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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,582 1,284 1,585
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.86% 9.59% 9.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.78% 10.32% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 827 1,072
10th Percentile £481 £472 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £737 £753
90th Percentile £806 £813 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £52.20 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £96.50 £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 18,744 12,443 15,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,120 8,377 10,481
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62.44 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +13 348 £625 -4.98% 135
West London -13 32 £645 +43.33% 36
East London +3 13 £700 +3.70% 6
South London -20 10 £650 -7.74% 13
North London 0 2 £650 -27.78%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 738 (28.58%) Azure
2 658 (25.48%) Security Cleared
3 588 (22.77%) AWS
4 546 (21.15%) SC Cleared
5 443 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 436 (16.89%) Roadmaps
7 431 (16.69%) Migration
8 423 (16.38%) AI
9 355 (13.75%) Enterprise Architecture
10 343 (13.28%) Microsoft
11 314 (12.16%) DevOps
12 313 (12.12%) Data Modelling
13 311 (12.04%) Analytics
14 300 (11.62%) CI/CD
15 284 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 281 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
17 275 (10.65%) Data Architecture
18 266 (10.30%) Agile
19 260 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
20 224 (8.68%) GCP
21 201 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
21 201 (7.78%) TOGAF
22 197 (7.63%) Security Architecture
23 191 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
24 187 (7.24%) Data Governance
25 180 (6.97%) Event-Driven
26 172 (6.66%) Power Platform
27 170 (6.58%) Databricks
28 165 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
29 164 (6.35%) Decision-Making

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 39 (1.51%) SAS
2 33 (1.28%) Apache
3 32 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 31 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.93%) Confluence
6 21 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.66%) CMS
8 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.23%) Camunda
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) nginx
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.039%) Notion
4 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 15 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.19%) Endur
7 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP MM
7 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 738 (28.58%) Azure
2 588 (22.77%) AWS
3 224 (8.68%) GCP
4 172 (6.66%) Power Platform
5 108 (4.18%) Entra ID
6 103 (3.99%) SaaS
7 100 (3.87%) Serverless
8 86 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 84 (3.25%) GitHub
10 74 (2.87%) Snowflake
11 67 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (2.09%) PaaS
13 48 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (1.78%) Amazon S3
15 44 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 34 (1.32%) OCI
18 33 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
19 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.06%) Network Security
2 47 (1.82%) Firewall
3 30 (1.16%) VPN
3 30 (1.16%) WAN
4 20 (0.77%) LAN
5 19 (0.74%) DNS
6 14 (0.54%) VXLAN
7 10 (0.39%) BGP
7 10 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
8 9 (0.35%) NX-OS
8 9 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.31%) MPLS
10 7 (0.27%) 4G
10 7 (0.27%) 5G
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (4.57%) Power BI
2 96 (3.72%) Data Lake
3 93 (3.60%) Metadata
4 80 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 28 (1.08%) Big Data
7 26 (1.01%) Delta Lake
8 25 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 23 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (0.62%) Semantic Layer
13 15 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
14 14 (0.54%) Tableau
15 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
17 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (1.47%) Git
2 36 (1.39%) JIRA
3 28 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.74%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) MLflow
5 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.27%) RStudio
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Maven
8 4 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
10 2 (0.077%) Selenium
General
1 526 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 459 (17.78%) Finance
3 288 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 157 (6.08%) Banking
5 143 (5.54%) Retail
6 139 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 84 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (3.25%) Telecoms
8 55 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (1.94%) Legal
10 43 (1.67%) Marketing
11 40 (1.55%) Billing
11 40 (1.55%) Law
12 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 15 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.54%) Local Government
15 14 (0.54%) Military
15 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.46%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (5.96%) REST
2 124 (4.80%) Terraform
3 84 (3.25%) .NET
4 75 (2.90%) Kafka
5 69 (2.67%) SOAP
6 67 (2.59%) Middleware
7 50 (1.94%) OAuth
8 34 (1.32%) PySpark
9 32 (1.24%) .NET Framework
9 32 (1.24%) JSON
10 28 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (1.01%) OAuth2
12 25 (0.97%) XML
13 24 (0.93%) OpenID
13 24 (0.93%) React
13 24 (0.93%) SAML
14 22 (0.85%) RESTful
15 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.74%) JWT
16 19 (0.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 254 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 85 (3.29%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.10%) AI Agents
4 74 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 70 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 60 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 58 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 51 (1.98%) CMDB
11 50 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
13 32 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.24%) Security Posture
13 32 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
15 24 (0.93%) Mainframe
16 22 (0.85%) IoT
17 21 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.55%) Linux
2 29 (1.12%) Windows
3 11 (0.43%) 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 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 3 (0.12%) zOS
10 2 (0.077%) CentOS
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
2 436 (16.89%) Roadmaps
3 431 (16.69%) Migration
4 423 (16.38%) AI
5 355 (13.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 314 (12.16%) DevOps
7 313 (12.12%) Data Modelling
8 311 (12.04%) Analytics
9 300 (11.62%) CI/CD
10 284 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 281 (10.88%) Technical Leadership
12 275 (10.65%) Data Architecture
13 266 (10.30%) Agile
14 260 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
15 201 (7.78%) Architectural Patterns
15 201 (7.78%) TOGAF
16 197 (7.63%) Security Architecture
17 191 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 187 (7.24%) Data Governance
19 180 (6.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 152 (5.89%) Python
2 139 (5.38%) SQL
3 113 (4.38%) Java
4 64 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 44 (1.70%) PowerShell
6 41 (1.59%) C#
7 31 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.89%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.35%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) R
16 6 (0.23%) Cypher
16 6 (0.23%) Groovy
16 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.19%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 658 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 546 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 80 (3.10%) Degree
4 71 (2.75%) CISSP
5 60 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 57 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 54 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.55%) CISM
9 36 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 36 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 29 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.58%) CISA
15 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.43%) CCNP
17 10 (0.39%) CCSP
17 10 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.52%) NIST
3 89 (3.45%) GDPR
4 78 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.01%) GRC
6 28 (1.08%) NCSC
7 27 (1.05%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.70%) SEPA
11 16 (0.62%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
14 12 (0.46%) SLA
15 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 7 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 60 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 48 (1.86%) Docker
3 20 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Varnish
6 5 (0.19%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) vSphere
7 4 (0.15%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.12%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.039%) Squid
10 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 111 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 42 (1.63%) Ansible
3 24 (0.93%) Grafana
4 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.19%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.12%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.077%) QRadar
12 1 (0.039%) Control-M
12 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.039%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.039%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 343 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 170 (6.58%) Databricks
3 157 (6.08%) Oracle
4 153 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 147 (5.69%) SAP
6 119 (4.61%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.63%) Google
8 51 (1.98%) Cisco
9 39 (1.51%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.36%) Workday
11 33 (1.28%) IBM
11 33 (1.28%) MuleSoft
12 30 (1.16%) Foundry
13 27 (1.05%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.93%) VMware
15 23 (0.89%) Ariba
15 23 (0.89%) Palo Alto
16 21 (0.81%) Adobe
16 21 (0.81%) Splunk
17 19 (0.74%) Sparx