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 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,601 1,277 1,561
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.88% 9.54% 9.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.81% 10.27% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,748 820 1,049
10th Percentile £476 £467 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 2
10th Percentile £52.90 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £57.75 £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 £95.50 £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -0.12%

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 18,839 12,430 15,196
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.85% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,177 8,331 10,372
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 £684
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 370 207 187
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.73
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.56
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £73.13
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £46.87
% change year-on-year +73.20% -46.34% +6.85%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +15 349 £625 -4.58% 166
West London -13 31 £650 +44.44% 37
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 10
South London -12 11 £650 -7.74% 9
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 6 September 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 (28.60%) Azure
2 665 (25.57%) Security Cleared
3 588 (22.61%) AWS
4 549 (21.11%) SC Cleared
5 454 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 437 (16.80%) Roadmaps
7 434 (16.69%) Migration
8 421 (16.19%) AI
9 354 (13.61%) Microsoft
10 353 (13.57%) Enterprise Architecture
11 319 (12.26%) Data Modelling
12 314 (12.07%) DevOps
13 309 (11.88%) Analytics
14 299 (11.50%) CI/CD
15 292 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
16 285 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 279 (10.73%) Data Architecture
18 266 (10.23%) Agile
19 261 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
20 223 (8.57%) GCP
21 204 (7.84%) Architectural Patterns
22 203 (7.80%) TOGAF
23 196 (7.54%) Security Architecture
24 192 (7.38%) Data Governance
25 188 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
26 181 (6.96%) Event-Driven
27 177 (6.81%) Power Platform
28 170 (6.54%) Databricks
29 169 (6.50%) Decision-Making
30 166 (6.38%) 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 (1.50%) SAS
2 34 (1.31%) Apache
3 30 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 24 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.85%) Confluence
6 18 (0.69%) CMS
7 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.23%) Appian
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.23%) Camunda
10 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
12 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.077%) Mendix
12 2 (0.077%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) 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%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 744 (28.60%) Azure
2 588 (22.61%) AWS
3 223 (8.57%) GCP
4 177 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 109 (4.19%) Entra ID
6 106 (4.08%) SaaS
7 101 (3.88%) Serverless
8 87 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (3.19%) GitHub
10 76 (2.92%) Snowflake
11 69 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (2.08%) PaaS
13 50 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (1.77%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 35 (1.35%) OCI
17 35 (1.35%) PowerApps
18 34 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
18 34 (1.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.00%) Network Security
2 46 (1.77%) Firewall
3 30 (1.15%) WAN
4 28 (1.08%) VPN
5 22 (0.85%) LAN
6 18 (0.69%) DNS
7 13 (0.50%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.31%) BGP
9 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) 4G
10 7 (0.27%) 5G
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.23%) MPLS
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (4.50%) Power BI
2 98 (3.77%) Data Lake
2 98 (3.77%) Metadata
3 79 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (1.27%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.08%) Big Data
6 26 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.96%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.92%) Delta Lake
8 24 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
11 16 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.54%) Tableau
13 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (0.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 36 (1.38%) Git
1 36 (1.38%) JIRA
2 27 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.65%) GitLab
4 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
4 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.27%) ERwin
4 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (0.27%) RStudio
5 6 (0.23%) MLflow
5 6 (0.23%) Storybook
6 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.12%) JMeter
8 3 (0.12%) VTune
9 2 (0.077%) MSI
9 2 (0.077%) Postman
9 2 (0.077%) Selenium
General
1 533 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 459 (17.65%) Finance
3 286 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 161 (6.19%) Banking
5 146 (5.61%) Retail
6 138 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
7 84 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 83 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 50 (1.92%) Legal
11 43 (1.65%) Marketing
12 42 (1.61%) Billing
13 40 (1.54%) Law
14 30 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 29 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.54%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.54%) Military
16 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.50%) Police
18 12 (0.46%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (6.00%) REST
2 121 (4.65%) Terraform
3 83 (3.19%) .NET
4 76 (2.92%) Kafka
5 70 (2.69%) SOAP
6 66 (2.54%) Middleware
7 51 (1.96%) OAuth
8 34 (1.31%) PySpark
9 33 (1.27%) JSON
10 32 (1.23%) .NET Framework
11 28 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
12 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
12 26 (1.00%) OpenID
12 26 (1.00%) XML
13 24 (0.92%) React
14 23 (0.88%) SAML
15 22 (0.85%) RESTful
16 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
17 19 (0.73%) JWT
17 19 (0.73%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 252 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 85 (3.27%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.04%) AI Agents
4 75 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 70 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 58 (2.23%) Management Information System
9 52 (2.00%) CMDB
10 51 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
12 36 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 33 (1.27%) Taxonomies
14 32 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 25 (0.96%) Public Cloud
16 24 (0.92%) Mainframe
17 22 (0.85%) IoT
18 21 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.50%) Linux
2 30 (1.15%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
4 11 (0.42%) 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%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 437 (16.80%) Roadmaps
3 434 (16.69%) Migration
4 421 (16.19%) AI
5 353 (13.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 319 (12.26%) Data Modelling
7 314 (12.07%) DevOps
8 309 (11.88%) Analytics
9 299 (11.50%) CI/CD
10 292 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
11 285 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 279 (10.73%) Data Architecture
13 266 (10.23%) Agile
14 261 (10.03%) Integration Patterns
15 204 (7.84%) Architectural Patterns
16 203 (7.80%) TOGAF
17 196 (7.54%) Security Architecture
18 192 (7.38%) Data Governance
19 188 (7.23%) Infrastructure as Code
20 181 (6.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 150 (5.77%) Python
2 140 (5.38%) SQL
3 112 (4.31%) Java
4 64 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 41 (1.58%) C#
7 32 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 22 (0.85%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.69%) 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 5 (0.19%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 665 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 549 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 80 (3.08%) Degree
4 71 (2.73%) CISSP
5 64 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 57 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 54 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 39 (1.50%) CISM
8 39 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 37 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 10 (0.38%) CCNP
17 10 (0.38%) CCSP
17 10 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 90 (3.46%) NIST
3 88 (3.38%) GDPR
4 78 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.00%) GRC
6 30 (1.15%) NCSC
7 27 (1.04%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.69%) SEPA
10 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.46%) SLA
14 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 47 (1.81%) Docker
3 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
6 4 (0.15%) Varnish
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) NFS
7 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 109 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 40 (1.54%) Ansible
3 24 (0.92%) Grafana
4 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
8 4 (0.15%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.077%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.077%) Istio
10 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) Avamar
11 1 (0.038%) CASB
11 1 (0.038%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 354 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 170 (6.54%) Databricks
3 158 (6.07%) ServiceNow
4 157 (6.04%) Oracle
5 146 (5.61%) SAP
6 118 (4.54%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.65%) Google
8 50 (1.92%) Cisco
9 39 (1.50%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.35%) Workday
11 32 (1.23%) IBM
11 32 (1.23%) MuleSoft
12 31 (1.19%) Foundry
13 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.92%) VMware
15 22 (0.85%) Adobe
15 22 (0.85%) Ariba
16 20 (0.77%) Splunk
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx