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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 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 2,329 1,316 1,791
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.17% 10.46% 10.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.11% 11.19% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 856 1,291
10th Percentile £474 £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 £816 £800 £875
England median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -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 17,770 11,759 16,478
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.44% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 7,962 11,829
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £762 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 174 321
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.28 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% +21.62% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.50 £46.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.63 £67.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -9.35%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +16 362 £625 -7.41% 67
West London -9 30 £640 -4.48% 23
South London -2 22 £723 +1.40% 2
East London +5 15 £669 +14.36% 10
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 24 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.

1 668 (28.68%) Azure
2 640 (27.48%) Security Cleared
3 550 (23.62%) AWS
4 545 (23.40%) SC Cleared
5 379 (16.27%) Migration
6 346 (14.86%) AI
7 341 (14.64%) Roadmaps
8 310 (13.31%) Microsoft
9 303 (13.01%) DevOps
10 284 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 280 (12.02%) CI/CD
12 250 (10.73%) Analytics
13 244 (10.48%) Data Modelling
14 241 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 234 (10.05%) Data Architecture
16 233 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
17 231 (9.92%) Integration Patterns
18 227 (9.75%) Agile
19 218 (9.36%) GCP
20 203 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
21 199 (8.54%) Architectural Patterns
22 188 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
23 182 (7.81%) TOGAF
24 176 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
25 166 (7.13%) Architectural Design
25 166 (7.13%) Python
26 147 (6.31%) Security Architecture
27 140 (6.01%) Microservices
28 138 (5.93%) Event-Driven
28 138 (5.93%) Power Platform

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 44 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.16%) Confluence
3 22 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 21 (0.90%) Apache
5 15 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.47%) nginx
7 9 (0.39%) Camunda
7 9 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.34%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.26%) CMS
11 5 (0.21%) Appian
11 5 (0.21%) Mule
12 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.043%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.043%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 15 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.34%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.21%) Endur
6 5 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.21%) 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%) NetSuite
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%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.086%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 668 (28.68%) Azure
2 550 (23.62%) AWS
3 218 (9.36%) GCP
4 138 (5.93%) Power Platform
5 92 (3.95%) Serverless
6 90 (3.86%) SaaS
7 80 (3.43%) Entra ID
8 70 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (2.88%) GitHub
10 59 (2.53%) Snowflake
11 58 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (2.45%) PaaS
13 56 (2.40%) Amazon S3
14 50 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
16 41 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (1.67%) IaaS
18 32 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.99%) Network Security
2 70 (3.01%) Firewall
3 46 (1.98%) VPN
4 41 (1.76%) DNS
5 38 (1.63%) WAN
6 21 (0.90%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.86%) LAN
8 19 (0.82%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.60%) BGP
10 13 (0.56%) OSPF
11 10 (0.43%) MPLS
11 10 (0.43%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.39%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.34%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.34%) 5G
13 8 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (0.30%) NGFW
14 7 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
14 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (0.21%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.25%) Power BI
2 74 (3.18%) Data Lake
3 63 (2.71%) Metadata
4 58 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 31 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 24 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (0.94%) Big Data
10 20 (0.86%) Delta Lake
11 17 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.56%) Tableau
14 12 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.52%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.59%) JIRA
3 35 (1.50%) Git
4 18 (0.77%) GitLab
5 11 (0.47%) ERwin
6 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.34%) MLflow
8 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.21%) Maven
9 5 (0.21%) 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
1 452 (19.41%) Finance
2 440 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 275 (11.81%) Public Sector
4 158 (6.78%) Banking
5 116 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 100 (4.29%) Retail
7 78 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 69 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 62 (2.66%) Telecoms
10 54 (2.32%) Legal
11 49 (2.10%) Law
12 33 (1.42%) Billing
13 26 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 23 (0.99%) Marketing
15 22 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.52%) Military
19 10 (0.43%) Local Government
20 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.02%) REST
2 84 (3.61%) Middleware
3 76 (3.26%) .NET
4 66 (2.83%) SOAP
5 45 (1.93%) LDAP
6 44 (1.89%) Kafka
7 40 (1.72%) OpenID
8 33 (1.42%) OAuth
8 33 (1.42%) SAML
9 30 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
10 28 (1.20%) React
11 26 (1.12%) .NET Framework
12 21 (0.90%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.77%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.77%) RESTful
14 17 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
14 17 (0.73%) PySpark
15 15 (0.64%) JSON
15 15 (0.64%) Spring
16 13 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 235 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.31%) Onboarding
3 64 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (2.71%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 56 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 50 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.02%) AI Agents
10 44 (1.89%) CMDB
11 42 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 37 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.12%) Mainframe
14 25 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 24 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
16 21 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 21 (0.90%) IoT
16 21 (0.90%) NHS
17 20 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.67%) Linux
2 38 (1.63%) 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 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.21%) 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
1 379 (16.27%) Migration
2 346 (14.86%) AI
3 341 (14.64%) Roadmaps
4 303 (13.01%) DevOps
5 284 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 280 (12.02%) CI/CD
7 250 (10.73%) Analytics
8 244 (10.48%) Data Modelling
9 241 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 234 (10.05%) Data Architecture
11 233 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
12 231 (9.92%) Integration Patterns
13 227 (9.75%) Agile
14 203 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
15 199 (8.54%) Architectural Patterns
16 188 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 182 (7.81%) TOGAF
18 176 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
19 166 (7.13%) Architectural Design
20 147 (6.31%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 166 (7.13%) Python
2 123 (5.28%) SQL
3 106 (4.55%) Java
4 60 (2.58%) PowerShell
5 42 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 32 (1.37%) C#
7 25 (1.07%) Bicep
8 20 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.69%) Bash
9 16 (0.69%) Ruby
10 8 (0.34%) Scala
11 6 (0.26%) R
11 6 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.21%) C++
12 5 (0.21%) Go
13 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.13%) Korn
14 3 (0.13%) Rust
14 3 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 640 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 545 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.48%) Degree
4 66 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 61 (2.62%) CISSP
6 50 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 42 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 38 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.37%) CISM
11 31 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.94%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.60%) CCNP
16 14 (0.60%) CCSP
16 14 (0.60%) CISA
17 10 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.48%) GDPR
2 76 (3.26%) NIST
3 74 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 68 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.02%) NCSC
6 36 (1.55%) QA
7 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.69%) GRC
8 16 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.60%) SEPA
10 12 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.39%) PSD2
13 7 (0.30%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.30%) IFRS
14 6 (0.26%) COBIT
14 6 (0.26%) HL7
15 4 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.49%) Docker
3 22 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.34%) Varnish
6 8 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.30%) Postfix
8 5 (0.21%) NFS
8 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.043%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.043%) IAG
11 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 136 (5.84%) Terraform
2 127 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 47 (2.02%) Ansible
4 24 (1.03%) Grafana
4 24 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.73%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.30%) Consul
7 7 (0.30%) HAProxy
8 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.21%) Argo
9 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.086%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.086%) Istio
11 2 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.086%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.086%) QRadar
11 2 (0.086%) VxRail
Vendors
1 310 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 130 (5.58%) Databricks
4 119 (5.11%) Oracle
5 115 (4.94%) SAP
6 105 (4.51%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.45%) CyberArk
8 54 (2.32%) Cisco
9 47 (2.02%) Google
10 39 (1.67%) Splunk
11 32 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 32 (1.37%) Workday
12 31 (1.33%) IBM
13 30 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 28 (1.20%) Palo Alto
15 26 (1.12%) Foundry
15 26 (1.12%) VMware
16 19 (0.82%) Dynatrace
17 17 (0.73%) Ariba
18 16 (0.69%) Sparx