Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,290 1,514 1,804
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.98% 9.63% 9.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.74% 10.29% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 896 1,294
10th Percentile £450 £491 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £665
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -6.02% -1.48%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £743
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £63.00 £43.39 £44.07
25th Percentile £65.25 £55.97 £45.64
Median hourly rate £78.75 £76.93 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +55.41% -34.00%
75th Percentile £94.69 £97.90 £61.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £110.47 £68.15
England median hourly rate £83.82 £67.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +24.18% -11.80% +9.33%

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 13,245 14,709 18,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 93.59% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,809 9,551 13,123
10th Percentile £338 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.86 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £54.06 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +36.36%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -2 178 £650 - 76
West London +1 30 £475 -24.00% 13
South London +5 15 £613 +22.50% 4
East London +7 14 £675 - 10
North London +3 3 £700 -1.89%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 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.

1 426 (33.02%) Azure
2 302 (23.41%) AWS
3 280 (21.71%) Security Cleared
4 231 (17.91%) SC Cleared
5 217 (16.82%) Microsoft
6 201 (15.58%) Agile
7 191 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 172 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 171 (13.26%) DevOps
10 164 (12.71%) Data Modelling
10 164 (12.71%) Migration
11 162 (12.56%) Enterprise Architecture
12 147 (11.40%) CI/CD
13 143 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
14 135 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 129 (10.00%) Data Architecture
16 127 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
17 126 (9.77%) Microservices
18 124 (9.61%) Analytics
19 122 (9.46%) AI
20 119 (9.22%) TOGAF
21 113 (8.76%) Data Governance
22 110 (8.53%) Python
23 109 (8.45%) GCP
24 105 (8.14%) Terraform
25 98 (7.60%) Integration Patterns
26 95 (7.36%) Security Architecture
27 93 (7.21%) REST
28 88 (6.82%) SQL
29 87 (6.74%) Firewall

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 (2.64%) Confluence
2 23 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.09%) CMS
4 13 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.62%) Apache
7 6 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
8 4 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.078%) CICS
11 1 (0.078%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.078%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.078%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 37 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.70%) Endur
4 9 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.47%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
7 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.31%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.31%) thinkFolio
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.23%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 426 (33.02%) Azure
2 302 (23.41%) AWS
3 109 (8.45%) GCP
4 79 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 68 (5.27%) SaaS
6 53 (4.11%) Entra ID
7 52 (4.03%) IaaS
8 47 (3.64%) Serverless
9 44 (3.41%) Snowflake
10 41 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.79%) PaaS
12 33 (2.56%) GitHub
13 30 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 27 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
16 26 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 25 (1.94%) Amazon S3
18 23 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 87 (6.74%) Firewall
2 46 (3.57%) WAN
3 44 (3.41%) LAN
4 41 (3.18%) Network Security
5 38 (2.95%) SD-WAN
6 37 (2.87%) VPN
7 26 (2.02%) DNS
7 26 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
9 18 (1.40%) SSL
10 11 (0.85%) BGP
11 10 (0.78%) DHCP
12 9 (0.70%) Internet
13 8 (0.62%) OSPF
14 6 (0.47%) MPLS
14 6 (0.47%) NAS
14 6 (0.47%) NGFW
14 6 (0.47%) SAN
14 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.95%) Data Lake
2 49 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (3.49%) Power BI
4 41 (3.18%) Metadata
5 24 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 18 (1.40%) Data Vault
9 17 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.01%) Big Data
11 12 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.93%) Delta Lake
12 10 (0.78%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
13 9 (0.70%) Tableau
14 8 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.62%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.54%) Data Hub
15 7 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (3.26%) JIRA
2 15 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.85%) Git
4 9 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.54%) ERwin
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.16%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.16%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.16%) GCC
7 2 (0.16%) MLflow
7 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.078%) Postman
8 1 (0.078%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.078%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 348 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 322 (24.96%) Finance
3 146 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 122 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (8.60%) Banking
6 41 (3.18%) Retail
7 38 (2.95%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 31 (2.40%) Legal
10 30 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (2.25%) Marketing
12 25 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.78%) Billing
14 16 (1.24%) Back Office
15 11 (0.85%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.78%) Electronics
16 10 (0.78%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (7.21%) REST
2 56 (4.34%) JSON
3 51 (3.95%) Middleware
4 42 (3.26%) .NET
5 35 (2.71%) SOAP
6 34 (2.64%) AngularJS
7 31 (2.40%) Kafka
8 28 (2.17%) SAML
9 27 (2.09%) OAuth
10 22 (1.71%) React
11 21 (1.63%) RESTful
12 20 (1.55%) Web Services
13 19 (1.47%) OpenID
13 19 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
15 15 (1.16%) LDAP
15 15 (1.16%) OAuth2
15 15 (1.16%) PySpark
16 13 (1.01%) HTML
17 12 (0.93%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 113 (8.76%) Cloud Native
2 51 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
2 51 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.18%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.95%) PKI
5 35 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 30 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.32%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.24%) CMDB
11 16 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.16%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.09%) Replication
14 13 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.79%) Windows
2 25 (1.94%) Linux
3 13 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.39%) Unix
5 4 (0.31%) Android
5 4 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.16%) CentOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.078%) AIX
8 1 (0.078%) Solaris
8 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (15.58%) Agile
2 191 (14.81%) Roadmaps
3 172 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 171 (13.26%) DevOps
5 164 (12.71%) Data Modelling
5 164 (12.71%) Migration
6 162 (12.56%) Enterprise Architecture
7 147 (11.40%) CI/CD
8 143 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
9 135 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 129 (10.00%) Data Architecture
11 127 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
12 126 (9.77%) Microservices
13 124 (9.61%) Analytics
14 122 (9.46%) AI
15 119 (9.22%) TOGAF
16 113 (8.76%) Data Governance
17 98 (7.60%) Integration Patterns
18 95 (7.36%) Security Architecture
19 76 (5.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 110 (8.53%) Python
2 88 (6.82%) SQL
3 65 (5.04%) Java
4 52 (4.03%) PowerShell
5 38 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 33 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.17%) C#
8 20 (1.55%) Bicep
9 15 (1.16%) Bash
10 12 (0.93%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.47%) C
12 6 (0.47%) Korn
12 6 (0.47%) R
13 5 (0.39%) C++
13 5 (0.39%) SOQL
14 4 (0.31%) Perl
14 4 (0.31%) PHP
14 4 (0.31%) Scala
14 4 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 280 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 231 (17.91%) SC Cleared
3 70 (5.43%) Degree
4 43 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 39 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 36 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.94%) CISSP
9 24 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.24%) CCNP
14 16 (1.24%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.85%) CCIE
16 7 (0.54%) CISM
17 6 (0.47%) JNCIE
18 5 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 4 (0.31%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.66%) GDPR
2 47 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 34 (2.64%) NIST
5 24 (1.86%) QA
6 18 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.09%) HIPAA
8 13 (1.01%) NCSC
9 11 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.78%) GRC
11 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.62%) MiFID
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.39%) COBIT
14 5 (0.39%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.31%) PERC
16 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 57 (4.42%) Docker
2 46 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.47%) vSphere
6 5 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.16%) Lustre
8 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.078%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.078%) Ceph
9 1 (0.078%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.078%) Firmware
9 1 (0.078%) GPFS
9 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.078%) Postfix
9 1 (0.078%) Varnish
9 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 105 (8.14%) Terraform
2 64 (4.96%) Kubernetes
3 33 (2.56%) Ansible
4 25 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.70%) Grafana
7 7 (0.54%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.47%) SCCM
9 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.16%) Argo
9 2 (0.16%) Nagios
9 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.16%) vRealize
10 1 (0.078%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.078%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.078%) SCOM
10 1 (0.078%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.078%) VxRail
Vendors
1 217 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.74%) ServiceNow
3 81 (6.28%) SAP
4 74 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 65 (5.04%) Databricks
5 65 (5.04%) Oracle
6 47 (3.64%) Cisco
7 45 (3.49%) Google
8 31 (2.40%) Fortinet
9 24 (1.86%) VMware
10 23 (1.78%) Splunk
11 20 (1.55%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.32%) CyberArk
12 17 (1.32%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.32%) Remedy
13 16 (1.24%) IBM
14 15 (1.16%) Pega
14 15 (1.16%) Workday
15 14 (1.09%) MuleSoft
16 13 (1.01%) F5