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 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,822 1,300 1,775
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.94% 10.27% 9.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.82% 10.96% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 832 1,286
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £672
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.31% -1.50%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £838 £824 £828
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £38.50 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.75 £43.75 £46.65
Median hourly rate £73.34 £60.00 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +13.15% -21.44%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 £59.15
90th Percentile £97.25 - £61.16
England median hourly rate £71.89 £71.25 £83.50
% change year-on-year +0.89% -14.67% +19.29%

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 15,418 11,866 16,882
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 93.70% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,330 8,095 12,189
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 147 339
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.13 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.00 £52.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £68.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -23.53%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +2 250 £650 -1.37% 131
West London -2 25 £633 +26.50% 23
South London +5 24 £600 -18.37% 2
East London -7 9 £545 -12.80% 14
North London +1 2 £663 -4.57%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 March 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.

1 543 (29.80%) Azure
2 527 (28.92%) Security Cleared
3 464 (25.47%) AWS
4 443 (24.31%) SC Cleared
5 272 (14.93%) Roadmaps
6 269 (14.76%) Migration
7 267 (14.65%) Microsoft
8 251 (13.78%) DevOps
9 223 (12.24%) CI/CD
10 221 (12.13%) AI
11 212 (11.64%) Agile
12 207 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 201 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 195 (10.70%) Integration Patterns
15 194 (10.65%) GCP
15 194 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
16 190 (10.43%) Data Modelling
17 185 (10.15%) Analytics
18 184 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
19 176 (9.66%) Data Architecture
20 171 (9.39%) Enterprise Architecture
21 168 (9.22%) Python
22 154 (8.45%) TOGAF
23 146 (8.01%) Architectural Patterns
24 134 (7.35%) Architectural Design
25 133 (7.30%) Terraform
26 130 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
26 130 (7.14%) REST
26 130 (7.14%) SQL
27 128 (7.03%) Microservices

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 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.26%) Confluence
3 17 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.60%) CMS
5 11 (0.60%) nginx
6 7 (0.38%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.33%) Camunda
8 5 (0.27%) Mule
9 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.11%) Appian
11 2 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.055%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.055%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.055%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.38%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.33%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.16%) Endur
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 543 (29.80%) Azure
2 464 (25.47%) AWS
3 194 (10.65%) GCP
4 102 (5.60%) Power Platform
5 79 (4.34%) Serverless
6 77 (4.23%) SaaS
7 70 (3.84%) Entra ID
8 56 (3.07%) IaaS
9 54 (2.96%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (2.85%) GitHub
11 50 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 50 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
12 47 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (2.36%) PaaS
14 41 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 39 (2.14%) Snowflake
16 34 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
18 31 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.23%) Network Security
2 70 (3.84%) Firewall
3 52 (2.85%) WAN
4 44 (2.41%) VPN
5 42 (2.31%) DNS
6 29 (1.59%) SD-WAN
7 28 (1.54%) LAN
8 18 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.93%) BGP
10 15 (0.82%) OSPF
11 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.60%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.49%) MPLS
13 9 (0.49%) OpenVPN
14 8 (0.44%) 5G
14 8 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (0.38%) VSAN
16 6 (0.33%) Internet
17 5 (0.27%) 3GPP
17 5 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.01%) Power BI
2 61 (3.35%) Data Lake
3 55 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (2.52%) Metadata
5 34 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.59%) NoSQL
7 24 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (0.99%) Big Data
9 17 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (0.88%) Tableau
11 15 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 15 (0.82%) Delta Lake
12 14 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.77%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.77%) DB2
13 12 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 42 (2.31%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.59%) JIRA
3 26 (1.43%) Git
4 23 (1.26%) GitLab
5 10 (0.55%) ERwin
6 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.27%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.27%) MLflow
7 5 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.22%) Snyk
8 4 (0.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.16%) Maven
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.11%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 422 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 390 (21.41%) Finance
3 214 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 125 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (6.86%) Banking
5 76 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 60 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (2.69%) Retail
8 47 (2.58%) Law
9 43 (2.36%) Legal
10 40 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.59%) Marketing
13 26 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.10%) Billing
16 16 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.66%) Local Government
17 12 (0.66%) Military
18 10 (0.55%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.14%) REST
2 93 (5.10%) Middleware
3 66 (3.62%) SOAP
4 64 (3.51%) LDAP
5 45 (2.47%) OpenID
6 43 (2.36%) .NET
7 38 (2.09%) JSON
8 37 (2.03%) Kafka
9 33 (1.81%) SAML
10 30 (1.65%) OAuth
11 26 (1.43%) AngularJS
12 22 (1.21%) React
13 17 (0.93%) Spring
14 15 (0.82%) Vue
15 14 (0.77%) OAuth2
16 12 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
16 12 (0.66%) PySpark
16 12 (0.66%) XML
17 11 (0.60%) gRPC
17 11 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 173 (9.50%) Cloud Native
2 68 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
2 68 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
3 52 (2.85%) Data Centre
3 52 (2.85%) Onboarding
3 52 (2.85%) Security Posture
4 44 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 43 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (2.09%) PKI
8 30 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.21%) CMDB
10 22 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.10%) AI Agents
13 19 (1.04%) Replication
14 16 (0.88%) FMCG
14 16 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.87%) Windows
2 26 (1.43%) Linux
3 10 (0.55%) zOS
4 6 (0.33%) Android
4 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.27%) Unix
5 5 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.055%) CentOS
8 1 (0.055%) Solaris
8 1 (0.055%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (14.93%) Roadmaps
2 269 (14.76%) Migration
3 251 (13.78%) DevOps
4 223 (12.24%) CI/CD
5 221 (12.13%) AI
6 212 (11.64%) Agile
7 207 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 201 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 195 (10.70%) Integration Patterns
10 194 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
11 190 (10.43%) Data Modelling
12 185 (10.15%) Analytics
13 184 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
14 176 (9.66%) Data Architecture
15 171 (9.39%) Enterprise Architecture
16 154 (8.45%) TOGAF
17 146 (8.01%) Architectural Patterns
18 134 (7.35%) Architectural Design
19 130 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
20 128 (7.03%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 168 (9.22%) Python
2 130 (7.14%) SQL
3 90 (4.94%) PowerShell
4 80 (4.39%) Java
5 27 (1.48%) C#
6 24 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.04%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.88%) Bicep
9 14 (0.77%) Ruby
10 13 (0.71%) Bash
11 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.38%) Scala
13 6 (0.33%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.22%) C++
14 4 (0.22%) Go
14 4 (0.22%) Korn
14 4 (0.22%) R
14 4 (0.22%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 527 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 443 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 76 (4.17%) Degree
4 69 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 47 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 45 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (2.36%) CISSP
8 39 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
10 34 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.21%) CISM
11 22 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.88%) CCNP
16 15 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (0.71%) CCIE
18 12 (0.66%) CCSP
19 5 (0.27%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.17%) GDPR
2 56 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.85%) NIST
5 42 (2.31%) NCSC
6 37 (2.03%) QA
7 28 (1.54%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.77%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.49%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.49%) GRC
12 8 (0.44%) PSD2
13 7 (0.38%) EU AI Act
13 7 (0.38%) SEPA
14 6 (0.33%) SLA
15 5 (0.27%) HL7
15 5 (0.27%) PERC
16 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 77 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 73 (4.01%) Docker
3 28 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.49%) Squid
5 9 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 5 (0.27%) Varnish
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Ceph
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Lustre
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.055%) HDFS
10 1 (0.055%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 133 (7.30%) Terraform
2 122 (6.70%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.20%) Ansible
4 26 (1.43%) Grafana
5 24 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.99%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.38%) Consul
10 4 (0.22%) Istio
10 4 (0.22%) Kibana
11 3 (0.16%) Argo
11 3 (0.16%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.16%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.16%) VxRail
12 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 267 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 98 (5.38%) SAP
2 98 (5.38%) ServiceNow
3 95 (5.21%) Salesforce
4 91 (4.99%) Databricks
5 83 (4.56%) Oracle
6 66 (3.62%) CyberArk
7 43 (2.36%) Cisco
8 41 (2.25%) Google
9 36 (1.98%) Splunk
10 35 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
10 35 (1.92%) VMware
11 34 (1.87%) Centrify
12 29 (1.59%) IBM
13 27 (1.48%) Workday
14 25 (1.37%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.32%) OpenAI
16 23 (1.26%) MuleSoft
17 19 (1.04%) Zscaler
18 16 (0.88%) Dynatrace