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 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,304 1,305 1,807
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.14% 10.46% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.08% 11.19% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 850 1,303
10th Percentile £475 £500 £488
25th Percentile £513 £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 £820 £800 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
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 £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 17,619 11,663 16,645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 93.46% 93.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,614 7,915 11,939
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £435 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £521 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 170 327
10th Percentile £18.61 £19.18 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £33.45 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +20.26% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.07 £45.62
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £66.70
England median hourly rate £45.50 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +58.26% -27.31% -12.11%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +16 356 £625 -7.41% 58
West London -4 31 £640 -4.48% 23
South London +2 22 £723 +1.40% 1
East London +4 15 £669 +14.36% 5
North London +1 1 £650 -3.70% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 659 (28.60%) Azure
2 638 (27.69%) Security Cleared
3 543 (23.57%) AWS
3 543 (23.57%) SC Cleared
4 376 (16.32%) Migration
5 334 (14.50%) AI
6 332 (14.41%) Roadmaps
7 306 (13.28%) Microsoft
8 301 (13.06%) DevOps
9 276 (11.98%) CI/CD
10 275 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 246 (10.68%) Analytics
12 245 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 244 (10.59%) Data Modelling
14 237 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
15 230 (9.98%) Data Architecture
16 229 (9.94%) Enterprise Architecture
17 224 (9.72%) Agile
18 217 (9.42%) GCP
19 201 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
20 196 (8.51%) Architectural Patterns
21 188 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
22 181 (7.86%) TOGAF
23 176 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
24 172 (7.47%) Python
25 163 (7.07%) Architectural Design
26 149 (6.47%) Security Architecture
27 140 (6.08%) Event-Driven
28 139 (6.03%) Microservices
28 139 (6.03%) ServiceNow

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 43 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.17%) Confluence
3 23 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.87%) Apache
5 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.48%) nginx
7 10 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.39%) Camunda
8 9 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.22%) CMS
11 5 (0.22%) Mule
12 3 (0.13%) Appian
12 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.087%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.087%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.043%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.17%) Endur
7 4 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.17%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.087%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.087%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 659 (28.60%) Azure
2 543 (23.57%) AWS
3 217 (9.42%) GCP
4 138 (5.99%) Power Platform
5 92 (3.99%) Serverless
6 87 (3.78%) SaaS
7 78 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (2.78%) GitHub
10 57 (2.47%) Snowflake
11 56 (2.43%) Amazon S3
11 56 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.30%) PaaS
13 50 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (1.65%) IaaS
17 32 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
18 31 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
18 31 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.99%) Network Security
2 68 (2.95%) Firewall
3 46 (2.00%) VPN
4 40 (1.74%) DNS
5 39 (1.69%) WAN
6 21 (0.91%) LAN
6 21 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.61%) BGP
9 13 (0.56%) OSPF
10 10 (0.43%) MPLS
10 10 (0.43%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.35%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.35%) 5G
12 8 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (0.30%) NGFW
13 7 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
14 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.30%) Power BI
2 75 (3.26%) Data Lake
3 63 (2.73%) Metadata
4 57 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 24 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (1.00%) Big Data
10 20 (0.87%) Delta Lake
11 18 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.61%) Tableau
14 13 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.52%) Star Schema
16 11 (0.48%) Oracle Database
16 11 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (1.95%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.56%) JIRA
3 34 (1.48%) Git
4 20 (0.87%) GitLab
5 12 (0.52%) ERwin
6 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.35%) MLflow
8 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) Maven
9 5 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.13%) JMeter
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.087%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.087%) MSI
12 2 (0.087%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.087%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.087%) VTune
General
1 450 (19.53%) Finance
2 440 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 274 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 153 (6.64%) Banking
5 110 (4.77%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (4.17%) Retail
7 79 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 54 (2.34%) Legal
11 49 (2.13%) Law
12 33 (1.43%) Billing
13 26 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.00%) Marketing
15 21 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.52%) Military
17 11 (0.48%) Local Government
18 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.25%) REST
2 83 (3.60%) Middleware
3 73 (3.17%) .NET
4 70 (3.04%) SOAP
5 52 (2.26%) LDAP
6 44 (1.91%) Kafka
7 39 (1.69%) OpenID
8 33 (1.43%) OAuth
8 33 (1.43%) SAML
9 30 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 27 (1.17%) React
11 24 (1.04%) .NET Framework
12 21 (0.91%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.78%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.78%) RESTful
14 17 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
15 16 (0.69%) PySpark
16 15 (0.65%) Spring
17 14 (0.61%) JSON
18 13 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 234 (10.16%) Cloud Native
2 73 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 63 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 49 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 49 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 48 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 48 (2.08%) Security Posture
9 44 (1.91%) CMDB
10 36 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.13%) Mainframe
12 24 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.91%) NHS
14 20 (0.87%) Data Structures
15 19 (0.82%) Taxonomies
16 18 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.61%) Linux
2 35 (1.52%) Windows
3 11 (0.48%) Android
3 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.39%) zOS
6 8 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.17%) Solaris
10 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.087%) CentOS
11 2 (0.087%) VMS
11 2 (0.087%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (16.32%) Migration
2 334 (14.50%) AI
3 332 (14.41%) Roadmaps
4 301 (13.06%) DevOps
5 276 (11.98%) CI/CD
6 275 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (10.68%) Analytics
8 245 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 244 (10.59%) Data Modelling
10 237 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
11 230 (9.98%) Data Architecture
12 229 (9.94%) Enterprise Architecture
13 224 (9.72%) Agile
14 201 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
15 196 (8.51%) Architectural Patterns
16 188 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 181 (7.86%) TOGAF
18 176 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
19 163 (7.07%) Architectural Design
20 149 (6.47%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 172 (7.47%) Python
2 123 (5.34%) SQL
3 104 (4.51%) Java
4 67 (2.91%) PowerShell
5 40 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 31 (1.35%) C#
7 25 (1.09%) Bicep
8 19 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.69%) Bash
10 15 (0.65%) Ruby
11 9 (0.39%) Scala
12 6 (0.26%) R
12 6 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.22%) C++
13 5 (0.22%) Go
14 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.13%) Korn
15 3 (0.13%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 638 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 543 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.52%) Degree
4 66 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 61 (2.65%) CISSP
6 49 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 43 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.39%) CISM
11 31 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 20 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.61%) CCNP
17 14 (0.61%) CCSP
17 14 (0.61%) CISA
18 10 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.47%) GDPR
2 75 (3.26%) NIST
3 69 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 68 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.04%) NCSC
6 35 (1.52%) QA
7 24 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.69%) GRC
8 16 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.61%) SEPA
11 12 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.43%) PSD2
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.30%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.26%) COBIT
15 6 (0.26%) HL7
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
17 4 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 56 (2.43%) Docker
3 21 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.35%) Varnish
7 7 (0.30%) Postfix
7 7 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) NFS
8 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.087%) vSphere
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (5.90%) Terraform
2 123 (5.34%) Kubernetes
3 46 (2.00%) Ansible
4 24 (1.04%) Grafana
5 22 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.30%) Consul
8 7 (0.30%) HAProxy
9 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.22%) Argo
10 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
11 4 (0.17%) SCCM
12 3 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.087%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.087%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.087%) QRadar
13 2 (0.087%) VxRail
Vendors
1 306 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 128 (5.56%) Databricks
4 119 (5.16%) SAP
5 115 (4.99%) Oracle
6 105 (4.56%) Salesforce
7 62 (2.69%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.39%) Cisco
9 47 (2.04%) Google
10 39 (1.69%) Splunk
11 32 (1.39%) Workday
12 31 (1.35%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.26%) IBM
14 28 (1.22%) OpenAI
15 27 (1.17%) Palo Alto
16 26 (1.13%) Foundry
17 25 (1.09%) VMware
18 22 (0.95%) BeyondTrust
19 21 (0.91%) Centrify
20 19 (0.82%) Ariba