Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,492 1,420 1,704
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.60% 10.48% 10.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.56% 11.24% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 934 1,212
10th Percentile £475 £488 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £729 £738 £763
90th Percentile £800 £809 £875
England median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £53.95 £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 £83.44 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £107.59
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 18,383 12,634 15,924
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 93.20% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,023 8,540 11,361
10th Percentile £362 £331 £333
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 197 257
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -5.39% -18.69%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.45 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +15 367 £625 -7.41% 156
West London -11 31 £625 +31.58% 29
South London -8 23 £723 +6.68% 5
East London +4 16 £672 +5.41% 8
North London -2 1 £650 -3.70%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 703 (28.21%) Azure
2 650 (26.08%) Security Cleared
3 593 (23.80%) AWS
4 549 (22.03%) SC Cleared
5 409 (16.41%) Migration
6 404 (16.21%) Roadmaps
7 383 (15.37%) AI
8 323 (12.96%) Microsoft
9 322 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 311 (12.48%) DevOps
11 301 (12.08%) Enterprise Architecture
12 292 (11.72%) Analytics
13 291 (11.68%) Data Modelling
14 280 (11.24%) CI/CD
15 254 (10.19%) Agile
16 252 (10.11%) Data Architecture
17 248 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 237 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
19 229 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
20 226 (9.07%) GCP
21 213 (8.55%) TOGAF
22 208 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
23 187 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
24 170 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
25 163 (6.54%) Architectural Design
26 159 (6.38%) Event-Driven
27 158 (6.34%) Security Architecture
28 157 (6.30%) Microservices
29 155 (6.22%) Python
30 154 (6.18%) 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 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.20%) Apache
3 29 (1.16%) Confluence
4 28 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.12%) SAS
5 18 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.48%) nginx
8 10 (0.40%) CMS
9 9 (0.36%) Camunda
9 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.32%) Appian
11 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.080%) Mule
14 2 (0.080%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.040%) Notion
3 1 (0.040%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.040%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (2.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.24%) Endur
7 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 703 (28.21%) Azure
2 593 (23.80%) AWS
3 226 (9.07%) GCP
4 153 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.17%) SaaS
6 95 (3.81%) Entra ID
7 89 (3.57%) Serverless
8 79 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
9 69 (2.77%) GitHub
10 66 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.49%) PaaS
12 57 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (1.97%) Amazon S3
14 47 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
15 44 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
16 41 (1.65%) IaaS
17 34 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 31 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
19 31 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 92 (3.69%) Network Security
2 64 (2.57%) Firewall
3 41 (1.65%) VPN
4 34 (1.36%) DNS
5 23 (0.92%) WAN
6 17 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.60%) LAN
8 10 (0.40%) MPLS
8 10 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.36%) 5G
9 9 (0.36%) BGP
9 9 (0.36%) OpenVPN
9 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.32%) 4G
10 8 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.32%) NGFW
10 8 (0.32%) OSPF
10 8 (0.32%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.28%) 3GPP
12 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (4.45%) Power BI
2 87 (3.49%) Data Lake
3 78 (3.13%) Metadata
4 70 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.24%) NoSQL
5 31 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 30 (1.20%) Big Data
7 27 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.64%) Delta Lake
12 15 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.60%) Tableau
13 13 (0.52%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (0.44%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.44%) GIS
14 11 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (1.69%) JIRA
2 40 (1.61%) Git
3 37 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 16 (0.64%) GitLab
5 10 (0.40%) ERwin
6 9 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.32%) MLflow
8 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.20%) Maven
10 5 (0.20%) Storybook
11 4 (0.16%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.16%) Snyk
12 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.12%) JMeter
12 3 (0.12%) VTune
13 2 (0.080%) REST Assured
General
1 480 (19.26%) Finance
2 454 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 285 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.66%) Banking
5 130 (5.22%) Retail
6 126 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.41%) Telecoms
8 74 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 72 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.05%) Legal
11 41 (1.65%) Law
12 37 (1.48%) Billing
13 33 (1.32%) Marketing
14 27 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 24 (0.96%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.40%) Investment Banking
19 9 (0.36%) Local Government
19 9 (0.36%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (5.30%) REST
2 88 (3.53%) Middleware
3 82 (3.29%) .NET
4 64 (2.57%) SOAP
5 60 (2.41%) Kafka
6 40 (1.61%) OAuth
7 33 (1.32%) OpenID
8 32 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 32 (1.28%) React
9 31 (1.24%) .NET Framework
10 29 (1.16%) SAML
11 25 (1.00%) LDAP
12 22 (0.88%) OAuth2
13 21 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
13 21 (0.84%) PySpark
14 19 (0.76%) AngularJS
14 19 (0.76%) JSON
14 19 (0.76%) RESTful
15 17 (0.68%) HTML
15 17 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
3 71 (2.85%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 62 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 61 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.37%) AI Agents
8 51 (2.05%) CMDB
8 51 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 48 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 37 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 29 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
13 27 (1.08%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.08%) Taxonomies
14 26 (1.04%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.00%) Mainframe
16 22 (0.88%) IoT
16 22 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.57%) Linux
2 30 (1.20%) Windows
3 10 (0.40%) Android
3 10 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.36%) Unix
5 8 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.32%) zOS
6 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.080%) VMS
11 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (16.41%) Migration
2 404 (16.21%) Roadmaps
3 383 (15.37%) AI
4 322 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 311 (12.48%) DevOps
6 301 (12.08%) Enterprise Architecture
7 292 (11.72%) Analytics
8 291 (11.68%) Data Modelling
9 280 (11.24%) CI/CD
10 254 (10.19%) Agile
11 252 (10.11%) Data Architecture
12 248 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 237 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
14 229 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
15 213 (8.55%) TOGAF
16 208 (8.35%) Architectural Patterns
17 187 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
18 170 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
19 163 (6.54%) Architectural Design
20 159 (6.38%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 155 (6.22%) Python
2 129 (5.18%) SQL
3 109 (4.37%) Java
4 56 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.44%) C#
7 27 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.96%) Bicep
9 21 (0.84%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.72%) Bash
11 15 (0.60%) Ruby
12 9 (0.36%) Scala
13 7 (0.28%) Go
13 7 (0.28%) R
13 7 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.24%) C++
14 6 (0.24%) Cypher
15 5 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 650 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 549 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.25%) Degree
4 68 (2.73%) Azure Certification
4 68 (2.73%) CISSP
5 58 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 37 (1.48%) CISM
8 36 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 34 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.60%) CCSP
15 14 (0.56%) CISA
16 12 (0.48%) CCNP
17 10 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.61%) GDPR
2 89 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 74 (2.97%) NIST
4 65 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.57%) GRC
5 39 (1.57%) NCSC
6 30 (1.20%) QA
7 21 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (0.68%) SEPA
9 15 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.32%) PSD2
14 7 (0.28%) IFRS
15 6 (0.24%) COBIT
15 6 (0.24%) HL7
15 6 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 60 (2.41%) Docker
2 53 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 21 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.36%) Squid
4 9 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.28%) Varnish
6 6 (0.24%) Postfix
6 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.20%) NFS
8 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.080%) IAG
9 2 (0.080%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.080%) vSphere
10 1 (0.040%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.040%) HDFS
10 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 136 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 131 (5.26%) Terraform
3 44 (1.77%) Ansible
4 32 (1.28%) Grafana
5 24 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.36%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.28%) Consul
9 6 (0.24%) Argo
9 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.16%) SCCM
11 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.080%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.080%) Istio
12 2 (0.080%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.080%) Puppet
12 2 (0.080%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.080%) VxRail
Vendors
1 323 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 147 (5.90%) Oracle
3 145 (5.82%) ServiceNow
4 140 (5.62%) SAP
5 133 (5.34%) Databricks
6 111 (4.45%) Salesforce
7 49 (1.97%) Google
8 46 (1.85%) Cisco
9 40 (1.61%) CyberArk
10 36 (1.44%) Workday
11 35 (1.40%) Splunk
12 34 (1.36%) IBM
13 32 (1.28%) MuleSoft
14 28 (1.12%) Foundry
14 28 (1.12%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.04%) Ariba
15 26 (1.04%) VMware
16 21 (0.84%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.80%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.64%) Sparx