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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 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 2,605 1,260 1,520
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.87% 9.47% 9.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.82% 10.22% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,754 815 933
10th Percentile £493 £463 £486
25th Percentile £545 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £808 £800 £838
England median daily rate £622 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.56% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 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 £95.00 £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £68.17 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.98% +3.57% -4.00%

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 18,855 12,329 15,074
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.62% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,181 8,231 9,873
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
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 £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 202 178
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.00 £17.43
25th Percentile £21.95 £22.56 £24.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.81 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.42% -22.20% -7.65%
75th Percentile £64.81 £49.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.31 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.40%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +14 329 £625 -3.85% 321
West London -22 28 £650 +44.44% 52
South London -10 15 £650 -8.26% 19
East London -1 9 £700 +3.70% 10
North London -1 2 £650 -14.75%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 759 (29.14%) Azure
2 689 (26.45%) Security Cleared
3 568 (21.80%) SC Cleared
4 560 (21.50%) AWS
5 518 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 489 (18.77%) Roadmaps
7 442 (16.97%) AI
8 423 (16.24%) Migration
9 373 (14.32%) Enterprise Architecture
10 345 (13.24%) Microsoft
11 323 (12.40%) DevOps
12 303 (11.63%) Analytics
13 301 (11.55%) Data Modelling
14 296 (11.36%) CI/CD
14 296 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
15 287 (11.02%) Data Architecture
16 258 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 255 (9.79%) Integration Patterns
18 251 (9.64%) Agile
19 216 (8.29%) GCP
20 207 (7.95%) TOGAF
21 204 (7.83%) Security Architecture
22 192 (7.37%) Event-Driven
23 191 (7.33%) Data Governance
23 191 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
24 190 (7.29%) Architectural Patterns
25 186 (7.14%) Decision-Making
26 173 (6.64%) Architecture Governance
27 167 (6.41%) SAP
28 161 (6.18%) 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 26 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 24 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.19%) Appian
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.077%) IIS
12 2 (0.077%) Mendix
12 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.077%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.077%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.077%) Revit
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 86 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
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%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Endur
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 759 (29.14%) Azure
2 560 (21.50%) AWS
3 216 (8.29%) GCP
4 152 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 124 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 109 (4.18%) SaaS
7 96 (3.69%) Serverless
8 86 (3.30%) GitHub
9 77 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (2.80%) Snowflake
11 54 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
13 45 (1.73%) PaaS
14 43 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 39 (1.50%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.46%) dbt
17 37 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (1.42%) Power Automate
18 35 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.61%) Network Security
2 48 (1.84%) Firewall
3 32 (1.23%) WAN
4 26 (1.00%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 14 (0.54%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
10 8 (0.31%) Wireless
11 7 (0.27%) BGP
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
11 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.23%) 4G
12 6 (0.23%) MQTT
12 6 (0.23%) SMS
12 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.18%) Metadata
2 88 (3.38%) Power BI
3 86 (3.30%) Data Lake
4 75 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.00%) Delta Lake
7 25 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (0.81%) Big Data
10 20 (0.77%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.65%) 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
15 12 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (1.46%) JIRA
2 34 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.11%) 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%) JMeter
11 2 (0.077%) MSI
General
1 529 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 458 (17.58%) Finance
3 307 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.64%) Banking
5 135 (5.18%) Retail
6 117 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 81 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.65%) Marketing
12 42 (1.61%) Billing
12 42 (1.61%) Legal
13 28 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.77%) Automotive
16 18 (0.69%) Police
17 15 (0.58%) Military
18 14 (0.54%) Local Government
19 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.91%) REST
2 131 (5.03%) Terraform
3 88 (3.38%) Kafka
4 79 (3.03%) .NET
5 64 (2.46%) SOAP
6 61 (2.34%) Middleware
7 52 (2.00%) OAuth
8 36 (1.38%) PySpark
9 34 (1.31%) .NET Framework
10 32 (1.23%) JSON
11 30 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
12 28 (1.07%) OAuth2
12 28 (1.07%) OpenID
13 24 (0.92%) SAML
13 24 (0.92%) XML
14 21 (0.81%) JWT
15 19 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
16 18 (0.69%) React
16 18 (0.69%) SailPoint
17 17 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 244 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 86 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 73 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 65 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 56 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.92%) CMDB
11 37 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 37 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 35 (1.34%) Taxonomies
13 31 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 30 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 30 (1.15%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.92%) Private Cloud
16 23 (0.88%) IoT
16 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.31%) Linux
2 31 (1.19%) Windows
3 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 489 (18.77%) Roadmaps
3 442 (16.97%) AI
4 423 (16.24%) Migration
5 373 (14.32%) Enterprise Architecture
6 323 (12.40%) DevOps
7 303 (11.63%) Analytics
8 301 (11.55%) Data Modelling
9 296 (11.36%) CI/CD
9 296 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
10 287 (11.02%) Data Architecture
11 258 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 255 (9.79%) Integration Patterns
13 251 (9.64%) Agile
14 207 (7.95%) TOGAF
15 204 (7.83%) Security Architecture
16 192 (7.37%) Event-Driven
17 191 (7.33%) Data Governance
17 191 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
18 190 (7.29%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 132 (5.07%) SQL
2 122 (4.68%) Python
3 96 (3.69%) Java
4 57 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.42%) C#
7 31 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 30 (1.15%) Bicep
9 19 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.61%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.35%) ABAP
13 8 (0.31%) 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
1 689 (26.45%) Security Cleared
2 568 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 75 (2.88%) Degree
4 72 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 67 (2.57%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.38%) CISSP
7 56 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 53 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 36 (1.38%) CISM
11 28 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.46%) CCNP
17 12 (0.46%) CCSP
17 12 (0.46%) CISA
18 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 83 (3.19%) GDPR
3 82 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 80 (3.07%) NIST
5 49 (1.88%) GRC
6 42 (1.61%) NCSC
7 21 (0.81%) QA
8 18 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (0.69%) SEPA
9 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
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 8 (0.31%) PMO
14 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 70 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.65%) Docker
3 20 (0.77%) 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%) 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
1 109 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.73%) Ansible
3 32 (1.23%) 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%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 345 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.41%) SAP
3 161 (6.18%) Databricks
4 145 (5.57%) Oracle
5 143 (5.49%) ServiceNow
6 114 (4.38%) Salesforce
7 80 (3.07%) Google
8 54 (2.07%) Cisco
9 38 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.27%) MuleSoft
11 30 (1.15%) Workday
12 28 (1.07%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.04%) IBM
13 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.00%) VMware
15 24 (0.92%) Ariba
15 24 (0.92%) Foundry
16 21 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 21 (0.81%) Sparx
16 21 (0.81%) Splunk