Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,259 1,784 2,475
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.03% 10.01% 9.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.74% 10.73% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,286 1,720
10th Percentile £489 £500 £513
25th Percentile £553 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £748 £753 £775
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £40.25 - £34.15
25th Percentile £48.13 £57.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75.63 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.25 - £80.60
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +2.94%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -6 180 £659 +1.38% 57
East London +13 14 £625 -13.49% 7
South London +6 9 £650 -10.34%
West London -5 9 £675 +17.39% 24
North London - 4 £694 -
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 420 (33.36%) Azure
2 326 (25.89%) AWS
3 324 (25.73%) Social Skills
4 286 (22.72%) Security Cleared
5 254 (20.17%) SC Cleared
6 246 (19.54%) Finance
7 200 (15.89%) Microsoft
8 182 (14.46%) Public Sector
9 177 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
10 167 (13.26%) Agile
11 161 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 158 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 149 (11.83%) Migration
14 139 (11.04%) Data Modelling
15 137 (10.88%) GCP
16 136 (10.80%) DevOps
17 130 (10.33%) Data Architecture
18 125 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
19 111 (8.82%) TOGAF
20 109 (8.66%) Enterprise Architecture
20 109 (8.66%) SQL
21 107 (8.50%) CI/CD
22 106 (8.42%) Oracle
22 106 (8.42%) Java
22 106 (8.42%) Analytics
23 103 (8.18%) Python
24 101 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
25 91 (7.23%) Banking
25 91 (7.23%) ServiceNow
25 91 (7.23%) Security Architecture

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 25 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.83%) Confluence
3 15 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.87%) Apache
5 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.16%) JBoss
8 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.079%) CICS
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.079%) SAS
9 1 (0.079%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.079%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.079%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (1.27%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (0.32%) Trello
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.71%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.56%) Endur
6 5 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.40%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.40%) SAP MDG-S
7 4 (0.32%) SAP PS
7 4 (0.32%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.32%) Shopify
8 3 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.24%) Magento
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.24%) Primavera
8 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.24%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 420 (33.36%) Azure
2 326 (25.89%) AWS
3 137 (10.88%) GCP
4 76 (6.04%) SaaS
4 76 (6.04%) Serverless
5 72 (5.72%) Power Platform
6 60 (4.77%) Entra ID
6 60 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (4.53%) PaaS
8 45 (3.57%) Snowflake
9 42 (3.34%) IaaS
10 39 (3.10%) Amazon S3
11 36 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
12 35 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (2.78%) GitHub
13 32 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (2.07%) PowerApps
16 24 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.48%) Firewall
2 44 (3.49%) Network Security
3 28 (2.22%) DNS
4 24 (1.91%) WAN
5 22 (1.75%) VPN
6 14 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.03%) BGP
7 13 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.87%) LAN
9 10 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.71%) HTTP
10 9 (0.71%) OSPF
11 7 (0.56%) DHCP
11 7 (0.56%) IPsec
12 6 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.48%) SSL
13 5 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.40%) MPLS
13 5 (0.40%) MQTT
14 4 (0.32%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (3.18%) Power BI
3 39 (3.10%) Data Lake
4 34 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 31 (2.46%) Metadata
6 27 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (2.07%) Big Data
8 22 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 16 (1.27%) Tableau
11 13 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.95%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.79%) Data Vault
13 10 (0.79%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
14 9 (0.71%) Oracle Database
14 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 27 (2.14%) GitLab
2 26 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 24 (1.91%) JIRA
4 8 (0.64%) Git
5 7 (0.56%) ERwin
6 6 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.40%) Maven
7 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.32%) MSI
9 3 (0.24%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.16%) JMeter
10 2 (0.16%) JUnit
10 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.079%) AppScan
11 1 (0.079%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.079%) MLflow
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Forms
General
1 324 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 246 (19.54%) Finance
3 182 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 125 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (7.23%) Banking
6 51 (4.05%) Retail
7 30 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (2.30%) Marketing
9 26 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 24 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.83%) Legal
13 20 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.43%) Law
15 13 (1.03%) Back Office
16 10 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.71%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.56%) Investment Banking
19 6 (0.48%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.94%) .NET
2 35 (2.78%) REST
3 33 (2.62%) Kafka
4 31 (2.46%) HTML
5 27 (2.14%) CSS
5 27 (2.14%) Web Services
6 23 (1.83%) React
7 22 (1.75%) SAML
8 21 (1.67%) Middleware
8 21 (1.67%) OAuth
8 21 (1.67%) SOAP
8 21 (1.67%) XML
9 20 (1.59%) JSON
10 18 (1.43%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.43%) OpenID
11 17 (1.35%) Node.js
12 16 (1.27%) Spring
13 15 (1.19%) ARM Templates
13 15 (1.19%) RESTful
14 14 (1.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 52 (4.13%) Cloud Native
2 49 (3.89%) Public Cloud
3 38 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.46%) Private Cloud
6 27 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 20 (1.59%) CMDB
9 20 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.19%) Reference Data
13 14 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.11%) Operational Technology
14 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.71%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (4.13%) Windows
2 46 (3.65%) Linux
3 27 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.79%) Unix
5 9 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.40%) Android
8 4 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.079%) AIX
10 1 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
2 167 (13.26%) Agile
3 161 (12.79%) Roadmaps
4 158 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 149 (11.83%) Migration
6 139 (11.04%) Data Modelling
7 136 (10.80%) DevOps
8 130 (10.33%) Data Architecture
9 111 (8.82%) TOGAF
10 109 (8.66%) Enterprise Architecture
11 107 (8.50%) CI/CD
12 106 (8.42%) Analytics
13 101 (8.02%) Technical Leadership
14 91 (7.23%) Security Architecture
15 90 (7.15%) Data Governance
16 82 (6.51%) Cloud Security
17 78 (6.20%) Microservices
18 72 (5.72%) Identity Access Management
19 66 (5.24%) Infrastructure as Code
20 64 (5.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (8.66%) SQL
2 106 (8.42%) Java
3 103 (8.18%) Python
4 62 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 41 (3.26%) C#
6 39 (3.10%) PowerShell
7 21 (1.67%) Bicep
8 16 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.03%) Bash
10 9 (0.71%) Kotlin
10 9 (0.71%) Scala
11 7 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.40%) Go
12 5 (0.40%) Swift
13 4 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.24%) C++
14 3 (0.24%) Ruby
14 3 (0.24%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 286 (22.72%) Security Cleared
2 254 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 71 (5.64%) Degree
4 52 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 47 (3.73%) CISSP
6 35 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 33 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.22%) CISM
10 24 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.11%) CCNP
12 13 (1.03%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.71%) CISA
13 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.64%) OCP
15 7 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.56%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.40%) NIST
2 52 (4.13%) GDPR
2 52 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 23 (1.83%) GRC
5 21 (1.67%) QA
6 20 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 17 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 11 (0.87%) SLA
10 9 (0.71%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
11 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.24%) HL7
13 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) DICOM
System Software
1 63 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.18%) Docker
3 26 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.40%) vSphere
7 4 (0.32%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.24%) vCloud
8 3 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.16%) IAG
10 1 (0.079%) Ceph
10 1 (0.079%) Gluster
10 1 (0.079%) GlusterFS
10 1 (0.079%) HDFS
10 1 (0.079%) KVM
10 1 (0.079%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.079%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.079%) RACF
10 1 (0.079%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 84 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 72 (5.72%) Terraform
3 35 (2.78%) Ansible
4 24 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.64%) Puppet
7 8 (0.64%) VxRail
8 7 (0.56%) Grafana
9 6 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.40%) Data Guard
10 5 (0.40%) Kibana
10 5 (0.40%) SCCM
11 4 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.24%) Nagios
13 2 (0.16%) CASB
13 2 (0.16%) Istio
13 2 (0.16%) MOM
13 2 (0.16%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.16%) Salt
Vendors
1 200 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.42%) Oracle
3 91 (7.23%) ServiceNow
4 79 (6.27%) SAP
5 66 (5.24%) Google
6 64 (5.08%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.18%) Databricks
8 36 (2.86%) Cisco
9 27 (2.14%) VMware
10 22 (1.75%) IBM
11 19 (1.51%) Informatica
12 18 (1.43%) Fortinet
13 17 (1.35%) Palo Alto
14 15 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.03%) Okta
15 13 (1.03%) Talend
16 12 (0.95%) Ariba
17 11 (0.87%) Splunk
18 10 (0.79%) CyberArk
18 10 (0.79%) MuleSoft