
3 44 (3.48%) Middleware
4 43 (3.40%) .NET
5 35 (2.76%) Kafka
6 34 (2.69%) AngularJS
6 34 (2.69%) SOAP
7 29 (2.29%) SAML
8 28 (2.21%) OAuth
9 22 (1.74%) React
10 21 (1.66%) RESTful
10 21 (1.66%) Web Services
11 20 (1.58%) OpenID
12 19 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
14 16 (1.26%) LDAP
14 16 (1.26%) OAuth2
14 16 (1.26%) PySpark
15 13 (1.03%) HTML
15 13 (1.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 116 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 53 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 49 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 39 (3.08%) PKI
5 36 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.34%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.03%) CMDB
13 13 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.03%) Reinsurance
13 13 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.16%) Windows
2 26 (2.05%) Linux
3 14 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.47%) Android
4 6 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.47%) Unix
5 5 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.16%) CentOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.079%) AIX
8 1 (0.079%) Solaris
8 1 (0.079%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (15.24%) Agile
2 190 (15.01%) Roadmaps
3 176 (13.90%) Data Modelling
4 168 (13.27%) DevOps
4 168 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 166 (13.11%) Migration
6 161 (12.72%) Enterprise Architecture
7 154 (12.16%) CI/CD
8 145 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (10.74%) Data Architecture
10 134 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 131 (10.35%) Microservices
12 125 (9.87%) Analytics
13 124 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
14 117 (9.24%) TOGAF
15 116 (9.16%) AI
15 116 (9.16%) Data Governance
16 96 (7.58%) Security Architecture
17 91 (7.19%) Integration Patterns
18 82 (6.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 109 (8.61%) Python
2 90 (7.11%) SQL
3 72 (5.69%) Java
4 56 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 39 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 39 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.21%) C#
7 20 (1.58%) Bicep
8 19 (1.50%) Bash
9 12 (0.95%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.47%) Korn
12 6 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.39%) C
13 5 (0.39%) C++
13 5 (0.39%) R
13 5 (0.39%) SOQL
14 4 (0.32%) Scala
14 4 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 285 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 236 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 67 (5.29%) Degree
4 49 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 38 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 35 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.29%) CISSP
9 26 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.18%) CCNP
14 14 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.79%) CCIE
16 9 (0.71%) CISM
17 6 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 5 (0.39%) JNCIE
19 4 (0.32%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.77%) GDPR
2 49 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 37 (2.92%) NIST
5 23 (1.82%) QA
6 17 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.18%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.95%) NCSC
9 11 (0.87%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.79%) GRC
11 8 (0.63%) MiFID
12 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.39%) COBIT
13 5 (0.39%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (4.42%) Docker
2 49 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.47%) vSphere
6 5 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.079%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.079%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.079%) GPFS
8 1 (0.079%) Lustre
8 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.079%) Postfix
8 1 (0.079%) Varnish
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 108 (8.53%) Terraform
2 73 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.53%) Ansible
4 26 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.03%) Grafana
8 6 (0.47%) SCCM
9 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.16%) Argo
9 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.16%) Nagios
9 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.16%) vRealize
10 1 (0.079%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.079%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.079%) SELinux
10 1 (0.079%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.079%) VxRail
Vendors
1 223 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 80 (6.32%) SAP
3 74 (5.85%) ServiceNow
4 67 (5.29%) Databricks
5 64 (5.06%) Salesforce
6 62 (4.90%) Oracle
7 52 (4.11%) Google
8 49 (3.87%) Cisco
9 31 (2.45%) Fortinet
10 30 (2.37%) Splunk
11 24 (1.90%) VMware
12 19 (1.50%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.34%) Palo Alto
14 16 (1.26%) IBM
14 16 (1.26%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.26%) Remedy
15 15 (1.18%) CyberArk
16 14 (1.11%) Pega
16 14 (1.11%) Workday
17 12 (0.95%) F5