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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,566 1,318 1,590
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.79% 9.81% 9.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.73% 10.55% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,744 848 1,108
10th Percentile £483 £479 £488
25th Percentile £525 £556 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £734 £763
90th Percentile £813 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £48.20 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £99.65 £96.75 £112.57
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 18,695 12,487 15,224
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 92.96% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,154 8,403 10,658
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 208 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.22% -10.48%
75th Percentile £59.31 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +12 357 £625 -5.30% 87
West London -15 35 £625 +38.89% 18
East London +5 13 £700 +3.70% 10
South London -13 8 £688 +1.51% 6
North London -3 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 734 (28.60%) Azure
2 652 (25.41%) Security Cleared
3 594 (23.15%) AWS
4 542 (21.12%) SC Cleared
5 431 (16.80%) Roadmaps
6 429 (16.72%) Migration
7 409 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 403 (15.71%) AI
9 346 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
10 333 (12.98%) Microsoft
11 313 (12.20%) Analytics
12 308 (12.00%) Data Modelling
13 305 (11.89%) DevOps
14 296 (11.54%) CI/CD
15 280 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 274 (10.68%) Data Architecture
17 266 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
17 266 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
18 254 (9.90%) Agile
19 226 (8.81%) GCP
20 202 (7.87%) TOGAF
21 199 (7.76%) Architectural Patterns
22 195 (7.60%) Infrastructure as Code
23 183 (7.13%) Event-Driven
24 182 (7.09%) Security Architecture
25 175 (6.82%) Data Governance
26 169 (6.59%) Power Platform
27 168 (6.55%) Translating Business Requirements
28 167 (6.51%) Business Intelligence
29 165 (6.43%) Problem-Solving

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 38 (1.48%) SAS
2 37 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.33%) Apache
4 32 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.86%) Confluence
6 18 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.51%) CMS
7 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.27%) Camunda
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.078%) Mendix
13 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.23%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) 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%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 734 (28.60%) Azure
2 594 (23.15%) AWS
3 226 (8.81%) GCP
4 169 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 106 (4.13%) SaaS
6 104 (4.05%) Entra ID
7 92 (3.59%) Serverless
8 82 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (3.16%) GitHub
10 72 (2.81%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (2.30%) PaaS
13 47 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 43 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 35 (1.36%) IaaS
18 34 (1.33%) OCI
19 32 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.39%) Network Security
2 50 (1.95%) Firewall
3 32 (1.25%) VPN
4 30 (1.17%) WAN
5 26 (1.01%) DNS
6 19 (0.74%) LAN
7 16 (0.62%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.47%) BGP
10 11 (0.43%) MPLS
10 11 (0.43%) NX-OS
11 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.31%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) 5G
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
14 6 (0.23%) 3GPP
14 6 (0.23%) OSPF
14 6 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (4.68%) Power BI
2 96 (3.74%) Data Lake
3 81 (3.16%) Metadata
4 79 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.21%) Big Data
7 28 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 26 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 25 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 23 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 22 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.55%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.55%) MongoDB
12 14 (0.55%) Tableau
13 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
14 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (1.52%) Git
2 33 (1.29%) JIRA
3 27 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) MLflow
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 5 (0.19%) RStudio
7 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.078%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.078%) Robot Framework
General
1 503 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 468 (18.24%) Finance
3 291 (11.34%) Public Sector
4 160 (6.24%) Banking
5 147 (5.73%) Retail
6 134 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 76 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.03%) Legal
11 44 (1.71%) Law
12 43 (1.68%) Marketing
13 40 (1.56%) Billing
14 29 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.90%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 15 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.51%) Police
19 12 (0.47%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (6.04%) REST
2 125 (4.87%) Terraform
3 82 (3.20%) .NET
4 75 (2.92%) Kafka
4 75 (2.92%) Middleware
5 67 (2.61%) SOAP
6 47 (1.83%) OAuth
7 31 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 31 (1.21%) PySpark
8 29 (1.13%) .NET Framework
8 29 (1.13%) JSON
9 27 (1.05%) OAuth2
10 26 (1.01%) React
11 23 (0.90%) RESTful
11 23 (0.90%) SAML
12 21 (0.82%) OpenID
13 20 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (0.78%) XML
14 19 (0.74%) JWT
15 17 (0.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 252 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 80 (3.12%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 74 (2.88%) AI Agents
5 67 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 65 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 60 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.14%) Management Information System
10 52 (2.03%) CMDB
11 51 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
12 40 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
14 35 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.13%) Taxonomies
17 26 (1.01%) Mainframe
18 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
19 23 (0.90%) IoT
20 22 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.64%) Linux
2 33 (1.29%) Windows
3 12 (0.47%) Unix
4 10 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.16%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.078%) CentOS
10 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (16.80%) Roadmaps
2 429 (16.72%) Migration
3 409 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 403 (15.71%) AI
5 346 (13.48%) Enterprise Architecture
6 313 (12.20%) Analytics
7 308 (12.00%) Data Modelling
8 305 (11.89%) DevOps
9 296 (11.54%) CI/CD
10 280 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 274 (10.68%) Data Architecture
12 266 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
12 266 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
13 254 (9.90%) Agile
14 202 (7.87%) TOGAF
15 199 (7.76%) Architectural Patterns
16 195 (7.60%) Infrastructure as Code
17 183 (7.13%) Event-Driven
18 182 (7.09%) Security Architecture
19 175 (6.82%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 150 (5.85%) Python
2 142 (5.53%) SQL
3 107 (4.17%) Java
4 60 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 49 (1.91%) PowerShell
6 35 (1.36%) C#
7 27 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.97%) Bicep
9 20 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 14 (0.55%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
17 4 (0.16%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 652 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 542 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 75 (2.92%) Degree
4 69 (2.69%) CISSP
5 63 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 60 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 53 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 39 (1.52%) CISM
9 34 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 14 (0.55%) CISA
18 12 (0.47%) CCNP
18 12 (0.47%) CCSP
19 9 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 90 (3.51%) GDPR
3 83 (3.23%) NIST
4 73 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.95%) GRC
6 33 (1.29%) NCSC
7 28 (1.09%) QA
8 20 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.66%) SEPA
10 14 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 12 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.35%) SLA
14 8 (0.31%) IFRS
15 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 59 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.91%) Docker
3 21 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) NFS
6 5 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.19%) vSphere
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.078%) IAG
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.078%) Squid
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 112 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.75%) Ansible
3 26 (1.01%) Grafana
4 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.16%) SCCM
9 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
9 3 (0.12%) Istio
9 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.12%) Puppet
10 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.078%) QRadar
10 2 (0.078%) VxRail
11 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 333 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.24%) Oracle
3 159 (6.20%) Databricks
4 148 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 145 (5.65%) SAP
6 120 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.61%) Google
8 53 (2.07%) Cisco
9 36 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.36%) Workday
11 34 (1.33%) IBM
12 30 (1.17%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.13%) Foundry
14 26 (1.01%) Ariba
14 26 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.01%) VMware
15 24 (0.94%) Splunk
16 23 (0.90%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.82%) Adobe
18 19 (0.74%) Sparx