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 28 April 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,045 1,271 1,775
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.60% 10.04% 10.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% 10.74% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 848 1,278
10th Percentile £475 £492 £500
25th Percentile £515 £555 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £60.50 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £63.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75.84 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £90.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £75.20
% change year-on-year - -6.91% +7.43%

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 16,357 11,839 16,511
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.48% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,892 8,132 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 147 337
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.27 £24.09 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +27.27% -21.99%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.59 £31.76 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.53% -10.91% -20.78%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +10 300 £650 -2.99% 95
West London -2 29 £633 -6.30% 13
South London -1 22 £637 -2.00% 1
East London -6 12 £630 +0.80% 7
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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.

1 576 (28.17%) Azure
2 566 (27.68%) Security Cleared
3 506 (24.74%) AWS
4 480 (23.47%) SC Cleared
5 330 (16.14%) Migration
6 293 (14.33%) Microsoft
7 280 (13.69%) Roadmaps
8 269 (13.15%) DevOps
9 258 (12.62%) AI
10 248 (12.13%) CI/CD
11 231 (11.30%) Agile
12 225 (11.00%) Integration Patterns
13 214 (10.46%) Analytics
14 212 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 210 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 207 (10.12%) GCP
17 206 (10.07%) Data Modelling
18 191 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
19 189 (9.24%) Data Architecture
20 188 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
21 185 (9.05%) Enterprise Architecture
22 179 (8.75%) Python
23 171 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
24 166 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
25 151 (7.38%) Architectural Design
26 149 (7.29%) TOGAF
27 138 (6.75%) Microservices
27 138 (6.75%) Terraform
28 136 (6.65%) SQL
29 132 (6.45%) REST

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 43 (2.10%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.22%) Confluence
3 17 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.64%) Apache
4 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.59%) nginx
6 10 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.34%) Camunda
8 7 (0.34%) CMS
9 6 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.24%) Mule
11 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.15%) Appian
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.098%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.049%) ArchiCAD
3 1 (0.049%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.049%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.29%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.20%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 576 (28.17%) Azure
2 506 (24.74%) AWS
3 207 (10.12%) GCP
4 109 (5.33%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.21%) Serverless
6 81 (3.96%) SaaS
7 77 (3.77%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (2.84%) Amazon S3
10 55 (2.69%) GitHub
11 52 (2.54%) IaaS
11 52 (2.54%) PaaS
12 51 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (2.25%) Snowflake
15 43 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 38 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
18 30 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.77%) Network Security
2 69 (3.37%) Firewall
3 51 (2.49%) WAN
4 44 (2.15%) DNS
5 43 (2.10%) VPN
6 29 (1.42%) LAN
7 27 (1.32%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.73%) BGP
9 14 (0.68%) OSPF
9 14 (0.68%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.49%) MPLS
11 10 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.44%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.39%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.39%) 5G
13 8 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.29%) VSAN
15 5 (0.24%) NAS
15 5 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (3.77%) Power BI
2 69 (3.37%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.15%) Metadata
5 36 (1.76%) SQL Server
6 32 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 18 (0.88%) Big Data
10 18 (0.88%) Delta Lake
11 17 (0.83%) Tableau
12 16 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.68%) DB2
14 13 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.59%) Data Vault
15 12 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.05%) Jenkins
2 27 (1.32%) Git
2 27 (1.32%) JIRA
3 22 (1.08%) GitLab
4 9 (0.44%) ERwin
5 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.39%) MLflow
5 8 (0.39%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.20%) Snyk
7 4 (0.20%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.15%) Maven
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.15%) Postman
9 2 (0.098%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.098%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.098%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.098%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.098%) Robot Framework
General
1 409 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 403 (19.71%) Finance
3 228 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 138 (6.75%) Banking
5 120 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (3.28%) Retail
8 59 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.69%) Law
10 52 (2.54%) Legal
11 48 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.42%) Marketing
14 28 (1.37%) Billing
15 26 (1.27%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.59%) Military
19 10 (0.49%) Electronics
19 10 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (6.45%) REST
2 90 (4.40%) Middleware
3 77 (3.77%) SOAP
4 66 (3.23%) LDAP
5 62 (3.03%) .NET
6 45 (2.20%) Kafka
7 44 (2.15%) OpenID
8 31 (1.52%) SAML
9 30 (1.47%) JSON
10 29 (1.42%) OAuth
11 25 (1.22%) React
12 22 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
13 21 (1.03%) AngularJS
14 18 (0.88%) Spring
15 17 (0.83%) RESTful
16 15 (0.73%) .NET Framework
16 15 (0.73%) Vue
16 15 (0.73%) Web Services
17 14 (0.68%) J2EE
18 13 (0.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 52 (2.54%) Security Posture
6 51 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 51 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 37 (1.81%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.56%) CMDB
11 31 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.27%) PKI
14 23 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 23 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 19 (0.93%) Mainframe
16 18 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 17 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.66%) Windows
2 30 (1.47%) Linux
3 10 (0.49%) zOS
4 8 (0.39%) Android
4 8 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.39%) Unix
5 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Solaris
7 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.098%) AIX
8 2 (0.098%) CentOS
8 2 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.049%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.049%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (16.14%) Migration
2 280 (13.69%) Roadmaps
3 269 (13.15%) DevOps
4 258 (12.62%) AI
5 248 (12.13%) CI/CD
6 231 (11.30%) Agile
7 225 (11.00%) Integration Patterns
8 214 (10.46%) Analytics
9 212 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 210 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 206 (10.07%) Data Modelling
12 191 (9.34%) Technical Leadership
13 189 (9.24%) Data Architecture
14 188 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
15 185 (9.05%) Enterprise Architecture
16 171 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
17 166 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 151 (7.38%) Architectural Design
19 149 (7.29%) TOGAF
20 138 (6.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 179 (8.75%) Python
2 136 (6.65%) SQL
3 100 (4.89%) Java
4 87 (4.25%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.47%) C#
6 27 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.03%) Bicep
8 18 (0.88%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.73%) Ruby
10 13 (0.64%) Bash
11 11 (0.54%) Scala
12 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.20%) C++
15 4 (0.20%) Go
15 4 (0.20%) Korn
15 4 (0.20%) R
15 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 566 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 480 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 76 (3.72%) Degree
4 70 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 45 (2.20%) CISSP
7 41 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 33 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.17%) CISM
11 24 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.83%) CCNP
15 15 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.64%) CCIE
17 11 (0.54%) CCSP
18 9 (0.44%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.72%) GDPR
2 56 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 56 (2.74%) NIST
3 54 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.05%) NCSC
5 37 (1.81%) QA
6 23 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 14 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.59%) SEPA
10 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.39%) GRC
10 8 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.39%) PSD2
10 8 (0.39%) SLA
11 7 (0.34%) HL7
11 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.24%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.24%) PERC
13 4 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 81 (3.96%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.23%) Docker
3 27 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.34%) Varnish
7 6 (0.29%) vSphere
8 5 (0.24%) Postfix
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.20%) NFS
10 3 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.098%) Ceph
11 2 (0.098%) Firmware
11 2 (0.098%) Lustre
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.098%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.049%) HDFS
12 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 138 (6.75%) Terraform
2 125 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.71%) Ansible
4 27 (1.32%) Grafana
5 22 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.34%) Consul
10 5 (0.24%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.20%) Argo
11 4 (0.20%) Istio
11 4 (0.20%) Kibana
12 3 (0.15%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.15%) Puppet
12 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.098%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.098%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.098%) QRadar
13 2 (0.098%) SCCM
Vendors
1 293 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 129 (6.31%) ServiceNow
3 111 (5.43%) SAP
4 107 (5.23%) Databricks
5 102 (4.99%) Oracle
6 99 (4.84%) Salesforce
7 66 (3.23%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.00%) Google
9 38 (1.86%) Cisco
10 35 (1.71%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.66%) Centrify
12 33 (1.61%) Splunk
12 33 (1.61%) VMware
13 31 (1.52%) Workday
14 29 (1.42%) IBM
15 25 (1.22%) OpenAI
16 23 (1.12%) MuleSoft
17 21 (1.03%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.98%) Ariba
19 19 (0.93%) Foundry