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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,115 1,257 1,791
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.89% 10.09% 10.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.83% 10.80% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 828 1,286
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £551 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £665
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -3.76% -5.00%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £753
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £623 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.40% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £60.50 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £63.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £75.84 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £90.25 -
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 16,488 11,637 16,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.41% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,954 7,971 11,960
10th Percentile £350 £346 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £681
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 145 331
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -22.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
% change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +8 305 £650 -0.84% 102
West London -4 33 £625 -7.41% 18
South London -6 21 £680 +4.58% 1
East London -4 13 £630 -1.18% 7
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 586 (27.71%) Azure
2 577 (27.28%) Security Cleared
3 512 (24.21%) AWS
4 488 (23.07%) SC Cleared
5 334 (15.79%) Migration
6 297 (14.04%) Microsoft
7 291 (13.76%) Roadmaps
8 276 (13.05%) AI
8 276 (13.05%) DevOps
9 255 (12.06%) CI/CD
10 231 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 230 (10.87%) Integration Patterns
12 218 (10.31%) Analytics
13 215 (10.17%) GCP
14 211 (9.98%) Agile
15 209 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 207 (9.79%) Data Modelling
17 193 (9.13%) Data Architecture
18 188 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
19 186 (8.79%) Enterprise Architecture
20 182 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
21 178 (8.42%) Python
22 176 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
23 166 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
24 150 (7.09%) TOGAF
25 149 (7.04%) Architectural Design
26 148 (7.00%) Microservices
27 138 (6.52%) ServiceNow
27 138 (6.52%) SQL
28 134 (6.34%) Terraform

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 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.13%) Confluence
3 20 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.76%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 10 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.38%) Camunda
7 8 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.24%) CMS
9 5 (0.24%) Mule
10 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.14%) Appian
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.095%) JBoss
12 2 (0.095%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.047%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.28%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP BRIM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 5 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 586 (27.71%) Azure
2 512 (24.21%) AWS
3 215 (10.17%) GCP
4 115 (5.44%) Power Platform
5 85 (4.02%) SaaS
5 85 (4.02%) Serverless
6 74 (3.50%) Entra ID
7 70 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
8 59 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 56 (2.65%) GitHub
10 52 (2.46%) PaaS
11 49 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (2.32%) Snowflake
12 42 (1.99%) IaaS
12 42 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 39 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.64%) Network Security
2 65 (3.07%) Firewall
3 45 (2.13%) WAN
4 41 (1.94%) DNS
5 40 (1.89%) VPN
6 25 (1.18%) LAN
7 23 (1.09%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.71%) BGP
9 14 (0.66%) OSPF
9 14 (0.66%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.52%) MPLS
10 11 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.47%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.43%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.38%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.38%) 5G
13 8 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.28%) NAS
14 6 (0.28%) SAN
14 6 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (3.83%) Power BI
2 68 (3.22%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (2.03%) Metadata
5 35 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 28 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 20 (0.95%) Delta Lake
12 19 (0.90%) Big Data
13 17 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.80%) Tableau
14 16 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.66%) DB2
16 13 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
16 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.57%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 44 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.42%) Git
3 23 (1.09%) GitLab
3 23 (1.09%) JIRA
4 10 (0.47%) ERwin
4 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
5 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.38%) MLflow
6 6 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.19%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.19%) Snyk
8 4 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.095%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.095%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.095%) MSI
10 2 (0.095%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.095%) Robot Framework
General
1 413 (19.53%) Social Skills
2 404 (19.10%) Finance
3 229 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 138 (6.52%) Banking
5 101 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (3.36%) Retail
8 62 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 55 (2.60%) Law
10 55 (2.60%) Legal
11 36 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.65%) Billing
13 28 (1.32%) Marketing
14 24 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 17 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (0.57%) Military
17 10 (0.47%) Local Government
18 9 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.86%) REST
2 90 (4.26%) Middleware
3 78 (3.69%) SOAP
4 66 (3.12%) LDAP
5 64 (3.03%) .NET
6 45 (2.13%) Kafka
7 41 (1.94%) OpenID
8 29 (1.37%) SAML
9 25 (1.18%) OAuth
9 25 (1.18%) React
10 23 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.04%) AngularJS
12 18 (0.85%) Spring
13 16 (0.76%) .NET Framework
13 16 (0.76%) RESTful
14 15 (0.71%) Vue
14 15 (0.71%) Web Services
15 14 (0.66%) J2EE
15 14 (0.66%) JSON
16 13 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 209 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 71 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
3 62 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
4 61 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 53 (2.51%) Security Posture
8 52 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 47 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.65%) CMDB
11 35 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.56%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 21 (0.99%) Mainframe
15 19 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
15 19 (0.90%) FMCG
15 19 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.85%) Public Cloud
16 18 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.42%) Linux
1 30 (1.42%) Windows
2 10 (0.47%) zOS
3 9 (0.43%) Unix
4 8 (0.38%) Android
4 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.14%) Solaris
7 2 (0.095%) AIX
7 2 (0.095%) CentOS
7 2 (0.095%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.095%) VMS
7 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.095%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (15.79%) Migration
2 291 (13.76%) Roadmaps
3 276 (13.05%) AI
3 276 (13.05%) DevOps
4 255 (12.06%) CI/CD
5 231 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 230 (10.87%) Integration Patterns
7 218 (10.31%) Analytics
8 211 (9.98%) Agile
9 209 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 207 (9.79%) Data Modelling
11 193 (9.13%) Data Architecture
12 188 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
13 186 (8.79%) Enterprise Architecture
14 182 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
15 176 (8.32%) Architectural Patterns
16 166 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 150 (7.09%) TOGAF
18 149 (7.04%) Architectural Design
19 148 (7.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 178 (8.42%) Python
2 138 (6.52%) SQL
3 103 (4.87%) Java
4 73 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.42%) C#
6 28 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 22 (1.04%) Bicep
8 18 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.76%) Ruby
10 13 (0.61%) Bash
11 10 (0.47%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.47%) Scala
12 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.24%) R
14 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.19%) C++
15 4 (0.19%) Go
15 4 (0.19%) SOQL
16 3 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 577 (27.28%) Security Cleared
2 488 (23.07%) SC Cleared
3 76 (3.59%) Degree
4 66 (3.12%) Azure Certification
5 51 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 49 (2.32%) CISSP
7 40 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 33 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.13%) CISM
13 22 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.66%) CCNP
17 12 (0.57%) CCSP
18 10 (0.47%) CCIE
18 10 (0.47%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.45%) GDPR
2 64 (3.03%) NIST
3 58 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.03%) NCSC
5 37 (1.75%) QA
6 24 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.61%) SEPA
9 12 (0.57%) GRC
10 10 (0.47%) PSD2
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.38%) SLA
12 7 (0.33%) HL7
13 5 (0.24%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.24%) PERC
14 4 (0.19%) IFRS
System Software
1 79 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.17%) Docker
3 26 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) Varnish
7 6 (0.28%) Postfix
8 5 (0.24%) NFS
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) vSphere
9 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.095%) Ceph
11 2 (0.095%) Firmware
11 2 (0.095%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.095%) Lustre
11 2 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (6.34%) Terraform
2 125 (5.91%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.51%) Ansible
4 26 (1.23%) Grafana
5 21 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.33%) Consul
9 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.24%) Argo
11 4 (0.19%) Istio
11 4 (0.19%) Kibana
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.14%) Puppet
12 3 (0.14%) SCCM
13 2 (0.095%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.095%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.095%) VxRail
Vendors
1 297 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 114 (5.39%) SAP
4 111 (5.25%) Databricks
5 103 (4.87%) Oracle
6 101 (4.78%) Salesforce
7 71 (3.36%) CyberArk
8 41 (1.94%) Google
9 40 (1.89%) Cisco
10 35 (1.65%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.61%) Centrify
12 33 (1.56%) Splunk
13 31 (1.47%) VMware
14 30 (1.42%) Workday
15 27 (1.28%) IBM
16 25 (1.18%) OpenAI
17 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
18 21 (0.99%) Palo Alto
19 20 (0.95%) Ariba
19 20 (0.95%) Zscaler