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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 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 2,585 1,304 1,597
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.89% 9.75% 9.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.81% 10.49% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,751 841 1,099
10th Percentile £485 £475 £488
25th Percentile £525 £556 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% -5.80%
75th Percentile £730 £735 £756
90th Percentile £808 £802 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £51.50 £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 £97.50 £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 18,714 12,428 15,301
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 92.93% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,137 8,360 10,597
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 206 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.53 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £61.31 £49.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +2.60%

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 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 25 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 25 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 +14 354 £625 -4.65% 73
West London -14 34 £633 +40.56% 31
East London +4 13 £700 +3.70% 9
South London -21 8 £688 +1.51% 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 25 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.

1 744 (28.78%) Azure
2 657 (25.42%) Security Cleared
3 593 (22.94%) AWS
4 545 (21.08%) SC Cleared
5 434 (16.79%) Migration
5 434 (16.79%) Roadmaps
6 420 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 414 (16.02%) AI
8 348 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
9 340 (13.15%) Microsoft
10 316 (12.22%) DevOps
11 314 (12.15%) Analytics
12 310 (11.99%) Data Modelling
13 304 (11.76%) CI/CD
14 282 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 276 (10.68%) Data Architecture
16 274 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
17 268 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
18 257 (9.94%) Agile
19 228 (8.82%) GCP
20 201 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
21 199 (7.70%) Infrastructure as Code
22 198 (7.66%) TOGAF
23 187 (7.23%) Security Architecture
24 184 (7.12%) Event-Driven
25 182 (7.04%) Data Governance
26 173 (6.69%) Power Platform
27 169 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
28 168 (6.50%) Databricks
29 166 (6.42%) 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%) Apache
2 34 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 22 (0.85%) Confluence
5 20 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.54%) CMS
7 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.27%) Camunda
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.077%) Mendix
12 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 62 (2.40%) 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 ERP
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.19%) Endur
6 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
7 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 744 (28.78%) Azure
2 593 (22.94%) AWS
3 228 (8.82%) GCP
4 173 (6.69%) Power Platform
5 108 (4.18%) Entra ID
6 107 (4.14%) SaaS
7 97 (3.75%) Serverless
8 85 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 82 (3.17%) GitHub
10 76 (2.94%) Snowflake
11 67 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (2.28%) PaaS
13 48 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 44 (1.70%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 38 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.35%) IaaS
18 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.25%) Network Security
2 50 (1.93%) Firewall
3 32 (1.24%) WAN
4 31 (1.20%) VPN
5 21 (0.81%) DNS
6 20 (0.77%) LAN
7 17 (0.66%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
9 13 (0.50%) BGP
10 11 (0.43%) MPLS
10 11 (0.43%) NX-OS
10 11 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
12 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.31%) 4G
13 8 (0.31%) 5G
14 7 (0.27%) NGFW
15 6 (0.23%) 3GPP
15 6 (0.23%) OSPF
15 6 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (4.72%) Power BI
2 100 (3.87%) Data Lake
3 85 (3.29%) Metadata
4 80 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.12%) Big Data
7 28 (1.08%) Delta Lake
8 27 (1.04%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
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%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (1.55%) Git
2 34 (1.32%) JIRA
3 28 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) MLflow
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) RStudio
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%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
10 2 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 509 (19.69%) Social Skills
2 462 (17.87%) Finance
3 293 (11.33%) Public Sector
4 160 (6.19%) Banking
5 148 (5.73%) Retail
6 140 (5.42%) 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
11 43 (1.66%) Marketing
12 42 (1.62%) Billing
13 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 18 (0.70%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Police
19 12 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (6.03%) REST
2 123 (4.76%) Terraform
3 84 (3.25%) .NET
4 75 (2.90%) Kafka
5 70 (2.71%) Middleware
5 70 (2.71%) SOAP
6 49 (1.90%) OAuth
7 33 (1.28%) PySpark
8 30 (1.16%) .NET Framework
8 30 (1.16%) JSON
9 29 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
10 27 (1.04%) OAuth2
11 26 (1.01%) React
12 24 (0.93%) SAML
13 23 (0.89%) RESTful
13 23 (0.89%) XML
14 22 (0.85%) OpenID
15 20 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.74%) JWT
17 17 (0.66%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 256 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 82 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.06%) AI Agents
4 78 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 69 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 68 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 66 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 61 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 53 (2.05%) CMDB
11 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 40 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 37 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
14 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.08%) Taxonomies
17 25 (0.97%) Mainframe
17 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
18 23 (0.89%) IoT
19 22 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.62%) Linux
2 30 (1.16%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
4 10 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) zOS
10 2 (0.077%) CentOS
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (16.79%) Migration
1 434 (16.79%) Roadmaps
2 420 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 414 (16.02%) AI
4 348 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
5 316 (12.22%) DevOps
6 314 (12.15%) Analytics
7 310 (11.99%) Data Modelling
8 304 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 282 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 276 (10.68%) Data Architecture
11 274 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
12 268 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
13 257 (9.94%) Agile
14 201 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
15 199 (7.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 198 (7.66%) TOGAF
17 187 (7.23%) Security Architecture
18 184 (7.12%) Event-Driven
19 182 (7.04%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 154 (5.96%) Python
2 143 (5.53%) SQL
3 112 (4.33%) 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 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 657 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 545 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 77 (2.98%) Degree
4 67 (2.59%) CISSP
5 63 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 60 (2.32%) DV Cleared
7 53 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 37 (1.43%) CISM
9 34 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (0.89%) 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 13 (0.50%) CCNP
17 9 (0.35%) CCSP
17 9 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 92 (3.56%) GDPR
3 88 (3.40%) NIST
4 76 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.01%) GRC
6 32 (1.24%) NCSC
7 27 (1.04%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.66%) SEPA
11 15 (0.58%) NIST 800
12 14 (0.54%) Accessibility
13 13 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.35%) SLA
17 8 (0.31%) IFRS
18 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 61 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.90%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Varnish
6 6 (0.23%) Postfix
7 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.077%) IAG
10 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.039%) Firmware
11 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.039%) Squid
Systems Management
1 110 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.74%) Ansible
3 25 (0.97%) Grafana
4 20 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.15%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 3 (0.12%) Istio
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.077%) QRadar
10 2 (0.077%) VxRail
11 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 340 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 168 (6.50%) Databricks
3 156 (6.03%) Oracle
4 151 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 145 (5.61%) SAP
6 120 (4.64%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.59%) Google
8 55 (2.13%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 37 (1.43%) Workday
10 33 (1.28%) IBM
11 31 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.12%) Foundry
13 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.01%) VMware
15 24 (0.93%) Ariba
15 24 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.81%) Adobe
16 21 (0.81%) Splunk
17 19 (0.74%) Sparx