Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,423 1,418 1,757
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.26% 10.49% 9.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.21% 11.24% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 931 1,263
10th Percentile £463 £488 £488
25th Percentile £513 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £753
90th Percentile £806 £800 £875
England median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £53.95 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £83.44 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £61.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -

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 18,349 12,611 16,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.31% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,077 8,527 11,798
10th Percentile £358 £332 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 194 301
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.38 £23.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.17% -28.69%
75th Percentile £62.93 £50.50 £46.50
90th Percentile £80.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +16 372 £625 -8.42% 131
West London -15 28 £625 +25.00% 26
South London -3 22 £723 +2.56% 1
East London +4 16 £672 +14.87% 9
North London -3 1 £650 -3.70% 4
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 695 (28.68%) Azure
2 634 (26.17%) Security Cleared
3 571 (23.57%) AWS
4 539 (22.25%) SC Cleared
5 405 (16.71%) Migration
6 385 (15.89%) Roadmaps
7 378 (15.60%) AI
8 323 (13.33%) Microsoft
9 314 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 312 (12.88%) DevOps
11 283 (11.68%) CI/CD
12 275 (11.35%) Data Modelling
13 271 (11.18%) Analytics
14 270 (11.14%) Enterprise Architecture
15 247 (10.19%) Agile
15 247 (10.19%) Data Architecture
16 240 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 222 (9.16%) Integration Patterns
18 216 (8.91%) GCP
19 212 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
20 203 (8.38%) TOGAF
21 202 (8.34%) Architectural Patterns
22 189 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
23 169 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
24 164 (6.77%) Architectural Design
25 154 (6.36%) Python
25 154 (6.36%) Security Architecture
26 152 (6.27%) Microservices
27 148 (6.11%) Event-Driven
27 148 (6.11%) Power Platform

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 41 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.24%) Confluence
3 25 (1.03%) Apache
4 24 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.62%) SAS
6 11 (0.45%) nginx
7 10 (0.41%) CMS
8 9 (0.37%) Camunda
8 9 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.33%) Appian
10 6 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.17%) Mule
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.083%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.083%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.041%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.041%) Notion
4 1 (0.041%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.25%) Endur
8 5 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
9 4 (0.17%) SAP Convergent Charging
9 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.083%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 695 (28.68%) Azure
2 571 (23.57%) AWS
3 216 (8.91%) GCP
4 148 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.17%) SaaS
6 92 (3.80%) Entra ID
7 91 (3.76%) Serverless
8 80 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (2.93%) GitHub
10 65 (2.68%) Snowflake
11 63 (2.60%) PaaS
12 60 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (2.06%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
16 43 (1.77%) IaaS
17 36 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
19 31 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 31 (1.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.88%) Network Security
2 72 (2.97%) Firewall
3 47 (1.94%) VPN
4 38 (1.57%) DNS
5 30 (1.24%) WAN
6 18 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.70%) LAN
8 14 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.50%) BGP
10 11 (0.45%) OSPF
11 10 (0.41%) 5G
11 10 (0.41%) MPLS
11 10 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.41%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.33%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.33%) NGFW
14 7 (0.29%) 4G
15 5 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.37%) Power BI
2 84 (3.47%) Data Lake
3 74 (3.05%) Metadata
4 69 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.16%) Big Data
8 26 (1.07%) BigQuery
9 25 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (0.62%) Delta Lake
14 14 (0.58%) Tableau
15 13 (0.54%) Oracle Database
16 11 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (0.45%) Data Vault
16 11 (0.45%) Star Schema
17 10 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (1.73%) JIRA
2 39 (1.61%) Git
2 39 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.62%) GitLab
4 10 (0.41%) ERwin
5 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.33%) MLflow
7 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
9 5 (0.21%) Maven
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.12%) JMeter
11 3 (0.12%) Storybook
11 3 (0.12%) VTune
12 2 (0.083%) MSI
12 2 (0.083%) Robot Framework
General
1 471 (19.44%) Finance
2 452 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 281 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 164 (6.77%) Banking
5 125 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 122 (5.04%) Retail
7 78 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
9 70 (2.89%) Telecoms
10 52 (2.15%) Legal
11 42 (1.73%) Law
12 40 (1.65%) Billing
13 31 (1.28%) Marketing
14 27 (1.11%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (0.41%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.41%) Military
18 9 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (4.83%) REST
2 85 (3.51%) Middleware
3 82 (3.38%) .NET
4 58 (2.39%) SOAP
5 50 (2.06%) Kafka
6 36 (1.49%) OAuth
6 36 (1.49%) OpenID
7 32 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 32 (1.32%) SAML
8 31 (1.28%) React
9 29 (1.20%) .NET Framework
10 28 (1.16%) LDAP
11 21 (0.87%) PySpark
12 20 (0.83%) AngularJS
12 20 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (0.78%) OAuth2
14 17 (0.70%) JSON
14 17 (0.70%) RESTful
15 14 (0.58%) HTML
15 14 (0.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 245 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.18%) Onboarding
3 71 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 65 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 62 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 57 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 50 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 49 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 47 (1.94%) CMDB
11 45 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
15 27 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 26 (1.07%) Mainframe
17 25 (1.03%) Taxonomies
18 24 (0.99%) NHS
19 22 (0.91%) Data Structures
19 22 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.57%) Linux
2 32 (1.32%) Windows
3 11 (0.45%) Android
3 11 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.41%) Unix
5 9 (0.37%) zOS
6 8 (0.33%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.12%) AIX
10 3 (0.12%) Solaris
11 2 (0.083%) CentOS
11 2 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (16.71%) Migration
2 385 (15.89%) Roadmaps
3 378 (15.60%) AI
4 314 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 312 (12.88%) DevOps
6 283 (11.68%) CI/CD
7 275 (11.35%) Data Modelling
8 271 (11.18%) Analytics
9 270 (11.14%) Enterprise Architecture
10 247 (10.19%) Agile
10 247 (10.19%) Data Architecture
11 240 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 222 (9.16%) Integration Patterns
13 212 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
14 203 (8.38%) TOGAF
15 202 (8.34%) Architectural Patterns
16 189 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
17 169 (6.97%) Problem-Solving
18 164 (6.77%) Architectural Design
19 154 (6.36%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 154 (6.36%) Python
2 126 (5.20%) SQL
3 105 (4.33%) Java
4 49 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.73%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.49%) C#
7 26 (1.07%) Bicep
8 25 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 19 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.70%) Bash
11 15 (0.62%) Ruby
12 8 (0.33%) Scala
13 7 (0.29%) R
13 7 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.25%) C++
14 6 (0.25%) Go
15 5 (0.21%) Cypher
16 4 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.17%) Rust
17 3 (0.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 634 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 539 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 83 (3.43%) Degree
4 66 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 65 (2.68%) CISSP
6 56 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (1.44%) CISM
10 34 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.58%) CCNP
14 14 (0.58%) CCSP
14 14 (0.58%) CISA
15 10 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.51%) GDPR
2 80 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 75 (3.10%) NIST
4 67 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 44 (1.82%) NCSC
6 30 (1.24%) QA
7 22 (0.91%) GRC
8 21 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.70%) SEPA
10 16 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
13 10 (0.41%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.33%) PSD2
16 7 (0.29%) IFRS
17 6 (0.25%) COBIT
17 6 (0.25%) HL7
18 5 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (2.43%) Docker
2 50 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.37%) Squid
6 8 (0.33%) Varnish
7 7 (0.29%) Postfix
8 6 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.21%) NFS
10 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.083%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.041%) HDFS
13 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.041%) IAG
13 1 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (5.53%) Kubernetes
1 134 (5.53%) Terraform
2 46 (1.90%) Ansible
3 29 (1.20%) Grafana
4 24 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.45%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.29%) Consul
8 7 (0.29%) HAProxy
9 6 (0.25%) Argo
10 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
11 4 (0.17%) SCCM
12 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.083%) Istio
13 2 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.083%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.083%) QRadar
13 2 (0.083%) VxRail
Vendors
1 323 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 136 (5.61%) Databricks
2 136 (5.61%) ServiceNow
3 133 (5.49%) Oracle
4 130 (5.37%) SAP
5 107 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.02%) Cisco
7 48 (1.98%) Google
8 44 (1.82%) CyberArk
9 39 (1.61%) Splunk
10 33 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 32 (1.32%) IBM
12 31 (1.28%) OpenAI
12 31 (1.28%) Workday
13 28 (1.16%) Foundry
14 26 (1.07%) VMware
15 24 (0.99%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.91%) Ariba
17 19 (0.78%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.66%) Sparx