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 9 May 2026.

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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,131 1,259 1,791
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.92% 10.09% 10.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.85% 10.81% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 827 1,283
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £553 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £663
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -3.02% -5.36%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £752
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £60.50 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £63.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £75.84 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £90.25 -
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 16,584 11,651 16,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.40% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,987 11,953
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £426 £428 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £681
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 145 329
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.21 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.36 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.81% -18.34% -17.38%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +10 309 £650 -2.99% 116
West London -3 34 £633 -6.30% 17
South London -3 21 £680 +4.58% 1
East London -4 14 £650 +1.88% 7
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 588 (27.59%) Azure
2 583 (27.36%) Security Cleared
3 513 (24.07%) AWS
4 493 (23.13%) SC Cleared
5 337 (15.81%) Migration
6 300 (14.08%) Microsoft
7 295 (13.84%) Roadmaps
8 277 (13.00%) AI
8 277 (13.00%) DevOps
9 257 (12.06%) CI/CD
10 232 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 231 (10.84%) Integration Patterns
12 219 (10.28%) Analytics
13 216 (10.14%) GCP
14 212 (9.95%) Agile
15 210 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 208 (9.76%) Data Modelling
17 194 (9.10%) Data Architecture
18 189 (8.87%) Enterprise Architecture
18 189 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
19 184 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
20 179 (8.40%) Architectural Patterns
21 178 (8.35%) Python
22 167 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
23 152 (7.13%) TOGAF
24 149 (6.99%) Architectural Design
25 148 (6.95%) Microservices
26 138 (6.48%) ServiceNow
26 138 (6.48%) SQL
27 134 (6.29%) Terraform

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 40 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.13%) Confluence
3 20 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.75%) Apache
5 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.56%) nginx
6 10 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.38%) Camunda
7 8 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.23%) CMS
9 5 (0.23%) Mule
10 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.14%) Appian
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.094%) JBoss
12 2 (0.094%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.047%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.28%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP BRIM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 5 (0.23%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 588 (27.59%) Azure
2 513 (24.07%) AWS
3 216 (10.14%) GCP
4 115 (5.40%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.99%) SaaS
5 85 (3.99%) Serverless
6 75 (3.52%) Entra ID
7 70 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
8 59 (2.77%) Amazon S3
9 56 (2.63%) GitHub
10 52 (2.44%) PaaS
11 49 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (2.30%) Snowflake
12 42 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 41 (1.92%) IaaS
14 39 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
15 37 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 34 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.66%) Network Security
2 67 (3.14%) Firewall
3 45 (2.11%) WAN
4 41 (1.92%) DNS
5 40 (1.88%) VPN
6 25 (1.17%) LAN
7 23 (1.08%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.70%) BGP
9 14 (0.66%) OSPF
9 14 (0.66%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.52%) MPLS
10 11 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.47%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.42%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.38%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.38%) 5G
13 8 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.28%) NAS
14 6 (0.28%) SAN
14 6 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (3.80%) Power BI
2 68 (3.19%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (2.02%) Metadata
5 35 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.55%) SQL Server
7 28 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 20 (0.94%) Delta Lake
12 19 (0.89%) Big Data
13 17 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.80%) Tableau
14 16 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.66%) DB2
16 13 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
16 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.56%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 44 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.41%) Git
3 23 (1.08%) GitLab
3 23 (1.08%) JIRA
4 10 (0.47%) ERwin
4 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
5 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.38%) MLflow
6 6 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.23%) Maven
8 4 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.19%) Snyk
8 4 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.094%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.094%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.094%) MSI
10 2 (0.094%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.094%) Robot Framework
General
1 417 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 407 (19.10%) Finance
3 232 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 138 (6.48%) Banking
5 100 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (3.38%) Retail
8 62 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 56 (2.63%) Legal
11 54 (2.53%) Law
12 36 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (1.64%) Billing
14 28 (1.31%) Marketing
15 24 (1.13%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.56%) Military
18 10 (0.47%) Local Government
19 9 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.77%) REST
2 90 (4.22%) Middleware
3 78 (3.66%) SOAP
4 66 (3.10%) LDAP
5 64 (3.00%) .NET
6 45 (2.11%) Kafka
7 41 (1.92%) OpenID
8 30 (1.41%) SAML
9 26 (1.22%) OAuth
10 25 (1.17%) React
11 24 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
12 22 (1.03%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.84%) Spring
14 16 (0.75%) .NET Framework
14 16 (0.75%) RESTful
15 15 (0.70%) Vue
15 15 (0.70%) Web Services
16 14 (0.66%) J2EE
17 13 (0.61%) JSON
17 13 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 211 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 71 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 63 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
3 63 (2.96%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 56 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 53 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 47 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 37 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.64%) CMDB
12 33 (1.55%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.03%) Mainframe
15 20 (0.94%) FMCG
16 19 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 18 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.45%) Linux
2 30 (1.41%) Windows
3 10 (0.47%) zOS
4 9 (0.42%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) Android
5 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.14%) Solaris
8 2 (0.094%) AIX
8 2 (0.094%) CentOS
8 2 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.094%) VMS
8 2 (0.094%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.094%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (15.81%) Migration
2 295 (13.84%) Roadmaps
3 277 (13.00%) AI
3 277 (13.00%) DevOps
4 257 (12.06%) CI/CD
5 232 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 231 (10.84%) Integration Patterns
7 219 (10.28%) Analytics
8 212 (9.95%) Agile
9 210 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 208 (9.76%) Data Modelling
11 194 (9.10%) Data Architecture
12 189 (8.87%) Enterprise Architecture
12 189 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
13 184 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
14 179 (8.40%) Architectural Patterns
15 167 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
16 152 (7.13%) TOGAF
17 149 (6.99%) Architectural Design
18 148 (6.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 178 (8.35%) Python
2 138 (6.48%) SQL
3 103 (4.83%) Java
4 72 (3.38%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.41%) C#
6 28 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.03%) Bicep
8 18 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.75%) Ruby
10 13 (0.61%) Bash
11 11 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.47%) Scala
13 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.23%) R
15 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.19%) C++
16 4 (0.19%) Go
16 4 (0.19%) SOQL
17 3 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 583 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 493 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 76 (3.57%) Degree
4 67 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 50 (2.35%) CISSP
7 40 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.17%) CISM
10 25 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.66%) CCNP
16 13 (0.61%) CCSP
17 10 (0.47%) CCIE
17 10 (0.47%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.43%) GDPR
2 65 (3.05%) NIST
3 59 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (2.72%) Data Quality
5 43 (2.02%) NCSC
6 37 (1.74%) QA
7 24 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.61%) SEPA
10 12 (0.56%) GRC
11 10 (0.47%) PSD2
12 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.38%) SLA
14 7 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.23%) Accessibility
15 5 (0.23%) PERC
16 4 (0.19%) IFRS
System Software
1 80 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.14%) Docker
3 26 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.42%) Squid
5 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) Varnish
7 6 (0.28%) Postfix
8 5 (0.23%) NFS
8 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.23%) vSphere
9 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.094%) Ceph
11 2 (0.094%) Firmware
11 2 (0.094%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.094%) Lustre
11 2 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (6.29%) Terraform
2 125 (5.87%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.55%) Ansible
4 26 (1.22%) Grafana
5 22 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.33%) Consul
9 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.23%) Argo
11 4 (0.19%) Istio
11 4 (0.19%) Kibana
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.14%) Puppet
12 3 (0.14%) SCCM
13 2 (0.094%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.094%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.094%) VxRail
Vendors
1 300 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.48%) ServiceNow
3 115 (5.40%) SAP
4 112 (5.26%) Databricks
5 105 (4.93%) Oracle
6 102 (4.79%) Salesforce
7 72 (3.38%) CyberArk
8 43 (2.02%) Google
9 40 (1.88%) Cisco
10 35 (1.64%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.60%) Centrify
11 34 (1.60%) Splunk
12 31 (1.45%) VMware
13 30 (1.41%) Workday
14 27 (1.27%) IBM
15 25 (1.17%) OpenAI
16 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
17 22 (1.03%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.99%) Zscaler
19 20 (0.94%) Ariba