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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,555 1,328 1,583
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 9.86% 9.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.65% 10.61% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 854 1,113
10th Percentile £481 £477 £488
25th Percentile £525 £555 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £734 £763
90th Percentile £813 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £48.20 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £99.65 £96.75 £112.57
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 18,720 12,511 15,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.93% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,419 10,680
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 205 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -10.86%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.50 £54.69
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +15 357 £625 -6.72% 87
West London -13 37 £625 +38.89% 16
East London 0 13 £700 +3.70% 10
South London -18 8 £688 +1.51% 7
North London -3 2 £650 -17.46%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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.

1 727 (28.45%) Azure
2 652 (25.52%) Security Cleared
3 590 (23.09%) AWS
4 541 (21.17%) SC Cleared
5 424 (16.59%) Roadmaps
6 416 (16.28%) Migration
7 395 (15.46%) AI
8 393 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 345 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
10 336 (13.15%) Microsoft
11 312 (12.21%) Analytics
12 305 (11.94%) Data Modelling
13 301 (11.78%) DevOps
14 286 (11.19%) CI/CD
15 275 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 273 (10.68%) Data Architecture
17 264 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
18 260 (10.18%) Integration Patterns
19 251 (9.82%) Agile
20 224 (8.77%) GCP
21 205 (8.02%) TOGAF
22 202 (7.91%) Architectural Patterns
23 189 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
24 180 (7.05%) Security Architecture
25 174 (6.81%) Event-Driven
26 171 (6.69%) Data Governance
27 168 (6.58%) Translating Business Requirements
28 167 (6.54%) Power Platform
28 167 (6.54%) Problem-Solving
29 161 (6.30%) Business Intelligence

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 38 (1.49%) SAS
1 38 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.33%) Apache
3 32 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 24 (0.94%) Confluence
5 18 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.51%) CMS
6 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.27%) Camunda
9 6 (0.23%) Appian
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.16%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.078%) Mendix
12 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.63%) 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 6 (0.23%) Endur
7 5 (0.20%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 727 (28.45%) Azure
2 590 (23.09%) AWS
3 224 (8.77%) GCP
4 167 (6.54%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.07%) SaaS
6 101 (3.95%) Entra ID
7 85 (3.33%) Serverless
8 82 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (3.05%) GitHub
10 72 (2.82%) Snowflake
11 63 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
12 61 (2.39%) PaaS
13 48 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
14 44 (1.72%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (1.45%) IaaS
17 36 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 34 (1.33%) OCI
20 31 (1.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.41%) Network Security
2 50 (1.96%) Firewall
3 32 (1.25%) VPN
4 28 (1.10%) WAN
5 26 (1.02%) DNS
6 19 (0.74%) LAN
7 16 (0.63%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.43%) BGP
9 11 (0.43%) MPLS
9 11 (0.43%) NX-OS
10 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) 5G
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
14 6 (0.23%) 3GPP
14 6 (0.23%) DMZ
14 6 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.62%) Power BI
2 96 (3.76%) Data Lake
3 81 (3.17%) Metadata
4 79 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.21%) Big Data
7 26 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 26 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (0.86%) Delta Lake
10 14 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (0.55%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.51%) Tableau
12 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
13 11 (0.43%) GIS
13 11 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (1.49%) Git
2 36 (1.41%) JIRA
3 27 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) MLflow
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.20%) Maven
7 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.078%) Flyway
10 2 (0.078%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.078%) Robot Framework
General
1 491 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 470 (18.40%) Finance
3 289 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 162 (6.34%) Banking
5 145 (5.68%) Retail
6 130 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 76 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.04%) Legal
10 44 (1.72%) Law
11 41 (1.60%) Marketing
12 37 (1.45%) Billing
13 28 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.59%) Local Government
16 15 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.51%) Police
18 12 (0.47%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (5.79%) REST
2 83 (3.25%) .NET
3 77 (3.01%) Middleware
4 72 (2.82%) Kafka
5 67 (2.62%) SOAP
6 47 (1.84%) OAuth
7 31 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.17%) .NET Framework
9 29 (1.14%) JSON
10 27 (1.06%) OAuth2
10 27 (1.06%) PySpark
10 27 (1.06%) React
11 23 (0.90%) RESTful
11 23 (0.90%) SAML
12 21 (0.82%) OpenID
13 20 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (0.78%) XML
14 19 (0.74%) JWT
15 16 (0.63%) AngularJS
15 16 (0.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 247 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.01%) Data Centre
3 74 (2.90%) AI Agents
3 74 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 67 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 66 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.07%) CMDB
8 52 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 39 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 35 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.14%) Taxonomies
14 26 (1.02%) Mainframe
15 25 (0.98%) Public Cloud
16 22 (0.86%) IoT
17 20 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.68%) Linux
2 33 (1.29%) Windows
3 12 (0.47%) Unix
4 10 (0.39%) 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
8 4 (0.16%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.078%) CentOS
10 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (16.59%) Roadmaps
2 416 (16.28%) Migration
3 395 (15.46%) AI
4 393 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 345 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 312 (12.21%) Analytics
7 305 (11.94%) Data Modelling
8 301 (11.78%) DevOps
9 286 (11.19%) CI/CD
10 275 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 273 (10.68%) Data Architecture
12 264 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
13 260 (10.18%) Integration Patterns
14 251 (9.82%) Agile
15 205 (8.02%) TOGAF
16 202 (7.91%) Architectural Patterns
17 189 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 180 (7.05%) Security Architecture
19 174 (6.81%) Event-Driven
20 171 (6.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 146 (5.71%) Python
2 136 (5.32%) SQL
3 106 (4.15%) Java
4 61 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 48 (1.88%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.41%) C#
7 26 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.98%) Bicep
9 20 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.55%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.16%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 652 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 541 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 74 (2.90%) Degree
4 69 (2.70%) CISSP
5 64 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 59 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.11%) AWS Certification
8 39 (1.53%) CISM
9 35 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 29 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.55%) CISA
16 14 (0.55%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.47%) CCSP
18 11 (0.43%) CCNP
19 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.56%) GDPR
3 81 (3.17%) NIST
4 73 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.96%) GRC
6 33 (1.29%) NCSC
7 29 (1.14%) QA
8 21 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.67%) SEPA
11 14 (0.55%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
12 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.31%) IFRS
15 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 48 (1.88%) Docker
3 21 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
6 5 (0.20%) NFS
6 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.20%) vSphere
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.078%) IAG
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.078%) Squid
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 121 (4.74%) Terraform
2 109 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.76%) Ansible
4 25 (0.98%) Grafana
5 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.35%) Argo
8 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.16%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.12%) Puppet
11 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.078%) QRadar
11 2 (0.078%) VxRail
12 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 336 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.26%) Oracle
3 151 (5.91%) ServiceNow
4 150 (5.87%) Databricks
5 144 (5.64%) SAP
6 121 (4.74%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.54%) Google
8 52 (2.04%) Cisco
9 36 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.37%) Workday
11 31 (1.21%) IBM
12 30 (1.17%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.14%) Foundry
14 27 (1.06%) Ariba
15 26 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.02%) VMware
16 25 (0.98%) Splunk
17 22 (0.86%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.78%) Adobe
19 19 (0.74%) Sparx