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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,616 1,284 1,550
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.96% 9.56% 9.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.89% 10.31% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,763 830 1,014
10th Percentile £486 £463 £488
25th Percentile £531 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £808 £800 £838
England median daily rate £620 £625 £638
% change year-on-year -0.80% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £52.20 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile - £96.75 £112.57
England median hourly rate £67.58 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -1.53%

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 18,829 12,455 15,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.73% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,129 8,346 10,175
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 388 205 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.73 £74.69
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +15 350 £625 -3.85% 334
West London -20 30 £650 +44.44% 53
East London +3 13 £675 - 16
South London -12 13 £650 -8.26% 20
North London 0 2 £650 -27.78% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 753 (28.78%) Azure
2 671 (25.65%) Security Cleared
3 585 (22.36%) AWS
4 554 (21.18%) SC Cleared
5 481 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 458 (17.51%) Roadmaps
7 432 (16.51%) AI
8 424 (16.21%) Migration
9 367 (14.03%) Enterprise Architecture
10 356 (13.61%) Microsoft
11 321 (12.27%) DevOps
12 317 (12.12%) Data Modelling
13 313 (11.96%) Analytics
14 304 (11.62%) CI/CD
15 297 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
16 284 (10.86%) Data Architecture
17 279 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 267 (10.21%) Agile
19 266 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
20 225 (8.60%) GCP
21 215 (8.22%) TOGAF
22 207 (7.91%) Security Architecture
23 202 (7.72%) Architectural Patterns
24 196 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
25 188 (7.19%) Data Governance
26 181 (6.92%) Event-Driven
27 177 (6.77%) Decision-Making
28 172 (6.57%) Databricks
28 172 (6.57%) Power Platform
29 165 (6.31%) Machine Learning

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 (1.49%) SAS
2 33 (1.26%) Apache
3 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 28 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.84%) Confluence
7 16 (0.61%) CMS
8 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.19%) Camunda
12 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.15%) nginx
13 3 (0.11%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.076%) Mendix
14 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
14 2 (0.076%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.038%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.038%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.038%) Notion
3 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.038%) Revit
3 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 12 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.076%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 753 (28.78%) Azure
2 585 (22.36%) AWS
3 225 (8.60%) GCP
4 172 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 113 (4.32%) Entra ID
6 106 (4.05%) SaaS
7 99 (3.78%) Serverless
8 84 (3.21%) GitHub
9 80 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
10 76 (2.91%) Snowflake
11 70 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (2.03%) PaaS
13 51 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
14 41 (1.57%) Amazon S3
14 41 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 40 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (1.41%) Power Automate
17 36 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
17 36 (1.38%) PowerApps
18 35 (1.34%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.75%) Network Security
2 47 (1.80%) Firewall
3 29 (1.11%) WAN
4 28 (1.07%) VPN
5 22 (0.84%) LAN
6 18 (0.69%) DNS
7 12 (0.46%) VXLAN
8 8 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
8 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.27%) BGP
9 7 (0.27%) NGFW
9 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
9 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
10 6 (0.23%) 4G
10 6 (0.23%) MPLS
10 6 (0.23%) Wireless
11 5 (0.19%) DMZ
11 5 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (4.20%) Power BI
2 98 (3.75%) Metadata
3 97 (3.71%) Data Lake
4 79 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 26 (0.99%) Big Data
6 26 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 25 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (0.96%) Delta Lake
7 25 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 18 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
11 15 (0.57%) Data Vault
11 15 (0.57%) Star Schema
12 14 (0.54%) Tableau
13 12 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.46%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (1.41%) JIRA
2 33 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.19%) Git
4 20 (0.76%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.31%) RStudio
6 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.27%) ERwin
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 5 (0.19%) Maven
8 5 (0.19%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) Postman
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.076%) Flyway
11 2 (0.076%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.076%) Rational DOORS
General
1 527 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 464 (17.74%) Finance
3 286 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 169 (6.46%) Banking
5 151 (5.77%) Retail
6 130 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 53 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 48 (1.83%) Legal
11 40 (1.53%) Billing
11 40 (1.53%) Marketing
12 36 (1.38%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.26%) Law
14 31 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (0.61%) Military
15 16 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.50%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.50%) Police
17 12 (0.46%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (5.77%) REST
2 129 (4.93%) Terraform
3 84 (3.21%) .NET
4 82 (3.13%) Kafka
5 69 (2.64%) SOAP
6 64 (2.45%) Middleware
7 51 (1.95%) OAuth
8 36 (1.38%) PySpark
9 35 (1.34%) .NET Framework
10 33 (1.26%) JSON
11 29 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
12 26 (0.99%) OAuth2
12 26 (0.99%) OpenID
12 26 (0.99%) XML
13 24 (0.92%) React
13 24 (0.92%) SAML
14 22 (0.84%) RESTful
15 21 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
16 20 (0.76%) SailPoint
17 19 (0.73%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 250 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 89 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 81 (3.10%) AI Agents
4 70 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 68 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 55 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 50 (1.91%) CMDB
11 49 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 34 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 33 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (1.22%) Taxonomies
16 28 (1.07%) Security Posture
17 26 (0.99%) Public Cloud
18 23 (0.88%) IoT
18 23 (0.88%) Mainframe
19 21 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (1.41%) Linux
2 31 (1.19%) Windows
3 12 (0.46%) Unix
3 12 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Android
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 3 (0.11%) AIX
7 3 (0.11%) Solaris
8 2 (0.076%) CentOS
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
8 2 (0.076%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 458 (17.51%) Roadmaps
3 432 (16.51%) AI
4 424 (16.21%) Migration
5 367 (14.03%) Enterprise Architecture
6 321 (12.27%) DevOps
7 317 (12.12%) Data Modelling
8 313 (11.96%) Analytics
9 304 (11.62%) CI/CD
10 297 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
11 284 (10.86%) Data Architecture
12 279 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 267 (10.21%) Agile
14 266 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
15 215 (8.22%) TOGAF
16 207 (7.91%) Security Architecture
17 202 (7.72%) Architectural Patterns
18 196 (7.49%) Infrastructure as Code
19 188 (7.19%) Data Governance
20 181 (6.92%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 141 (5.39%) Python
2 133 (5.08%) SQL
3 108 (4.13%) Java
4 65 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.53%) C#
7 34 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.96%) Bicep
9 21 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.42%) Ruby
13 8 (0.31%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) ABAP
14 7 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
15 6 (0.23%) Scala
15 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 671 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 554 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 78 (2.98%) Degree
4 69 (2.64%) CISSP
5 68 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 59 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 51 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 41 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 40 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.41%) CISM
11 29 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.54%) CISA
17 12 (0.46%) CCSP
18 10 (0.38%) CCNP
18 10 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (4.66%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.40%) NIST
3 85 (3.25%) GDPR
4 83 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.95%) GRC
6 35 (1.34%) NCSC
7 27 (1.03%) QA
8 21 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.69%) SEPA
10 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.54%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 11 (0.42%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.31%) PMO
16 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 45 (1.72%) Docker
3 19 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
6 4 (0.15%) Varnish
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) NFS
7 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) IAG
8 2 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Squid
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 111 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 42 (1.61%) Ansible
3 26 (0.99%) Grafana
4 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.34%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.19%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.076%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.076%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.076%) Istio
10 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.076%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.038%) Apache Ranger
11 1 (0.038%) CloudForms
Vendors
1 356 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 172 (6.57%) Databricks
3 157 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 155 (5.93%) Oracle
5 148 (5.66%) SAP
6 121 (4.63%) Salesforce
7 71 (2.71%) Google
8 50 (1.91%) Cisco
9 39 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 34 (1.30%) Workday
11 31 (1.19%) IBM
12 29 (1.11%) Foundry
13 28 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.96%) VMware
15 24 (0.92%) Palo Alto
16 20 (0.76%) Sparx
16 20 (0.76%) Splunk
17 19 (0.73%) Adobe
18 18 (0.69%) Ariba