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 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,900 1,295 1,789
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.20% 10.28% 9.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.09% 10.99% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 850 1,297
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £519 £553 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £825 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £64.60 £38.50 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.25 £43.75 £46.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +13.15% -21.44%
75th Percentile £89.48 £67.50 £59.15
90th Percentile £98.58 - £61.16
England median hourly rate £71.27 £70.00 £83.77
% change year-on-year +1.81% -16.43% +19.66%

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 15,721 11,785 16,815
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 93.58% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,525 8,063 12,128
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £442
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 £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 146 338
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.11 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £63.98
England median hourly rate £42.00 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year +25.75% +2.77% -24.42%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +3 260 £650 -3.17% 137
South London +4 24 £600 -18.37% 3
West London -9 24 £640 +13.78% 18
East London +1 13 £630 +0.80% 12
North London 0 1 £700 +0.83%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 554 (29.16%) Azure
2 544 (28.63%) Security Cleared
3 485 (25.53%) AWS
4 458 (24.11%) SC Cleared
5 293 (15.42%) Migration
6 281 (14.79%) Microsoft
7 278 (14.63%) Roadmaps
8 262 (13.79%) DevOps
9 234 (12.32%) AI
10 230 (12.11%) CI/CD
11 227 (11.95%) Agile
12 211 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 209 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 208 (10.95%) Integration Patterns
15 205 (10.79%) GCP
16 200 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
17 199 (10.47%) Analytics
18 198 (10.42%) Data Modelling
19 191 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
20 179 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
21 178 (9.37%) Data Architecture
22 174 (9.16%) Python
23 162 (8.53%) Architectural Patterns
24 154 (8.11%) TOGAF
25 143 (7.53%) Architectural Design
26 142 (7.47%) Infrastructure as Code
27 138 (7.26%) Microservices
28 137 (7.21%) REST
29 133 (7.00%) Terraform
30 132 (6.95%) SQL

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 40 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.32%) Confluence
3 18 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.63%) CMS
6 11 (0.58%) Apache
6 11 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.58%) nginx
7 7 (0.37%) Camunda
8 6 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.26%) Mule
10 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.16%) Appian
11 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.053%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.053%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.053%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 51 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.32%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.21%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.21%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.16%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 554 (29.16%) Azure
2 485 (25.53%) AWS
3 205 (10.79%) GCP
4 112 (5.89%) Power Platform
5 82 (4.32%) Serverless
6 80 (4.21%) SaaS
7 71 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 67 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
9 60 (3.16%) IaaS
10 54 (2.84%) GitHub
11 53 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 49 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (2.47%) PaaS
15 46 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
15 46 (2.42%) Snowflake
16 41 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 35 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
19 31 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.95%) Network Security
2 70 (3.68%) Firewall
3 54 (2.84%) WAN
4 47 (2.47%) VPN
5 45 (2.37%) DNS
6 30 (1.58%) SD-WAN
7 28 (1.47%) LAN
8 17 (0.89%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.84%) BGP
10 15 (0.79%) OSPF
11 12 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.53%) MPLS
12 10 (0.53%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.47%) OpenVPN
14 8 (0.42%) 5G
14 8 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
15 6 (0.32%) VSAN
16 5 (0.26%) 3GPP
16 5 (0.26%) Internet
17 4 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.37%) Power BI
2 68 (3.58%) Data Lake
3 57 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (2.53%) Metadata
5 34 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 33 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.53%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (1.00%) Big Data
9 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 17 (0.89%) Tableau
11 15 (0.79%) Data Vault
11 15 (0.79%) Delta Lake
12 14 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (0.68%) DB2
14 12 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.58%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 31 (1.63%) JIRA
3 27 (1.42%) Git
4 20 (1.05%) GitLab
5 9 (0.47%) ERwin
6 8 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.32%) MLflow
8 5 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.21%) Snyk
9 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.16%) Maven
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.16%) Postman
11 2 (0.11%) Chocolatey
11 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 425 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 399 (21.00%) Finance
3 221 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 129 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (6.63%) Banking
6 76 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
7 61 (3.21%) Retail
8 55 (2.89%) Law
9 48 (2.53%) Legal
10 40 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 34 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.68%) Marketing
13 27 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.05%) Billing
16 14 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.63%) Local Government
18 11 (0.58%) Military
19 10 (0.53%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (7.21%) REST
2 95 (5.00%) Middleware
3 70 (3.68%) SOAP
4 64 (3.37%) LDAP
5 50 (2.63%) .NET
6 43 (2.26%) Kafka
7 42 (2.21%) OpenID
8 37 (1.95%) JSON
9 30 (1.58%) SAML
10 28 (1.47%) AngularJS
10 28 (1.47%) OAuth
11 26 (1.37%) React
12 18 (0.95%) Spring
13 17 (0.89%) RESTful
14 15 (0.79%) Vue
15 14 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
16 13 (0.68%) Spring Boot
16 13 (0.68%) Web Services
16 13 (0.68%) XML
17 12 (0.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 184 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
3 64 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 52 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 52 (2.74%) Security Posture
5 50 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 44 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 41 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (1.84%) PKI
10 29 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.42%) CMDB
12 23 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 18 (0.95%) Replication
15 16 (0.84%) FMCG
16 15 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.79%) Windows
2 27 (1.42%) Linux
3 10 (0.53%) zOS
4 8 (0.42%) Unix
5 7 (0.37%) Android
5 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.11%) VMS
10 1 (0.053%) CentOS
10 1 (0.053%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (15.42%) Migration
2 278 (14.63%) Roadmaps
3 262 (13.79%) DevOps
4 234 (12.32%) AI
5 230 (12.11%) CI/CD
6 227 (11.95%) Agile
7 211 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 209 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 208 (10.95%) Integration Patterns
10 200 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 199 (10.47%) Analytics
12 198 (10.42%) Data Modelling
13 191 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
14 179 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
15 178 (9.37%) Data Architecture
16 162 (8.53%) Architectural Patterns
17 154 (8.11%) TOGAF
18 143 (7.53%) Architectural Design
19 142 (7.47%) Infrastructure as Code
20 138 (7.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 174 (9.16%) Python
2 132 (6.95%) SQL
3 92 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 89 (4.68%) Java
5 30 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.53%) C#
7 22 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 18 (0.95%) Bicep
9 15 (0.79%) Ruby
10 14 (0.74%) Bash
11 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.42%) Scala
13 7 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.21%) C++
15 4 (0.21%) Go
15 4 (0.21%) Korn
15 4 (0.21%) R
15 4 (0.21%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.21%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 544 (28.63%) Security Cleared
2 458 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 74 (3.89%) Degree
4 68 (3.58%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 44 (2.32%) CISSP
7 43 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.16%) CISM
11 22 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.79%) CCNP
16 13 (0.68%) CCIE
17 11 (0.58%) CCSP
18 6 (0.32%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.84%) GDPR
2 57 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 56 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (2.79%) NIST
5 42 (2.21%) NCSC
6 39 (2.05%) QA
7 26 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 13 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.58%) GRC
11 9 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) PSD2
13 7 (0.37%) EU AI Act
13 7 (0.37%) SEPA
14 6 (0.32%) HL7
14 6 (0.32%) SLA
15 5 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.26%) PERC
System Software
1 78 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 71 (3.74%) Docker
3 27 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.84%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.47%) Squid
5 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.37%) Varnish
7 6 (0.32%) vSphere
8 5 (0.26%) Postfix
8 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.11%) Ceph
11 2 (0.11%) Firmware
11 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.11%) Lustre
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.053%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 133 (7.00%) Terraform
2 128 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.84%) Ansible
4 25 (1.32%) Grafana
5 22 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.89%) FortiGate
7 16 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.37%) Consul
10 5 (0.26%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.21%) Argo
11 4 (0.21%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 3 (0.16%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 281 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.68%) ServiceNow
3 104 (5.47%) SAP
4 102 (5.37%) Salesforce
5 101 (5.32%) Databricks
6 85 (4.47%) Oracle
7 65 (3.42%) CyberArk
8 42 (2.21%) Cisco
9 41 (2.16%) Google
10 35 (1.84%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.79%) Centrify
11 34 (1.79%) VMware
12 33 (1.74%) Splunk
13 30 (1.58%) IBM
14 24 (1.26%) OpenAI
14 24 (1.26%) Workday
15 22 (1.16%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.11%) MuleSoft
17 20 (1.05%) Zscaler
18 19 (1.00%) Ariba