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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 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 2,607 1,245 1,551
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.80% 9.37% 9.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.75% 10.13% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,758 817 936
10th Percentile £495 £461 £486
25th Percentile £550 £550 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £838
England median daily rate £622 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.48% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £82.00 £58.69
25th Percentile £59.13 £83.13 £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 £95.00 £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £69.00 £77.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -11.25% +11.07% -6.67%

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 12,291 15,049
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.48% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,246 8,213 9,807
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 209 173
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.15
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -22.86% -12.86%
75th Percentile £65.60 £49.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £79.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +10 321 £625 -3.85% 321
West London -21 28 £650 +44.44% 51
South London -15 15 £650 -8.26% 14
East London +1 9 £700 +3.70% 14
North London -2 2 £650 -14.75% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 761 (29.19%) Azure
2 700 (26.85%) Security Cleared
3 571 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 567 (21.75%) AWS
5 522 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 499 (19.14%) Roadmaps
7 435 (16.69%) AI
8 424 (16.26%) Migration
9 375 (14.38%) Enterprise Architecture
10 351 (13.46%) Microsoft
11 331 (12.70%) DevOps
12 299 (11.47%) CI/CD
13 298 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
14 294 (11.28%) Data Modelling
15 292 (11.20%) Analytics
16 283 (10.86%) Data Architecture
17 261 (10.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 248 (9.51%) Agile
19 247 (9.47%) Integration Patterns
20 212 (8.13%) GCP
21 209 (8.02%) TOGAF
22 200 (7.67%) Security Architecture
23 198 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
24 196 (7.52%) Architectural Patterns
25 193 (7.40%) Data Governance
25 193 (7.40%) Event-Driven
26 186 (7.13%) Decision-Making
27 172 (6.60%) Architecture Governance
28 165 (6.33%) SAP
29 160 (6.14%) 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 (1.50%) SAS
2 31 (1.19%) Apache
3 29 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.19%) Appian
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.12%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) JBoss
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.077%) IIS
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (0.42%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.077%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.077%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.077%) Revit
5 1 (0.038%) Notion
5 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 85 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 8 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 761 (29.19%) Azure
2 567 (21.75%) AWS
3 212 (8.13%) GCP
4 152 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 124 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 107 (4.10%) SaaS
7 99 (3.80%) Serverless
8 86 (3.30%) GitHub
9 80 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (2.80%) Snowflake
11 60 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
12 47 (1.80%) PaaS
13 44 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (1.57%) Amazon S3
16 40 (1.53%) Power Automate
17 39 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
18 37 (1.42%) dbt
18 37 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
19 35 (1.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.61%) Network Security
2 50 (1.92%) Firewall
3 33 (1.27%) WAN
4 28 (1.07%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 18 (0.69%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.31%) NGFW
9 8 (0.31%) Wireless
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.27%) MQTT
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.23%) 4G
11 6 (0.23%) SSL
11 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.33%) Metadata
2 89 (3.41%) Power BI
3 83 (3.18%) Data Lake
4 75 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.96%) Delta Lake
8 21 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.77%) Big Data
10 19 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 17 (0.65%) Data Vault
12 16 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
13 15 (0.58%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
14 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
15 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
16 11 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (1.50%) JIRA
2 36 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.19%) Git
4 21 (0.81%) GitLab
5 9 (0.35%) RStudio
6 8 (0.31%) 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 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Postman
10 3 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) Flyway
11 2 (0.077%) Liquibase
General
1 532 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 470 (18.03%) Finance
3 308 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.64%) Banking
5 134 (5.14%) Retail
6 117 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 81 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 43 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (1.65%) Marketing
11 42 (1.61%) Legal
12 41 (1.57%) Billing
13 28 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.77%) Automotive
15 20 (0.77%) Police
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
16 15 (0.58%) Military
17 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.91%) REST
2 143 (5.49%) Terraform
3 92 (3.53%) Kafka
4 79 (3.03%) .NET
5 63 (2.42%) SOAP
6 59 (2.26%) Middleware
7 52 (1.99%) OAuth
8 34 (1.30%) .NET Framework
8 34 (1.30%) PySpark
9 32 (1.23%) JSON
10 31 (1.19%) OpenID
11 28 (1.07%) OAuth2
12 25 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 25 (0.96%) SAML
13 24 (0.92%) XML
14 23 (0.88%) JWT
15 20 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.73%) React
16 19 (0.73%) Spring
17 18 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 245 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 88 (3.38%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.07%) AI Agents
4 73 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 67 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
6 64 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 56 (2.15%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.80%) CMDB
12 37 (1.42%) Taxonomies
13 35 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 31 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 31 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 28 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
17 22 (0.84%) IoT
17 22 (0.84%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (1.34%) Linux
2 32 (1.23%) Windows
3 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.38%) Unix
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.15%) Android
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) macOS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) AIX
10 1 (0.038%) Solaris
10 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (20.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 499 (19.14%) Roadmaps
3 435 (16.69%) AI
4 424 (16.26%) Migration
5 375 (14.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 331 (12.70%) DevOps
7 299 (11.47%) CI/CD
8 298 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
9 294 (11.28%) Data Modelling
10 292 (11.20%) Analytics
11 283 (10.86%) Data Architecture
12 261 (10.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 248 (9.51%) Agile
14 247 (9.47%) Integration Patterns
15 209 (8.02%) TOGAF
16 200 (7.67%) Security Architecture
17 198 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
18 196 (7.52%) Architectural Patterns
19 193 (7.40%) Data Governance
19 193 (7.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 133 (5.10%) SQL
2 124 (4.76%) Python
3 99 (3.80%) Java
4 57 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.42%) C#
7 34 (1.30%) Bicep
7 34 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 19 (0.73%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.61%) Bash
10 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.35%) ABAP
12 8 (0.31%) C++
13 7 (0.27%) R
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
14 6 (0.23%) Rust
15 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.19%) Ruby
15 5 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 700 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 571 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 78 (2.99%) Degree
4 74 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 66 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 63 (2.42%) CISSP
7 58 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (2.15%) AWS Certification
9 44 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 37 (1.42%) CISM
11 29 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.54%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.50%) CCSP
18 12 (0.46%) CCNP
18 12 (0.46%) CISA
19 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 84 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 82 (3.15%) GDPR
4 78 (2.99%) NIST
5 48 (1.84%) GRC
6 42 (1.61%) NCSC
7 21 (0.81%) QA
8 18 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.69%) SEPA
9 17 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.42%) SLA
13 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.35%) PMO
15 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 68 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 47 (1.80%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.077%) Postfix
8 2 (0.077%) Varnish
9 1 (0.038%) Ceph
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
Systems Management
1 114 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.73%) Ansible
3 33 (1.27%) Grafana
4 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 17 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.31%) Argo
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.23%) Puppet
7 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.15%) SCCM
8 2 (0.077%) CASB
8 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.077%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.077%) Istio
8 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.077%) QRadar
9 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.038%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 351 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.33%) SAP
3 160 (6.14%) Databricks
4 144 (5.52%) Oracle
5 139 (5.33%) ServiceNow
6 113 (4.33%) Salesforce
7 80 (3.07%) Google
8 54 (2.07%) Cisco
9 37 (1.42%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 30 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.07%) IBM
12 28 (1.07%) Workday
13 27 (1.04%) VMware
14 26 (1.00%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.92%) Foundry
16 23 (0.88%) Ariba
17 22 (0.84%) Dynatrace
18 21 (0.81%) Adobe
18 21 (0.81%) Splunk