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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,584 1,368 1,582
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 10.00% 9.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 10.76% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,758 891 1,125
10th Percentile £481 £481 £488
25th Percentile £525 £562 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £737 £763
90th Percentile £809 £800 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £49.85 £66.25 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £82.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £90.68
90th Percentile £98.58 £96.75 £107.59
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 18,760 12,713 15,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,229 8,604 10,759
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.66%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +16 368 £625 -7.41% 160
West London -15 36 £625 +38.89% 34
South London -13 18 £723 +6.68% 10
East London +2 13 £700 +3.70% 8
North London -4 1 £650 -17.46% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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.

1 727 (28.13%) Azure
2 674 (26.08%) Security Cleared
3 605 (23.41%) AWS
4 564 (21.83%) SC Cleared
5 414 (16.02%) Migration
6 410 (15.87%) Roadmaps
7 403 (15.60%) AI
8 364 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 332 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
10 322 (12.46%) Microsoft
11 316 (12.23%) Analytics
12 313 (12.11%) DevOps
13 304 (11.76%) Data Modelling
14 287 (11.11%) CI/CD
15 274 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 273 (10.57%) Data Architecture
17 267 (10.33%) Integration Patterns
18 253 (9.79%) Agile
18 253 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
19 230 (8.90%) GCP
20 218 (8.44%) TOGAF
21 209 (8.09%) Architectural Patterns
22 184 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
23 178 (6.89%) Security Architecture
24 173 (6.70%) Event-Driven
25 169 (6.54%) Data Governance
26 167 (6.46%) Problem-Solving
27 163 (6.31%) Microservices
28 160 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
29 159 (6.15%) ERP

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 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.47%) SAS
3 35 (1.35%) Apache
4 34 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 17 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.46%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 7 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.23%) Endur
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 727 (28.13%) Azure
2 605 (23.41%) AWS
3 230 (8.90%) GCP
4 158 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.02%) SaaS
6 97 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 82 (3.17%) Serverless
8 80 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
9 75 (2.90%) GitHub
10 68 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.40%) PaaS
12 61 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (1.78%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
14 41 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.47%) IaaS
16 33 (1.28%) OCI
17 31 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (1.20%) PowerApps
18 29 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.64%) Network Security
2 55 (2.13%) Firewall
3 35 (1.35%) VPN
4 28 (1.08%) DNS
4 28 (1.08%) WAN
5 19 (0.74%) LAN
6 11 (0.43%) MPLS
6 11 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (0.43%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.43%) VXLAN
7 10 (0.39%) BGP
8 9 (0.35%) 4G
8 9 (0.35%) 5G
8 9 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
8 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.31%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
10 7 (0.27%) OSPF
11 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.23%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (4.37%) Power BI
2 96 (3.72%) Data Lake
3 78 (3.02%) Metadata
4 75 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.28%) Big Data
6 32 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.46%) Tableau
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (1.51%) Git
2 38 (1.47%) JIRA
3 30 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.66%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.23%) Maven
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Snyk
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) JMeter
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) Flyway
11 2 (0.077%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.077%) MSI
General
1 484 (18.73%) Finance
2 482 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 290 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 170 (6.58%) Banking
5 147 (5.69%) Retail
6 127 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 73 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Legal
10 43 (1.66%) Law
11 37 (1.43%) Billing
11 37 (1.43%) Marketing
12 27 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.58%) Local Government
16 12 (0.46%) Aviation
16 12 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.46%) REST
2 88 (3.41%) .NET
3 84 (3.25%) Middleware
4 71 (2.75%) Kafka
5 65 (2.52%) SOAP
6 43 (1.66%) OAuth
7 31 (1.20%) .NET Framework
7 31 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.16%) React
9 26 (1.01%) JSON
9 26 (1.01%) OAuth2
10 25 (0.97%) PySpark
11 23 (0.89%) RESTful
12 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
12 21 (0.81%) OpenID
12 21 (0.81%) SAML
13 20 (0.77%) XML
14 18 (0.70%) AngularJS
15 17 (0.66%) HTML
15 17 (0.66%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 246 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 76 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (2.83%) AI Agents
4 68 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 67 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 54 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (1.93%) CMDB
9 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
12 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 30 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 27 (1.04%) Mainframe
15 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
16 22 (0.85%) NHS
17 21 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.66%) Linux
2 32 (1.24%) Windows
3 11 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.19%) zOS
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
11 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (16.02%) Migration
2 410 (15.87%) Roadmaps
3 403 (15.60%) AI
4 364 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 332 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
6 316 (12.23%) Analytics
7 313 (12.11%) DevOps
8 304 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 287 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 274 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 273 (10.57%) Data Architecture
12 267 (10.33%) Integration Patterns
13 253 (9.79%) Agile
13 253 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
14 218 (8.44%) TOGAF
15 209 (8.09%) Architectural Patterns
16 184 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 178 (6.89%) Security Architecture
18 173 (6.70%) Event-Driven
19 169 (6.54%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 147 (5.69%) Python
2 135 (5.22%) SQL
3 107 (4.14%) Java
4 64 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.55%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.89%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 10 (0.39%) C++
12 10 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.35%) Scala
14 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 4 (0.15%) R
16 4 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 674 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 564 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 76 (2.94%) Degree
4 69 (2.67%) CISSP
5 67 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 61 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 41 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 37 (1.43%) CISM
10 32 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CCSP
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 11 (0.43%) CCNP
18 8 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.52%) GDPR
3 74 (2.86%) NIST
4 68 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.93%) GRC
6 32 (1.24%) NCSC
7 30 (1.16%) QA
8 20 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.74%) SEPA
10 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.31%) PSD2
18 7 (0.27%) IFRS
19 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 56 (2.17%) Docker
2 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.27%) Varnish
3 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.23%) Postfix
5 5 (0.19%) NFS
6 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.12%) Squid
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.077%) vSphere
9 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.039%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) HDFS
9 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 121 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 120 (4.64%) Terraform
3 43 (1.66%) Ansible
4 25 (0.97%) Grafana
5 20 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.077%) Consul
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.077%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 2 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 322 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.15%) Oracle
3 149 (5.77%) ServiceNow
4 145 (5.61%) Databricks
5 143 (5.53%) SAP
6 118 (4.57%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.28%) Google
8 47 (1.82%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) Workday
10 35 (1.35%) IBM
11 34 (1.32%) CyberArk
12 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 27 (1.04%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.97%) Ariba
15 25 (0.97%) Splunk
16 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.85%) VMware
17 19 (0.74%) Sparx
18 18 (0.70%) Adobe