Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 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 2,459 1,428 1,752
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.42% 10.53% 10.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.37% 11.29% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,669 939 1,250
10th Percentile £464 £488 £488
25th Percentile £519 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £735 £738 £761
90th Percentile £800 £800 £875
England median daily rate £617 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.28% -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 18,394 12,646 16,190
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 93.25% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,070 8,556 11,553
10th Percentile £360 £331 £331
25th Percentile £449 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 320 200 275
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.48 £22.86 £20.98
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +24.80% +3.61% -19.40%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.75 £70.55
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.70 £40.00
% change year-on-year +64.46% -30.75% -6.98%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +16 366 £621 -7.96% 93
West London -12 30 £625 +31.58% 22
South London -7 23 £723 +6.68% 2
East London +4 16 £672 +5.41% 8
North London -2 1 £650 -3.70% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 692 (28.14%) Azure
2 638 (25.95%) Security Cleared
3 584 (23.75%) AWS
4 542 (22.04%) SC Cleared
5 404 (16.43%) Migration
6 397 (16.14%) Roadmaps
7 377 (15.33%) AI
8 320 (13.01%) Microsoft
8 320 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 310 (12.61%) DevOps
10 289 (11.75%) Enterprise Architecture
11 286 (11.63%) Data Modelling
12 283 (11.51%) Analytics
13 280 (11.39%) CI/CD
14 252 (10.25%) Agile
15 247 (10.04%) Data Architecture
16 245 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 231 (9.39%) Integration Patterns
18 224 (9.11%) Technical Leadership
19 219 (8.91%) GCP
20 209 (8.50%) TOGAF
21 208 (8.46%) Architectural Patterns
22 188 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
23 170 (6.91%) Architectural Design
23 170 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
24 157 (6.38%) Microservices
25 155 (6.30%) Event-Driven
26 154 (6.26%) Security Architecture
27 153 (6.22%) Python
28 152 (6.18%) ERP

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 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.22%) Confluence
3 28 (1.14%) Apache
4 26 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.94%) SAS
6 17 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.49%) nginx
9 10 (0.41%) CMS
10 9 (0.37%) Camunda
10 9 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.16%) Mule
15 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.041%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.041%) Notion
4 1 (0.041%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.33%) 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
1 692 (28.14%) Azure
2 584 (23.75%) AWS
3 219 (8.91%) GCP
4 151 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 106 (4.31%) SaaS
6 90 (3.66%) Entra ID
7 86 (3.50%) Serverless
8 79 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 68 (2.77%) GitHub
10 65 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.52%) PaaS
12 56 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (2.03%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
16 41 (1.67%) IaaS
17 36 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 33 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
19 31 (1.26%) PowerApps
20 30 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 94 (3.82%) Network Security
2 68 (2.77%) Firewall
3 45 (1.83%) VPN
4 37 (1.50%) DNS
5 26 (1.06%) WAN
6 18 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.65%) LAN
8 12 (0.49%) BGP
9 11 (0.45%) OSPF
9 11 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.41%) MPLS
10 10 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.37%) 5G
11 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
11 9 (0.37%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.33%) NGFW
13 7 (0.28%) 3GPP
13 7 (0.28%) 4G
14 5 (0.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.43%) Power BI
2 86 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 74 (3.01%) Metadata
4 67 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.26%) NoSQL
5 31 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 30 (1.22%) Big Data
7 26 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (0.61%) Delta Lake
11 15 (0.61%) Tableau
12 13 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 10 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 42 (1.71%) JIRA
2 39 (1.59%) Git
2 39 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.65%) GitLab
4 10 (0.41%) ERwin
5 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.33%) MLflow
7 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
9 5 (0.20%) Maven
10 4 (0.16%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.16%) Snyk
10 4 (0.16%) Storybook
11 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.12%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.12%) JMeter
11 3 (0.12%) VTune
12 2 (0.081%) MSI
General
1 479 (19.48%) Finance
2 451 (18.34%) Social Skills
3 278 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.75%) Banking
5 126 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 126 (5.12%) Retail
6 84 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 77 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.03%) Legal
10 40 (1.63%) Law
11 39 (1.59%) Billing
12 33 (1.34%) Marketing
13 27 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 20 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.41%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.37%) Local Government
17 9 (0.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (5.25%) REST
2 88 (3.58%) Middleware
3 81 (3.29%) .NET
4 64 (2.60%) SOAP
5 58 (2.36%) Kafka
6 39 (1.59%) OAuth
7 37 (1.50%) OpenID
8 33 (1.34%) SAML
9 32 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 31 (1.26%) React
11 30 (1.22%) .NET Framework
12 28 (1.14%) LDAP
13 21 (0.85%) OAuth2
14 20 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
14 20 (0.81%) PySpark
15 19 (0.77%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.73%) JSON
16 18 (0.73%) RESTful
17 17 (0.69%) XML
18 16 (0.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 243 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 76 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 65 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 61 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 54 (2.20%) AI Agents
7 52 (2.11%) CMDB
8 49 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 47 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 46 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
14 26 (1.06%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.02%) Mainframe
15 25 (1.02%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.02%) Taxonomies
16 22 (0.89%) IoT
16 22 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.55%) Linux
2 30 (1.22%) Windows
3 10 (0.41%) Android
3 10 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.37%) Unix
5 8 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.33%) 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 (0.081%) VMS
11 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (16.43%) Migration
2 397 (16.14%) Roadmaps
3 377 (15.33%) AI
4 320 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 310 (12.61%) DevOps
6 289 (11.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 286 (11.63%) Data Modelling
8 283 (11.51%) Analytics
9 280 (11.39%) CI/CD
10 252 (10.25%) Agile
11 247 (10.04%) Data Architecture
12 245 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 231 (9.39%) Integration Patterns
14 224 (9.11%) Technical Leadership
15 209 (8.50%) TOGAF
16 208 (8.46%) Architectural Patterns
17 188 (7.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 170 (6.91%) Architectural Design
18 170 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
19 157 (6.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 153 (6.22%) Python
2 128 (5.21%) SQL
3 108 (4.39%) Java
4 55 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.46%) C#
7 26 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.94%) Bicep
9 20 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.69%) Bash
11 15 (0.61%) Ruby
12 9 (0.37%) Scala
13 7 (0.28%) Go
13 7 (0.28%) R
14 6 (0.24%) C++
14 6 (0.24%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.20%) Cypher
15 5 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 638 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 542 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 82 (3.33%) Degree
4 67 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 66 (2.68%) CISSP
6 58 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 51 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (1.42%) CISM
9 35 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.61%) CCSP
16 14 (0.57%) CISA
17 13 (0.53%) CCNP
18 10 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (3.54%) GDPR
2 86 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 76 (3.09%) NIST
4 67 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.75%) NCSC
6 34 (1.38%) GRC
7 30 (1.22%) QA
8 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.73%) SEPA
10 16 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.57%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.33%) PSD2
15 7 (0.28%) IFRS
16 6 (0.24%) COBIT
16 6 (0.24%) HL7
17 5 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (2.32%) Docker
2 50 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.37%) Squid
4 9 (0.37%) 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 (0.081%) IAG
9 2 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.081%) vSphere
10 1 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.041%) HDFS
10 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 135 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.37%) Terraform
3 45 (1.83%) Ansible
4 31 (1.26%) Grafana
5 24 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.28%) Consul
10 6 (0.24%) Argo
10 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.16%) SCCM
12 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.081%) Istio
13 2 (0.081%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.081%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.081%) QRadar
13 2 (0.081%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.081%) VxRail
Vendors
1 320 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 147 (5.98%) ServiceNow
3 142 (5.77%) Oracle
4 140 (5.69%) SAP
5 133 (5.41%) Databricks
6 110 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.87%) Cisco
7 46 (1.87%) Google
8 43 (1.75%) CyberArk
9 39 (1.59%) Splunk
10 35 (1.42%) Workday
11 33 (1.34%) MuleSoft
12 32 (1.30%) IBM
13 28 (1.14%) Foundry
13 28 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.06%) Ariba
15 25 (1.02%) VMware
16 21 (0.85%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.81%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.65%) Sparx