Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,500 1,417 1,700
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.61% 10.42% 10.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.57% 11.19% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 932 1,211
10th Percentile £475 £485 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £763
90th Percentile £800 £811 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £48.20 £54.50 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £99.65 £93.50 £107.59
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 18,427 12,663 15,835
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 93.09% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,044 8,556 11,285
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 196 248
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.69 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.40 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -5.42% -17.58%
75th Percentile £59.72 £50.13 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.29 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.91% -35.78% -3.53%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +15 371 £625 -7.41% 136
West London -11 32 £625 +31.58% 28
South London -12 19 £724 +6.87% 6
East London +2 13 £675 - 8
North London -3 1 £650 -3.70%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 705 (28.20%) Azure
2 643 (25.72%) Security Cleared
3 590 (23.60%) AWS
4 540 (21.60%) SC Cleared
5 410 (16.40%) Migration
6 408 (16.32%) Roadmaps
7 386 (15.44%) AI
8 327 (13.08%) Microsoft
9 326 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 309 (12.36%) DevOps
11 308 (12.32%) Enterprise Architecture
12 299 (11.96%) Analytics
13 292 (11.68%) Data Modelling
14 277 (11.08%) CI/CD
15 258 (10.32%) Data Architecture
16 254 (10.16%) Agile
17 252 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 243 (9.72%) Integration Patterns
19 234 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
20 226 (9.04%) GCP
21 216 (8.64%) TOGAF
22 209 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
23 185 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
24 165 (6.60%) Problem-Solving
24 165 (6.60%) Security Architecture
25 163 (6.52%) Event-Driven
26 160 (6.40%) Architectural Design
27 159 (6.36%) Microservices
28 156 (6.24%) Business Intelligence
28 156 (6.24%) ERP

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 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.28%) Apache
2 32 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.20%) SAS
4 24 (0.96%) Confluence
5 18 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.44%) CMS
8 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.28%) Appian
9 7 (0.28%) Camunda
9 7 (0.28%) nginx
10 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.080%) Mule
13 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.040%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.040%) Notion
3 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.24%) Endur
7 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 705 (28.20%) Azure
2 590 (23.60%) AWS
3 226 (9.04%) GCP
4 153 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.16%) SaaS
6 94 (3.76%) Entra ID
7 82 (3.28%) Serverless
8 79 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (2.84%) GitHub
10 66 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 61 (2.44%) PaaS
12 59 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
15 42 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (1.60%) IaaS
17 32 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 31 (1.24%) PowerApps
19 29 (1.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.72%) Network Security
2 61 (2.44%) Firewall
3 37 (1.48%) VPN
4 29 (1.16%) DNS
5 27 (1.08%) WAN
6 18 (0.72%) LAN
7 13 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.44%) MPLS
8 11 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (0.40%) 5G
10 9 (0.36%) 4G
10 9 (0.36%) BGP
10 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.32%) NGFW
11 8 (0.32%) OSPF
12 7 (0.28%) 3GPP
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.40%) Power BI
2 88 (3.52%) Data Lake
3 80 (3.20%) Metadata
4 70 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.24%) Big Data
6 31 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 25 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (0.64%) Delta Lake
12 15 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.60%) Tableau
13 13 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.48%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.44%) Db2
15 11 (0.44%) GIS
15 11 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (1.60%) Git
2 37 (1.48%) JIRA
3 34 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.68%) GitLab
5 10 (0.40%) ERwin
6 8 (0.32%) MLflow
7 6 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.20%) Maven
8 5 (0.20%) Storybook
9 4 (0.16%) Claude Code
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.16%) Snyk
9 4 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) JMeter
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.080%) Postman
11 2 (0.080%) REST Assured
General
1 481 (19.24%) Finance
2 455 (18.20%) Social Skills
3 286 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.76%) Banking
5 133 (5.32%) Retail
6 127 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.44%) Telecoms
8 74 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.04%) Legal
11 41 (1.64%) Law
12 36 (1.44%) Billing
13 33 (1.32%) Marketing
14 28 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.48%) Local Government
19 10 (0.40%) Investment Banking
19 10 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (5.36%) REST
2 89 (3.56%) Middleware
3 82 (3.28%) .NET
4 65 (2.60%) SOAP
5 64 (2.56%) Kafka
6 37 (1.48%) OAuth
7 32 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 32 (1.28%) React
8 31 (1.24%) .NET Framework
9 24 (0.96%) PySpark
10 22 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
10 22 (0.88%) OAuth2
10 22 (0.88%) SAML
11 21 (0.84%) OpenID
12 19 (0.76%) AngularJS
12 19 (0.76%) JSON
12 19 (0.76%) RESTful
13 17 (0.68%) HTML
13 17 (0.68%) XML
14 16 (0.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 240 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 78 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
3 67 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 66 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 64 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 62 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 53 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 52 (2.08%) CMDB
10 50 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 48 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 31 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
14 30 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 29 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 28 (1.12%) Taxonomies
17 26 (1.04%) Mainframe
17 26 (1.04%) Public Cloud
18 23 (0.92%) IoT
19 22 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.60%) Linux
2 31 (1.24%) Windows
3 10 (0.40%) Unix
4 9 (0.36%) Android
4 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.32%) zOS
6 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.080%) VMS
11 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (16.40%) Migration
2 408 (16.32%) Roadmaps
3 386 (15.44%) AI
4 326 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 309 (12.36%) DevOps
6 308 (12.32%) Enterprise Architecture
7 299 (11.96%) Analytics
8 292 (11.68%) Data Modelling
9 277 (11.08%) CI/CD
10 258 (10.32%) Data Architecture
11 254 (10.16%) Agile
12 252 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 243 (9.72%) Integration Patterns
14 234 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
15 216 (8.64%) TOGAF
16 209 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
17 185 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 165 (6.60%) Problem-Solving
18 165 (6.60%) Security Architecture
19 163 (6.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 153 (6.12%) Python
2 128 (5.12%) SQL
3 110 (4.40%) Java
4 56 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.72%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.48%) C#
7 27 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.96%) Bicep
9 22 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 19 (0.76%) Bash
11 14 (0.56%) Ruby
12 9 (0.36%) Scala
13 7 (0.28%) C++
13 7 (0.28%) R
13 7 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.24%) Cypher
15 5 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) Go
16 4 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 643 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 540 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.24%) Degree
4 69 (2.76%) Azure Certification
5 68 (2.72%) CISSP
6 58 (2.32%) AWS Certification
7 57 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.52%) CISM
9 36 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 35 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 19 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.60%) CCSP
17 14 (0.56%) CISA
18 12 (0.48%) CCNP
19 10 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 90 (3.60%) GDPR
3 69 (2.76%) NIST
4 60 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (1.64%) GRC
6 33 (1.32%) NCSC
7 30 (1.20%) QA
8 21 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.68%) SEPA
10 15 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
13 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.32%) PSD2
15 7 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.28%) IFRS
16 6 (0.24%) COBIT
16 6 (0.24%) HL7
System Software
1 55 (2.20%) Docker
2 53 (2.12%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.28%) Varnish
4 7 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.24%) Postfix
6 5 (0.20%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.16%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.080%) IAG
9 2 (0.080%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.040%) HDFS
10 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 122 (4.88%) Terraform
3 44 (1.76%) Ansible
4 27 (1.08%) Grafana
5 19 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.24%) Argo
8 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.16%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.080%) Consul
11 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.080%) Istio
11 2 (0.080%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.080%) Puppet
11 2 (0.080%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.080%) VxRail
Vendors
1 327 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 148 (5.92%) Oracle
3 144 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 143 (5.72%) SAP
5 135 (5.40%) Databricks
6 112 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 49 (1.96%) Google
8 46 (1.84%) Cisco
9 36 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 36 (1.44%) Workday
10 35 (1.40%) IBM
11 32 (1.28%) MuleSoft
12 31 (1.24%) Splunk
13 29 (1.16%) Foundry
13 29 (1.16%) OpenAI
14 25 (1.00%) Ariba
14 25 (1.00%) VMware
15 21 (0.84%) Palo Alto
16 16 (0.64%) Sparx
17 15 (0.60%) Dynatrace