Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,671 1,370 1,738
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.40% 10.41% 9.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.24% 11.12% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 844 1,255
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £528 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.89% -1.85%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £750
90th Percentile £838 £813 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £64.60 £36.75 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.25 £39.38 £46.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -10.42% +51.51%
75th Percentile £89.48 £59.38 £59.15
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.25 £61.16
England median hourly rate £71.27 £71.25 £77.64
% change year-on-year +0.03% -8.22% +10.91%

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 14,866 12,317 16,927
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.61% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,967 8,119 12,217
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 140 336
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.19 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 £19.04
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £59.99 £52.44 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.44 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £33.31
% change year-on-year - +5.08% -19.28%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +1 228 £650 -2.99% 106
South London +6 25 £575 -21.77% 9
West London -8 24 £644 +28.70% 13
East London -6 7 £540 -13.60% 12
North London 0 2 £663 -4.57% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 March 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.

1 527 (31.54%) Azure
2 478 (28.61%) Security Cleared
3 425 (25.43%) AWS
4 409 (24.48%) SC Cleared
5 243 (14.54%) Roadmaps
6 242 (14.48%) Microsoft
7 233 (13.94%) DevOps
8 215 (12.87%) Migration
9 203 (12.15%) CI/CD
10 201 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 196 (11.73%) AI
12 192 (11.49%) Agile
13 181 (10.83%) GCP
14 180 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
15 177 (10.59%) Data Modelling
16 173 (10.35%) Integration Patterns
17 172 (10.29%) Analytics
18 169 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 167 (9.99%) Data Architecture
20 166 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
21 157 (9.40%) Enterprise Architecture
22 152 (9.10%) Python
23 142 (8.50%) TOGAF
24 127 (7.60%) Terraform
25 123 (7.36%) REST
25 123 (7.36%) SQL
26 120 (7.18%) Architectural Patterns
27 118 (7.06%) Microservices
28 114 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
29 113 (6.76%) Kubernetes

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 37 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.32%) Confluence
3 15 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.60%) nginx
6 9 (0.54%) CMS
7 7 (0.42%) Apache
8 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.30%) Mule
8 5 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.060%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.060%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 45 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.42%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.18%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.18%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 527 (31.54%) Azure
2 425 (25.43%) AWS
3 181 (10.83%) GCP
4 79 (4.73%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.31%) SaaS
6 70 (4.19%) Serverless
7 59 (3.53%) Entra ID
8 53 (3.17%) IaaS
9 47 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 43 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (2.57%) GitHub
11 43 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
12 39 (2.33%) Snowflake
13 37 (2.21%) PaaS
14 36 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 35 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 30 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.79%) Firewall
2 67 (4.01%) Network Security
3 49 (2.93%) WAN
4 43 (2.57%) DNS
5 40 (2.39%) VPN
6 28 (1.68%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.62%) LAN
8 16 (0.96%) BGP
9 15 (0.90%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.78%) OSPF
11 12 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.48%) 5G
12 8 (0.48%) MPLS
12 8 (0.48%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.42%) SSL
13 7 (0.42%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.36%) Internet
14 6 (0.36%) VSAN
15 5 (0.30%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (3.17%) Data Lake
3 48 (2.87%) Power BI
4 45 (2.69%) Metadata
5 34 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (1.92%) SQL Server
7 24 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.02%) Tableau
10 16 (0.96%) Data Vault
11 14 (0.84%) DB2
11 14 (0.84%) Delta Lake
12 12 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.72%) Big Data
12 12 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (2.45%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.74%) JIRA
3 22 (1.32%) GitLab
4 16 (0.96%) Git
5 10 (0.60%) ERwin
6 8 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.18%) Snyk
9 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.12%) Maven
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.060%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.060%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.060%) Katalon Studio
General
1 401 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 347 (20.77%) Finance
3 197 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 119 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (7.00%) Banking
6 65 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (2.69%) Retail
9 39 (2.33%) Legal
10 38 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.68%) Marketing
13 27 (1.62%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.38%) Law
16 22 (1.32%) Billing
17 19 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (0.78%) Military
19 10 (0.60%) Electronics
20 8 (0.48%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (7.36%) REST
2 89 (5.33%) Middleware
3 64 (3.83%) SOAP
4 62 (3.71%) LDAP
5 45 (2.69%) .NET
5 45 (2.69%) OpenID
6 41 (2.45%) JSON
7 33 (1.97%) SAML
8 32 (1.92%) Kafka
9 30 (1.80%) OAuth
10 24 (1.44%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.14%) React
12 16 (0.96%) PySpark
13 14 (0.84%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.84%) RESTful
14 12 (0.72%) XML
15 11 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
15 11 (0.66%) Spring
15 11 (0.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 66 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 60 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 46 (2.75%) Security Posture
5 40 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.33%) PKI
6 39 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.03%) Product Ownership
9 30 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.14%) Replication
13 18 (1.08%) CMDB
14 16 (0.96%) Private Cloud
15 15 (0.90%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.03%) Windows
2 23 (1.38%) Linux
3 9 (0.54%) zOS
4 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.36%) Unix
6 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Android
8 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.060%) Solaris
9 1 (0.060%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (14.54%) Roadmaps
2 233 (13.94%) DevOps
3 215 (12.87%) Migration
4 203 (12.15%) CI/CD
5 201 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 196 (11.73%) AI
7 192 (11.49%) Agile
8 180 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
9 177 (10.59%) Data Modelling
10 173 (10.35%) Integration Patterns
11 172 (10.29%) Analytics
12 169 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 167 (9.99%) Data Architecture
14 166 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
15 157 (9.40%) Enterprise Architecture
16 142 (8.50%) TOGAF
17 120 (7.18%) Architectural Patterns
18 118 (7.06%) Microservices
19 114 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
20 100 (5.98%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 152 (9.10%) Python
2 123 (7.36%) SQL
3 87 (5.21%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.35%) Java
5 29 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.62%) C#
7 24 (1.44%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.08%) Bicep
9 15 (0.90%) Bash
10 10 (0.60%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.42%) Ruby
12 7 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.30%) Korn
13 5 (0.30%) R
13 5 (0.30%) Scala
14 3 (0.18%) C
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 478 (28.61%) Security Cleared
2 409 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.25%) Degree
4 63 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 42 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (1.97%) CISSP
10 28 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.96%) CCNP
14 14 (0.84%) CISM
15 11 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (0.66%) CCIE
16 10 (0.60%) CCSP
17 5 (0.30%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.01%) GDPR
2 52 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (2.39%) NCSC
4 40 (2.39%) NIST
5 34 (2.03%) QA
6 23 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.78%) ISO 20022
8 10 (0.60%) GRC
9 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.48%) PSD2
11 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.36%) SEPA
13 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.30%) HL7
13 5 (0.30%) PERC
13 5 (0.30%) SLA
14 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (4.61%) Docker
2 74 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.48%) Squid
7 6 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.18%) Varnish
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Lustre
9 2 (0.12%) Postfix
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.060%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.060%) HDFS
10 1 (0.060%) NFS
Systems Management
1 127 (7.60%) Terraform
2 113 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.39%) Ansible
4 21 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.20%) Grafana
6 17 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.42%) Consul
10 4 (0.24%) Kibana
11 3 (0.18%) Argo
11 3 (0.18%) Istio
11 3 (0.18%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.12%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 242 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.51%) SAP
3 91 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 88 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 86 (5.15%) Databricks
6 70 (4.19%) Oracle
7 62 (3.71%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.45%) Cisco
9 40 (2.39%) Google
10 35 (2.09%) Splunk
11 34 (2.03%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (2.03%) Centrify
12 30 (1.80%) VMware
13 25 (1.50%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.38%) IBM
15 22 (1.32%) MuleSoft
16 21 (1.26%) OpenAI
16 21 (1.26%) Workday
17 16 (0.96%) Zscaler
18 13 (0.78%) Dynatrace