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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,588 1,374 1,618
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.11% 9.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.79% 10.86% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,760 895 1,139
10th Percentile £475 £480 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £807 £800 £853
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £49.85 £66.25 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £82.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £90.68
90th Percentile £98.58 £96.75 £107.59
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 18,767 12,648 15,321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 93.03% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,247 8,556 10,846
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £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 349 201 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.07 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% -12.00% -11.91%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £54.06
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +5.88%

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 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 6 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 6 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 +15 368 £625 -7.41% 179
West London -15 34 £625 +38.89% 30
South London -14 18 £723 +6.68% 11
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 8
North London -4 1 £650 -17.46% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 730 (28.21%) Azure
2 677 (26.16%) Security Cleared
3 610 (23.57%) AWS
4 569 (21.99%) SC Cleared
5 412 (15.92%) Roadmaps
6 410 (15.84%) Migration
7 401 (15.49%) AI
8 361 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 330 (12.75%) Enterprise Architecture
10 324 (12.52%) Microsoft
11 314 (12.13%) Analytics
12 311 (12.02%) DevOps
13 301 (11.63%) Data Modelling
14 287 (11.09%) CI/CD
15 273 (10.55%) Data Architecture
15 273 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 262 (10.12%) Integration Patterns
17 255 (9.85%) Agile
18 254 (9.81%) Technical Leadership
19 231 (8.93%) GCP
20 220 (8.50%) TOGAF
21 208 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
22 185 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
23 175 (6.76%) Security Architecture
24 172 (6.65%) Event-Driven
25 167 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
26 166 (6.41%) Data Governance
26 166 (6.41%) Microservices
27 160 (6.18%) Translating Business Requirements
28 159 (6.14%) Business Intelligence

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 42 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.47%) SAS
3 35 (1.35%) Apache
4 34 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 18 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.43%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) nginx
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.23%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.039%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.039%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.039%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 7 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.23%) Endur
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 730 (28.21%) Azure
2 610 (23.57%) AWS
3 231 (8.93%) GCP
4 154 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 103 (3.98%) SaaS
6 97 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 85 (3.28%) Serverless
8 80 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (2.82%) GitHub
10 68 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.40%) PaaS
12 61 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (1.85%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
15 43 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.47%) IaaS
17 32 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.24%) OCI
18 30 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 30 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.63%) Network Security
2 56 (2.16%) Firewall
3 35 (1.35%) VPN
4 30 (1.16%) DNS
5 28 (1.08%) WAN
6 19 (0.73%) LAN
7 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.43%) MPLS
8 11 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.35%) 4G
9 9 (0.35%) 5G
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.31%) BGP
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
11 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.27%) OSPF
12 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.23%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.29%) Power BI
2 93 (3.59%) Data Lake
3 77 (2.98%) Metadata
4 76 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.28%) Big Data
6 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 22 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.46%) Tableau
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
15 11 (0.43%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.43%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 39 (1.51%) Git
2 38 (1.47%) JIRA
3 30 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.62%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) ERwin
5 8 (0.31%) MLflow
6 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.23%) Maven
7 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.15%) Snyk
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) JMeter
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.077%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.077%) MSI
General
1 488 (18.86%) Finance
2 477 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 292 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.61%) Banking
5 144 (5.56%) Retail
6 128 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (2.05%) Legal
11 43 (1.66%) Law
12 37 (1.43%) Billing
12 37 (1.43%) Marketing
13 26 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 24 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 11 (0.43%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.43%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (5.29%) REST
2 86 (3.32%) Middleware
3 85 (3.28%) .NET
4 70 (2.70%) Kafka
5 65 (2.51%) SOAP
6 43 (1.66%) OAuth
7 31 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.16%) React
9 29 (1.12%) .NET Framework
10 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 25 (0.97%) PySpark
12 23 (0.89%) JSON
12 23 (0.89%) RESTful
13 22 (0.85%) OpenID
14 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
14 21 (0.81%) SAML
15 19 (0.73%) XML
16 18 (0.70%) AngularJS
17 17 (0.66%) JWT
18 16 (0.62%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 250 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 75 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 70 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 68 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 63 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 58 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 54 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 50 (1.93%) CMDB
10 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 40 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 33 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 29 (1.12%) Taxonomies
15 27 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
17 22 (0.85%) NHS
18 21 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.66%) Linux
2 31 (1.20%) Windows
3 11 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.23%) zOS
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
11 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (15.92%) Roadmaps
2 410 (15.84%) Migration
3 401 (15.49%) AI
4 361 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 330 (12.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 314 (12.13%) Analytics
7 311 (12.02%) DevOps
8 301 (11.63%) Data Modelling
9 287 (11.09%) CI/CD
10 273 (10.55%) Data Architecture
10 273 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 262 (10.12%) Integration Patterns
12 255 (9.85%) Agile
13 254 (9.81%) Technical Leadership
14 220 (8.50%) TOGAF
15 208 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
16 185 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
17 175 (6.76%) Security Architecture
18 172 (6.65%) Event-Driven
19 167 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 148 (5.72%) Python
2 136 (5.26%) SQL
3 106 (4.10%) Java
4 62 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 38 (1.47%) C#
7 26 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.97%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 19 (0.73%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 10 (0.39%) C++
13 9 (0.35%) Scala
14 8 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 677 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 569 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 77 (2.98%) Degree
4 69 (2.67%) CISSP
5 67 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 38 (1.47%) CISM
10 33 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CCSP
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 12 (0.46%) CCNP
18 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.63%) GDPR
3 74 (2.86%) NIST
4 68 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (1.85%) GRC
6 32 (1.24%) NCSC
7 30 (1.16%) QA
8 22 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.70%) SEPA
10 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 12 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.31%) PSD2
17 7 (0.27%) IFRS
18 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (2.24%) Docker
2 56 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.15%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.077%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) HDFS
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 124 (4.79%) Terraform
3 42 (1.62%) Ansible
4 26 (1.00%) Grafana
5 21 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.077%) Consul
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.077%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 2 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 324 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 158 (6.11%) Oracle
3 148 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 146 (5.64%) Databricks
5 142 (5.49%) SAP
6 118 (4.56%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.20%) Google
8 46 (1.78%) Cisco
9 38 (1.47%) Workday
10 35 (1.35%) IBM
11 34 (1.31%) CyberArk
12 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.97%) Ariba
15 25 (0.97%) Splunk
16 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.81%) VMware
18 19 (0.73%) Sparx
19 17 (0.66%) Adobe