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 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,584 1,303 1,594
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.85% 9.74% 9.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 10.48% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 839 1,094
10th Percentile £482 £468 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% -5.63%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £755
90th Percentile £806 £813 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £51.85 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £95.63 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

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 18,761 12,437 15,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.92% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,131 8,375 10,577
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 207 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.69
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.87% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.63 £50.25 £54.06
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £71.56
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.63%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +16 350 £625 -4.65% 77
West London -16 32 £633 +40.56% 32
East London +4 13 £700 +3.70% 8
South London -19 9 £650 -4.02% 6
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 27 August 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.

1 742 (28.72%) Azure
2 660 (25.54%) Security Cleared
3 590 (22.83%) AWS
4 550 (21.28%) SC Cleared
5 433 (16.76%) Roadmaps
6 432 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 429 (16.60%) Migration
8 416 (16.10%) AI
9 353 (13.66%) Enterprise Architecture
10 345 (13.35%) Microsoft
11 318 (12.31%) DevOps
12 310 (12.00%) Analytics
12 310 (12.00%) Data Modelling
13 302 (11.69%) CI/CD
14 284 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 275 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
16 274 (10.60%) Data Architecture
17 266 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
18 262 (10.14%) Agile
19 222 (8.59%) GCP
20 199 (7.70%) Architectural Patterns
21 198 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
21 198 (7.66%) TOGAF
22 190 (7.35%) Security Architecture
23 183 (7.08%) Data Governance
24 182 (7.04%) Event-Driven
25 176 (6.81%) Power Platform
26 171 (6.62%) Business Intelligence
27 169 (6.54%) Databricks
28 167 (6.46%) 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 (1.51%) SAS
2 34 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.28%) Apache
4 31 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.93%) Confluence
6 20 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) CMS
8 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.58%) 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 MM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 742 (28.72%) Azure
2 590 (22.83%) AWS
3 222 (8.59%) GCP
4 176 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 110 (4.26%) Entra ID
6 105 (4.06%) SaaS
7 98 (3.79%) Serverless
8 85 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.17%) GitHub
10 74 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 67 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (2.21%) PaaS
13 48 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 44 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 37 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
18 33 (1.28%) IaaS
19 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (3.17%) Network Security
2 49 (1.90%) Firewall
3 31 (1.20%) VPN
3 31 (1.20%) WAN
4 20 (0.77%) DNS
4 20 (0.77%) LAN
5 15 (0.58%) VXLAN
6 12 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.43%) BGP
8 10 (0.39%) MPLS
8 10 (0.39%) NX-OS
8 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.31%) 4G
10 8 (0.31%) 5G
11 7 (0.27%) NGFW
11 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.23%) SMS
12 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.80%) Power BI
2 96 (3.72%) Data Lake
3 86 (3.33%) Metadata
4 80 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.12%) Big Data
7 27 (1.04%) Delta Lake
8 25 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 24 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.54%) Tableau
13 13 (0.50%) Data Vault
13 13 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.46%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (1.51%) Git
2 36 (1.39%) JIRA
3 27 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) MLflow
5 7 (0.27%) RStudio
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 5 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.077%) Flyway
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
General
1 514 (19.89%) Social Skills
2 459 (17.76%) Finance
3 291 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 156 (6.04%) Banking
5 145 (5.61%) Retail
6 138 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 79 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Legal
10 51 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 43 (1.66%) Law
12 42 (1.63%) Marketing
13 39 (1.51%) Billing
14 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 17 (0.66%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.58%) Local Government
18 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.50%) Military
19 13 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.96%) REST
2 124 (4.80%) Terraform
3 84 (3.25%) .NET
4 73 (2.83%) Kafka
5 70 (2.71%) Middleware
5 70 (2.71%) SOAP
6 51 (1.97%) OAuth
7 33 (1.28%) PySpark
8 31 (1.20%) JSON
9 30 (1.16%) .NET Framework
10 28 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 27 (1.04%) OAuth2
12 26 (1.01%) React
13 24 (0.93%) OpenID
13 24 (0.93%) SAML
13 24 (0.93%) XML
14 23 (0.89%) RESTful
15 20 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.74%) JWT
17 18 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 256 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 81 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.10%) AI Agents
4 77 (2.98%) Data Centre
5 69 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 63 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.05%) CMDB
11 51 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.08%) Taxonomies
17 26 (1.01%) Mainframe
18 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
19 23 (0.89%) IoT
20 21 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.55%) Linux
2 29 (1.12%) Windows
3 11 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.15%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (16.76%) Roadmaps
2 432 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 429 (16.60%) Migration
4 416 (16.10%) AI
5 353 (13.66%) Enterprise Architecture
6 318 (12.31%) DevOps
7 310 (12.00%) Analytics
7 310 (12.00%) Data Modelling
8 302 (11.69%) CI/CD
9 284 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 275 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
11 274 (10.60%) Data Architecture
12 266 (10.29%) Integration Patterns
13 262 (10.14%) Agile
14 199 (7.70%) Architectural Patterns
15 198 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 198 (7.66%) TOGAF
16 190 (7.35%) Security Architecture
17 183 (7.08%) Data Governance
18 182 (7.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 151 (5.84%) Python
2 138 (5.34%) SQL
3 113 (4.37%) Java
4 62 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.43%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.97%) Bicep
9 20 (0.77%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.66%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Ruby
12 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.35%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 660 (25.54%) Security Cleared
2 550 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 79 (3.06%) Degree
4 67 (2.59%) CISSP
5 63 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 60 (2.32%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.43%) CISM
9 34 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.58%) CISA
15 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.46%) CCNP
17 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 9 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.52%) GDPR
3 87 (3.37%) NIST
4 76 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.01%) GRC
6 31 (1.20%) NCSC
7 27 (1.04%) QA
8 20 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.66%) SEPA
11 14 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 12 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.46%) SLA
13 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.27%) IFRS
15 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 61 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 48 (1.86%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Varnish
6 5 (0.19%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) vSphere
7 4 (0.15%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.039%) Squid
10 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 111 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 43 (1.66%) Ansible
3 24 (0.93%) Grafana
4 20 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.12%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.077%) QRadar
12 1 (0.039%) Control-M
12 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.039%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 345 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.54%) Databricks
3 156 (6.04%) Oracle
4 153 (5.92%) ServiceNow
5 146 (5.65%) SAP
6 118 (4.57%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.59%) Google
8 54 (2.09%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 36 (1.39%) Workday
11 34 (1.32%) IBM
12 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.97%) VMware
16 24 (0.93%) Ariba
17 23 (0.89%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.81%) Adobe
19 20 (0.77%) Splunk
20 19 (0.74%) Sparx