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 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,200 1,278 1,730
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.12% 10.47% 9.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.06% 11.22% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 831 1,245
10th Percentile £475 £493 £500
25th Percentile £515 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -5.36%
75th Percentile £740 £738 £763
90th Percentile £822 £800 £851
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £58.70 £54.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -9.43%
75th Percentile £76.67 £83.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £99.65 £93.50 -
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 16,849 11,395 16,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 93.36% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,160 7,768 11,796
10th Percentile £355 £346 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 144 319
10th Percentile £19.10 £20.24 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.14 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.90 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% +12.37% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.81 £45.62
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.48 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +15 333 £650 -2.99% 106
West London -5 33 £625 -7.41% 18
South London -5 22 £723 +3.21% 2
East London +3 17 £630 +5.00% 9
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 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.

1 614 (27.91%) Azure
1 614 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 523 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 522 (23.73%) AWS
4 354 (16.09%) Migration
5 299 (13.59%) Microsoft
5 299 (13.59%) Roadmaps
6 283 (12.86%) AI
7 280 (12.73%) DevOps
8 253 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 234 (10.64%) Integration Patterns
9 234 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 222 (10.09%) Data Modelling
11 219 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 216 (9.82%) GCP
13 215 (9.77%) Analytics
14 209 (9.50%) Data Architecture
15 201 (9.14%) Agile
16 198 (9.00%) Enterprise Architecture
17 194 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
18 185 (8.41%) Architectural Patterns
19 176 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
20 174 (7.91%) Python
21 173 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
22 154 (7.00%) TOGAF
23 153 (6.95%) Architectural Design
24 139 (6.32%) ServiceNow
25 138 (6.27%) Microservices
26 131 (5.95%) SQL
27 130 (5.91%) Terraform

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 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.09%) Confluence
3 21 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.82%) Apache
5 12 (0.55%) nginx
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.41%) Camunda
8 8 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.23%) Mule
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.14%) Appian
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.091%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.045%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.18%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.14%) Endur
9 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.14%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 614 (27.91%) Azure
2 522 (23.73%) AWS
3 216 (9.82%) GCP
4 116 (5.27%) Power Platform
5 86 (3.91%) Serverless
6 84 (3.82%) SaaS
7 76 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 69 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (2.55%) Amazon S3
9 56 (2.55%) GitHub
10 51 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (2.32%) PaaS
11 49 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (2.23%) Snowflake
12 43 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 37 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (1.64%) IaaS
15 35 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.68%) Network Security
2 63 (2.86%) Firewall
3 45 (2.05%) WAN
4 41 (1.86%) DNS
4 41 (1.86%) VPN
5 26 (1.18%) LAN
6 22 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.68%) BGP
7 15 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.64%) OSPF
9 11 (0.50%) MPLS
10 10 (0.45%) VXLAN
10 10 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.41%) 5G
11 9 (0.41%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
14 5 (0.23%) VSAN
15 4 (0.18%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.73%) Power BI
2 69 (3.14%) Data Lake
3 48 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (2.14%) Metadata
5 33 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (1.45%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 23 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 20 (0.91%) Big Data
10 20 (0.91%) Delta Lake
11 17 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (0.77%) Tableau
12 16 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
13 13 (0.59%) DB2
14 12 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.32%) Git
3 24 (1.09%) JIRA
4 22 (1.00%) GitLab
5 10 (0.45%) ERwin
5 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.36%) MLflow
7 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.23%) Maven
8 5 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.18%) Snyk
9 4 (0.18%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.14%) JMeter
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.14%) Postman
11 2 (0.091%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.091%) MSI
11 2 (0.091%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.091%) Robot Framework
General
1 418 (19.00%) Finance
2 410 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 240 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 139 (6.32%) Banking
5 97 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (3.68%) Retail
7 71 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 53 (2.41%) Legal
11 52 (2.36%) Law
12 36 (1.64%) Billing
13 29 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.18%) Marketing
15 23 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.68%) Military
18 10 (0.45%) Local Government
19 9 (0.41%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (5.41%) REST
2 87 (3.95%) Middleware
3 75 (3.41%) SOAP
4 68 (3.09%) LDAP
5 66 (3.00%) .NET
6 42 (1.91%) Kafka
7 40 (1.82%) OpenID
8 30 (1.36%) SAML
9 28 (1.27%) OAuth
10 26 (1.18%) React
11 23 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (0.91%) AngularJS
13 19 (0.86%) .NET Framework
14 16 (0.73%) RESTful
15 15 (0.68%) Spring
16 14 (0.64%) J2EE
16 14 (0.64%) PySpark
16 14 (0.64%) Vue
16 14 (0.64%) Web Services
17 13 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 207 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
3 68 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 59 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 57 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 55 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 43 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 38 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.68%) CMDB
11 36 (1.64%) AI Agents
12 35 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.18%) Mainframe
14 21 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 20 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
15 20 (0.91%) NHS
16 19 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (0.82%) Public Cloud
18 17 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.41%) Linux
2 29 (1.32%) Windows
3 10 (0.45%) Unix
3 10 (0.45%) zOS
4 9 (0.41%) Android
4 9 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.14%) Solaris
6 2 (0.091%) AIX
6 2 (0.091%) CentOS
6 2 (0.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.091%) VMS
6 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.091%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (16.09%) Migration
2 299 (13.59%) Roadmaps
3 283 (12.86%) AI
4 280 (12.73%) DevOps
5 253 (11.50%) CI/CD
6 234 (10.64%) Integration Patterns
6 234 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 222 (10.09%) Data Modelling
8 219 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 215 (9.77%) Analytics
10 209 (9.50%) Data Architecture
11 201 (9.14%) Agile
12 198 (9.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 194 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
14 185 (8.41%) Architectural Patterns
15 176 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
16 173 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
17 154 (7.00%) TOGAF
18 153 (6.95%) Architectural Design
19 138 (6.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 174 (7.91%) Python
2 131 (5.95%) SQL
3 100 (4.55%) Java
4 72 (3.27%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.23%) C#
7 23 (1.05%) Bicep
8 17 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.68%) Ruby
10 12 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 11 (0.50%) Bash
12 10 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.27%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.23%) R
14 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.18%) Go
16 3 (0.14%) C
16 3 (0.14%) C++
16 3 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 614 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 523 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 77 (3.50%) Degree
4 64 (2.91%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.36%) CISSP
6 48 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.23%) CISM
12 24 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.59%) CCNP
18 12 (0.55%) CCSP
19 11 (0.50%) CISA
20 9 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.09%) GDPR
2 66 (3.00%) NIST
3 59 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (2.23%) NCSC
5 38 (1.73%) QA
6 21 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.73%) ISO 20022
8 15 (0.68%) GRC
9 13 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.59%) SEPA
10 10 (0.45%) PSD2
11 9 (0.41%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.36%) SLA
13 7 (0.32%) HL7
14 6 (0.27%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) GxP
System Software
1 79 (3.59%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.77%) Docker
3 22 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.41%) Squid
5 9 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) Varnish
7 7 (0.32%) Postfix
8 5 (0.23%) NFS
8 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 2 (0.091%) Ceph
10 2 (0.091%) Firmware
10 2 (0.091%) Lustre
10 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.091%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.045%) HDFS
11 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (5.91%) Terraform
2 120 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 37 (1.68%) Ansible
4 25 (1.14%) Grafana
5 22 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.77%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.32%) Consul
8 7 (0.32%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.18%) Argo
9 4 (0.18%) Istio
9 4 (0.18%) Kibana
9 4 (0.18%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.091%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.091%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.091%) QRadar
11 2 (0.091%) VxRail
Vendors
1 299 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 139 (6.32%) ServiceNow
3 121 (5.50%) Databricks
4 112 (5.09%) SAP
5 105 (4.77%) Oracle
5 105 (4.77%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.50%) CyberArk
7 47 (2.14%) Cisco
8 40 (1.82%) Google
9 35 (1.59%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.55%) Centrify
10 34 (1.55%) Splunk
11 30 (1.36%) Workday
12 28 (1.27%) IBM
13 26 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 26 (1.18%) VMware
14 24 (1.09%) OpenAI
15 22 (1.00%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.95%) Zscaler
17 20 (0.91%) Foundry