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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,332 1,319 1,794
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.20% 10.45% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.13% 11.18% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,599 858 1,297
10th Percentile £474 £500 £489
25th Percentile £513 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £819 £800 £875
England median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £53.95 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £83.44 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £61.85
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 17,759 11,801 16,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.46% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,738 7,991 11,887
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £682
90th Percentile £763 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 176 321
10th Percentile £18.61 £19.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.94 £20.02
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% +21.62% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.21 £50.56 £46.48
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.38 £67.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.22% -9.47%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +17 366 £625 -7.41% 49
West London -11 30 £640 -4.48% 19
South London -9 22 £723 +1.40% 1
East London +6 15 £669 +14.36% 9
North London -1 1 £650 -3.70% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 671 (28.77%) Azure
2 638 (27.36%) Security Cleared
3 552 (23.67%) AWS
4 543 (23.28%) SC Cleared
5 383 (16.42%) Migration
6 350 (15.01%) AI
7 343 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 308 (13.21%) Microsoft
9 302 (12.95%) DevOps
10 286 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 279 (11.96%) CI/CD
12 255 (10.93%) Analytics
13 245 (10.51%) Data Modelling
14 243 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 237 (10.16%) Data Architecture
16 234 (10.03%) Enterprise Architecture
17 231 (9.91%) Integration Patterns
18 227 (9.73%) Agile
19 220 (9.43%) GCP
20 205 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
21 199 (8.53%) Architectural Patterns
22 188 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
23 185 (7.93%) TOGAF
24 174 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
25 166 (7.12%) Python
26 164 (7.03%) Architectural Design
27 148 (6.35%) Security Architecture
28 141 (6.05%) Microservices
29 140 (6.00%) Power Platform
30 138 (5.92%) Translating Business Requirements

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 43 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.16%) Confluence
3 22 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 21 (0.90%) Apache
5 14 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.47%) nginx
7 9 (0.39%) Camunda
7 9 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.34%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.30%) CMS
10 5 (0.21%) Appian
10 5 (0.21%) Mule
11 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.043%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.043%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.34%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.21%) Endur
6 5 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.17%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.086%) Oracle HRMS
9 2 (0.086%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 671 (28.77%) Azure
2 552 (23.67%) AWS
3 220 (9.43%) GCP
4 140 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 92 (3.95%) Serverless
6 89 (3.82%) SaaS
7 80 (3.43%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (2.87%) GitHub
10 60 (2.57%) Snowflake
11 58 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (2.44%) PaaS
13 55 (2.36%) Amazon S3
14 50 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
15 41 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (1.67%) IaaS
17 33 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
19 31 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 95 (4.07%) Network Security
2 70 (3.00%) Firewall
3 47 (2.02%) VPN
4 42 (1.80%) DNS
5 37 (1.59%) WAN
6 21 (0.90%) LAN
7 19 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.60%) BGP
9 13 (0.56%) OSPF
10 10 (0.43%) MPLS
10 10 (0.43%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.39%) 5G
11 9 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.34%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.30%) NGFW
13 7 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.26%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.33%) Power BI
2 77 (3.30%) Data Lake
3 65 (2.79%) Metadata
4 60 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 31 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 24 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.03%) Big Data
9 22 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 17 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.56%) Tableau
14 12 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.51%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.59%) JIRA
3 35 (1.50%) Git
4 18 (0.77%) GitLab
5 11 (0.47%) ERwin
6 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.34%) MLflow
8 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.21%) Maven
9 5 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.17%) Snyk
11 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.13%) JMeter
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.086%) MSI
12 2 (0.086%) Postman
12 2 (0.086%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.086%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.086%) VTune
General
1 449 (19.25%) Finance
2 440 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 273 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 157 (6.73%) Banking
5 116 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 101 (4.33%) Retail
7 77 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 53 (2.27%) Legal
11 48 (2.06%) Law
12 33 (1.42%) Billing
13 26 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.03%) Marketing
15 22 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.51%) Military
19 10 (0.43%) Local Government
20 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (5.06%) REST
2 84 (3.60%) Middleware
3 77 (3.30%) .NET
4 66 (2.83%) SOAP
5 44 (1.89%) Kafka
5 44 (1.89%) LDAP
6 40 (1.72%) OpenID
7 34 (1.46%) OAuth
7 34 (1.46%) SAML
8 30 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
9 28 (1.20%) React
10 26 (1.11%) .NET Framework
11 21 (0.90%) AngularJS
12 18 (0.77%) OAuth2
12 18 (0.77%) PySpark
12 18 (0.77%) RESTful
13 17 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
14 15 (0.64%) JSON
14 15 (0.64%) Spring
15 13 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 238 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 64 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 60 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 55 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 50 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 49 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 47 (2.02%) AI Agents
10 44 (1.89%) CMDB
11 41 (1.76%) Security Posture
12 36 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 26 (1.11%) Mainframe
15 24 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
16 21 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 21 (0.90%) IoT
16 21 (0.90%) NHS
17 20 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.67%) Linux
2 36 (1.54%) Windows
3 11 (0.47%) Android
3 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.39%) zOS
6 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Solaris
9 3 (0.13%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) CentOS
10 2 (0.086%) VMS
11 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (16.42%) Migration
2 350 (15.01%) AI
3 343 (14.71%) Roadmaps
4 302 (12.95%) DevOps
5 286 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 279 (11.96%) CI/CD
7 255 (10.93%) Analytics
8 245 (10.51%) Data Modelling
9 243 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 237 (10.16%) Data Architecture
11 234 (10.03%) Enterprise Architecture
12 231 (9.91%) Integration Patterns
13 227 (9.73%) Agile
14 205 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
15 199 (8.53%) Architectural Patterns
16 188 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
17 185 (7.93%) TOGAF
18 174 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
19 164 (7.03%) Architectural Design
20 148 (6.35%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 166 (7.12%) Python
2 123 (5.27%) SQL
3 107 (4.59%) Java
4 58 (2.49%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 33 (1.42%) C#
7 25 (1.07%) Bicep
8 20 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.69%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.69%) Bash
9 16 (0.69%) Ruby
10 8 (0.34%) Scala
11 6 (0.26%) R
11 6 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.21%) C++
12 5 (0.21%) Go
12 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.13%) Rust
13 3 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 638 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 543 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.47%) Degree
4 67 (2.87%) Azure Certification
5 61 (2.62%) CISSP
6 50 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.37%) CISM
10 32 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (0.90%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.60%) CCNP
16 14 (0.60%) CCSP
16 14 (0.60%) CISA
17 10 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (3.52%) GDPR
2 76 (3.26%) NIST
3 73 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 69 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.06%) NCSC
6 37 (1.59%) QA
7 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.69%) GRC
8 16 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.60%) SEPA
10 12 (0.51%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.39%) PSD2
13 7 (0.30%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.30%) IFRS
14 6 (0.26%) COBIT
14 6 (0.26%) HL7
15 4 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 59 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.49%) Docker
3 22 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.34%) Varnish
6 8 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.30%) Postfix
8 5 (0.21%) NFS
9 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.043%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.043%) IAG
11 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 136 (5.83%) Terraform
2 127 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 47 (2.02%) Ansible
4 24 (1.03%) Grafana
4 24 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.30%) Consul
7 7 (0.30%) HAProxy
8 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.21%) Argo
9 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.086%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.086%) Istio
11 2 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.086%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.086%) QRadar
11 2 (0.086%) VxRail
Vendors
1 308 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.87%) ServiceNow
3 133 (5.70%) Databricks
4 119 (5.10%) Oracle
5 118 (5.06%) SAP
6 104 (4.46%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.44%) CyberArk
8 52 (2.23%) Cisco
9 47 (2.02%) Google
10 39 (1.67%) Splunk
11 32 (1.37%) IBM
11 32 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 32 (1.37%) Workday
12 30 (1.29%) OpenAI
13 26 (1.11%) Foundry
13 26 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.11%) VMware
14 19 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 17 (0.73%) Ariba
15 17 (0.73%) Sparx