Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,580 1,309 1,595
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.85% 9.77% 9.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.79% 10.50% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 844 1,106
10th Percentile £482 £475 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £642 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.27% -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £734 £761
90th Percentile £813 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £49.85 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £69.25 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -16.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £98.58 £96.75 £112.57
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 18,712 12,462 15,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 92.97% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,149 8,386 10,664
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.22% -10.28%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +16 357 £625 -4.65% 79
West London -14 35 £625 +38.89% 15
East London +2 13 £700 +3.70% 11
South London -16 8 £688 +1.51% 1
North London -3 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 742 (28.76%) Azure
2 659 (25.54%) Security Cleared
3 597 (23.14%) AWS
4 549 (21.28%) SC Cleared
5 437 (16.94%) Roadmaps
6 434 (16.82%) Migration
7 417 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 407 (15.78%) AI
9 348 (13.49%) Enterprise Architecture
10 336 (13.02%) Microsoft
11 315 (12.21%) Analytics
12 313 (12.13%) DevOps
13 311 (12.05%) Data Modelling
14 302 (11.71%) CI/CD
15 284 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 279 (10.81%) Data Architecture
17 274 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
18 268 (10.39%) Integration Patterns
19 256 (9.92%) Agile
20 229 (8.88%) GCP
21 202 (7.83%) TOGAF
22 201 (7.79%) Architectural Patterns
23 198 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
24 183 (7.09%) Event-Driven
24 183 (7.09%) Security Architecture
25 181 (7.02%) Data Governance
26 171 (6.63%) Power Platform
27 169 (6.55%) Business Intelligence
28 168 (6.51%) Translating Business Requirements
29 166 (6.43%) Databricks

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 39 (1.51%) SAS
2 37 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.32%) Apache
4 32 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.85%) Confluence
6 20 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) CMS
8 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.16%) nginx
13 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.078%) Mendix
14 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.19%) Endur
6 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
7 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 742 (28.76%) Azure
2 597 (23.14%) AWS
3 229 (8.88%) GCP
4 171 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 106 (4.11%) SaaS
6 104 (4.03%) Entra ID
7 94 (3.64%) Serverless
8 84 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.18%) GitHub
10 76 (2.95%) Snowflake
11 65 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (2.29%) PaaS
13 48 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 43 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 37 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (1.36%) IaaS
19 34 (1.32%) OCI
20 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.29%) Network Security
2 52 (2.02%) Firewall
3 32 (1.24%) VPN
3 32 (1.24%) WAN
4 26 (1.01%) DNS
5 20 (0.78%) LAN
6 17 (0.66%) VXLAN
7 14 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
8 13 (0.50%) BGP
9 11 (0.43%) MPLS
9 11 (0.43%) NX-OS
9 11 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.31%) 4G
11 8 (0.31%) 5G
12 7 (0.27%) NGFW
13 6 (0.23%) 3GPP
13 6 (0.23%) OSPF
13 6 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (4.69%) Power BI
2 99 (3.84%) Data Lake
3 85 (3.29%) Metadata
4 82 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.12%) Big Data
7 28 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 26 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 25 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.54%) Tableau
13 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 40 (1.55%) Git
2 34 (1.32%) JIRA
3 28 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) MLflow
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 5 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.19%) RStudio
7 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.12%) JMeter
8 3 (0.12%) VTune
9 2 (0.078%) Postman
9 2 (0.078%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.078%) Snyk
General
1 511 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 466 (18.06%) Finance
3 293 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 161 (6.24%) Banking
5 148 (5.74%) Retail
6 139 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 77 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (2.05%) Legal
11 44 (1.71%) Law
12 43 (1.67%) Marketing
13 42 (1.63%) Billing
14 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 15 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Police
19 12 (0.47%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (6.05%) REST
2 127 (4.92%) Terraform
3 83 (3.22%) .NET
4 75 (2.91%) Kafka
5 73 (2.83%) Middleware
6 67 (2.60%) SOAP
7 48 (1.86%) OAuth
8 32 (1.24%) PySpark
9 31 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
10 30 (1.16%) JSON
11 29 (1.12%) .NET Framework
12 27 (1.05%) OAuth2
13 26 (1.01%) React
14 24 (0.93%) SAML
15 23 (0.89%) RESTful
16 22 (0.85%) OpenID
17 21 (0.81%) XML
18 20 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
19 19 (0.74%) JWT
20 17 (0.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 254 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 80 (3.10%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.02%) Data Centre
4 76 (2.95%) AI Agents
5 69 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 67 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
7 65 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 52 (2.02%) CMDB
11 51 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
12 40 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
14 35 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.12%) Taxonomies
17 26 (1.01%) Mainframe
18 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
19 23 (0.89%) IoT
20 22 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.63%) Linux
2 33 (1.28%) Windows
3 12 (0.47%) Unix
4 10 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.16%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.078%) CentOS
10 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (16.94%) Roadmaps
2 434 (16.82%) Migration
3 417 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 407 (15.78%) AI
5 348 (13.49%) Enterprise Architecture
6 315 (12.21%) Analytics
7 313 (12.13%) DevOps
8 311 (12.05%) Data Modelling
9 302 (11.71%) CI/CD
10 284 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 279 (10.81%) Data Architecture
12 274 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
13 268 (10.39%) Integration Patterns
14 256 (9.92%) Agile
15 202 (7.83%) TOGAF
16 201 (7.79%) Architectural Patterns
17 198 (7.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 183 (7.09%) Event-Driven
18 183 (7.09%) Security Architecture
19 181 (7.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 151 (5.85%) Python
2 146 (5.66%) SQL
3 108 (4.19%) Java
4 61 (2.36%) JavaScript
5 49 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.40%) C#
7 27 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.97%) Bicep
9 20 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.16%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 659 (25.54%) Security Cleared
2 549 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 76 (2.95%) Degree
4 68 (2.64%) CISSP
5 63 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 60 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 53 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 38 (1.47%) CISM
9 34 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 29 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.58%) CISA
16 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.50%) CCNP
18 10 (0.39%) CCSP
19 9 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 90 (3.49%) GDPR
3 85 (3.29%) NIST
4 75 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.02%) GRC
6 33 (1.28%) NCSC
7 28 (1.09%) QA
8 20 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.66%) SEPA
10 15 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
14 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.35%) SLA
16 8 (0.31%) IFRS
17 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 60 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.90%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Varnish
6 6 (0.23%) Postfix
7 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.078%) IAG
10 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.078%) Squid
11 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.039%) Firmware
11 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 111 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.74%) Ansible
3 26 (1.01%) Grafana
4 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.16%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 3 (0.12%) Istio
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.078%) QRadar
10 2 (0.078%) VxRail
11 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 336 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.43%) Databricks
3 159 (6.16%) Oracle
4 148 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 144 (5.58%) SAP
6 118 (4.57%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.64%) Google
8 55 (2.13%) Cisco
9 36 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.36%) Workday
11 33 (1.28%) IBM
12 31 (1.20%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 26 (1.01%) Ariba
14 26 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.01%) VMware
15 24 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.85%) Splunk
17 21 (0.81%) Adobe
18 19 (0.74%) Sparx