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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,590 1,269 1,542
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.85% 9.47% 9.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.80% 10.21% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 819 949
10th Percentile £493 £462 £488
25th Percentile £542 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £812 £800 £838
England median daily rate £622 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.56% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £52.20 - £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £85.00 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £90.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +4.13% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £95.00 £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £68.17 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.98% +3.57% -3.34%

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 18,770 12,424 15,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.67% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,117 8,295 9,975
10th Percentile £363 £332 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 204 179
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.97 £22.69 £24.17
Median hourly rate £40.96 £27.81 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -23.80% -3.31%
75th Percentile £64.63 £50.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.92 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +14 330 £625 -3.85% 320
West London -19 29 £650 +44.44% 45
South London -9 15 £650 -8.26% 18
East London -1 9 £700 +3.70% 9
North London -1 2 £650 -14.75% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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.

1 749 (28.92%) Azure
2 681 (26.29%) Security Cleared
3 560 (21.62%) SC Cleared
4 556 (21.47%) AWS
5 507 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 476 (18.38%) Roadmaps
7 437 (16.87%) AI
8 414 (15.98%) Migration
9 369 (14.25%) Enterprise Architecture
10 334 (12.90%) Microsoft
11 314 (12.12%) DevOps
12 299 (11.54%) Data Modelling
13 295 (11.39%) Analytics
14 294 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
15 289 (11.16%) CI/CD
16 284 (10.97%) Data Architecture
17 256 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 250 (9.65%) Agile
18 250 (9.65%) Integration Patterns
19 215 (8.30%) GCP
20 203 (7.84%) Security Architecture
21 199 (7.68%) TOGAF
22 187 (7.22%) Architectural Patterns
22 187 (7.22%) Data Governance
23 186 (7.18%) Decision-Making
24 184 (7.10%) Event-Driven
25 183 (7.07%) Infrastructure as Code
26 169 (6.53%) Architecture Governance
27 163 (6.29%) SAP
28 159 (6.14%) Databricks

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 (1.51%) SAS
2 31 (1.20%) Apache
3 29 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.85%) Confluence
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.19%) Appian
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.077%) IIS
12 2 (0.077%) Mendix
12 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.077%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.077%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.077%) Revit
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 82 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 13 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
8 7 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Endur
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 749 (28.92%) Azure
2 556 (21.47%) AWS
3 215 (8.30%) GCP
4 149 (5.75%) Power Platform
5 115 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 103 (3.98%) SaaS
7 92 (3.55%) Serverless
8 78 (3.01%) GitHub
9 72 (2.78%) Snowflake
10 69 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
12 45 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
13 44 (1.70%) PaaS
14 42 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 38 (1.47%) Amazon S3
15 38 (1.47%) dbt
16 36 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.39%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
18 34 (1.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.59%) Network Security
2 46 (1.78%) Firewall
3 31 (1.20%) WAN
4 25 (0.97%) VPN
5 21 (0.81%) LAN
6 13 (0.50%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.31%) NGFW
9 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (0.27%) Wireless
11 6 (0.23%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.23%) MQTT
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) SSL
11 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.09%) Metadata
2 87 (3.36%) Power BI
3 85 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 75 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.97%) Delta Lake
7 23 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (0.81%) Big Data
9 20 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.66%) BigQuery
12 16 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.62%) Data Vault
12 16 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
13 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
14 12 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (1.43%) JIRA
2 34 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.12%) Git
4 21 (0.81%) GitLab
5 9 (0.35%) RStudio
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Postman
10 3 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) JMeter
11 2 (0.077%) MSI
General
1 519 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 453 (17.49%) Finance
3 299 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.60%) Banking
5 135 (5.21%) Retail
6 116 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 81 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 46 (1.78%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.66%) Marketing
12 41 (1.58%) Billing
12 41 (1.58%) Legal
13 28 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (0.69%) Automotive
16 15 (0.58%) Military
17 14 (0.54%) Local Government
17 14 (0.54%) Police
18 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (5.75%) REST
2 124 (4.79%) Terraform
3 87 (3.36%) Kafka
4 78 (3.01%) .NET
5 64 (2.47%) SOAP
6 59 (2.28%) Middleware
7 50 (1.93%) OAuth
8 35 (1.35%) PySpark
9 34 (1.31%) .NET Framework
10 32 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
11 31 (1.20%) JSON
12 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
12 26 (1.00%) OpenID
13 24 (0.93%) XML
14 23 (0.89%) SAML
15 19 (0.73%) JWT
15 19 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
16 18 (0.69%) React
16 18 (0.69%) SailPoint
17 16 (0.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 242 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 86 (3.32%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.05%) AI Agents
4 73 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 61 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 60 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 59 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (1.93%) CMDB
8 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 50 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 36 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 36 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
10 35 (1.35%) Taxonomies
11 31 (1.20%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 23 (0.89%) Mainframe
13 23 (0.89%) Private Cloud
14 22 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.31%) Linux
2 30 (1.16%) Windows
3 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) Unix
5 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Android
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (19.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 476 (18.38%) Roadmaps
3 437 (16.87%) AI
4 414 (15.98%) Migration
5 369 (14.25%) Enterprise Architecture
6 314 (12.12%) DevOps
7 299 (11.54%) Data Modelling
8 295 (11.39%) Analytics
9 294 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
10 289 (11.16%) CI/CD
11 284 (10.97%) Data Architecture
12 256 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 250 (9.65%) Agile
13 250 (9.65%) Integration Patterns
14 203 (7.84%) Security Architecture
15 199 (7.68%) TOGAF
16 187 (7.22%) Architectural Patterns
16 187 (7.22%) Data Governance
17 186 (7.18%) Decision-Making
18 184 (7.10%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 128 (4.94%) SQL
2 121 (4.67%) Python
3 94 (3.63%) Java
4 56 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.62%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.43%) C#
7 30 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.93%) Bicep
9 19 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.62%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.35%) ABAP
13 8 (0.31%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.19%) Ruby
16 5 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 681 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 560 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 75 (2.90%) Degree
4 72 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 62 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 61 (2.36%) CISSP
7 55 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 52 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 41 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 36 (1.39%) CISM
11 28 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.46%) CCNP
16 12 (0.46%) CCSP
16 12 (0.46%) CISA
17 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (4.83%) Data Quality
2 81 (3.13%) GDPR
2 81 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (3.05%) NIST
4 49 (1.89%) GRC
5 41 (1.58%) NCSC
6 21 (0.81%) QA
7 18 (0.69%) SEPA
8 17 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.42%) SLA
13 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.31%) PMO
14 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 41 (1.58%) Docker
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.077%) Postfix
8 2 (0.077%) Varnish
9 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.039%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.039%) NFS
9 1 (0.039%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 105 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.74%) Ansible
3 26 (1.00%) Grafana
4 17 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.31%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.077%) CASB
10 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.077%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.077%) Istio
10 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 1 (0.039%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.039%) Avamar
Vendors
1 334 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.29%) SAP
3 159 (6.14%) Databricks
4 144 (5.56%) Oracle
5 143 (5.52%) ServiceNow
6 113 (4.36%) Salesforce
7 79 (3.05%) Google
8 52 (2.01%) Cisco
9 38 (1.47%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 30 (1.16%) Workday
12 28 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.04%) IBM
13 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.97%) VMware
15 24 (0.93%) Foundry
16 23 (0.89%) Ariba
17 21 (0.81%) Splunk
18 20 (0.77%) Adobe
18 20 (0.77%) Sparx