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 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 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 2,609 1,283 1,575
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 9.50% 9.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.76% 10.25% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 823 1,044
10th Percentile £480 £463 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -0.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £752
90th Percentile £805 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £648
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.55% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile £52.55 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £56.38 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £88.38 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -0.12%

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 18,954 12,522 15,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 92.73% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,221 8,378 10,359
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £673 £675
90th Percentile £772 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 209 184
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.61
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.96 £74.06
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +13 354 £625 -4.94% 169
West London -18 29 £650 +44.44% 37
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 15
South London -11 9 £650 -7.74% 8
North London -2 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 754 (28.90%) Azure
2 656 (25.14%) Security Cleared
3 595 (22.81%) AWS
4 540 (20.70%) SC Cleared
5 467 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 450 (17.25%) Roadmaps
7 430 (16.48%) AI
8 429 (16.44%) Migration
9 361 (13.84%) Enterprise Architecture
10 353 (13.53%) Microsoft
11 321 (12.30%) Data Modelling
11 321 (12.30%) DevOps
12 312 (11.96%) Analytics
13 304 (11.65%) CI/CD
14 295 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
15 288 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 279 (10.69%) Data Architecture
17 264 (10.12%) Agile
17 264 (10.12%) Integration Patterns
18 233 (8.93%) GCP
19 208 (7.97%) TOGAF
20 203 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
21 202 (7.74%) Security Architecture
22 194 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
23 187 (7.17%) Data Governance
24 185 (7.09%) Event-Driven
25 178 (6.82%) Power Platform
26 173 (6.63%) Decision-Making
27 170 (6.52%) Databricks
27 170 (6.52%) Translating Business Requirements

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 34 (1.30%) Apache
3 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 29 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 17 (0.65%) CMS
8 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.19%) Camunda
12 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.11%) nginx
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.077%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.038%) Notion
3 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.038%) Revit
3 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
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 FSCM
Cloud Services
1 754 (28.90%) Azure
2 595 (22.81%) AWS
3 233 (8.93%) GCP
4 178 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 109 (4.18%) Entra ID
6 108 (4.14%) SaaS
7 99 (3.79%) Serverless
8 86 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
8 86 (3.30%) GitHub
9 77 (2.95%) Snowflake
10 70 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 56 (2.15%) PaaS
12 50 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (1.65%) Amazon S3
14 41 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 36 (1.38%) PowerApps
16 35 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
16 35 (1.34%) OCI
16 35 (1.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.95%) Network Security
2 47 (1.80%) Firewall
3 30 (1.15%) WAN
4 28 (1.07%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 19 (0.73%) DNS
7 12 (0.46%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.34%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) 4G
10 7 (0.27%) 5G
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.23%) MPLS
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.48%) Power BI
2 98 (3.76%) Data Lake
3 97 (3.72%) Metadata
4 81 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.03%) Big Data
7 26 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 25 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (0.92%) Delta Lake
10 21 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
13 16 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.57%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.54%) Tableau
16 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
17 12 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
18 11 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (1.42%) JIRA
2 33 (1.26%) Git
3 32 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.73%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.27%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.27%) RStudio
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) Maven
8 5 (0.19%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) JMeter
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) MSI
11 2 (0.077%) Postman
11 2 (0.077%) Selenium
General
1 534 (20.47%) Social Skills
2 466 (17.86%) Finance
3 284 (10.89%) Public Sector
4 168 (6.44%) Banking
5 149 (5.71%) Retail
6 135 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 82 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 53 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (1.84%) Legal
11 43 (1.65%) Marketing
12 41 (1.57%) Billing
13 38 (1.46%) Law
14 32 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 30 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.57%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.57%) Military
16 15 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.50%) Police
18 12 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (5.94%) REST
2 124 (4.75%) Terraform
3 84 (3.22%) .NET
4 82 (3.14%) Kafka
5 70 (2.68%) SOAP
6 61 (2.34%) Middleware
7 51 (1.95%) OAuth
8 34 (1.30%) PySpark
9 33 (1.26%) .NET Framework
9 33 (1.26%) JSON
10 28 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
11 26 (1.00%) OpenID
11 26 (1.00%) XML
12 24 (0.92%) React
13 23 (0.88%) SAML
14 22 (0.84%) RESTful
15 21 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.73%) JWT
16 19 (0.73%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 254 (9.74%) Cloud Native
2 88 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 81 (3.10%) AI Agents
4 72 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 69 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 55 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.95%) CMDB
9 51 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
11 34 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.26%) Taxonomies
13 32 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 26 (1.00%) Public Cloud
15 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
16 22 (0.84%) IoT
17 21 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.46%) Linux
2 30 (1.15%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
4 11 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.11%) AIX
9 3 (0.11%) Solaris
10 2 (0.077%) CentOS
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
10 2 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (17.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 450 (17.25%) Roadmaps
3 430 (16.48%) AI
4 429 (16.44%) Migration
5 361 (13.84%) Enterprise Architecture
6 321 (12.30%) Data Modelling
6 321 (12.30%) DevOps
7 312 (11.96%) Analytics
8 304 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 295 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
10 288 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 279 (10.69%) Data Architecture
12 264 (10.12%) Agile
12 264 (10.12%) Integration Patterns
13 208 (7.97%) TOGAF
14 203 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
15 202 (7.74%) Security Architecture
16 194 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 187 (7.17%) Data Governance
18 185 (7.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 144 (5.52%) Python
2 136 (5.21%) SQL
3 113 (4.33%) Java
4 64 (2.45%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.53%) C#
7 32 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.92%) Bicep
9 21 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Ruby
12 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.38%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) ABAP
14 7 (0.27%) R
14 7 (0.27%) Scala
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
15 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 656 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 540 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 76 (2.91%) Degree
4 73 (2.80%) CISSP
5 65 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 55 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 50 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 41 (1.57%) CISM
9 39 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 11 (0.42%) CCSP
18 10 (0.38%) CCNP
18 10 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.41%) NIST
3 85 (3.26%) GDPR
4 77 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (1.99%) GRC
6 32 (1.23%) NCSC
7 27 (1.03%) QA
8 21 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.69%) SEPA
10 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 12 (0.46%) SLA
15 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
18 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 46 (1.76%) Docker
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) 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 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) 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%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 110 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.57%) Ansible
3 25 (0.96%) Grafana
4 21 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.34%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.19%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.077%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.077%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.077%) Istio
10 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.038%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 353 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 170 (6.52%) Databricks
3 158 (6.06%) Oracle
4 157 (6.02%) ServiceNow
5 149 (5.71%) SAP
6 118 (4.52%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.61%) Google
8 49 (1.88%) Cisco
9 39 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 34 (1.30%) Workday
11 31 (1.19%) Foundry
11 31 (1.19%) IBM
12 27 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 25 (0.96%) VMware
14 24 (0.92%) Palo Alto
15 21 (0.80%) Adobe
15 21 (0.80%) Splunk
16 20 (0.77%) Ariba
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx