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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,580 1,269 1,552
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.86% 9.60% 9.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.78% 10.35% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 816 1,043
10th Percentile £476 £466 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% -1.04% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £623 £650
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 2
10th Percentile £52.90 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £57.75 £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 £95.50 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -0.12%

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 18,724 12,266 15,102
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.83% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,111 8,233 10,330
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £685
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 368 206 188
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.04 £17.76
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -9.50% -8.47%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.56 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.38 £66.54 £72.81
England median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +14 343 £625 -4.62% 146
West London -16 31 £650 +44.44% 39
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 7
South London -15 10 £650 -7.74% 13
North London +1 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 735 (28.49%) Azure
2 661 (25.62%) Security Cleared
3 581 (22.52%) AWS
4 547 (21.20%) SC Cleared
5 449 (17.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 434 (16.82%) Roadmaps
7 427 (16.55%) Migration
8 421 (16.32%) AI
9 353 (13.68%) Enterprise Architecture
10 348 (13.49%) Microsoft
11 314 (12.17%) Data Modelling
12 310 (12.02%) DevOps
13 305 (11.82%) Analytics
14 297 (11.51%) CI/CD
15 291 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
16 283 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 275 (10.66%) Data Architecture
18 264 (10.23%) Agile
19 259 (10.04%) Integration Patterns
20 222 (8.60%) GCP
21 203 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
22 202 (7.83%) TOGAF
23 195 (7.56%) Security Architecture
24 188 (7.29%) Data Governance
24 188 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
25 179 (6.94%) Event-Driven
26 173 (6.71%) Power Platform
27 168 (6.51%) Decision-Making
28 167 (6.47%) Databricks
29 166 (6.43%) 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 (1.51%) SAS
2 34 (1.32%) Apache
3 30 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 22 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (0.85%) Confluence
5 18 (0.70%) CMS
6 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.23%) Appian
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.23%) Camunda
9 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.078%) Mendix
11 2 (0.078%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 735 (28.49%) Azure
2 581 (22.52%) AWS
3 222 (8.60%) GCP
4 173 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 108 (4.19%) Entra ID
6 104 (4.03%) SaaS
7 98 (3.80%) Serverless
8 85 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.18%) GitHub
10 73 (2.83%) Snowflake
11 66 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (2.09%) PaaS
13 50 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (1.78%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (1.32%) OCI
17 34 (1.32%) PowerApps
18 33 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
18 33 (1.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.02%) Network Security
2 46 (1.78%) Firewall
3 29 (1.12%) WAN
4 28 (1.09%) VPN
5 21 (0.81%) LAN
6 18 (0.70%) DNS
7 13 (0.50%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.31%) BGP
9 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.27%) 4G
10 7 (0.27%) 5G
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.23%) MPLS
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (4.50%) Power BI
2 96 (3.72%) Data Lake
3 94 (3.64%) Metadata
4 78 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 28 (1.09%) Big Data
7 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 24 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
12 15 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
13 14 (0.54%) Tableau
14 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
16 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 36 (1.40%) Git
1 36 (1.40%) JIRA
2 27 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.66%) GitLab
4 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.27%) ERwin
4 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (0.27%) RStudio
5 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
5 6 (0.23%) MLflow
5 6 (0.23%) Storybook
6 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 4 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.12%) JMeter
8 3 (0.12%) VTune
9 2 (0.078%) MSI
9 2 (0.078%) Postman
9 2 (0.078%) Selenium
General
1 529 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 456 (17.67%) Finance
3 283 (10.97%) Public Sector
4 158 (6.12%) Banking
5 145 (5.62%) Retail
6 138 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 84 (3.26%) Telecoms
8 83 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (1.94%) Legal
11 43 (1.67%) Marketing
12 40 (1.55%) Billing
12 40 (1.55%) Law
13 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 14 (0.54%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.54%) Military
15 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.50%) Police
17 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (6.01%) REST
2 121 (4.69%) Terraform
3 83 (3.22%) .NET
4 75 (2.91%) Kafka
5 70 (2.71%) SOAP
6 66 (2.56%) Middleware
7 51 (1.98%) OAuth
8 33 (1.28%) JSON
8 33 (1.28%) PySpark
9 32 (1.24%) .NET Framework
10 28 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (1.01%) OAuth2
11 26 (1.01%) OpenID
11 26 (1.01%) XML
12 24 (0.93%) React
13 23 (0.89%) SAML
14 22 (0.85%) RESTful
15 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.74%) JWT
17 18 (0.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 250 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 85 (3.29%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.06%) AI Agents
4 75 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 70 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 52 (2.02%) CMDB
10 51 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 32 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
15 24 (0.93%) Mainframe
16 22 (0.85%) IoT
17 21 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.51%) Linux
2 30 (1.16%) Windows
3 12 (0.47%) Unix
4 11 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) zOS
10 2 (0.078%) CentOS
10 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.078%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (17.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 434 (16.82%) Roadmaps
3 427 (16.55%) Migration
4 421 (16.32%) AI
5 353 (13.68%) Enterprise Architecture
6 314 (12.17%) Data Modelling
7 310 (12.02%) DevOps
8 305 (11.82%) Analytics
9 297 (11.51%) CI/CD
10 291 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
11 283 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 275 (10.66%) Data Architecture
13 264 (10.23%) Agile
14 259 (10.04%) Integration Patterns
15 203 (7.87%) Architectural Patterns
16 202 (7.83%) TOGAF
17 195 (7.56%) Security Architecture
18 188 (7.29%) Data Governance
18 188 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
19 179 (6.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 149 (5.78%) Python
2 136 (5.27%) SQL
3 110 (4.26%) Java
4 64 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 41 (1.59%) C#
7 32 (1.24%) TypeScript
8 22 (0.85%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.35%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.19%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 661 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 547 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 80 (3.10%) Degree
4 71 (2.75%) CISSP
5 62 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 57 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 54 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 39 (1.51%) CISM
9 38 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 37 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 26 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 14 (0.54%) CISA
18 10 (0.39%) CCNP
18 10 (0.39%) CCSP
18 10 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (4.46%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.45%) NIST
3 88 (3.41%) GDPR
4 77 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.02%) GRC
6 30 (1.16%) NCSC
7 27 (1.05%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.70%) SEPA
10 17 (0.66%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
14 12 (0.47%) SLA
15 11 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 7 (0.27%) IFRS
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 46 (1.78%) Docker
3 20 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.16%) Postfix
6 4 (0.16%) Varnish
6 4 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) NFS
7 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.078%) IAG
8 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.039%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.039%) Squid
9 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 108 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.55%) Ansible
3 24 (0.93%) Grafana
4 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.16%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.16%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.078%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.078%) Istio
10 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.078%) QRadar
11 1 (0.039%) Avamar
11 1 (0.039%) CASB
11 1 (0.039%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.039%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 348 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.47%) Databricks
3 157 (6.09%) Oracle
3 157 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 146 (5.66%) SAP
5 118 (4.57%) Salesforce
6 68 (2.64%) Google
7 50 (1.94%) Cisco
8 38 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 35 (1.36%) Workday
10 32 (1.24%) IBM
10 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 31 (1.20%) Foundry
12 27 (1.05%) OpenAI
13 24 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 24 (0.93%) VMware
14 22 (0.85%) Adobe
14 22 (0.85%) Ariba
15 20 (0.78%) Splunk
16 19 (0.74%) Sparx