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 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,554 1,400 1,640
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.76% 10.30% 9.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.71% 11.07% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 919 1,159
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 £800 £800 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £49.85 £54.50 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £98.58 £93.50 £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 18,627 12,646 15,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 93.01% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,192 8,560 11,001
10th Percentile £363 £328 £343
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 £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 198 220
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -8.12% -14.28%
75th Percentile £59.54 £50.38 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +14 368 £625 -7.41% 120
West London -15 33 £625 +38.89% 26
South London -15 20 £723 +6.68% 8
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 4
North London -3 1 £650 -17.46%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 717 (28.07%) Azure
2 669 (26.19%) Security Cleared
3 605 (23.69%) AWS
4 563 (22.04%) SC Cleared
5 411 (16.09%) Migration
6 409 (16.01%) Roadmaps
7 388 (15.19%) AI
8 348 (13.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 317 (12.41%) Enterprise Architecture
10 316 (12.37%) Microsoft
11 310 (12.14%) Analytics
12 309 (12.10%) DevOps
13 298 (11.67%) Data Modelling
14 285 (11.16%) CI/CD
15 267 (10.45%) Data Architecture
16 263 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 259 (10.14%) Integration Patterns
18 256 (10.02%) Agile
19 244 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
20 224 (8.77%) GCP
21 218 (8.54%) TOGAF
22 205 (8.03%) Architectural Patterns
23 182 (7.13%) Infrastructure as Code
24 168 (6.58%) Security Architecture
25 167 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
26 164 (6.42%) Event-Driven
26 164 (6.42%) Microservices
27 160 (6.26%) Data Governance
28 158 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
29 157 (6.15%) Architectural Design

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 (1.64%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.49%) SAS
3 34 (1.33%) Apache
4 32 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.98%) Confluence
6 18 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.55%) 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 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.039%) MQSeries
15 1 (0.039%) OpenROAD
15 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.23%) Endur
8 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
9 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
9 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.12%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 717 (28.07%) Azure
2 605 (23.69%) AWS
3 224 (8.77%) GCP
4 148 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 101 (3.95%) SaaS
6 96 (3.76%) Entra ID
7 86 (3.37%) Serverless
8 77 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (2.82%) GitHub
10 67 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (2.39%) PaaS
13 50 (1.96%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
16 39 (1.53%) IaaS
17 33 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 32 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 30 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.68%) Network Security
2 61 (2.39%) Firewall
3 37 (1.45%) VPN
4 29 (1.14%) DNS
4 29 (1.14%) WAN
5 20 (0.78%) LAN
6 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.43%) MPLS
7 11 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (0.39%) 5G
8 10 (0.39%) VXLAN
9 9 (0.35%) 4G
9 9 (0.35%) BGP
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
10 8 (0.31%) OSPF
11 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
12 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.31%) Power BI
2 92 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 79 (3.09%) Metadata
4 75 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.21%) Big Data
6 30 (1.17%) SQL Server
7 29 (1.14%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (0.94%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 16 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.51%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.47%) Db2
14 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.47%) Tableau
15 11 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 40 (1.57%) Git
2 37 (1.45%) JIRA
3 32 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) ERwin
5 8 (0.31%) MLflow
6 7 (0.27%) Maven
7 6 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.20%) Storybook
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.16%) Snyk
10 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) JMeter
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.078%) Postman
11 2 (0.078%) REST Assured
General
1 485 (18.99%) Finance
2 469 (18.36%) Social Skills
3 298 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.70%) Banking
5 136 (5.32%) Retail
6 127 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.00%) Legal
11 44 (1.72%) Law
12 37 (1.45%) Billing
13 35 (1.37%) Marketing
14 28 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 25 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.51%) Local Government
19 11 (0.43%) Military
19 11 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (5.29%) REST
2 88 (3.45%) Middleware
3 81 (3.17%) .NET
4 67 (2.62%) Kafka
5 66 (2.58%) SOAP
6 41 (1.61%) OAuth
7 32 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
8 31 (1.21%) React
9 29 (1.14%) .NET Framework
10 24 (0.94%) OAuth2
10 24 (0.94%) PySpark
11 21 (0.82%) JSON
11 21 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
12 20 (0.78%) OpenID
12 20 (0.78%) RESTful
12 20 (0.78%) SAML
13 18 (0.70%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.70%) XML
14 16 (0.63%) HTML
14 16 (0.63%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 246 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 75 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 66 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
4 65 (2.55%) AI Agents
4 65 (2.55%) Data Centre
4 65 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 65 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 56 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (2.00%) CMDB
8 50 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 33 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
11 30 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.17%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.14%) Mainframe
12 29 (1.14%) Taxonomies
13 25 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 23 (0.90%) IoT
15 22 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.53%) Linux
2 30 (1.17%) Windows
3 11 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
5 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.31%) zOS
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.078%) VMS
11 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (16.09%) Migration
2 409 (16.01%) Roadmaps
3 388 (15.19%) AI
4 348 (13.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 317 (12.41%) Enterprise Architecture
6 310 (12.14%) Analytics
7 309 (12.10%) DevOps
8 298 (11.67%) Data Modelling
9 285 (11.16%) CI/CD
10 267 (10.45%) Data Architecture
11 263 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 259 (10.14%) Integration Patterns
13 256 (10.02%) Agile
14 244 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
15 218 (8.54%) TOGAF
16 205 (8.03%) Architectural Patterns
17 182 (7.13%) Infrastructure as Code
18 168 (6.58%) Security Architecture
19 167 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
20 164 (6.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 150 (5.87%) Python
2 133 (5.21%) SQL
3 107 (4.19%) Java
4 59 (2.31%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.45%) C#
7 26 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.94%) Bicep
9 21 (0.82%) Apex Code
9 21 (0.82%) Bash
10 14 (0.55%) Ruby
11 9 (0.35%) Scala
12 8 (0.31%) C++
13 7 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 5 (0.20%) R
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 669 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 563 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 77 (3.01%) Degree
4 68 (2.66%) CISSP
5 66 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.43%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.49%) CISM
9 37 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 34 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.55%) CCSP
16 14 (0.55%) CISA
17 13 (0.51%) CCNP
18 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.68%) GDPR
3 70 (2.74%) NIST
4 61 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (1.84%) GRC
6 31 (1.21%) NCSC
7 28 (1.10%) QA
8 21 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.74%) SEPA
10 17 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.63%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.55%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
13 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.35%) PSD2
15 8 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.27%) IFRS
17 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (2.19%) Docker
2 53 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
5 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.20%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.16%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.078%) IAG
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 125 (4.89%) Kubernetes
1 125 (4.89%) Terraform
2 44 (1.72%) Ansible
3 27 (1.06%) Grafana
4 20 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 20 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.39%) Argo
6 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.16%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 3 (0.12%) Istio
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.078%) Consul
10 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.078%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.078%) QRadar
10 2 (0.078%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.078%) VxRail
Vendors
1 316 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 156 (6.11%) Oracle
3 145 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 144 (5.64%) Databricks
4 144 (5.64%) SAP
5 116 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 48 (1.88%) Google
7 47 (1.84%) Cisco
8 36 (1.41%) IBM
8 36 (1.41%) Workday
9 34 (1.33%) CyberArk
10 30 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 29 (1.14%) Foundry
11 29 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 26 (1.02%) Splunk
13 25 (0.98%) Ariba
14 24 (0.94%) VMware
15 22 (0.86%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.67%) Sparx
17 16 (0.63%) Adobe