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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,317 1,313 1,802
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.17% 10.50% 10.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.10% 11.24% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,580 854 1,303
10th Percentile £475 £500 £488
25th Percentile £513 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £821 £800 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £53.95 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £83.44 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £61.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

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 17,683 11,685 16,639
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.44% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,667 7,929 11,939
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £436 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 171 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.20 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.07
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.89 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +24.66% +18.93% -25.26%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.97 £46.05
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.00 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.56 £29.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +57.09% -26.58% -12.22%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +17 356 £625 -7.41% 57
West London -6 32 £640 -4.48% 21
South London +3 22 £723 +1.40% 1
East London +5 15 £669 +14.36% 6
North London +1 1 £650 -3.70% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 664 (28.66%) Azure
2 638 (27.54%) Security Cleared
3 544 (23.48%) AWS
4 543 (23.44%) SC Cleared
5 377 (16.27%) Migration
6 338 (14.59%) AI
7 335 (14.46%) Roadmaps
8 311 (13.42%) Microsoft
9 304 (13.12%) DevOps
10 279 (12.04%) CI/CD
11 278 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 247 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 246 (10.62%) Analytics
14 243 (10.49%) Data Modelling
15 235 (10.14%) Integration Patterns
16 231 (9.97%) Data Architecture
16 231 (9.97%) Enterprise Architecture
17 226 (9.75%) Agile
18 218 (9.41%) GCP
19 201 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
20 197 (8.50%) Architectural Patterns
21 188 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
22 183 (7.90%) TOGAF
23 176 (7.60%) Problem-Solving
24 171 (7.38%) Python
25 165 (7.12%) Architectural Design
26 149 (6.43%) Security Architecture
27 141 (6.09%) Microservices
28 140 (6.04%) Event-Driven
28 140 (6.04%) ServiceNow

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 45 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.17%) Confluence
3 23 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 20 (0.86%) Apache
5 15 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.47%) nginx
7 10 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.39%) Camunda
8 9 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.35%) SAS
10 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.26%) CMS
12 5 (0.22%) Mule
13 4 (0.17%) Appian
14 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.086%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.043%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.35%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.22%) Endur
6 5 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.17%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle HRMS
9 2 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.086%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 664 (28.66%) Azure
2 544 (23.48%) AWS
3 218 (9.41%) GCP
4 137 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 93 (4.01%) Serverless
6 90 (3.88%) SaaS
7 78 (3.37%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
9 65 (2.81%) GitHub
10 58 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 58 (2.50%) Snowflake
11 57 (2.46%) Amazon S3
12 55 (2.37%) PaaS
13 51 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
15 41 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (1.68%) IaaS
17 32 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
18 31 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (4.01%) Network Security
2 69 (2.98%) Firewall
3 46 (1.99%) VPN
4 40 (1.73%) DNS
4 40 (1.73%) WAN
5 22 (0.95%) LAN
6 21 (0.91%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.60%) BGP
9 13 (0.56%) OSPF
10 10 (0.43%) MPLS
10 10 (0.43%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.35%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.35%) 5G
12 8 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (0.30%) NGFW
13 7 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.22%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.23%) Power BI
2 74 (3.19%) Data Lake
3 63 (2.72%) Metadata
4 57 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 32 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 24 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (0.99%) Big Data
11 20 (0.86%) Delta Lake
12 18 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.60%) Tableau
15 13 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.52%) Star Schema
17 11 (0.47%) Oracle Database
17 11 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.60%) JIRA
3 34 (1.47%) Git
4 20 (0.86%) GitLab
5 12 (0.52%) ERwin
6 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.35%) MLflow
8 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.22%) Maven
9 5 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.13%) JMeter
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.086%) Katalon Studio
12 2 (0.086%) MSI
12 2 (0.086%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.086%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.086%) VTune
General
1 451 (19.46%) Finance
2 443 (19.12%) Social Skills
3 274 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 157 (6.78%) Banking
5 111 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (4.14%) Retail
7 78 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (2.72%) Telecoms
10 54 (2.33%) Legal
11 49 (2.11%) Law
12 33 (1.42%) Billing
13 26 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 23 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 22 (0.95%) Marketing
16 21 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.52%) Military
18 11 (0.47%) Local Government
19 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (5.14%) REST
2 83 (3.58%) Middleware
3 75 (3.24%) .NET
4 68 (2.93%) SOAP
5 50 (2.16%) LDAP
6 44 (1.90%) Kafka
7 40 (1.73%) OpenID
8 34 (1.47%) SAML
9 33 (1.42%) OAuth
10 30 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
11 28 (1.21%) React
12 25 (1.08%) .NET Framework
13 21 (0.91%) AngularJS
14 18 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
14 18 (0.78%) OAuth2
14 18 (0.78%) RESTful
15 17 (0.73%) PySpark
16 15 (0.65%) Spring
17 14 (0.60%) JSON
18 13 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 235 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 74 (3.19%) Onboarding
3 63 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 58 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 50 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 49 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 47 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 46 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.94%) CMDB
11 37 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.12%) Mainframe
13 25 (1.08%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
15 21 (0.91%) NHS
16 20 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 20 (0.86%) Taxonomies
17 19 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.68%) Linux
2 37 (1.60%) Windows
3 11 (0.47%) Android
3 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.39%) zOS
6 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Solaris
9 3 (0.13%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) CentOS
10 2 (0.086%) VMS
10 2 (0.086%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (16.27%) Migration
2 338 (14.59%) AI
3 335 (14.46%) Roadmaps
4 304 (13.12%) DevOps
5 279 (12.04%) CI/CD
6 278 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 247 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 246 (10.62%) Analytics
9 243 (10.49%) Data Modelling
10 235 (10.14%) Integration Patterns
11 231 (9.97%) Data Architecture
11 231 (9.97%) Enterprise Architecture
12 226 (9.75%) Agile
13 201 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
14 197 (8.50%) Architectural Patterns
15 188 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 183 (7.90%) TOGAF
17 176 (7.60%) Problem-Solving
18 165 (7.12%) Architectural Design
19 149 (6.43%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 171 (7.38%) Python
2 124 (5.35%) SQL
3 105 (4.53%) Java
4 65 (2.81%) PowerShell
5 41 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.38%) C#
7 25 (1.08%) Bicep
8 20 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.69%) Bash
10 15 (0.65%) Ruby
11 9 (0.39%) Scala
12 6 (0.26%) R
12 6 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.22%) C++
13 5 (0.22%) Go
14 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.13%) Korn
15 3 (0.13%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 638 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 543 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 82 (3.54%) Degree
4 66 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 61 (2.63%) CISSP
6 49 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 44 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.38%) CISM
10 32 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 22 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.60%) CCNP
15 14 (0.60%) CCSP
15 14 (0.60%) CISA
16 10 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.45%) GDPR
2 76 (3.28%) NIST
3 70 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 68 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.03%) NCSC
6 35 (1.51%) QA
7 24 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.69%) GRC
8 16 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.60%) SEPA
11 12 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.43%) PSD2
13 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.30%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.26%) COBIT
15 6 (0.26%) HL7
16 5 (0.22%) IFRS
17 4 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 57 (2.46%) Docker
3 23 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.35%) Varnish
7 7 (0.30%) Postfix
7 7 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.22%) NFS
8 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.086%) vSphere
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.043%) IAG
Systems Management
1 136 (5.87%) Terraform
2 127 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 47 (2.03%) Ansible
4 25 (1.08%) Grafana
5 22 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.73%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.30%) Consul
8 7 (0.30%) HAProxy
9 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.22%) Argo
10 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.17%) Puppet
11 4 (0.17%) SCCM
12 3 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.086%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.086%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.086%) QRadar
13 2 (0.086%) VxRail
Vendors
1 311 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 140 (6.04%) ServiceNow
3 129 (5.57%) Databricks
4 118 (5.09%) SAP
5 116 (5.01%) Oracle
6 106 (4.57%) Salesforce
7 60 (2.59%) CyberArk
8 57 (2.46%) Cisco
9 46 (1.99%) Google
10 39 (1.68%) Splunk
11 32 (1.38%) Workday
12 31 (1.34%) MuleSoft
13 30 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 29 (1.25%) IBM
15 28 (1.21%) Palo Alto
16 27 (1.17%) VMware
17 26 (1.12%) Foundry
18 20 (0.86%) BeyondTrust
19 19 (0.82%) Centrify
19 19 (0.82%) Dynatrace