Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £645, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,365 1,345 1,695
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.55% 9.69% 9.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.33% 10.36% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 787 1,205
10th Percentile £463 £488 £500
25th Percentile £538 £541 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £743
90th Percentile £838 £811 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £64.20 - £43.55
25th Percentile £65.00 - £44.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -26.74% -36.30%
75th Percentile £93.75 - £50.33
90th Percentile £95.00 - £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.00 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +14.48% -5.27% +9.33%

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 13,211 12,987 16,934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 93.56% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,751 8,344 12,206
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 140 268
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £16.18
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.80 £18.93
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +15.40% -10.56%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £52.69
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year -18.57% -13.21% +15.21%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -3 186 £650 - 68
West London -6 19 £644 +14.40% 10
South London +1 8 £538 -18.56% 8
East London -4 7 £675 +3.85% 10
North London +6 3 £700 -1.89% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 January 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.

1 450 (32.97%) Azure
2 366 (26.81%) Security Cleared
3 337 (24.69%) AWS
4 305 (22.34%) SC Cleared
5 212 (15.53%) Microsoft
6 186 (13.63%) Roadmaps
7 176 (12.89%) Agile
8 168 (12.31%) DevOps
8 168 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 167 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
10 160 (11.72%) Migration
11 155 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
12 153 (11.21%) Data Modelling
12 153 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 152 (11.14%) CI/CD
14 144 (10.55%) AI
15 134 (9.82%) Analytics
15 134 (9.82%) Python
16 133 (9.74%) Enterprise Architecture
17 132 (9.67%) Data Architecture
17 132 (9.67%) Integration Patterns
18 127 (9.30%) GCP
19 109 (7.99%) REST
20 105 (7.69%) Microservices
21 104 (7.62%) Terraform
22 101 (7.40%) TOGAF
23 97 (7.11%) SQL
24 94 (6.89%) Security Architecture
25 93 (6.81%) Data Governance
26 84 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code

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 26 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.17%) Confluence
3 12 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (0.88%) CMS
4 10 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.44%) Apache
7 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Luigi
9 2 (0.15%) Mule
9 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.15%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.073%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.59%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.44%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.37%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.29%) Endur
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.22%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 450 (32.97%) Azure
2 337 (24.69%) AWS
3 127 (9.30%) GCP
4 74 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 63 (4.62%) Serverless
6 53 (3.88%) SaaS
7 51 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 44 (3.22%) IaaS
9 39 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (2.71%) GitHub
12 36 (2.64%) Amazon S3
13 31 (2.27%) Snowflake
14 30 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
16 26 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
16 26 (1.90%) PaaS
17 25 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.62%) Firewall
2 55 (4.03%) WAN
3 48 (3.52%) Network Security
4 37 (2.71%) LAN
5 34 (2.49%) VPN
6 28 (2.05%) SD-WAN
7 25 (1.83%) DNS
8 14 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.88%) BGP
10 10 (0.73%) OSPF
11 8 (0.59%) SSL
12 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 6 (0.44%) BIG-IP
13 6 (0.44%) NGFW
13 6 (0.44%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.37%) 5G
14 5 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 5 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (0.37%) MPLS
14 5 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.74%) Data Lake
2 45 (3.30%) Power BI
3 43 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.05%) Metadata
6 22 (1.61%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.25%) Data Vault
10 15 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.95%) Delta Lake
11 13 (0.95%) Tableau
12 12 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.73%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (0.66%) Spark SQL
15 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (0.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (1.98%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.47%) JIRA
3 18 (1.32%) GitLab
4 8 (0.59%) Git
5 7 (0.51%) ERwin
6 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.15%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.073%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.073%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.073%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.073%) MLflow
9 1 (0.073%) Postman
9 1 (0.073%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.073%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.073%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 353 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 297 (21.76%) Finance
3 162 (11.87%) Public Sector
4 109 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (7.03%) Banking
6 36 (2.64%) Legal
7 32 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 31 (2.27%) Retail
9 30 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.12%) Marketing
11 27 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.61%) Billing
14 18 (1.32%) Law
15 13 (0.95%) Military
16 11 (0.81%) Back Office
16 11 (0.81%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (7.99%) REST
2 57 (4.18%) SOAP
3 54 (3.96%) Middleware
4 44 (3.22%) LDAP
5 41 (3.00%) JSON
6 35 (2.56%) .NET
7 34 (2.49%) Kafka
8 27 (1.98%) OAuth
9 24 (1.76%) OpenID
10 22 (1.61%) SAML
11 20 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.32%) PySpark
13 15 (1.10%) RESTful
14 13 (0.95%) OAuth2
15 11 (0.81%) React
16 10 (0.73%) ARM Templates
16 10 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (0.73%) Spring
16 10 (0.73%) Spring Boot
17 9 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.99%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (3.22%) Security Posture
4 43 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.78%) PKI
6 36 (2.64%) Data Centre
7 35 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 34 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.20%) Product Ownership
11 26 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.61%) Management Information System
13 20 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.32%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 14 (1.03%) Replication
16 13 (0.95%) CMDB
16 13 (0.95%) FMCG
16 13 (0.95%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.42%) Windows
2 21 (1.54%) Linux
3 10 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.44%) Unix
5 4 (0.29%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.22%) CentOS
6 3 (0.22%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.22%) zOS
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.073%) Solaris
8 1 (0.073%) VMS
8 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (13.63%) Roadmaps
2 176 (12.89%) Agile
3 168 (12.31%) DevOps
3 168 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 167 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (11.72%) Migration
6 155 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
7 153 (11.21%) Data Modelling
7 153 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 152 (11.14%) CI/CD
9 144 (10.55%) AI
10 134 (9.82%) Analytics
11 133 (9.74%) Enterprise Architecture
12 132 (9.67%) Data Architecture
12 132 (9.67%) Integration Patterns
13 105 (7.69%) Microservices
14 101 (7.40%) TOGAF
15 94 (6.89%) Security Architecture
16 93 (6.81%) Data Governance
17 84 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 134 (9.82%) Python
2 97 (7.11%) SQL
3 83 (6.08%) PowerShell
4 50 (3.66%) Java
5 25 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.61%) C#
7 19 (1.39%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.32%) Bicep
9 12 (0.88%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.37%) Korn
12 5 (0.37%) Ruby
13 4 (0.29%) Scala
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) R
14 3 (0.22%) SOQL
15 2 (0.15%) SOSL
15 2 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 366 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 305 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 63 (4.62%) Degree
4 46 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.54%) CISSP
11 19 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (1.25%) Master's Degree
13 15 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (1.03%) CCNP
15 10 (0.73%) CCIE
16 7 (0.51%) CCSE
16 7 (0.51%) CISM
17 6 (0.44%) JNCIE
18 5 (0.37%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.96%) GDPR
2 41 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.49%) NIST
4 34 (2.49%) QA
5 23 (1.68%) NCSC
6 20 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.59%) GRC
9 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.37%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.37%) PERC
12 4 (0.29%) MiFID
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.22%) GxP
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 61 (4.47%) Docker
3 18 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.37%) vSphere
6 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.22%) Lustre
6 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.15%) Ceph
7 2 (0.15%) Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
7 2 (0.15%) Varnish
7 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.073%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.073%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 104 (7.62%) Terraform
2 69 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.49%) Ansible
4 14 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.66%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.51%) Grafana
7 5 (0.37%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.29%) Kibana
8 4 (0.29%) SCCM
9 3 (0.22%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.15%) Argo
10 2 (0.15%) Istio
10 2 (0.15%) Nagios
10 2 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.073%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 212 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.93%) Salesforce
2 81 (5.93%) SAP
3 72 (5.27%) ServiceNow
4 70 (5.13%) Databricks
5 60 (4.40%) Oracle
6 57 (4.18%) CyberArk
7 40 (2.93%) Cisco
8 34 (2.49%) BeyondTrust
8 34 (2.49%) Centrify
8 34 (2.49%) Google
9 24 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.61%) Splunk
11 21 (1.54%) VMware
12 19 (1.39%) OpenAI
13 15 (1.10%) IBM
13 15 (1.10%) Zscaler
14 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.95%) Pega
14 13 (0.95%) Workday