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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,635 1,266 1,537
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.03% 9.54% 9.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.97% 10.29% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,776 818 995
10th Percentile £490 £463 £488
25th Percentile £531 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% -1.04% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £733 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £838
England median daily rate £620 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.80% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £52.20 - £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 - £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £100.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +15.70% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £68.17 £71.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.33% +1.79% -2.78%

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 18,862 12,305 15,150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.69% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,191 8,227 10,096
10th Percentile £361 £331 £343
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 £660 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 203 179
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.95 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.46 £75.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +13 344 £625 -3.85% 315
West London -20 30 £650 +44.44% 45
South London -12 14 £650 -8.26% 16
East London +3 12 £675 - 12
North London 0 2 £650 -27.78% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 760 (28.84%) Azure
2 686 (26.03%) Security Cleared
3 584 (22.16%) AWS
4 566 (21.48%) SC Cleared
5 487 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 463 (17.57%) Roadmaps
7 437 (16.58%) AI
8 427 (16.20%) Migration
9 370 (14.04%) Enterprise Architecture
10 352 (13.36%) Microsoft
11 324 (12.30%) DevOps
12 315 (11.95%) Analytics
13 311 (11.80%) Data Modelling
14 305 (11.57%) CI/CD
15 300 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
16 287 (10.89%) Data Architecture
17 274 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 267 (10.13%) Agile
19 266 (10.09%) Integration Patterns
20 228 (8.65%) GCP
21 212 (8.05%) TOGAF
22 206 (7.82%) Architectural Patterns
22 206 (7.82%) Security Architecture
23 196 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
24 191 (7.25%) Data Governance
25 184 (6.98%) Decision-Making
26 182 (6.91%) Event-Driven
27 174 (6.60%) Databricks
28 165 (6.26%) Machine Learning
29 164 (6.22%) Power Platform

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 (1.48%) SAS
2 34 (1.29%) Apache
3 29 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 25 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 23 (0.87%) Confluence
7 17 (0.65%) CMS
8 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Camunda
13 3 (0.11%) JBoss
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) nginx
14 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.076%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.076%) Mendix
14 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.076%) Revit
5 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.038%) Notion
5 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 69 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.15%) Endur
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.11%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 760 (28.84%) Azure
2 584 (22.16%) AWS
3 228 (8.65%) GCP
4 164 (6.22%) Power Platform
5 116 (4.40%) Entra ID
6 106 (4.02%) SaaS
7 98 (3.72%) Serverless
8 83 (3.15%) GitHub
9 80 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 73 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
11 71 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.01%) PaaS
13 46 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 39 (1.48%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (1.40%) dbt
18 36 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
18 36 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.62%) Network Security
2 45 (1.71%) Firewall
3 30 (1.14%) WAN
4 25 (0.95%) VPN
5 21 (0.80%) LAN
6 16 (0.61%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
8 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.27%) NGFW
9 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
9 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
10 6 (0.23%) 4G
10 6 (0.23%) BGP
10 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.23%) Wireless
11 5 (0.19%) DMZ
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
11 5 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (4.02%) Metadata
2 103 (3.91%) Power BI
3 96 (3.64%) Data Lake
4 81 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (0.95%) Delta Lake
8 24 (0.91%) Big Data
8 24 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.76%) NoSQL
10 19 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
12 17 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.61%) Data Vault
14 15 (0.57%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.53%) Tableau
16 12 (0.46%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
17 11 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (1.40%) JIRA
2 34 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.18%) Git
4 21 (0.80%) GitLab
5 9 (0.34%) RStudio
6 8 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 5 (0.19%) MLflow
10 4 (0.15%) Maven
10 4 (0.15%) Postman
10 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.11%) VTune
12 2 (0.076%) JMeter
12 2 (0.076%) MSI
General
1 528 (20.04%) Social Skills
2 461 (17.50%) Finance
3 296 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.30%) Banking
5 150 (5.69%) Retail
6 126 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
8 77 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 50 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (1.71%) Legal
11 41 (1.56%) Marketing
12 40 (1.52%) Billing
13 39 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.95%) Law
16 17 (0.65%) Military
16 17 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.49%) Aviation
17 13 (0.49%) Local Government
17 13 (0.49%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (5.69%) REST
2 130 (4.93%) Terraform
3 84 (3.19%) .NET
3 84 (3.19%) Kafka
4 66 (2.50%) SOAP
5 62 (2.35%) Middleware
6 50 (1.90%) OAuth
7 36 (1.37%) PySpark
8 35 (1.33%) .NET Framework
9 31 (1.18%) JSON
10 30 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (0.99%) OAuth2
12 25 (0.95%) XML
13 24 (0.91%) OpenID
14 23 (0.87%) React
15 22 (0.83%) SAML
16 21 (0.80%) RESTful
17 20 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
17 20 (0.76%) SailPoint
18 18 (0.68%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 251 (9.53%) Cloud Native
2 91 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.04%) AI Agents
4 70 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 68 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 59 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 59 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 56 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 53 (2.01%) CMDB
10 50 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 40 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 35 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 32 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 30 (1.14%) Public Cloud
15 23 (0.87%) IoT
15 23 (0.87%) Mainframe
16 21 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.37%) Linux
2 31 (1.18%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
3 12 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.19%) Android
6 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.11%) AIX
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.076%) CentOS
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.076%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 463 (17.57%) Roadmaps
3 437 (16.58%) AI
4 427 (16.20%) Migration
5 370 (14.04%) Enterprise Architecture
6 324 (12.30%) DevOps
7 315 (11.95%) Analytics
8 311 (11.80%) Data Modelling
9 305 (11.57%) CI/CD
10 300 (11.39%) Technical Leadership
11 287 (10.89%) Data Architecture
12 274 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 267 (10.13%) Agile
14 266 (10.09%) Integration Patterns
15 212 (8.05%) TOGAF
16 206 (7.82%) Architectural Patterns
16 206 (7.82%) Security Architecture
17 196 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
18 191 (7.25%) Data Governance
19 184 (6.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 137 (5.20%) Python
2 132 (5.01%) SQL
3 106 (4.02%) Java
4 64 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 39 (1.48%) C#
7 35 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 26 (0.99%) Bicep
9 20 (0.76%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.30%) C++
12 8 (0.30%) Ruby
13 7 (0.27%) ABAP
13 7 (0.27%) R
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
14 6 (0.23%) Rust
14 6 (0.23%) Scala
14 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 686 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 566 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 78 (2.96%) Degree
4 70 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 65 (2.47%) CISSP
6 63 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 56 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 48 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 41 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 36 (1.37%) CISM
11 27 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.49%) CISA
16 11 (0.42%) CCSP
17 10 (0.38%) CCNP
18 9 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.38%) NIST
3 85 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (3.15%) GDPR
5 51 (1.94%) GRC
6 38 (1.44%) NCSC
7 25 (0.95%) QA
8 18 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (0.68%) SEPA
9 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
10 16 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 15 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.42%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.30%) PMO
16 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 70 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.71%) Docker
3 18 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
6 4 (0.15%) Varnish
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) NFS
7 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
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
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 112 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.71%) Ansible
3 27 (1.02%) Grafana
4 20 (0.76%) 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%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.076%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.076%) Istio
11 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.076%) QRadar
12 1 (0.038%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.038%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 352 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 174 (6.60%) Databricks
3 158 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 153 (5.81%) Oracle
5 147 (5.58%) SAP
6 122 (4.63%) Salesforce
7 75 (2.85%) Google
8 48 (1.82%) Cisco
9 42 (1.59%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.25%) MuleSoft
11 32 (1.21%) Workday
12 29 (1.10%) Foundry
13 28 (1.06%) IBM
13 28 (1.06%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.91%) VMware
16 23 (0.87%) Splunk
17 21 (0.80%) Sparx
18 19 (0.72%) Adobe
19 18 (0.68%) Ariba