Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £624, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,519 1,419 1,670
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.60% 10.39% 10.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.55% 11.16% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 929 1,182
10th Percentile £475 £481 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £763
90th Percentile £800 £804 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £48.20 £54.50 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £99.65 £93.50 £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 18,596 12,715 15,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 93.07% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,604 11,147
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -0.23% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 199 233
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.09% -18.09%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.25 £52.00
90th Percentile £77.83 £64.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.50 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.00% -38.84% -1.96%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +14 366 £625 -7.41% 126
West London -14 32 £625 +38.89% 27
South London -13 20 £723 +6.68% 9
East London +3 12 £688 +1.85% 8
North London -3 1 £650 -3.70%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 710 (28.19%) Azure
2 660 (26.20%) Security Cleared
3 601 (23.86%) AWS
4 557 (22.11%) SC Cleared
5 416 (16.51%) Migration
6 408 (16.20%) Roadmaps
7 387 (15.36%) AI
8 330 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 324 (12.86%) Microsoft
10 311 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
11 308 (12.23%) DevOps
12 305 (12.11%) Analytics
13 297 (11.79%) Data Modelling
14 280 (11.12%) CI/CD
15 262 (10.40%) Data Architecture
16 259 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 254 (10.08%) Agile
18 250 (9.92%) Integration Patterns
19 241 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
20 225 (8.93%) GCP
21 219 (8.69%) TOGAF
22 209 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
23 186 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
24 166 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
24 166 (6.59%) Security Architecture
25 162 (6.43%) Microservices
26 161 (6.39%) Architectural Design
26 161 (6.39%) Event-Driven
27 159 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
28 157 (6.23%) ERP

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 43 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 33 (1.31%) Apache
2 33 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 33 (1.31%) SAS
3 24 (0.95%) Confluence
4 18 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.44%) CMS
7 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.28%) Appian
8 7 (0.28%) nginx
9 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.24%) Camunda
10 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.079%) Mule
12 2 (0.079%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.040%) Notion
3 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.24%) Endur
6 6 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 710 (28.19%) Azure
2 601 (23.86%) AWS
3 225 (8.93%) GCP
4 154 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.01%) SaaS
6 94 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 84 (3.33%) Serverless
8 79 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (2.82%) GitHub
10 68 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (2.46%) PaaS
12 52 (2.06%) Amazon S3
13 44 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
14 39 (1.55%) IaaS
15 34 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 33 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 32 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.69%) Network Security
2 61 (2.42%) Firewall
3 37 (1.47%) VPN
4 29 (1.15%) DNS
5 28 (1.11%) WAN
6 19 (0.75%) LAN
7 13 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.44%) MPLS
8 11 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (0.40%) 5G
10 9 (0.36%) 4G
10 9 (0.36%) BGP
10 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.32%) NGFW
11 8 (0.32%) OSPF
12 7 (0.28%) 3GPP
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.49%) Power BI
2 90 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 81 (3.22%) Metadata
4 73 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.23%) Big Data
7 30 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (0.79%) Delta Lake
11 15 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (0.60%) Tableau
12 13 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 12 (0.48%) Star Schema
14 11 (0.44%) Db2
14 11 (0.44%) GIS
Development Applications
1 40 (1.59%) Git
2 37 (1.47%) JIRA
3 31 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.67%) GitLab
5 10 (0.40%) ERwin
6 8 (0.32%) MLflow
7 6 (0.24%) Maven
7 6 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.20%) Storybook
9 4 (0.16%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) JMeter
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.079%) Postman
11 2 (0.079%) REST Assured
General
1 481 (19.09%) Finance
2 464 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 294 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.71%) Banking
5 135 (5.36%) Retail
6 128 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.41%) Telecoms
8 70 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 58 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (1.98%) Legal
11 44 (1.75%) Law
12 36 (1.43%) Billing
13 33 (1.31%) Marketing
14 29 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 25 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.52%) Local Government
19 11 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
20 10 (0.40%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (5.40%) REST
2 90 (3.57%) Middleware
3 83 (3.29%) .NET
4 66 (2.62%) SOAP
5 65 (2.58%) Kafka
6 38 (1.51%) OAuth
7 32 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
7 32 (1.27%) React
8 31 (1.23%) .NET Framework
9 24 (0.95%) PySpark
10 23 (0.91%) OAuth2
11 22 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
12 20 (0.79%) JSON
12 20 (0.79%) RESTful
13 19 (0.75%) OpenID
13 19 (0.75%) SAML
14 18 (0.71%) AngularJS
14 18 (0.71%) XML
15 17 (0.67%) HTML
16 16 (0.64%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 238 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
3 67 (2.66%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 63 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 62 (2.46%) AI Agents
7 53 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 52 (2.06%) CMDB
9 51 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 49 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
13 30 (1.19%) Security Posture
14 29 (1.15%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.11%) Taxonomies
16 26 (1.03%) Mainframe
17 24 (0.95%) Public Cloud
18 23 (0.91%) IoT
18 23 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.51%) Linux
2 30 (1.19%) Windows
3 10 (0.40%) Unix
4 9 (0.36%) Android
4 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.32%) zOS
6 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.079%) VMS
11 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (16.51%) Migration
2 408 (16.20%) Roadmaps
3 387 (15.36%) AI
4 330 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 311 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
6 308 (12.23%) DevOps
7 305 (12.11%) Analytics
8 297 (11.79%) Data Modelling
9 280 (11.12%) CI/CD
10 262 (10.40%) Data Architecture
11 259 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 254 (10.08%) Agile
13 250 (9.92%) Integration Patterns
14 241 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
15 219 (8.69%) TOGAF
16 209 (8.30%) Architectural Patterns
17 186 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
18 166 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
18 166 (6.59%) Security Architecture
19 162 (6.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 153 (6.07%) Python
2 129 (5.12%) SQL
3 108 (4.29%) Java
4 58 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 38 (1.51%) C#
7 28 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.95%) Bicep
9 22 (0.87%) Apex Code
10 21 (0.83%) Bash
11 14 (0.56%) Ruby
12 9 (0.36%) Scala
13 7 (0.28%) C++
13 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.24%) Cypher
14 6 (0.24%) R
15 5 (0.20%) Groovy
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 660 (26.20%) Security Cleared
2 557 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.22%) Degree
4 68 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 67 (2.66%) CISSP
6 61 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.51%) CISM
9 37 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 35 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 33 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 19 (0.75%) Master's Degree
17 14 (0.56%) CCSP
17 14 (0.56%) CISA
18 12 (0.48%) CCNP
19 9 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 92 (3.65%) GDPR
3 65 (2.58%) NIST
4 57 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.71%) GRC
6 30 (1.19%) NCSC
7 29 (1.15%) QA
8 21 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.71%) SEPA
10 17 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.56%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.56%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.36%) PSD2
15 8 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.28%) IFRS
17 6 (0.24%) HL7
17 6 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 56 (2.22%) Docker
2 51 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.28%) Varnish
4 7 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.24%) Postfix
6 5 (0.20%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.16%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.079%) IAG
9 2 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.040%) HDFS
10 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (5.04%) Terraform
2 124 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.75%) Ansible
4 27 (1.07%) Grafana
5 20 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.36%) Argo
8 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.16%) SCCM
11 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.079%) Consul
12 2 (0.079%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.079%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.079%) Puppet
12 2 (0.079%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.079%) VxRail
Vendors
1 324 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 152 (6.03%) Oracle
3 145 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 143 (5.68%) SAP
5 141 (5.60%) Databricks
6 111 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 50 (1.98%) Google
8 46 (1.83%) Cisco
9 37 (1.47%) IBM
10 36 (1.43%) Workday
11 33 (1.31%) CyberArk
12 29 (1.15%) Foundry
12 29 (1.15%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.15%) OpenAI
13 28 (1.11%) Splunk
14 25 (0.99%) Ariba
14 25 (0.99%) VMware
15 21 (0.83%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.67%) Sparx
17 15 (0.60%) Adobe