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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,281 1,295 1,799
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.06% 10.47% 10.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.99% 11.20% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 847 1,296
10th Percentile £475 £500 £488
25th Percentile £513 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £825 £800 £869
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £53.60 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £57.75 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £88.13 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £101.80 £93.50 £61.85
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 17,565 11,566 16,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.51% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,581 7,842 11,869
10th Percentile £358 £341 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.89 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.10% +18.27% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.49
90th Percentile £78.67 £65.00 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +16 352 £625 -7.41% 105
West London -2 30 £633 -5.60% 42
South London -1 22 £723 +0.52% 5
East London +4 15 £669 +14.36% 5
North London 0 1 £650 -3.70% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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.

1 651 (28.54%) Azure
2 637 (27.93%) Security Cleared
3 544 (23.85%) SC Cleared
4 541 (23.72%) AWS
5 373 (16.35%) Migration
6 330 (14.47%) Roadmaps
7 325 (14.25%) AI
8 307 (13.46%) Microsoft
9 298 (13.06%) DevOps
10 276 (12.10%) CI/CD
11 269 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 244 (10.70%) Analytics
13 243 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 241 (10.57%) Data Modelling
15 237 (10.39%) Integration Patterns
16 231 (10.13%) Data Architecture
17 223 (9.78%) Enterprise Architecture
18 219 (9.60%) Agile
19 214 (9.38%) GCP
20 200 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
21 195 (8.55%) Architectural Patterns
22 188 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
23 179 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
24 178 (7.80%) TOGAF
25 177 (7.76%) Python
26 161 (7.06%) Architectural Design
27 146 (6.40%) Security Architecture
28 140 (6.14%) Event-Driven
28 140 (6.14%) ServiceNow
29 138 (6.05%) Microservices

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 42 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.18%) Confluence
3 22 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.88%) Apache
5 14 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.53%) nginx
7 10 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.39%) Camunda
8 9 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.31%) SAS
10 5 (0.22%) Mule
11 3 (0.13%) Appian
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.088%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.044%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.044%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.044%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.18%) Endur
7 4 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.088%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.088%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 651 (28.54%) Azure
2 541 (23.72%) AWS
3 214 (9.38%) GCP
4 136 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 91 (3.99%) Serverless
6 86 (3.77%) SaaS
7 77 (3.38%) Entra ID
8 69 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
9 62 (2.72%) GitHub
10 56 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 56 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (2.41%) Snowflake
12 53 (2.32%) PaaS
13 50 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
15 39 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (1.67%) IaaS
17 33 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
18 30 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
18 30 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (3.99%) Network Security
2 69 (3.02%) Firewall
3 46 (2.02%) VPN
4 40 (1.75%) DNS
5 39 (1.71%) WAN
6 21 (0.92%) LAN
6 21 (0.92%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.61%) BGP
9 13 (0.57%) OSPF
10 10 (0.44%) MPLS
10 10 (0.44%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.35%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.35%) 5G
12 8 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
14 6 (0.26%) NGFW
14 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.30%) Power BI
2 77 (3.38%) Data Lake
3 60 (2.63%) Metadata
4 57 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 32 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 24 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (0.96%) Delta Lake
12 21 (0.92%) Big Data
13 19 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (0.66%) Tableau
15 14 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.57%) Data Vault
16 13 (0.57%) Star Schema
17 12 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
17 12 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 44 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.58%) JIRA
3 35 (1.53%) Git
4 19 (0.83%) GitLab
5 10 (0.44%) ERwin
6 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.35%) MLflow
8 7 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) Maven
9 5 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.18%) Snyk
11 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.13%) JMeter
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.13%) Postman
12 2 (0.088%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.088%) MSI
12 2 (0.088%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.088%) Robot Framework
General
1 439 (19.25%) Finance
2 435 (19.07%) Social Skills
3 267 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 147 (6.44%) Banking
5 110 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (3.95%) Retail
7 77 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 64 (2.81%) Telecoms
10 54 (2.37%) Legal
11 49 (2.15%) Law
12 33 (1.45%) Billing
13 26 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.01%) Marketing
14 23 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.53%) Military
17 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.39%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.30%) REST
2 83 (3.64%) Middleware
3 72 (3.16%) SOAP
4 70 (3.07%) .NET
5 55 (2.41%) LDAP
6 44 (1.93%) Kafka
7 39 (1.71%) OpenID
8 33 (1.45%) OAuth
8 33 (1.45%) SAML
9 30 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 27 (1.18%) React
11 22 (0.96%) .NET Framework
12 21 (0.92%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.79%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.79%) RESTful
14 17 (0.75%) Lightning Web Components
15 16 (0.70%) PySpark
16 15 (0.66%) Spring
17 14 (0.61%) JSON
18 13 (0.57%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 231 (10.13%) Cloud Native
2 74 (3.24%) Onboarding
3 65 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
4 63 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 60 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 51 (2.24%) Security Posture
9 49 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 48 (2.10%) AI Agents
11 47 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 44 (1.93%) CMDB
13 37 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.14%) Mainframe
15 24 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.01%) Public Cloud
17 21 (0.92%) NHS
18 20 (0.88%) Data Structures
19 19 (0.83%) Taxonomies
20 18 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.62%) Linux
2 35 (1.53%) Windows
3 11 (0.48%) Android
3 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.44%) Unix
5 9 (0.39%) zOS
6 8 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.088%) CentOS
11 2 (0.088%) VMS
11 2 (0.088%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (16.35%) Migration
2 330 (14.47%) Roadmaps
3 325 (14.25%) AI
4 298 (13.06%) DevOps
5 276 (12.10%) CI/CD
6 269 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 244 (10.70%) Analytics
8 243 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 241 (10.57%) Data Modelling
10 237 (10.39%) Integration Patterns
11 231 (10.13%) Data Architecture
12 223 (9.78%) Enterprise Architecture
13 219 (9.60%) Agile
14 200 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
15 195 (8.55%) Architectural Patterns
16 188 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 179 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
18 178 (7.80%) TOGAF
19 161 (7.06%) Architectural Design
20 146 (6.40%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 177 (7.76%) Python
2 125 (5.48%) SQL
3 105 (4.60%) Java
4 72 (3.16%) PowerShell
5 39 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.27%) C#
7 25 (1.10%) Bicep
8 19 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.70%) Bash
9 16 (0.70%) Ruby
10 9 (0.39%) Scala
11 7 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.22%) Go
13 5 (0.22%) R
14 4 (0.18%) C++
15 3 (0.13%) Korn
15 3 (0.13%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 637 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 544 (23.85%) SC Cleared
3 79 (3.46%) Degree
4 66 (2.89%) Azure Certification
5 60 (2.63%) CISSP
6 50 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.40%) CISM
11 31 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 14 (0.61%) CISA
18 13 (0.57%) CCNP
18 13 (0.57%) CCSP
19 10 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.42%) GDPR
2 75 (3.29%) NIST
3 68 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 67 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.02%) NCSC
6 36 (1.58%) QA
7 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 16 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.66%) GRC
10 13 (0.57%) SEPA
11 12 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.44%) PSD2
13 8 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.31%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.26%) COBIT
15 6 (0.26%) HL7
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
17 4 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 56 (2.46%) Docker
3 21 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.35%) Varnish
7 7 (0.31%) Postfix
7 7 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) NFS
8 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.088%) vSphere
11 1 (0.044%) HDFS
11 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 135 (5.92%) Terraform
2 122 (5.35%) Kubernetes
3 46 (2.02%) Ansible
4 24 (1.05%) Grafana
5 22 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.31%) Consul
8 7 (0.31%) HAProxy
9 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.22%) Argo
10 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.18%) Puppet
11 4 (0.18%) SCCM
12 3 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.088%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.088%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.088%) QRadar
13 2 (0.088%) VxRail
Vendors
1 307 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.14%) ServiceNow
3 131 (5.74%) Databricks
4 119 (5.22%) SAP
5 113 (4.95%) Oracle
6 102 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 64 (2.81%) CyberArk
8 55 (2.41%) Cisco
9 47 (2.06%) Google
10 39 (1.71%) Splunk
11 32 (1.40%) Workday
12 30 (1.32%) MuleSoft
13 28 (1.23%) IBM
14 27 (1.18%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.14%) Foundry
15 26 (1.14%) Palo Alto
16 25 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
16 25 (1.10%) VMware
17 24 (1.05%) Centrify
18 19 (0.83%) Ariba