Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,644 1,383 1,756
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.34% 10.31% 9.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.17% 11.01% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 846 1,269
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £526 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £759 £745
90th Percentile £838 £813 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £64.60 £36.75 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.25 £39.38 £46.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -10.42% +51.51%
75th Percentile £89.48 £59.38 £59.15
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.25 £61.16
England median hourly rate £70.64 £71.25 £78.74
% change year-on-year -0.86% -9.51% +12.49%

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 14,713 12,561 17,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 93.61% 93.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,860 8,207 12,367
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 144 335
10th Percentile £18.16 £21.22 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £62.56 £53.75 £48.03
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £65.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +1 226 £650 -3.17% 62
South London +3 25 £575 -21.77% 6
West London -8 22 £662 +32.40% 11
East London -5 7 £540 -13.60% 12
North London +1 2 £663 -4.57% 3
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 February 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.

1 513 (31.20%) Azure
2 466 (28.35%) Security Cleared
3 418 (25.43%) AWS
4 398 (24.21%) SC Cleared
5 234 (14.23%) Microsoft
5 234 (14.23%) Roadmaps
6 231 (14.05%) DevOps
7 208 (12.65%) Migration
8 201 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 200 (12.17%) CI/CD
10 192 (11.68%) AI
11 190 (11.56%) Agile
12 180 (10.95%) GCP
13 179 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
14 176 (10.71%) Data Modelling
15 171 (10.40%) Analytics
16 167 (10.16%) Integration Patterns
17 164 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 163 (9.91%) Technical Leadership
19 162 (9.85%) Data Architecture
20 155 (9.43%) Enterprise Architecture
21 153 (9.31%) Python
22 140 (8.52%) TOGAF
23 127 (7.73%) Terraform
24 122 (7.42%) REST
25 120 (7.30%) Architectural Patterns
25 120 (7.30%) SQL
26 116 (7.06%) Microservices
27 112 (6.81%) Kubernetes
28 111 (6.75%) 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 35 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.34%) Confluence
3 15 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.61%) nginx
6 9 (0.55%) CMS
7 7 (0.43%) Apache
8 5 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.30%) Mule
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 44 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.43%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.30%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) Endur
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.18%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.18%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 513 (31.20%) Azure
2 418 (25.43%) AWS
3 180 (10.95%) GCP
4 74 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 69 (4.20%) SaaS
5 69 (4.20%) Serverless
6 55 (3.35%) Entra ID
7 50 (3.04%) IaaS
8 47 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 43 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (2.62%) GitHub
11 40 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
11 40 (2.43%) Snowflake
12 36 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (2.13%) PaaS
13 35 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.87%) Firewall
2 63 (3.83%) Network Security
3 49 (2.98%) WAN
4 42 (2.55%) DNS
5 41 (2.49%) VPN
6 28 (1.70%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.64%) LAN
8 16 (0.97%) BGP
9 15 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.79%) OSPF
11 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.49%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.43%) 5G
13 7 (0.43%) MPLS
13 7 (0.43%) SSL
13 7 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.36%) VSAN
15 5 (0.30%) DHCP
15 5 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.30%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (3.22%) Data Lake
3 45 (2.74%) Metadata
4 43 (2.62%) Power BI
5 34 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (1.89%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.03%) Tableau
11 16 (0.97%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.85%) Delta Lake
13 13 (0.79%) DB2
14 12 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.67%) Big Data
15 11 (0.67%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (2.49%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.82%) JIRA
3 22 (1.34%) GitLab
4 16 (0.97%) Git
5 10 (0.61%) ERwin
6 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.18%) Snyk
9 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.12%) Maven
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.061%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.061%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.061%) Katalon Studio
General
1 403 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 345 (20.99%) Finance
3 190 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 119 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (6.93%) Banking
6 65 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 43 (2.62%) Retail
9 38 (2.31%) Legal
9 38 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 28 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.70%) Marketing
12 25 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.46%) Billing
14 21 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.22%) Law
16 13 (0.79%) Military
17 9 (0.55%) Electronics
18 8 (0.49%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (7.42%) REST
2 87 (5.29%) Middleware
3 63 (3.83%) SOAP
4 62 (3.77%) LDAP
5 45 (2.74%) OpenID
6 43 (2.62%) .NET
7 41 (2.49%) JSON
8 33 (2.01%) SAML
9 32 (1.95%) Kafka
10 30 (1.82%) OAuth
11 23 (1.40%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.09%) React
13 16 (0.97%) PySpark
14 14 (0.85%) OAuth2
14 14 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.85%) RESTful
15 12 (0.73%) XML
16 11 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (0.67%) Spring
17 10 (0.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 146 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 60 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (2.80%) Onboarding
4 46 (2.80%) Security Posture
5 39 (2.37%) PKI
5 39 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 34 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 30 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.40%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.16%) Replication
14 17 (1.03%) CMDB
15 16 (0.97%) Private Cloud
16 15 (0.91%) FMCG
17 14 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.07%) Windows
2 23 (1.40%) Linux
3 8 (0.49%) zOS
4 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.36%) Unix
6 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Android
8 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.061%) Solaris
9 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (14.23%) Roadmaps
2 231 (14.05%) DevOps
3 208 (12.65%) Migration
4 201 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 200 (12.17%) CI/CD
6 192 (11.68%) AI
7 190 (11.56%) Agile
8 179 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
9 176 (10.71%) Data Modelling
10 171 (10.40%) Analytics
11 167 (10.16%) Integration Patterns
12 164 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 163 (9.91%) Technical Leadership
14 162 (9.85%) Data Architecture
15 155 (9.43%) Enterprise Architecture
16 140 (8.52%) TOGAF
17 120 (7.30%) Architectural Patterns
18 116 (7.06%) Microservices
19 111 (6.75%) Infrastructure as Code
20 99 (6.02%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 153 (9.31%) Python
2 120 (7.30%) SQL
3 85 (5.17%) PowerShell
4 56 (3.41%) Java
5 29 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.64%) C#
7 24 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.03%) Bicep
9 15 (0.91%) Bash
10 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.43%) Ruby
12 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.30%) Korn
13 5 (0.30%) R
13 5 (0.30%) Scala
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 2 (0.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 466 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 398 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.26%) Degree
4 57 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 42 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 37 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 34 (2.07%) CISSP
9 28 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (0.97%) CCNP
13 15 (0.91%) CISM
14 11 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.67%) CCIE
15 10 (0.61%) CCSP
16 5 (0.30%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.95%) GDPR
2 52 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.55%) NIST
5 36 (2.19%) NCSC
6 34 (2.07%) QA
7 22 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.79%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.61%) GRC
10 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.49%) PSD2
12 7 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.36%) SEPA
14 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.30%) HL7
14 5 (0.30%) PERC
14 5 (0.30%) SLA
15 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (4.56%) Docker
2 72 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.49%) Squid
7 6 (0.36%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.18%) Varnish
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Lustre
9 2 (0.12%) Postfix
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.061%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.061%) HDFS
10 1 (0.061%) NFS
Systems Management
1 127 (7.73%) Terraform
2 112 (6.81%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.43%) Ansible
4 21 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.22%) Grafana
6 17 (1.03%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.43%) Consul
10 4 (0.24%) Kibana
11 3 (0.18%) Argo
11 3 (0.18%) Istio
11 3 (0.18%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.18%) SCCM
11 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) Nagios
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 234 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.54%) SAP
3 90 (5.47%) Salesforce
4 88 (5.35%) ServiceNow
5 83 (5.05%) Databricks
6 71 (4.32%) Oracle
7 63 (3.83%) CyberArk
8 39 (2.37%) Cisco
8 39 (2.37%) Google
9 36 (2.19%) Splunk
10 34 (2.07%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (2.07%) Centrify
11 28 (1.70%) VMware
12 25 (1.52%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.34%) IBM
13 22 (1.34%) MuleSoft
14 20 (1.22%) Workday
15 19 (1.16%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.91%) Zscaler
17 13 (0.79%) Red Hat