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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,010 1,274 1,789
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.50% 10.02% 10.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.40% 10.72% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 850 1,284
10th Percentile £475 £492 £500
25th Percentile £515 £561 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -5.36%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £834 £810 £838
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £60.05 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £69.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £76.25 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £98.58 £90.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.64 £71.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -0.86% -10.94% +14.29%

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 16,214 11,884 16,538
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 93.47% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,805 8,148 11,949
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 142 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.95
England median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% -7.14% -22.22%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +7 285 £650 -3.35% 94
West London -8 28 £625 -7.41% 21
South London -1 24 £600 -18.37% 2
East London -4 12 £630 +0.80% 13
North London -1 1 £700 +0.83% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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.

1 565 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 559 (27.81%) Azure
3 501 (24.93%) AWS
4 480 (23.88%) SC Cleared
5 319 (15.87%) Migration
6 285 (14.18%) Microsoft
7 281 (13.98%) Roadmaps
8 263 (13.08%) DevOps
9 251 (12.49%) AI
10 245 (12.19%) CI/CD
11 237 (11.79%) Agile
12 224 (11.14%) Integration Patterns
13 216 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 211 (10.50%) Analytics
15 210 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 208 (10.35%) Data Modelling
17 203 (10.10%) GCP
18 192 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
19 190 (9.45%) Data Architecture
20 189 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
21 186 (9.25%) Enterprise Architecture
22 178 (8.86%) Python
23 167 (8.31%) Architectural Patterns
24 157 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
25 154 (7.66%) Architectural Design
26 153 (7.61%) TOGAF
27 138 (6.87%) REST
28 137 (6.82%) Microservices
28 137 (6.82%) SQL
29 136 (6.77%) Terraform

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 44 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.24%) Confluence
3 19 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.65%) Apache
6 12 (0.60%) nginx
7 10 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.45%) CMS
9 7 (0.35%) Camunda
10 6 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.25%) Mule
11 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.15%) Appian
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.050%) ArchiCAD
3 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.050%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 53 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.20%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 559 (27.81%) Azure
2 501 (24.93%) AWS
3 203 (10.10%) GCP
4 110 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.33%) Serverless
6 82 (4.08%) SaaS
7 76 (3.78%) Entra ID
8 72 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (2.94%) IaaS
10 58 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.59%) GitHub
12 51 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (2.54%) PaaS
13 50 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
14 48 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
15 46 (2.29%) Snowflake
16 43 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
19 30 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.73%) Network Security
2 67 (3.33%) Firewall
3 51 (2.54%) WAN
4 45 (2.24%) DNS
5 43 (2.14%) VPN
6 28 (1.39%) LAN
6 28 (1.39%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.75%) BGP
8 14 (0.70%) OSPF
8 14 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.50%) MPLS
10 10 (0.50%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.45%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.40%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.40%) 5G
12 8 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.30%) VSAN
14 5 (0.25%) NAS
14 5 (0.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (3.73%) Power BI
2 71 (3.53%) Data Lake
3 48 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (2.39%) Metadata
4 36 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 27 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (1.00%) Big Data
10 19 (0.95%) BigQuery
11 18 (0.90%) Delta Lake
12 17 (0.85%) Tableau
13 16 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.70%) DB2
15 13 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.60%) Data Vault
16 12 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.49%) JIRA
3 26 (1.29%) Git
4 22 (1.09%) GitLab
5 9 (0.45%) ERwin
6 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.40%) MLflow
6 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.20%) Snyk
8 4 (0.20%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.15%) Maven
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.100%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.100%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.100%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.100%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.100%) Robot Framework
General
1 418 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 399 (19.85%) Finance
3 230 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 137 (6.82%) Banking
5 126 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (3.33%) Retail
8 59 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.74%) Law
10 47 (2.34%) Legal
10 47 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 36 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.64%) Marketing
13 26 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.04%) Billing
16 13 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.60%) Local Government
17 12 (0.60%) Military
18 10 (0.50%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (6.87%) REST
2 93 (4.63%) Middleware
3 77 (3.83%) SOAP
4 67 (3.33%) LDAP
5 61 (3.03%) .NET
6 43 (2.14%) Kafka
6 43 (2.14%) OpenID
7 37 (1.84%) JSON
8 31 (1.54%) SAML
9 29 (1.44%) OAuth
10 25 (1.24%) React
11 22 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 22 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
12 18 (0.90%) Spring
13 17 (0.85%) RESTful
14 15 (0.75%) Vue
14 15 (0.75%) Web Services
15 14 (0.70%) .NET Framework
15 14 (0.70%) J2EE
16 13 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 194 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 73 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
3 66 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 51 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 50 (2.49%) Security Posture
7 47 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 46 (2.29%) Product Ownership
9 38 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 33 (1.64%) PKI
12 30 (1.49%) CMDB
13 29 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.14%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.09%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 17 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.69%) Windows
2 30 (1.49%) Linux
3 10 (0.50%) zOS
4 8 (0.40%) Android
4 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.40%) Unix
5 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Solaris
7 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.100%) AIX
8 2 (0.100%) CentOS
8 2 (0.100%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (15.87%) Migration
2 281 (13.98%) Roadmaps
3 263 (13.08%) DevOps
4 251 (12.49%) AI
5 245 (12.19%) CI/CD
6 237 (11.79%) Agile
7 224 (11.14%) Integration Patterns
8 216 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 211 (10.50%) Analytics
10 210 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 208 (10.35%) Data Modelling
12 192 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
13 190 (9.45%) Data Architecture
14 189 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
15 186 (9.25%) Enterprise Architecture
16 167 (8.31%) Architectural Patterns
17 157 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
18 154 (7.66%) Architectural Design
19 153 (7.61%) TOGAF
20 137 (6.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 178 (8.86%) Python
2 137 (6.82%) SQL
3 102 (5.07%) Java
4 93 (4.63%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.54%) C#
6 28 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 19 (0.95%) Bicep
8 18 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.75%) Ruby
10 13 (0.65%) Bash
11 11 (0.55%) Scala
12 9 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.20%) C++
15 4 (0.20%) Go
15 4 (0.20%) Korn
15 4 (0.20%) R
15 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 565 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 480 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 77 (3.83%) Degree
4 70 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 51 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 45 (2.24%) CISSP
7 43 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (1.89%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.19%) CISM
11 24 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.75%) CCNP
16 13 (0.65%) CCIE
17 11 (0.55%) CCSP
18 9 (0.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (3.73%) GDPR
2 58 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (2.69%) NIST
4 43 (2.14%) NCSC
5 37 (1.84%) QA
6 24 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.85%) ISO 20022
8 15 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.60%) SEPA
10 10 (0.50%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.40%) PSD2
12 8 (0.40%) SLA
13 7 (0.35%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.35%) HL7
13 7 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.25%) PERC
15 4 (0.20%) COBIT
System Software
1 82 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.18%) Docker
3 27 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.45%) Squid
5 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.35%) Varnish
7 6 (0.30%) vSphere
8 5 (0.25%) Postfix
8 5 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.20%) NFS
10 3 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.100%) Ceph
11 2 (0.100%) Firmware
11 2 (0.100%) Lustre
11 2 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (6.77%) Terraform
2 122 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.69%) Ansible
4 27 (1.34%) Grafana
5 21 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.35%) Consul
10 5 (0.25%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.20%) Argo
11 4 (0.20%) Istio
11 4 (0.20%) Kibana
12 3 (0.15%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.15%) Puppet
12 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.100%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.100%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.100%) SCCM
13 2 (0.100%) VxRail
Vendors
1 285 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.17%) ServiceNow
3 109 (5.42%) SAP
4 108 (5.37%) Databricks
5 103 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 100 (4.98%) Oracle
7 67 (3.33%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.04%) Google
9 37 (1.84%) Cisco
10 35 (1.74%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.69%) Centrify
12 33 (1.64%) Splunk
12 33 (1.64%) VMware
13 30 (1.49%) IBM
13 30 (1.49%) Workday
14 25 (1.24%) OpenAI
15 21 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 21 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 20 (1.00%) Ariba
17 19 (0.95%) Zscaler