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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,621 1,281 1,584
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.89% 9.50% 9.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.83% 10.24% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 825 1,046
10th Percentile £485 £463 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -0.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £640
% change year-on-year -0.80% -2.27% -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile £52.55 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £56.38 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £88.38 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -0.25%

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 18,950 12,510 15,330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 92.73% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,221 8,379 10,342
10th Percentile £363 £330 £344
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 209 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.97 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.96 £74.69
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +6.15%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +13 353 £625 -4.94% 226
West London -22 29 £650 +44.44% 43
East London +2 12 £688 +1.85% 15
South London -13 10 £650 -7.74% 9
North London -2 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 757 (28.88%) Azure
2 663 (25.30%) Security Cleared
3 598 (22.82%) AWS
4 548 (20.91%) SC Cleared
5 471 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 454 (17.32%) Roadmaps
7 434 (16.56%) AI
8 429 (16.37%) Migration
9 362 (13.81%) Enterprise Architecture
10 356 (13.58%) Microsoft
11 323 (12.32%) DevOps
12 319 (12.17%) Data Modelling
13 314 (11.98%) Analytics
14 307 (11.71%) CI/CD
15 297 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
16 289 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 279 (10.64%) Data Architecture
18 264 (10.07%) Agile
18 264 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
19 233 (8.89%) GCP
20 212 (8.09%) TOGAF
21 204 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
22 203 (7.75%) Security Architecture
23 198 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
24 188 (7.17%) Data Governance
25 184 (7.02%) Event-Driven
26 179 (6.83%) Power Platform
27 173 (6.60%) Decision-Making
28 171 (6.52%) Databricks
29 169 (6.45%) Translating Business Requirements

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 (1.49%) SAS
2 34 (1.30%) Apache
3 30 (1.14%) SharePoint
4 29 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 17 (0.65%) CMS
8 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.19%) Camunda
12 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.15%) nginx
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.076%) Mendix
14 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.076%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.038%) Notion
3 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.038%) Revit
3 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
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 5 (0.19%) Endur
6 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
7 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.11%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 757 (28.88%) Azure
2 598 (22.82%) AWS
3 233 (8.89%) GCP
4 179 (6.83%) Power Platform
5 110 (4.20%) Entra ID
6 108 (4.12%) SaaS
7 100 (3.82%) Serverless
8 85 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
8 85 (3.24%) GitHub
9 78 (2.98%) Snowflake
10 70 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (2.10%) PaaS
12 51 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (1.64%) Amazon S3
14 42 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 36 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
16 36 (1.37%) PowerApps
17 35 (1.34%) OCI
17 35 (1.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.90%) Network Security
2 47 (1.79%) Firewall
3 30 (1.14%) WAN
4 29 (1.11%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 19 (0.72%) DNS
7 12 (0.46%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.27%) 4G
10 7 (0.27%) 5G
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
11 6 (0.23%) MPLS
11 6 (0.23%) Wireless
12 5 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.46%) Power BI
2 99 (3.78%) Data Lake
3 98 (3.74%) Metadata
4 82 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.03%) Big Data
7 26 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 26 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (0.92%) Delta Lake
10 21 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
13 15 (0.57%) Star Schema
14 14 (0.53%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.53%) Tableau
15 13 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (1.41%) JIRA
2 34 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.22%) Git
4 21 (0.80%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.27%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.27%) RStudio
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) Maven
8 5 (0.19%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.076%) Flyway
11 2 (0.076%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.076%) Postman
11 2 (0.076%) Rational DOORS
General
1 534 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 468 (17.86%) Finance
3 287 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 167 (6.37%) Banking
5 148 (5.65%) Retail
6 134 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 81 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 53 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (1.83%) Legal
11 42 (1.60%) Marketing
12 41 (1.56%) Billing
13 39 (1.49%) Law
14 32 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.57%) Military
16 15 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.50%) Police
18 12 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.88%) REST
2 129 (4.92%) Terraform
3 86 (3.28%) .NET
4 84 (3.20%) Kafka
5 69 (2.63%) SOAP
6 61 (2.33%) Middleware
7 51 (1.95%) OAuth
8 35 (1.34%) .NET Framework
8 35 (1.34%) PySpark
9 33 (1.26%) JSON
10 29 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (0.99%) OAuth2
11 26 (0.99%) OpenID
11 26 (0.99%) React
11 26 (0.99%) XML
12 23 (0.88%) SAML
13 22 (0.84%) RESTful
14 21 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
15 19 (0.72%) JWT
15 19 (0.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 257 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 87 (3.32%) Onboarding
3 82 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 71 (2.71%) Data Centre
5 69 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 55 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.91%) CMDB
11 39 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
12 34 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.26%) Taxonomies
14 32 (1.22%) Security Posture
15 26 (0.99%) Public Cloud
16 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
17 22 (0.84%) IoT
18 21 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.45%) Linux
2 31 (1.18%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
3 12 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.27%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.11%) AIX
8 3 (0.11%) Solaris
9 2 (0.076%) CentOS
9 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.076%) VMS
9 2 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 454 (17.32%) Roadmaps
3 434 (16.56%) AI
4 429 (16.37%) Migration
5 362 (13.81%) Enterprise Architecture
6 323 (12.32%) DevOps
7 319 (12.17%) Data Modelling
8 314 (11.98%) Analytics
9 307 (11.71%) CI/CD
10 297 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
11 289 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 279 (10.64%) Data Architecture
13 264 (10.07%) Agile
13 264 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
14 212 (8.09%) TOGAF
15 204 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
16 203 (7.75%) Security Architecture
17 198 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 188 (7.17%) Data Governance
19 184 (7.02%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 144 (5.49%) Python
2 136 (5.19%) SQL
3 111 (4.24%) Java
4 65 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.53%) C#
7 34 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.92%) Bicep
9 21 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.46%) Ruby
12 9 (0.34%) C++
13 7 (0.27%) ABAP
13 7 (0.27%) R
13 7 (0.27%) Scala
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
14 6 (0.23%) Rust
14 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 663 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 548 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 78 (2.98%) Degree
4 71 (2.71%) CISSP
5 65 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 59 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 53 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 40 (1.53%) CISM
8 40 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.53%) CISA
14 10 (0.38%) CCNP
14 10 (0.38%) CCSP
14 10 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.40%) NIST
3 87 (3.32%) GDPR
4 80 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.95%) GRC
6 33 (1.26%) NCSC
7 27 (1.03%) QA
8 21 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.69%) SEPA
10 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 12 (0.46%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.31%) PMO
16 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 48 (1.83%) Docker
3 19 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
6 4 (0.15%) Varnish
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) NFS
7 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) IAG
8 2 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 113 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.56%) Ansible
3 27 (1.03%) Grafana
4 21 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.34%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.19%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.076%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.076%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.076%) Istio
10 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.076%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.038%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 356 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 171 (6.52%) Databricks
3 158 (6.03%) Oracle
4 157 (5.99%) ServiceNow
5 150 (5.72%) SAP
6 118 (4.50%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.67%) Google
8 49 (1.87%) Cisco
9 39 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 34 (1.30%) Workday
11 31 (1.18%) Foundry
12 30 (1.14%) IBM
13 29 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.95%) VMware
15 24 (0.92%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.80%) Adobe
17 20 (0.76%) Ariba
17 20 (0.76%) Splunk
18 19 (0.72%) Sparx