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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,586 1,384 1,618
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.85% 10.16% 9.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.80% 10.93% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 903 1,142
10th Percentile £475 £480 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £736 £763
90th Percentile £805 £800 £850
England median daily rate £623 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.40% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £49.85 £54.50 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £98.58 £93.50 £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 18,742 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,243 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
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 £774 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +17 369 £625 -7.41% 183
West London -18 34 £625 +38.89% 32
South London -14 18 £723 +6.68% 11
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 9
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 5 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 (28.11%) Azure
2 676 (26.14%) Security Cleared
3 606 (23.43%) AWS
4 569 (22.00%) SC Cleared
5 412 (15.93%) Roadmaps
6 410 (15.85%) Migration
7 399 (15.43%) AI
8 359 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 330 (12.76%) Enterprise Architecture
10 325 (12.57%) Microsoft
11 313 (12.10%) Analytics
12 310 (11.99%) DevOps
13 303 (11.72%) Data Modelling
14 285 (11.02%) CI/CD
15 275 (10.63%) Data Architecture
16 273 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 263 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
18 257 (9.94%) Agile
19 252 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
20 229 (8.86%) GCP
21 221 (8.55%) TOGAF
22 208 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
23 185 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
24 175 (6.77%) Security Architecture
25 171 (6.61%) Event-Driven
26 168 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
27 167 (6.46%) Data Governance
28 165 (6.38%) Microservices
29 160 (6.19%) Translating Business Requirements
30 159 (6.15%) Business Intelligence

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 42 (1.62%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.47%) SAS
3 35 (1.35%) Apache
4 34 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 18 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.43%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) nginx
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.23%) Camunda
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.039%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.039%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
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 62 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) 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 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 ERP
10 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
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 (28.11%) Azure
2 606 (23.43%) AWS
3 229 (8.86%) GCP
4 154 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 103 (3.98%) SaaS
6 97 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 85 (3.29%) Serverless
8 80 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (2.78%) GitHub
10 68 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 61 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (2.36%) PaaS
12 48 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 45 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.47%) IaaS
16 32 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (1.24%) OCI
17 30 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 30 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.63%) Network Security
2 56 (2.17%) Firewall
3 35 (1.35%) VPN
4 29 (1.12%) DNS
5 28 (1.08%) WAN
6 19 (0.73%) LAN
7 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.43%) MPLS
8 11 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.35%) 4G
9 9 (0.35%) 5G
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.35%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.31%) BGP
10 8 (0.31%) NGFW
11 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
11 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.27%) OSPF
12 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.23%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.29%) Power BI
2 93 (3.60%) Data Lake
3 79 (3.05%) Metadata
4 76 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.28%) Big Data
6 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 22 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.46%) Tableau
15 11 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.43%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.43%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 39 (1.51%) Git
2 38 (1.47%) JIRA
3 30 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.62%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) ERwin
5 8 (0.31%) MLflow
6 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.23%) Maven
7 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.19%) Storybook
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%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.077%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.077%) Robot Framework
General
1 489 (18.91%) Finance
2 479 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 292 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.61%) Banking
5 145 (5.61%) Retail
6 129 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.01%) Legal
11 43 (1.66%) Law
12 37 (1.43%) Billing
12 37 (1.43%) Marketing
13 26 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
17 15 (0.58%) Local Government
18 11 (0.43%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.43%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (5.22%) REST
2 86 (3.33%) Middleware
3 84 (3.25%) .NET
4 69 (2.67%) Kafka
5 64 (2.47%) SOAP
6 42 (1.62%) OAuth
7 32 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
8 29 (1.12%) .NET Framework
8 29 (1.12%) React
9 25 (0.97%) OAuth2
9 25 (0.97%) PySpark
10 22 (0.85%) JSON
10 22 (0.85%) OpenID
10 22 (0.85%) RESTful
11 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
11 21 (0.81%) SAML
12 18 (0.70%) AngularJS
12 18 (0.70%) XML
13 16 (0.62%) JWT
14 15 (0.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 250 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 75 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 70 (2.71%) AI Agents
4 68 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 66 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
5 66 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.44%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 52 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 51 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 50 (1.93%) CMDB
11 39 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 33 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 29 (1.12%) Taxonomies
15 27 (1.04%) Mainframe
16 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
17 22 (0.85%) NHS
18 21 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.59%) Linux
2 30 (1.16%) 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
6 6 (0.23%) zOS
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
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
1 412 (15.93%) Roadmaps
2 410 (15.85%) Migration
3 399 (15.43%) AI
4 359 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 330 (12.76%) Enterprise Architecture
6 313 (12.10%) Analytics
7 310 (11.99%) DevOps
8 303 (11.72%) Data Modelling
9 285 (11.02%) CI/CD
10 275 (10.63%) Data Architecture
11 273 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 263 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
13 257 (9.94%) Agile
14 252 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
15 221 (8.55%) TOGAF
16 208 (8.04%) Architectural Patterns
17 185 (7.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 175 (6.77%) Security Architecture
19 171 (6.61%) Event-Driven
20 168 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 146 (5.65%) Python
2 135 (5.22%) SQL
3 105 (4.06%) Java
4 60 (2.32%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.66%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.43%) C#
7 25 (0.97%) Bicep
7 25 (0.97%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
9 19 (0.73%) Bash
10 14 (0.54%) Ruby
11 9 (0.35%) C++
11 9 (0.35%) Scala
12 8 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.23%) Cypher
14 6 (0.23%) Groovy
14 6 (0.23%) Rust
15 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
15 4 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 676 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 569 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 78 (3.02%) Degree
4 69 (2.67%) CISSP
5 68 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 38 (1.47%) CISM
10 33 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 20 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.66%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.54%) CCSP
15 14 (0.54%) CISA
16 12 (0.46%) CCNP
17 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.63%) GDPR
3 74 (2.86%) NIST
4 68 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (1.86%) GRC
6 32 (1.24%) NCSC
7 30 (1.16%) QA
8 22 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.70%) SEPA
10 17 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
14 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.31%) PSD2
16 7 (0.27%) IFRS
17 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (2.17%) Docker
2 55 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.15%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.077%) vSphere
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) HDFS
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (4.80%) Kubernetes
1 124 (4.80%) Terraform
2 42 (1.62%) Ansible
3 25 (0.97%) Grafana
4 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
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%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.077%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 325 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.15%) Oracle
3 147 (5.68%) Databricks
3 147 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 141 (5.45%) SAP
5 119 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 57 (2.20%) Google
7 46 (1.78%) Cisco
8 38 (1.47%) Workday
9 35 (1.35%) IBM
10 34 (1.31%) CyberArk
11 31 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.12%) Foundry
13 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.97%) Ariba
14 25 (0.97%) Splunk
15 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.81%) VMware
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx
18 17 (0.66%) Adobe