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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,535 1,407 1,660
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.72% 10.37% 10.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.67% 11.14% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,720 921 1,172
10th Percentile £475 £480 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £763
90th Percentile £800 £802 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £48.20 £54.50 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £99.65 £93.50 £107.59
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 18,540 12,626 15,560
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.07% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,139 8,542 11,072
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 200 228
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.39% -13.61%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.13 £52.44
90th Percentile £77.83 £63.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +14 367 £625 -7.41% 117
West London -15 32 £625 +38.89% 26
South London -13 20 £723 +6.68% 9
East London +2 12 £688 +1.85% 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 28 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.

1 711 (28.05%) Azure
2 668 (26.35%) Security Cleared
3 603 (23.79%) AWS
4 563 (22.21%) SC Cleared
5 417 (16.45%) Migration
6 406 (16.02%) Roadmaps
7 384 (15.15%) AI
8 335 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 321 (12.66%) Microsoft
10 315 (12.43%) Enterprise Architecture
11 307 (12.11%) DevOps
12 306 (12.07%) Analytics
13 300 (11.83%) Data Modelling
14 282 (11.12%) CI/CD
15 265 (10.45%) Data Architecture
16 258 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 254 (10.02%) Agile
18 253 (9.98%) Integration Patterns
19 239 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
20 224 (8.84%) GCP
21 221 (8.72%) TOGAF
22 209 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
23 185 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
24 167 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
25 166 (6.55%) Security Architecture
26 163 (6.43%) Microservices
27 161 (6.35%) Event-Driven
28 160 (6.31%) Architectural Design
29 157 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
30 155 (6.11%) 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 43 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 36 (1.42%) SAS
3 33 (1.30%) Apache
4 32 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 25 (0.99%) Confluence
6 18 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.43%) CMS
9 9 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) Appian
10 7 (0.28%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.24%) Camunda
12 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.079%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.079%) Mule
14 2 (0.079%) Tomcat
15 1 (0.039%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 65 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.59%) 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
6 6 (0.24%) 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
1 711 (28.05%) Azure
2 603 (23.79%) AWS
3 224 (8.84%) GCP
4 150 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 99 (3.91%) SaaS
6 95 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 85 (3.35%) Serverless
8 77 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 72 (2.84%) GitHub
10 68 (2.68%) Snowflake
11 63 (2.49%) PaaS
12 62 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
13 51 (2.01%) Amazon S3
14 44 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (1.58%) IaaS
16 33 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 33 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.67%) Network Security
2 60 (2.37%) Firewall
3 37 (1.46%) VPN
4 29 (1.14%) DNS
5 28 (1.10%) WAN
6 19 (0.75%) LAN
7 13 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.43%) MPLS
8 11 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (0.39%) 5G
10 9 (0.36%) 4G
10 9 (0.36%) BGP
10 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.36%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.32%) NGFW
11 8 (0.32%) OSPF
12 7 (0.28%) 3GPP
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.42%) Power BI
2 90 (3.55%) Data Lake
3 82 (3.23%) Metadata
4 74 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.22%) Big Data
7 30 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 24 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (0.79%) Delta Lake
11 15 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.55%) Tableau
13 13 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.47%) Db2
14 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
15 11 (0.43%) GIS
15 11 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (1.58%) Git
2 37 (1.46%) JIRA
3 32 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.71%) GitLab
5 11 (0.43%) ERwin
6 8 (0.32%) MLflow
7 7 (0.28%) Maven
8 6 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.20%) Storybook
10 4 (0.16%) Claude Code
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.16%) Snyk
11 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.12%) JMeter
11 3 (0.12%) VTune
12 2 (0.079%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.079%) Robot Framework
General
1 482 (19.01%) Finance
2 464 (18.30%) Social Skills
3 299 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 172 (6.79%) Banking
5 137 (5.40%) Retail
6 129 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
7 87 (3.43%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
9 58 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 51 (2.01%) Legal
11 45 (1.78%) Law
12 37 (1.46%) Billing
13 34 (1.34%) Marketing
14 29 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 25 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.51%) Local Government
19 11 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
20 10 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (5.33%) REST
2 89 (3.51%) Middleware
3 81 (3.20%) .NET
4 67 (2.64%) Kafka
5 65 (2.56%) SOAP
6 39 (1.54%) OAuth
7 32 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 31 (1.22%) React
9 29 (1.14%) .NET Framework
10 24 (0.95%) PySpark
11 23 (0.91%) OAuth2
12 22 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (0.79%) JSON
13 20 (0.79%) RESTful
14 19 (0.75%) OpenID
14 19 (0.75%) SAML
15 18 (0.71%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.71%) XML
16 16 (0.63%) HTML
16 16 (0.63%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 239 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 75 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
3 68 (2.68%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 64 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
4 64 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 62 (2.45%) AI Agents
6 55 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 52 (2.05%) CMDB
8 51 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 49 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 30 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 29 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.10%) Taxonomies
15 27 (1.07%) Mainframe
16 25 (0.99%) Public Cloud
17 23 (0.91%) IoT
17 23 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.50%) Linux
2 30 (1.18%) Windows
3 10 (0.39%) Unix
4 9 (0.36%) Android
4 9 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.36%) 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
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.079%) VMS
11 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (16.45%) Migration
2 406 (16.02%) Roadmaps
3 384 (15.15%) AI
4 335 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 315 (12.43%) Enterprise Architecture
6 307 (12.11%) DevOps
7 306 (12.07%) Analytics
8 300 (11.83%) Data Modelling
9 282 (11.12%) CI/CD
10 265 (10.45%) Data Architecture
11 258 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 254 (10.02%) Agile
13 253 (9.98%) Integration Patterns
14 239 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
15 221 (8.72%) TOGAF
16 209 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
17 185 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 167 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
19 166 (6.55%) Security Architecture
20 163 (6.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 150 (5.92%) Python
2 130 (5.13%) SQL
3 108 (4.26%) Java
4 57 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.42%) C#
7 26 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 24 (0.95%) Bicep
9 22 (0.87%) Apex Code
10 21 (0.83%) Bash
11 14 (0.55%) Ruby
12 9 (0.36%) Scala
13 7 (0.28%) C++
13 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.24%) Cypher
15 5 (0.20%) Groovy
15 5 (0.20%) R
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 668 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 563 (22.21%) SC Cleared
3 79 (3.12%) Degree
4 67 (2.64%) Azure Certification
5 66 (2.60%) CISSP
6 61 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 61 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 37 (1.46%) CISM
7 37 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 34 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.55%) CCSP
14 14 (0.55%) CISA
15 12 (0.47%) CCNP
16 9 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 92 (3.63%) GDPR
3 66 (2.60%) NIST
4 58 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.81%) GRC
6 30 (1.18%) NCSC
7 29 (1.14%) QA
8 21 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.79%) SEPA
10 17 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.55%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.39%) PSD2
13 9 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.28%) IFRS
15 6 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (2.25%) Docker
2 52 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.28%) Varnish
4 7 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.24%) Postfix
5 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.20%) NFS
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.16%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.079%) IAG
9 2 (0.079%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) HDFS
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 127 (5.01%) Terraform
2 125 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.74%) Ansible
4 27 (1.07%) Grafana
5 20 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 19 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.39%) Argo
8 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.16%) SCCM
11 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.079%) Consul
12 2 (0.079%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.079%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.079%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.079%) QRadar
12 2 (0.079%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 321 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 154 (6.07%) Oracle
3 145 (5.72%) Databricks
3 145 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 144 (5.68%) SAP
5 111 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 49 (1.93%) Google
7 46 (1.81%) Cisco
8 37 (1.46%) IBM
9 36 (1.42%) Workday
10 34 (1.34%) CyberArk
11 29 (1.14%) Foundry
11 29 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 29 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 26 (1.03%) Splunk
13 25 (0.99%) Ariba
14 24 (0.95%) VMware
15 21 (0.83%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.67%) Sparx
17 16 (0.63%) Adobe