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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,625 1,278 1,548
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.90% 9.47% 9.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.85% 10.22% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,764 826 958
10th Percentile £493 £463 £488
25th Percentile £540 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £647 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -0.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £735 £750
90th Percentile £807 £800 £838
England median daily rate £620 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.80% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £52.20 - £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £85.00 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £90.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +4.13% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £103.15
90th Percentile - £99.00 £112.57
England median hourly rate £68.17 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.98% +3.57% -3.34%

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 18,957 12,509 15,235
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.73% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,241 8,350 10,001
10th Percentile £361 £332 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £667 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 204 177
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.69 £24.15
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -19.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.92 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.44%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +13 342 £625 -3.85% 279
West London -24 29 £650 +44.44% 48
South London -9 15 £650 -8.26% 20
East London +1 9 £700 +3.70% 9
North London -1 2 £650 -14.75% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 756 (28.80%) Azure
2 693 (26.40%) Security Cleared
3 573 (21.83%) SC Cleared
4 566 (21.56%) AWS
5 512 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 485 (18.48%) Roadmaps
7 443 (16.88%) AI
8 420 (16.00%) Migration
9 372 (14.17%) Enterprise Architecture
10 337 (12.84%) Microsoft
11 319 (12.15%) DevOps
12 304 (11.58%) Data Modelling
13 300 (11.43%) Analytics
14 298 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
15 296 (11.28%) CI/CD
16 286 (10.90%) Data Architecture
17 261 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 254 (9.68%) Agile
18 254 (9.68%) Integration Patterns
19 216 (8.23%) GCP
20 205 (7.81%) Security Architecture
21 200 (7.62%) TOGAF
22 191 (7.28%) Architectural Patterns
23 188 (7.16%) Data Governance
24 187 (7.12%) Decision-Making
25 186 (7.09%) Infrastructure as Code
26 185 (7.05%) Event-Driven
27 169 (6.44%) Architecture Governance
28 163 (6.21%) SAP
29 162 (6.17%) Databricks

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 (1.49%) SAS
2 31 (1.18%) Apache
3 29 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.19%) Appian
11 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.11%) Camunda
12 3 (0.11%) JBoss
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) IIS
13 2 (0.076%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.076%) Mendix
13 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.076%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.076%) Revit
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 82 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 12 (0.46%) SAP MM
5 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
8 7 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Endur
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 756 (28.80%) Azure
2 566 (21.56%) AWS
3 216 (8.23%) GCP
4 149 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 116 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 104 (3.96%) SaaS
7 94 (3.58%) Serverless
8 78 (2.97%) GitHub
9 74 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 70 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.79%) PaaS
13 45 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 38 (1.45%) Amazon S3
15 38 (1.45%) dbt
16 36 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.37%) OCI
16 36 (1.37%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.59%) Network Security
2 47 (1.79%) Firewall
3 32 (1.22%) WAN
4 25 (0.95%) VPN
5 21 (0.80%) LAN
6 13 (0.50%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.30%) NGFW
9 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (0.27%) Wireless
11 6 (0.23%) 4G
11 6 (0.23%) MQTT
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) SSL
11 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.08%) Metadata
2 87 (3.31%) Data Lake
2 87 (3.31%) Power BI
3 76 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.14%) SQL Server
5 25 (0.95%) Delta Lake
6 24 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.80%) Big Data
8 20 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (0.69%) BigQuery
10 16 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.61%) Data Vault
10 16 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
11 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
12 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
12 12 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (1.41%) JIRA
2 33 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.10%) Git
4 21 (0.80%) GitLab
5 9 (0.34%) RStudio
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) Postman
10 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.076%) Flyway
11 2 (0.076%) Liquibase
General
1 526 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 459 (17.49%) Finance
3 304 (11.58%) Public Sector
4 172 (6.55%) Banking
5 141 (5.37%) Retail
6 118 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
8 81 (3.09%) Telecoms
9 46 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 43 (1.64%) Legal
10 43 (1.64%) Marketing
11 41 (1.56%) Billing
12 29 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.69%) Automotive
15 16 (0.61%) Military
16 14 (0.53%) Local Government
16 14 (0.53%) Police
17 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (5.79%) REST
2 125 (4.76%) Terraform
3 89 (3.39%) Kafka
4 80 (3.05%) .NET
5 67 (2.55%) SOAP
6 60 (2.29%) Middleware
7 50 (1.90%) OAuth
8 35 (1.33%) .NET Framework
8 35 (1.33%) PySpark
9 33 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
10 31 (1.18%) JSON
11 26 (0.99%) OAuth2
11 26 (0.99%) OpenID
12 24 (0.91%) XML
13 23 (0.88%) SAML
14 19 (0.72%) JWT
14 19 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
14 19 (0.72%) React
14 19 (0.72%) SailPoint
15 17 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 245 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 87 (3.31%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.01%) AI Agents
4 72 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 62 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
5 62 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 60 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (1.98%) CMDB
9 51 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 51 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 37 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 31 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 31 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 31 (1.18%) Security Posture
14 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
14 23 (0.88%) Private Cloud
15 22 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.30%) Linux
2 30 (1.14%) Windows
3 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.34%) Unix
5 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Android
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.11%) AIX
8 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 3 (0.11%) VMS
9 2 (0.076%) CentOS
9 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 485 (18.48%) Roadmaps
3 443 (16.88%) AI
4 420 (16.00%) Migration
5 372 (14.17%) Enterprise Architecture
6 319 (12.15%) DevOps
7 304 (11.58%) Data Modelling
8 300 (11.43%) Analytics
9 298 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
10 296 (11.28%) CI/CD
11 286 (10.90%) Data Architecture
12 261 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 254 (9.68%) Agile
13 254 (9.68%) Integration Patterns
14 205 (7.81%) Security Architecture
15 200 (7.62%) TOGAF
16 191 (7.28%) Architectural Patterns
17 188 (7.16%) Data Governance
18 187 (7.12%) Decision-Making
19 186 (7.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 129 (4.91%) SQL
2 122 (4.65%) Python
3 96 (3.66%) Java
4 56 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.41%) C#
7 29 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.95%) Bicep
9 19 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.61%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.34%) ABAP
13 8 (0.30%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.19%) Ruby
16 5 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 693 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 573 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 75 (2.86%) Degree
4 70 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 62 (2.36%) Azure Certification
5 62 (2.36%) CISSP
6 55 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 53 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 36 (1.37%) CISM
10 28 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 13 (0.50%) CISA
14 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.46%) CCNP
15 12 (0.46%) CCSP
16 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 83 (3.16%) GDPR
3 81 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (3.05%) NIST
5 51 (1.94%) GRC
6 42 (1.60%) NCSC
7 22 (0.84%) QA
8 18 (0.69%) SEPA
9 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 11 (0.42%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.30%) PMO
16 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 70 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 41 (1.56%) Docker
3 19 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) IAG
8 2 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.076%) Postfix
8 2 (0.076%) Varnish
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 106 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.71%) Ansible
3 26 (0.99%) Grafana
4 18 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.34%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.076%) CASB
10 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.076%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.076%) Istio
10 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.076%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 337 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.21%) SAP
3 162 (6.17%) Databricks
4 147 (5.60%) Oracle
5 146 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 113 (4.30%) Salesforce
7 79 (3.01%) Google
8 52 (1.98%) Cisco
9 39 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.26%) MuleSoft
11 30 (1.14%) Workday
12 28 (1.07%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.03%) IBM
14 25 (0.95%) Foundry
14 25 (0.95%) VMware
15 22 (0.84%) Ariba
15 22 (0.84%) Splunk
16 21 (0.80%) Sparx
17 20 (0.76%) Adobe