Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,470 1,384 1,757
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.89% 10.21% 9.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.68% 10.91% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,023 813 1,265
10th Percentile £469 £486 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £745
90th Percentile £838 £813 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £64.20 £36.75 £43.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £39.38 £44.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -0.58% -
75th Percentile £93.75 £59.38 £50.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.25 £50.58
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £78.37
% change year-on-year +3.57% -10.68% +11.96%

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 13,762 12,687 17,332
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.62% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,161 8,117 12,542
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 141 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.60 £24.66 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +33.19% -13.87%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.87% - -5.74%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +3 210 £650 - 81
West London -7 17 £669 +33.70% 11
South London +5 14 £534 -19.05% 12
East London -4 8 £543 -14.90% 14
North London +4 2 £663 -7.15% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

1 482 (32.79%) Azure
2 389 (26.46%) Security Cleared
3 366 (24.90%) AWS
4 333 (22.65%) SC Cleared
5 236 (16.05%) Microsoft
6 209 (14.22%) Roadmaps
7 199 (13.54%) DevOps
8 186 (12.65%) Migration
8 186 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 185 (12.59%) Agile
10 177 (12.04%) CI/CD
11 171 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (11.09%) AI
13 158 (10.75%) Data Modelling
14 155 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 152 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
16 150 (10.20%) GCP
17 144 (9.80%) Analytics
18 143 (9.73%) Data Architecture
19 141 (9.59%) Enterprise Architecture
19 141 (9.59%) Integration Patterns
19 141 (9.59%) Python
20 122 (8.30%) Terraform
21 115 (7.82%) REST
22 112 (7.62%) TOGAF
23 110 (7.48%) Microservices
24 107 (7.28%) SQL
25 102 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
26 94 (6.39%) Architectural Patterns
27 93 (6.33%) Security Architecture

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 27 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.29%) Confluence
3 12 (0.82%) CMS
4 11 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.48%) nginx
8 6 (0.41%) Apache
9 5 (0.34%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.34%) Mule
10 4 (0.27%) Camunda
10 4 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.068%) ArchiCAD
6 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 37 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.41%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.34%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.27%) Endur
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.20%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 482 (32.79%) Azure
2 366 (24.90%) AWS
3 150 (10.20%) GCP
4 73 (4.97%) Power Platform
4 73 (4.97%) Serverless
5 65 (4.42%) SaaS
6 54 (3.67%) Entra ID
7 49 (3.33%) IaaS
8 45 (3.06%) Amazon S3
8 45 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (2.86%) GitHub
10 37 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 35 (2.38%) Snowflake
13 34 (2.31%) PaaS
14 30 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.97%) OpenShift
16 28 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.90%) Firewall
2 54 (3.67%) Network Security
3 50 (3.40%) WAN
4 42 (2.86%) VPN
5 36 (2.45%) DNS
6 30 (2.04%) LAN
7 27 (1.84%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.88%) BGP
9 13 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.75%) OSPF
11 8 (0.54%) SSL
12 6 (0.41%) 5G
12 6 (0.41%) Internet
12 6 (0.41%) OpenVPN
13 5 (0.34%) DHCP
13 5 (0.34%) MPLS
13 5 (0.34%) VSAN
14 4 (0.27%) NGFW
14 4 (0.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.40%) Data Lake
2 46 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (2.93%) Power BI
4 37 (2.52%) Metadata
5 32 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (1.70%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (1.09%) Tableau
12 14 (0.95%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.82%) Delta Lake
14 11 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.75%) DB2
14 11 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (2.72%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.70%) JIRA
3 21 (1.43%) GitLab
4 10 (0.68%) Git
5 9 (0.61%) ERwin
6 6 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.27%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.068%) Ant
10 1 (0.068%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.068%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.068%) JUnit
10 1 (0.068%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.068%) MLflow
10 1 (0.068%) Postman
10 1 (0.068%) PowerBuilder
10 1 (0.068%) REST Assured
General
1 388 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 313 (21.29%) Finance
3 165 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 113 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 100 (6.80%) Banking
6 54 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 37 (2.52%) Legal
8 37 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (2.18%) Retail
10 31 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 30 (2.04%) Marketing
12 25 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.56%) Billing
13 23 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.36%) Law
15 19 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.88%) Military
17 11 (0.75%) Back Office
18 10 (0.68%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (7.82%) REST
2 63 (4.29%) Middleware
3 62 (4.22%) SOAP
4 61 (4.15%) LDAP
5 43 (2.93%) OpenID
6 40 (2.72%) JSON
7 39 (2.65%) .NET
8 35 (2.38%) SAML
9 34 (2.31%) Kafka
10 30 (2.04%) OAuth
11 21 (1.43%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.09%) PySpark
13 14 (0.95%) React
13 14 (0.95%) RESTful
14 13 (0.88%) OAuth2
15 11 (0.75%) Spring
15 11 (0.75%) Spring Boot
16 10 (0.68%) ARM Templates
16 10 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
3 47 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.06%) Security Posture
5 38 (2.59%) PKI
6 36 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 27 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.09%) CMDB
12 16 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.02%) Private Cloud
14 14 (0.95%) IoT
14 14 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 14 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.31%) Windows
2 18 (1.22%) Linux
3 10 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.41%) Android
4 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
4 6 (0.41%) zOS
5 5 (0.34%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.20%) CentOS
6 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.068%) Solaris
8 1 (0.068%) VMS
8 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (14.22%) Roadmaps
2 199 (13.54%) DevOps
3 186 (12.65%) Migration
3 186 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 185 (12.59%) Agile
5 177 (12.04%) CI/CD
6 171 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (11.09%) AI
8 158 (10.75%) Data Modelling
9 155 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 152 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
11 144 (9.80%) Analytics
12 143 (9.73%) Data Architecture
13 141 (9.59%) Enterprise Architecture
13 141 (9.59%) Integration Patterns
14 112 (7.62%) TOGAF
15 110 (7.48%) Microservices
16 102 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 94 (6.39%) Architectural Patterns
18 93 (6.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 141 (9.59%) Python
2 107 (7.28%) SQL
3 86 (5.85%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.81%) Java
5 25 (1.70%) C#
5 25 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.50%) TypeScript
7 20 (1.36%) Bicep
8 15 (1.02%) Bash
9 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.41%) Ruby
12 5 (0.34%) Korn
12 5 (0.34%) R
13 4 (0.27%) Go
13 4 (0.27%) Scala
14 3 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) PHP
15 2 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 389 (26.46%) Security Cleared
2 333 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.76%) Degree
4 50 (3.40%) Azure Certification
5 41 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (1.70%) CISSP
10 24 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.88%) CCNP
16 10 (0.68%) CISM
17 9 (0.61%) CCIE
18 5 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 5 (0.34%) CCSE
18 5 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.22%) GDPR
2 50 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (2.93%) NIST
4 42 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 36 (2.45%) NCSC
6 34 (2.31%) QA
7 21 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.75%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.68%) GRC
11 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.34%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.34%) PERC
14 5 (0.34%) SLA
15 4 (0.27%) MiFID
15 4 (0.27%) PSD2
15 4 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 73 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 66 (4.49%) Docker
3 23 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.41%) Squid
6 6 (0.41%) vSphere
7 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Ceph
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) Lustre
8 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Varnish
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.068%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 122 (8.30%) Terraform
2 89 (6.05%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.38%) Ansible
4 21 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.16%) Grafana
6 15 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 11 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.34%) Consul
10 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 4 (0.27%) SCCM
11 3 (0.20%) Argo
11 3 (0.20%) Istio
11 3 (0.20%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.20%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.14%) Nagios
12 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.14%) Puppet
12 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 236 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.58%) SAP
3 81 (5.51%) Salesforce
4 78 (5.31%) Databricks
5 77 (5.24%) ServiceNow
6 65 (4.42%) CyberArk
7 61 (4.15%) Oracle
8 44 (2.99%) Google
9 38 (2.59%) Cisco
10 34 (2.31%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (2.31%) Centrify
11 33 (2.24%) Splunk
12 26 (1.77%) VMware
13 25 (1.70%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.36%) OpenAI
15 17 (1.16%) IBM
15 17 (1.16%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.95%) Zscaler
17 13 (0.88%) Pega
17 13 (0.88%) Workday