Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,283 1,562 2,130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 9.53% 9.58% 9.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.28% 10.19% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 1,014 1,521
10th Percentile £463 £488 £510
25th Percentile £550 £550 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% -
75th Percentile £734 £750 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £625 £635 £650
% change year-on-year -1.61% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £66.25 £58.69 £35.64
25th Percentile £71.88 £68.72 £49.56
Median hourly rate £82.50 £86.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +32.97% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91.88 £103.15 £72.50
90th Percentile £96.75 £112.57 £82.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £71.09
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +9.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,486 15,331 20,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.03% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,366 10,240 15,087
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 180 230
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.48 £18.15
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.26
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -5.25% +15.44%
75th Percentile £51.81 £56.38 £63.44
90th Percentile £66.54 £72.19 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 0 165 £650 -3.70% 101
West London -8 29 £450 -22.58% 15
South London +10 18 £709 +41.70% 5
East London +16 13 £675 +0.22% 7
North London -3 2 £900 +12.50%
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 429 (33.44%) Azure
2 353 (27.51%) AWS
3 345 (26.89%) Social Skills
4 315 (24.55%) Finance
5 272 (21.20%) Security Cleared
6 234 (18.24%) SC Cleared
7 220 (17.15%) Microsoft
8 182 (14.19%) Agile
9 172 (13.41%) Roadmaps
10 169 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 163 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (12.55%) Data Modelling
13 160 (12.47%) Migration
14 158 (12.31%) DevOps
15 148 (11.54%) GCP
16 146 (11.38%) Public Sector
17 138 (10.76%) Enterprise Architecture
18 137 (10.68%) Microservices
19 134 (10.44%) Banking
20 126 (9.82%) CI/CD
21 125 (9.74%) Data Architecture
22 119 (9.28%) Python
23 118 (9.20%) Analytics
24 116 (9.04%) Data Governance
25 112 (8.73%) TOGAF
26 108 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
27 103 (8.03%) SAP
27 103 (8.03%) Security Architecture
27 103 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
28 102 (7.95%) Firewall

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (3.12%) Confluence
2 20 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.17%) Apache
3 15 (1.17%) OpenStack
4 14 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.62%) CMS
7 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.23%) Mule
9 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 55 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.94%) Endur
3 11 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.62%) SAP PS
5 7 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.55%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.39%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.31%) thinkFolio
9 3 (0.23%) Maximo
9 3 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 429 (33.44%) Azure
2 353 (27.51%) AWS
3 148 (11.54%) GCP
4 89 (6.94%) SaaS
5 79 (6.16%) Power Platform
6 59 (4.60%) Serverless
7 56 (4.36%) Amazon S3
8 55 (4.29%) Entra ID
9 48 (3.74%) PaaS
9 48 (3.74%) Snowflake
10 46 (3.59%) IaaS
10 46 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
11 45 (3.51%) GitHub
12 41 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 33 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
16 28 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
17 25 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 102 (7.95%) Firewall
2 42 (3.27%) LAN
3 41 (3.20%) WAN
4 37 (2.88%) Network Security
5 34 (2.65%) VPN
6 31 (2.42%) SD-WAN
7 28 (2.18%) DNS
8 26 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
10 19 (1.48%) SSL
11 9 (0.70%) BGP
11 9 (0.70%) DHCP
11 9 (0.70%) HTTP
12 8 (0.62%) SAN
13 7 (0.55%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.55%) NGFW
13 7 (0.55%) OSPF
14 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
15 5 (0.39%) VLAN
15 5 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (4.21%) Data Lake
3 51 (3.98%) Power BI
4 38 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.81%) Metadata
6 25 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (1.95%) Big Data
7 23 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 23 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 23 (1.79%) SAP HANA
8 17 (1.33%) Data Vault
9 16 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.86%) Delta Lake
12 9 (0.70%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.62%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.55%) GIS
14 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (3.43%) JIRA
2 21 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.09%) GitLab
4 11 (0.86%) Git
5 10 (0.78%) CircleCI
5 10 (0.78%) ERwin
6 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.31%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.16%) GCC
10 2 (0.16%) Maven
10 2 (0.16%) MLflow
10 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.16%) PROIV
11 1 (0.078%) Postman
General
1 345 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 315 (24.55%) Finance
3 146 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 134 (10.44%) Banking
5 103 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 39 (3.04%) Retail
8 37 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 30 (2.34%) Legal
10 29 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (2.18%) Marketing
12 24 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.40%) Back Office
13 18 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.33%) Billing
15 14 (1.09%) Law
16 13 (1.01%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.62%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (4.68%) REST
2 46 (3.59%) Web Services
3 43 (3.35%) .NET
4 42 (3.27%) Kafka
5 35 (2.73%) Middleware
6 29 (2.26%) SOAP
7 27 (2.10%) JSON
8 25 (1.95%) React
9 24 (1.87%) AngularJS
9 24 (1.87%) OAuth
10 23 (1.79%) SAML
11 19 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (1.40%) HTML
12 18 (1.40%) RESTful
13 16 (1.25%) LDAP
14 14 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
15 13 (1.01%) OAuth2
15 13 (1.01%) OpenID
15 13 (1.01%) Spring
15 13 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.72%) Cloud Native
2 46 (3.59%) Onboarding
2 46 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.35%) Data Centre
4 41 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.56%) CSOC
8 20 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
9 17 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 15 (1.17%) Low-Code
10 15 (1.17%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.01%) Reinsurance
12 12 (0.94%) CMDB
12 12 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 57 (4.44%) Windows
2 49 (3.82%) Linux
3 19 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.94%) Unix
5 8 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.55%) Android
6 7 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.31%) CentOS
7 4 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.16%) Debian
8 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.16%) VMS
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.078%) AIX
9 1 (0.078%) Solaris
9 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (14.19%) Agile
2 172 (13.41%) Roadmaps
3 169 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 163 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (12.55%) Data Modelling
6 160 (12.47%) Migration
7 158 (12.31%) DevOps
8 138 (10.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 137 (10.68%) Microservices
10 126 (9.82%) CI/CD
11 125 (9.74%) Data Architecture
12 118 (9.20%) Analytics
13 116 (9.04%) Data Governance
14 112 (8.73%) TOGAF
15 108 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
16 103 (8.03%) Security Architecture
17 101 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 85 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
19 83 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
20 79 (6.16%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 119 (9.28%) Python
2 92 (7.17%) Java
3 89 (6.94%) SQL
4 44 (3.43%) JavaScript
4 44 (3.43%) PowerShell
5 33 (2.57%) C#
6 30 (2.34%) TypeScript
7 24 (1.87%) Bicep
8 17 (1.33%) Bash
9 10 (0.78%) Apex Code
9 10 (0.78%) Go
10 9 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.62%) Scala
12 7 (0.55%) Groovy
12 7 (0.55%) R
12 7 (0.55%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.39%) C
14 5 (0.39%) C++
14 5 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 272 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 234 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.75%) Degree
4 46 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 44 (3.43%) AWS Certification
6 34 (2.65%) CISSP
7 25 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (1.64%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (1.40%) CISM
12 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.01%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.86%) CCNP
16 9 (0.70%) CCIE
17 8 (0.62%) GIAC
18 7 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 6 (0.47%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.46%) GDPR
2 59 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.36%) NIST
4 37 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 22 (1.71%) QA
6 17 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.70%) NCSC
8 9 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.47%) GRC
9 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.47%) MiFID
10 5 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.39%) SLA
11 4 (0.31%) COBIT
11 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 61 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.66%) Docker
3 16 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.55%) vSphere
5 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.16%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.16%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.16%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.16%) vCloud
8 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.078%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.078%) GPFS
9 1 (0.078%) Lustre
9 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.078%) Postfix
9 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 96 (7.48%) Terraform
2 87 (6.78%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.49%) Ansible
4 25 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.86%) Grafana
7 6 (0.47%) SCCM
8 3 (0.23%) Kibana
8 3 (0.23%) Puppet
9 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.16%) Nagios
9 2 (0.16%) SELinux
10 1 (0.078%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.078%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 1 (0.078%) Istio
10 1 (0.078%) MIIS
10 1 (0.078%) SCOM
10 1 (0.078%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.078%) vRealize
Vendors
1 220 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.03%) SAP
3 76 (5.92%) Google
4 69 (5.38%) Oracle
5 67 (5.22%) Databricks
6 65 (5.07%) ServiceNow
7 57 (4.44%) Salesforce
8 51 (3.98%) Cisco
9 38 (2.96%) Splunk
10 32 (2.49%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.79%) VMware
12 17 (1.33%) IBM
12 17 (1.33%) OpenAI
13 15 (1.17%) CyberArk
14 14 (1.09%) Okta
14 14 (1.09%) Remedy
15 13 (1.01%) Informatica
16 12 (0.94%) HP
17 11 (0.86%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.86%) Talend