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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 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 1,269 1,539
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.87% 9.47% 9.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.81% 10.23% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,748 821 939
10th Percentile £493 £463 £487
25th Percentile £545 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £644 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -0.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £750
90th Percentile £807 £800 £838
England median daily rate £622 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.56% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - £58.69
25th Percentile £59.13 £85.00 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £90.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +4.13% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £95.00 £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £68.50 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.52% +3.57% -4.00%

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 18,828 12,404 15,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.60% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,171 8,272 9,930
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 203 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% -23.08% -7.65%
75th Percentile £65.60 £49.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.11 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +15 326 £625 -3.85% 294
West London -18 28 £650 +44.44% 51
South London -9 15 £650 -8.26% 22
East London 0 9 £700 +3.70% 10
North London -1 2 £650 -14.75% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 764 (29.37%) Azure
2 689 (26.49%) Security Cleared
3 563 (21.65%) SC Cleared
4 561 (21.57%) AWS
5 523 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 493 (18.95%) Roadmaps
7 442 (16.99%) AI
8 419 (16.11%) Migration
9 373 (14.34%) Enterprise Architecture
10 350 (13.46%) Microsoft
11 325 (12.50%) DevOps
12 302 (11.61%) Analytics
13 299 (11.50%) Data Modelling
14 297 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
15 296 (11.38%) CI/CD
16 287 (11.03%) Data Architecture
17 260 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 254 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
19 248 (9.53%) Agile
20 216 (8.30%) GCP
21 208 (8.00%) TOGAF
22 201 (7.73%) Security Architecture
23 195 (7.50%) Architectural Patterns
24 194 (7.46%) Event-Driven
25 193 (7.42%) Data Governance
25 193 (7.42%) Infrastructure as Code
26 186 (7.15%) Decision-Making
27 174 (6.69%) Architecture Governance
28 167 (6.42%) SAP
29 162 (6.23%) Databricks

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 31 (1.19%) Apache
3 29 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (0.85%) Confluence
5 22 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.69%) CMS
7 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.19%) Appian
9 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 5 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.12%) Camunda
10 3 (0.12%) JBoss
10 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.077%) IIS
11 2 (0.077%) Mendix
11 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.077%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.077%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.077%) Revit
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 86 (3.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 8 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 764 (29.37%) Azure
2 561 (21.57%) AWS
3 216 (8.30%) GCP
4 153 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 123 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 109 (4.19%) SaaS
7 97 (3.73%) Serverless
8 86 (3.31%) GitHub
9 77 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (2.81%) Snowflake
11 55 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
12 45 (1.73%) PaaS
13 44 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 40 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.46%) dbt
16 38 (1.46%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.61%) Network Security
2 48 (1.85%) Firewall
3 32 (1.23%) WAN
4 27 (1.04%) VPN
5 22 (0.85%) LAN
6 15 (0.58%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
10 8 (0.31%) Wireless
11 7 (0.27%) BGP
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.27%) MQTT
11 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
11 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.23%) 4G
12 6 (0.23%) SSL
12 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.27%) Metadata
2 90 (3.46%) Power BI
3 86 (3.31%) Data Lake
4 77 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.00%) Delta Lake
7 25 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (0.81%) Big Data
9 21 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.65%) BigQuery
10 17 (0.65%) Data Vault
11 16 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
12 15 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
15 11 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (1.42%) JIRA
2 35 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.11%) Git
4 21 (0.81%) GitLab
5 9 (0.35%) RStudio
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Postman
10 3 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) Flyway
11 2 (0.077%) Liquibase
General
1 530 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 461 (17.72%) Finance
3 307 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 170 (6.54%) Banking
5 135 (5.19%) Retail
6 116 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 82 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 81 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 44 (1.69%) Marketing
12 42 (1.61%) Billing
12 42 (1.61%) Legal
13 28 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.77%) Automotive
15 20 (0.77%) Police
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
16 15 (0.58%) Military
17 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (5.88%) REST
2 135 (5.19%) Terraform
3 89 (3.42%) Kafka
4 80 (3.08%) .NET
5 64 (2.46%) SOAP
6 60 (2.31%) Middleware
7 52 (2.00%) OAuth
8 36 (1.38%) PySpark
9 34 (1.31%) .NET Framework
10 32 (1.23%) JSON
11 28 (1.08%) OAuth2
11 28 (1.08%) OpenID
12 27 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
13 24 (0.92%) SAML
13 24 (0.92%) XML
14 21 (0.81%) JWT
15 19 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
15 19 (0.73%) React
16 18 (0.69%) SailPoint
16 18 (0.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 245 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 87 (3.34%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.00%) AI Agents
4 72 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 65 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 61 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 56 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 51 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 48 (1.85%) CMDB
11 36 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 35 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
12 35 (1.35%) Taxonomies
13 31 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 30 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
17 22 (0.85%) IoT
17 22 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.31%) Linux
2 31 (1.19%) Windows
3 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) Unix
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.15%) Android
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) AIX
10 1 (0.038%) Solaris
10 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 493 (18.95%) Roadmaps
3 442 (16.99%) AI
4 419 (16.11%) Migration
5 373 (14.34%) Enterprise Architecture
6 325 (12.50%) DevOps
7 302 (11.61%) Analytics
8 299 (11.50%) Data Modelling
9 297 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
10 296 (11.38%) CI/CD
11 287 (11.03%) Data Architecture
12 260 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 254 (9.77%) Integration Patterns
14 248 (9.53%) Agile
15 208 (8.00%) TOGAF
16 201 (7.73%) Security Architecture
17 195 (7.50%) Architectural Patterns
18 194 (7.46%) Event-Driven
19 193 (7.42%) Data Governance
19 193 (7.42%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 132 (5.07%) SQL
2 122 (4.69%) Python
3 95 (3.65%) Java
4 57 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.42%) C#
7 32 (1.23%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.19%) Bicep
9 19 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 16 (0.62%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.35%) ABAP
13 8 (0.31%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.19%) Ruby
16 5 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 689 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 563 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 76 (2.92%) Degree
4 73 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 66 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 63 (2.42%) CISSP
7 56 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 56 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 44 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 37 (1.42%) CISM
10 29 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) CCSP
15 13 (0.50%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.46%) CCNP
16 12 (0.46%) CISA
17 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 82 (3.15%) GDPR
2 82 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (3.04%) NIST
4 48 (1.85%) GRC
5 42 (1.61%) NCSC
6 21 (0.81%) QA
7 18 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 18 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 18 (0.69%) SEPA
8 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
10 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.42%) SLA
12 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.35%) PMO
14 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 69 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 43 (1.65%) Docker
3 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.077%) Postfix
8 2 (0.077%) Varnish
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 110 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.73%) Ansible
3 33 (1.27%) Grafana
4 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 17 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.31%) Argo
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.23%) Puppet
7 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.15%) SCCM
8 2 (0.077%) CASB
8 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.077%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.077%) Istio
8 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.077%) QRadar
9 1 (0.038%) Avamar
9 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 350 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.42%) SAP
3 162 (6.23%) Databricks
4 143 (5.50%) Oracle
5 140 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 114 (4.38%) Salesforce
7 79 (3.04%) Google
8 54 (2.08%) Cisco
9 38 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.23%) MuleSoft
11 29 (1.11%) Workday
12 28 (1.08%) IBM
13 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.00%) VMware
15 25 (0.96%) Palo Alto
16 24 (0.92%) Ariba
17 22 (0.85%) Dynatrace
17 22 (0.85%) Foundry
17 22 (0.85%) Splunk
18 21 (0.81%) Sparx