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 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,594 1,266 1,555
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.82% 9.45% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 10.21% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,748 820 946
10th Percentile £494 £463 £488
25th Percentile £550 £550 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £721 £734 £750
90th Percentile £806 £800 £838
England median daily rate £621 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.68% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - £58.69
25th Percentile £59.13 £85.00 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £90.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +4.13% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £95.00 £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £69.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +3.57% -4.00%

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 18,842 12,404 15,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.57% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,171 8,277 9,921
10th Percentile £363 £332 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 207 179
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.64% -21.71% -9.58%
75th Percentile £65.60 £48.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £79.00
England median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +12 322 £625 -3.85% 326
West London -17 28 £650 +44.44% 55
South London -17 15 £650 -8.26% 22
East London +2 9 £700 +3.70% 11
North London -2 2 £650 -14.75% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 762 (29.38%) Azure
2 694 (26.75%) Security Cleared
3 566 (21.82%) SC Cleared
4 559 (21.55%) AWS
5 519 (20.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 494 (19.04%) Roadmaps
7 436 (16.81%) AI
8 421 (16.23%) Migration
9 372 (14.34%) Enterprise Architecture
10 348 (13.42%) Microsoft
11 325 (12.53%) DevOps
12 295 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
13 294 (11.33%) CI/CD
14 293 (11.30%) Data Modelling
15 291 (11.22%) Analytics
16 284 (10.95%) Data Architecture
17 257 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 247 (9.52%) Agile
18 247 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
19 211 (8.13%) GCP
20 208 (8.02%) TOGAF
21 200 (7.71%) Security Architecture
22 196 (7.56%) Architectural Patterns
23 193 (7.44%) Data Governance
23 193 (7.44%) Event-Driven
23 193 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
24 184 (7.09%) Decision-Making
25 172 (6.63%) Architecture Governance
26 166 (6.40%) SAP
27 160 (6.17%) Databricks

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 39 (1.50%) SAS
2 31 (1.20%) Apache
3 29 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 22 (0.85%) Confluence
7 18 (0.69%) CMS
8 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.19%) Appian
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.12%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) JBoss
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.077%) IIS
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) MQSeries
Applications
1 10 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.077%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.077%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.077%) Revit
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.039%) Notion
5 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 86 (3.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 10 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 8 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.27%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 762 (29.38%) Azure
2 559 (21.55%) AWS
3 211 (8.13%) GCP
4 152 (5.86%) Power Platform
5 123 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 107 (4.12%) SaaS
7 96 (3.70%) Serverless
8 85 (3.28%) GitHub
9 78 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 73 (2.81%) Snowflake
11 58 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.77%) PaaS
13 44 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 39 (1.50%) Amazon S3
15 39 (1.50%) Power Automate
16 37 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (1.43%) dbt
17 36 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
18 35 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.62%) Network Security
2 49 (1.89%) Firewall
3 32 (1.23%) WAN
4 28 (1.08%) VPN
5 22 (0.85%) LAN
6 17 (0.66%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 10 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
10 8 (0.31%) Wireless
11 7 (0.27%) BGP
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.27%) MQTT
11 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
11 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.23%) 4G
12 6 (0.23%) SSL
12 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.32%) Metadata
2 89 (3.43%) Power BI
3 83 (3.20%) Data Lake
4 75 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 26 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.96%) Delta Lake
8 21 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.77%) Big Data
10 17 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.66%) Data Vault
11 16 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 16 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
12 15 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
15 11 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 38 (1.46%) JIRA
2 35 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.16%) Git
4 21 (0.81%) GitLab
5 9 (0.35%) RStudio
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.12%) Postman
10 3 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.12%) VTune
11 2 (0.077%) Flyway
11 2 (0.077%) Liquibase
General
1 527 (20.32%) Social Skills
2 460 (17.73%) Finance
3 305 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 170 (6.55%) Banking
5 135 (5.20%) Retail
6 116 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
7 81 (3.12%) Telecoms
8 50 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 43 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (1.66%) Marketing
10 42 (1.62%) Legal
11 41 (1.58%) Billing
12 28 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (0.77%) Automotive
14 20 (0.77%) Police
15 15 (0.58%) Local Government
15 15 (0.58%) Military
16 13 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (5.90%) REST
2 138 (5.32%) Terraform
3 91 (3.51%) Kafka
4 80 (3.08%) .NET
5 63 (2.43%) SOAP
6 59 (2.27%) Middleware
7 52 (2.00%) OAuth
8 35 (1.35%) .NET Framework
9 34 (1.31%) PySpark
10 32 (1.23%) JSON
11 29 (1.12%) OpenID
12 28 (1.08%) OAuth2
13 26 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
14 24 (0.93%) SAML
14 24 (0.93%) XML
15 22 (0.85%) JWT
16 19 (0.73%) React
17 18 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
17 18 (0.69%) Spring
18 17 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 242 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 87 (3.35%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.05%) AI Agents
4 72 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 66 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (2.43%) Product Ownership
7 62 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 56 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 50 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 47 (1.81%) CMDB
12 37 (1.43%) Taxonomies
13 35 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 35 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 31 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 30 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
16 28 (1.08%) Security Posture
17 23 (0.89%) Mainframe
18 22 (0.85%) IoT
18 22 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.31%) Linux
2 31 (1.20%) Windows
3 13 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.35%) Unix
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.15%) Android
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.039%) AIX
10 1 (0.039%) Solaris
10 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (20.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 494 (19.04%) Roadmaps
3 436 (16.81%) AI
4 421 (16.23%) Migration
5 372 (14.34%) Enterprise Architecture
6 325 (12.53%) DevOps
7 295 (11.37%) Technical Leadership
8 294 (11.33%) CI/CD
9 293 (11.30%) Data Modelling
10 291 (11.22%) Analytics
11 284 (10.95%) Data Architecture
12 257 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 247 (9.52%) Agile
13 247 (9.52%) Integration Patterns
14 208 (8.02%) TOGAF
15 200 (7.71%) Security Architecture
16 196 (7.56%) Architectural Patterns
17 193 (7.44%) Data Governance
17 193 (7.44%) Event-Driven
17 193 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 133 (5.13%) SQL
2 123 (4.74%) Python
3 96 (3.70%) Java
4 57 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.43%) C#
7 33 (1.27%) Bicep
7 33 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 18 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.62%) Bash
10 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.35%) ABAP
12 8 (0.31%) C++
13 7 (0.27%) R
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
14 6 (0.23%) Rust
15 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.19%) Ruby
15 5 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 694 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 566 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 77 (2.97%) Degree
4 74 (2.85%) DV Cleared
5 66 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 63 (2.43%) CISSP
7 57 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (2.16%) AWS Certification
9 44 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 37 (1.43%) CISM
11 29 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 23 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.54%) Master's Degree
17 13 (0.50%) CCSP
18 12 (0.46%) CCNP
18 12 (0.46%) CISA
19 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 82 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (3.12%) GDPR
4 78 (3.01%) NIST
5 48 (1.85%) GRC
6 42 (1.62%) NCSC
7 21 (0.81%) QA
8 18 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.69%) SEPA
9 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 12 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.42%) SLA
14 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.35%) PMO
16 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
17 7 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 68 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.73%) Docker
3 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.077%) IAG
8 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.077%) Postfix
8 2 (0.077%) Varnish
9 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.039%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.039%) NFS
9 1 (0.039%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 112 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.73%) Ansible
3 33 (1.27%) Grafana
4 17 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 17 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.31%) Argo
5 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.23%) Puppet
7 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.15%) SCCM
8 2 (0.077%) CASB
8 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.077%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.077%) Istio
8 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.077%) QRadar
9 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 348 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 166 (6.40%) SAP
3 160 (6.17%) Databricks
4 144 (5.55%) Oracle
5 137 (5.28%) ServiceNow
6 111 (4.28%) Salesforce
7 79 (3.05%) Google
8 54 (2.08%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 29 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.08%) IBM
12 28 (1.08%) Workday
13 26 (1.00%) VMware
14 25 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 23 (0.89%) Ariba
15 23 (0.89%) Foundry
16 22 (0.85%) Dynatrace
17 21 (0.81%) Adobe
17 21 (0.81%) Splunk