Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,775 2,474 3,758
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.02% 9.14% 9.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.76% 9.59% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,715 2,482
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £34.15 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £80.60 -
England median hourly rate £75.20 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year +7.43% +2.94% +14.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -1 237 £650 -3.70% 56
West London +8 23 £575 -17.86% 16
East London -4 17 £770 +2.67% 10
South London +5 10 £725 +7.41% 4
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 464 (26.14%) Azure
2 417 (23.49%) Finance
3 347 (19.55%) AWS
4 346 (19.49%) Social Skills
5 329 (18.54%) Security Cleared
6 287 (16.17%) SC Cleared
6 287 (16.17%) Agile
7 260 (14.65%) Microsoft
8 246 (13.86%) Public Sector
9 243 (13.69%) Migration
10 237 (13.35%) Data Modelling
11 204 (11.49%) Roadmaps
12 180 (10.14%) DevOps
13 167 (9.41%) Data Architecture
14 163 (9.18%) GCP
15 151 (8.51%) Banking
15 151 (8.51%) Python
16 140 (7.89%) Security Architecture
17 138 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
18 134 (7.55%) Microservices
19 130 (7.32%) Analytics
20 129 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
21 124 (6.99%) SQL
22 121 (6.82%) Degree
23 120 (6.76%) Enterprise Architecture
24 118 (6.65%) Data Governance
25 114 (6.42%) Power Platform
26 113 (6.37%) Data Integration
27 109 (6.14%) TOGAF
28 105 (5.92%) Oracle

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 63 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.80%) Apache
3 26 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 20 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.13%) Confluence
6 13 (0.73%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.51%) CMS
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.056%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.056%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (1.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.056%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 55 (3.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 46 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.79%) Distributed Ledger
5 10 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) SAP BPC
7 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.28%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) Primavera
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.11%) HFM
10 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 464 (26.14%) Azure
2 347 (19.55%) AWS
3 163 (9.18%) GCP
4 114 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 99 (5.58%) SaaS
6 88 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
8 58 (3.27%) IaaS
9 55 (3.10%) PaaS
10 54 (3.04%) Entra ID
10 54 (3.04%) Serverless
11 45 (2.54%) Snowflake
12 39 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (1.58%) dbt
14 26 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.24%) GitHub
16 22 (1.24%) OCI
17 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.07%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.77%) Firewall
2 39 (2.20%) Network Security
3 18 (1.01%) LAN
3 18 (1.01%) WAN
4 14 (0.79%) DNS
5 13 (0.73%) SAN
6 11 (0.62%) HTTP
7 10 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 10 (0.56%) SSL
8 9 (0.51%) Internet
8 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.45%) MPLS
10 7 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.39%) Wireless
11 6 (0.34%) Intranet
11 6 (0.34%) VoIP
12 5 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.28%) SNMP
12 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (4.34%) Data Lake
3 76 (4.28%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.28%) Power BI
4 66 (3.72%) Big Data
5 61 (3.44%) Metadata
6 47 (2.65%) SQL Server
7 42 (2.37%) Data Vault
8 31 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.69%) Tableau
10 29 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 27 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
12 26 (1.46%) BigQuery
13 25 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (1.13%) RDBMS
15 19 (1.07%) Apache Arrow
15 19 (1.07%) Dremio
16 18 (1.01%) Apache Ignite
17 16 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 38 (2.14%) Jenkins
2 33 (1.86%) ERwin
3 24 (1.35%) JIRA
4 14 (0.79%) ER Studio
5 13 (0.73%) Git
6 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.28%) GitLab
8 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.11%) Maven
11 2 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.11%) Postman
11 2 (0.11%) Selenium
11 2 (0.11%) Subversion
11 2 (0.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 417 (23.49%) Finance
2 346 (19.49%) Social Skills
3 246 (13.86%) Public Sector
4 151 (8.51%) Banking
5 88 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (3.04%) Retail
7 52 (2.93%) Marketing
8 46 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 44 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 40 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (2.03%) Financial Institution
12 35 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
13 34 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.80%) Investment Banking
15 31 (1.75%) Electronics
16 28 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
17 24 (1.35%) Legal
18 23 (1.30%) Publishing
19 21 (1.18%) Front Office
20 20 (1.13%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.87%) .NET
2 49 (2.76%) REST
3 45 (2.54%) SAML
4 34 (1.92%) JSON
5 30 (1.69%) XML
6 29 (1.63%) Kafka
6 29 (1.63%) Middleware
7 25 (1.41%) OpenID
8 23 (1.30%) React
9 22 (1.24%) gRPC
9 22 (1.24%) SailPoint
10 20 (1.13%) HTML
11 19 (1.07%) OAuth
11 19 (1.07%) Protocol Buffers
11 19 (1.07%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.07%) Web Services
12 18 (1.01%) NumPy
12 18 (1.01%) Pandas
12 18 (1.01%) SciPy
12 18 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (2.99%) Data Centre
2 51 (2.87%) Cloud Native
3 43 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.37%) Reference Data
5 41 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.14%) Data Structures
8 35 (1.97%) Onboarding
9 25 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.35%) IoT
10 24 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.30%) Derivative
11 23 (1.30%) Mainframe
12 22 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.18%) Hedge funds
13 21 (1.18%) Security Posture
14 20 (1.13%) Equities
14 20 (1.13%) Fixed Income
15 18 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.66%) Linux
2 46 (2.59%) Windows
3 13 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (0.62%) CentOS
5 10 (0.56%) Unix
6 9 (0.51%) VMS
7 7 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.34%) Solaris
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) tvOS
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (16.17%) Agile
2 243 (13.69%) Migration
3 237 (13.35%) Data Modelling
4 204 (11.49%) Roadmaps
5 180 (10.14%) DevOps
6 167 (9.41%) Data Architecture
7 140 (7.89%) Security Architecture
8 138 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
9 134 (7.55%) Microservices
10 130 (7.32%) Analytics
11 129 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
12 120 (6.76%) Enterprise Architecture
13 118 (6.65%) Data Governance
14 113 (6.37%) Data Integration
15 109 (6.14%) TOGAF
16 105 (5.92%) Cloud Security
17 103 (5.80%) CI/CD
18 102 (5.75%) Cybersecurity
19 100 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
20 98 (5.52%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 151 (8.51%) Python
2 124 (6.99%) SQL
3 99 (5.58%) Java
4 78 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 52 (2.93%) PowerShell
6 34 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 33 (1.86%) C#
8 24 (1.35%) Scala
9 16 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 12 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.51%) Go
13 7 (0.39%) Bash
14 5 (0.28%) C++
14 5 (0.28%) Ruby
15 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.17%) Bicep
16 3 (0.17%) R
17 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.11%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 287 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.82%) Degree
4 71 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 65 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (3.49%) CISSP
7 38 (2.14%) CISM
8 31 (1.75%) CISA
9 30 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.18%) SANS
13 19 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.90%) CRISC
16 15 (0.85%) CCSK
17 13 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
18 12 (0.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.68%) NIST
2 64 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.15%) GDPR
4 41 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.31%) QA
5 28 (1.58%) NCSC
6 16 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.56%) SLA
9 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.45%) COBIT
10 8 (0.45%) GRC
10 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.39%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.23%) SEPA
13 3 (0.17%) GPG13
13 3 (0.17%) ISA99
13 3 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 29 (1.63%) Docker
3 24 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.62%) RACF
6 8 (0.45%) IAG
7 7 (0.39%) ACF2
7 7 (0.39%) KVM
8 6 (0.34%) vSphere
9 4 (0.23%) vCloud
10 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.056%) Firmware
12 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (4.96%) Terraform
2 55 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 50 (2.82%) Ansible
4 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.96%) Puppet
5 17 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.79%) Grafana
7 12 (0.68%) Kibana
8 11 (0.62%) logstash
8 11 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.39%) SCCM
10 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.34%) Packer
11 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.23%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.23%) VxRail
12 4 (0.23%) zSecure
13 3 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 260 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 105 (5.92%) Oracle
3 94 (5.30%) SAP
4 81 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 70 (3.94%) Google
5 70 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.72%) Sparx
7 50 (2.82%) Databricks
8 38 (2.14%) IBM
9 36 (2.03%) Informatica
9 36 (2.03%) VMware
10 29 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 21 (1.18%) Cisco
12 18 (1.01%) NetApp
12 18 (1.01%) Okta
13 17 (0.96%) Citrix
14 15 (0.85%) Adobe
14 15 (0.85%) BeyondTrust
14 15 (0.85%) Talend
15 14 (0.79%) Palo Alto