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 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,294 1,519 1,782
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.01% 9.66% 9.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.77% 10.32% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 904 1,279
10th Percentile £450 £496 £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 13,248 14,718 17,942
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 93.61% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,794 9,565 12,956
10th Percentile £338 £340 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 154 210
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -1.53% +3.73%
75th Percentile £54.06 £53.75 £59.69
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -1 177 £650 - 65
West London +1 31 £463 -26.00% 13
South London +6 15 £613 +22.50% 6
East London +6 14 £675 - 9
North London +3 3 £700 -7.50%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 431 (33.31%) Azure
2 306 (23.65%) AWS
3 281 (21.72%) Security Cleared
4 231 (17.85%) SC Cleared
5 218 (16.85%) Microsoft
6 201 (15.53%) Agile
7 189 (14.61%) Roadmaps
8 176 (13.60%) DevOps
9 171 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 166 (12.83%) Data Modelling
11 163 (12.60%) Enterprise Architecture
11 163 (12.60%) Migration
12 149 (11.51%) CI/CD
13 143 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
14 136 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 131 (10.12%) Data Architecture
16 126 (9.74%) Microservices
16 126 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
17 124 (9.58%) Analytics
18 122 (9.43%) AI
19 118 (9.12%) TOGAF
20 114 (8.81%) Data Governance
20 114 (8.81%) GCP
21 112 (8.66%) Python
22 107 (8.27%) Terraform
23 96 (7.42%) Integration Patterns
23 96 (7.42%) Security Architecture
24 94 (7.26%) REST
25 88 (6.80%) Firewall
26 87 (6.72%) SQL

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 35 (2.70%) Confluence
2 23 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.08%) CMS
4 13 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.70%) Apache
7 6 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.31%) SAS
8 4 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) Mule
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.077%) Ethereum
Applications
1 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.077%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.077%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 37 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.70%) Endur
4 9 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.46%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.46%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.31%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.31%) thinkFolio
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 431 (33.31%) Azure
2 306 (23.65%) AWS
3 114 (8.81%) GCP
4 81 (6.26%) Power Platform
5 69 (5.33%) SaaS
6 53 (4.10%) Entra ID
7 52 (4.02%) IaaS
8 47 (3.63%) Serverless
9 44 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 42 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.78%) GitHub
11 36 (2.78%) PaaS
12 31 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 27 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
15 26 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (1.93%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
18 19 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 88 (6.80%) Firewall
2 47 (3.63%) WAN
3 45 (3.48%) LAN
4 41 (3.17%) Network Security
5 38 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 37 (2.86%) VPN
7 26 (2.01%) DNS
7 26 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 18 (1.39%) SSL
10 11 (0.85%) BGP
11 10 (0.77%) DHCP
12 9 (0.70%) Internet
13 8 (0.62%) OSPF
14 6 (0.46%) MPLS
14 6 (0.46%) NAS
14 6 (0.46%) NGFW
14 6 (0.46%) SAN
14 6 (0.46%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.02%) Data Lake
2 49 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (3.55%) Power BI
4 41 (3.17%) Metadata
5 24 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 18 (1.39%) Data Vault
9 16 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.08%) Big Data
11 12 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.93%) BigQuery
11 12 (0.93%) Delta Lake
12 10 (0.77%) 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%) SAP BW
15 7 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.32%) JIRA
2 17 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.85%) Git
4 9 (0.70%) GitLab
5 8 (0.62%) ERwin
6 3 (0.23%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.15%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.15%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.15%) GCC
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.077%) Postman
8 1 (0.077%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.077%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.077%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 350 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 322 (24.88%) Finance
3 145 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 121 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (8.50%) Banking
6 40 (3.09%) Retail
7 38 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 30 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.32%) Legal
10 29 (2.24%) Marketing
10 29 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.70%) Billing
14 16 (1.24%) Back Office
15 11 (0.85%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.77%) Electronics
17 9 (0.70%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (7.26%) REST
2 56 (4.33%) JSON
3 49 (3.79%) Middleware
4 43 (3.32%) .NET
5 35 (2.70%) SOAP
6 34 (2.63%) AngularJS
7 32 (2.47%) Kafka
8 29 (2.24%) SAML
9 28 (2.16%) OAuth
10 22 (1.70%) React
11 21 (1.62%) RESTful
12 20 (1.55%) OpenID
12 20 (1.55%) Web Services
13 19 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (1.31%) Lightning Web Components
15 16 (1.24%) LDAP
15 16 (1.24%) OAuth2
16 15 (1.16%) PySpark
17 13 (1.00%) HTML
18 12 (0.93%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 51 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 49 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 41 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 39 (3.01%) PKI
6 35 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 31 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 31 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 16 (1.24%) CMDB
12 16 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.08%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.08%) Reinsurance
13 14 (1.08%) Replication
14 13 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.86%) Windows
2 26 (2.01%) Linux
3 13 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.39%) Android
4 5 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.39%) Unix
5 4 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.15%) CentOS
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.077%) AIX
8 1 (0.077%) Solaris
8 1 (0.077%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (15.53%) Agile
2 189 (14.61%) Roadmaps
3 176 (13.60%) DevOps
4 171 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 166 (12.83%) Data Modelling
6 163 (12.60%) Enterprise Architecture
6 163 (12.60%) Migration
7 149 (11.51%) CI/CD
8 143 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 131 (10.12%) Data Architecture
11 126 (9.74%) Microservices
11 126 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
12 124 (9.58%) Analytics
13 122 (9.43%) AI
14 118 (9.12%) TOGAF
15 114 (8.81%) Data Governance
16 96 (7.42%) Integration Patterns
16 96 (7.42%) Security Architecture
17 77 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 112 (8.66%) Python
2 87 (6.72%) SQL
3 66 (5.10%) Java
4 54 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 39 (3.01%) JavaScript
6 33 (2.55%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.16%) C#
8 20 (1.55%) Bicep
9 17 (1.31%) Bash
10 12 (0.93%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.46%) C
12 6 (0.46%) Korn
12 6 (0.46%) R
13 5 (0.39%) C++
13 5 (0.39%) Scala
13 5 (0.39%) SOQL
14 4 (0.31%) Perl
14 4 (0.31%) PHP
14 4 (0.31%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 281 (21.72%) Security Cleared
2 231 (17.85%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.26%) Degree
4 43 (3.32%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 38 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.01%) CISSP
9 24 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.24%) CCNP
15 15 (1.16%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.85%) CCIE
17 8 (0.62%) CISM
18 6 (0.46%) JNCIE
19 5 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 4 (0.31%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.56%) GDPR
2 47 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.70%) NIST
5 24 (1.85%) QA
6 18 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.08%) HIPAA
8 13 (1.00%) NCSC
9 11 (0.85%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.77%) GRC
11 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.62%) MiFID
12 7 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.39%) COBIT
13 5 (0.39%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.31%) PERC
15 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (4.40%) Docker
2 47 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.46%) vSphere
6 5 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.15%) Lustre
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.077%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.077%) Ceph
9 1 (0.077%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.077%) GPFS
9 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.077%) Postfix
9 1 (0.077%) Varnish
9 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 107 (8.27%) Terraform
2 66 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 33 (2.55%) Ansible
4 26 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.54%) Grafana
8 6 (0.46%) SCCM
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.15%) Argo
9 2 (0.15%) Nagios
9 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.15%) vRealize
10 1 (0.077%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.077%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.077%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.077%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 218 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 85 (6.57%) ServiceNow
3 82 (6.34%) SAP
4 74 (5.72%) Salesforce
5 67 (5.18%) Databricks
6 63 (4.87%) Oracle
7 48 (3.71%) Google
8 47 (3.63%) Cisco
9 31 (2.40%) Fortinet
10 24 (1.85%) Splunk
10 24 (1.85%) VMware
11 20 (1.55%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.39%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.31%) Remedy
14 15 (1.16%) IBM
14 15 (1.16%) Pega
15 14 (1.08%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.08%) Workday
16 13 (1.00%) F5