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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,124 1,264 1,787
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.96% 10.13% 10.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.89% 10.85% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 830 1,281
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £513 £555 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £668
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.62% -4.64%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £753
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £58.70 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £76.67 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £99.65 £90.25 -
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 16,473 11,655 16,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.37% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,927 7,987 11,906
10th Percentile £350 £344 £325
25th Percentile £428 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £751 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 144 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +26.64% -21.99%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +13 313 £650 -2.99% 114
West London -2 34 £625 -7.41% 23
South London 0 21 £680 +4.58% 5
East London -1 14 £650 -0.08% 11
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 584 (27.50%) Azure
2 576 (27.12%) Security Cleared
3 510 (24.01%) AWS
4 488 (22.98%) SC Cleared
5 337 (15.87%) Migration
6 297 (13.98%) Microsoft
7 287 (13.51%) Roadmaps
8 278 (13.09%) AI
9 270 (12.71%) DevOps
10 249 (11.72%) CI/CD
11 230 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 225 (10.59%) Integration Patterns
13 217 (10.22%) Analytics
14 213 (10.03%) GCP
15 210 (9.89%) Data Modelling
16 205 (9.65%) Agile
17 204 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 195 (9.18%) Data Architecture
19 185 (8.71%) Enterprise Architecture
20 184 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
21 181 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
22 179 (8.43%) Architectural Patterns
23 175 (8.24%) Python
24 167 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
25 151 (7.11%) TOGAF
26 150 (7.06%) Architectural Design
27 142 (6.69%) Microservices
28 135 (6.36%) ServiceNow
28 135 (6.36%) SQL
29 131 (6.17%) 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 42 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.13%) Confluence
3 20 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.75%) Apache
5 12 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.56%) nginx
6 10 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.38%) Camunda
7 8 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.24%) CMS
9 5 (0.24%) Mule
10 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.14%) Appian
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.094%) JBoss
12 2 (0.094%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.047%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
7 6 (0.28%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 5 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 584 (27.50%) Azure
2 510 (24.01%) AWS
3 213 (10.03%) GCP
4 114 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 85 (4.00%) Serverless
6 84 (3.95%) SaaS
7 77 (3.63%) Entra ID
8 69 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 53 (2.50%) GitHub
11 52 (2.45%) PaaS
12 50 (2.35%) Snowflake
13 49 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
15 42 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 37 (1.74%) IaaS
18 34 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
19 29 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.67%) Network Security
2 66 (3.11%) Firewall
3 43 (2.02%) WAN
4 40 (1.88%) DNS
4 40 (1.88%) VPN
5 24 (1.13%) LAN
6 22 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.71%) BGP
8 14 (0.66%) OSPF
8 14 (0.66%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.47%) MPLS
10 10 (0.47%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.42%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.38%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.38%) 5G
12 8 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.28%) NAS
13 6 (0.28%) SAN
13 6 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (3.81%) Power BI
2 68 (3.20%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.12%) Metadata
5 34 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 26 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (1.04%) BigQuery
11 20 (0.94%) Delta Lake
12 19 (0.89%) Big Data
13 17 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.80%) Tableau
14 16 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.66%) DB2
16 13 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
16 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.56%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 42 (1.98%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.32%) Git
3 23 (1.08%) GitLab
3 23 (1.08%) JIRA
4 10 (0.47%) ERwin
4 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
5 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.38%) MLflow
6 6 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.19%) Snyk
8 4 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.094%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.094%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.094%) MSI
10 2 (0.094%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.094%) Robot Framework
General
1 410 (19.30%) Finance
1 410 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 229 (10.78%) Public Sector
3 136 (6.40%) Banking
4 97 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
6 73 (3.44%) Retail
7 62 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 55 (2.59%) Legal
10 54 (2.54%) Law
11 36 (1.69%) Billing
11 36 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.27%) Marketing
13 24 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 18 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (0.56%) Military
16 10 (0.47%) Local Government
17 9 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.41%) REST
2 89 (4.19%) Middleware
3 76 (3.58%) SOAP
4 66 (3.11%) LDAP
5 62 (2.92%) .NET
6 44 (2.07%) Kafka
7 40 (1.88%) OpenID
8 29 (1.37%) SAML
9 26 (1.22%) OAuth
10 25 (1.18%) React
11 24 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (0.94%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.75%) .NET Framework
13 16 (0.75%) RESTful
13 16 (0.75%) Spring
14 15 (0.71%) Vue
14 15 (0.71%) Web Services
15 14 (0.66%) J2EE
16 13 (0.61%) PySpark
17 12 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 207 (9.75%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
3 63 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 62 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 54 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 52 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 46 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 34 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 34 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.55%) CMDB
13 23 (1.08%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.08%) Mainframe
14 20 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 20 (0.94%) FMCG
15 19 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (0.85%) NHS
16 18 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.46%) Linux
2 29 (1.37%) Windows
3 10 (0.47%) zOS
4 9 (0.42%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) Android
5 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.14%) Solaris
7 2 (0.094%) AIX
7 2 (0.094%) CentOS
7 2 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.094%) VMS
7 2 (0.094%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.094%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (15.87%) Migration
2 287 (13.51%) Roadmaps
3 278 (13.09%) AI
4 270 (12.71%) DevOps
5 249 (11.72%) CI/CD
6 230 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 225 (10.59%) Integration Patterns
8 217 (10.22%) Analytics
9 210 (9.89%) Data Modelling
10 205 (9.65%) Agile
11 204 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 195 (9.18%) Data Architecture
13 185 (8.71%) Enterprise Architecture
14 184 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
15 181 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
16 179 (8.43%) Architectural Patterns
17 167 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 151 (7.11%) TOGAF
19 150 (7.06%) Architectural Design
20 142 (6.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 175 (8.24%) Python
2 135 (6.36%) SQL
3 100 (4.71%) Java
4 67 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.32%) C#
5 28 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.04%) Bicep
7 16 (0.75%) Ruby
7 16 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.52%) Apex Code
8 11 (0.52%) Bash
9 10 (0.47%) Scala
10 7 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.24%) R
12 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.19%) C++
13 4 (0.19%) Go
13 4 (0.19%) SOQL
14 3 (0.14%) C
Qualifications
1 576 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 488 (22.98%) SC Cleared
3 76 (3.58%) Degree
4 66 (3.11%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 50 (2.35%) CISSP
7 39 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 34 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 33 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.18%) CISM
11 25 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.66%) CCNP
17 13 (0.61%) CCSP
18 10 (0.47%) CCIE
18 10 (0.47%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (3.39%) GDPR
2 64 (3.01%) NIST
3 58 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 58 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.02%) NCSC
5 37 (1.74%) QA
6 24 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 13 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.61%) SEPA
9 12 (0.56%) GRC
10 10 (0.47%) PSD2
11 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.38%) SLA
13 7 (0.33%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.33%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) IFRS
14 4 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 80 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 64 (3.01%) Docker
3 25 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.42%) Squid
5 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) Varnish
7 6 (0.28%) Postfix
8 5 (0.24%) NFS
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.19%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.19%) vSphere
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.094%) Ceph
11 2 (0.094%) Firmware
11 2 (0.094%) Lustre
11 2 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 131 (6.17%) Terraform
2 120 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.55%) Ansible
4 24 (1.13%) Grafana
5 22 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.33%) Consul
8 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.19%) Argo
9 4 (0.19%) Istio
9 4 (0.19%) Kibana
10 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.094%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.094%) QRadar
11 2 (0.094%) SCCM
11 2 (0.094%) VxRail
Vendors
1 297 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.36%) ServiceNow
3 116 (5.46%) SAP
4 113 (5.32%) Databricks
5 104 (4.90%) Oracle
6 101 (4.76%) Salesforce
7 71 (3.34%) CyberArk
8 42 (1.98%) Google
9 38 (1.79%) Cisco
10 35 (1.65%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.60%) Centrify
12 33 (1.55%) Splunk
13 30 (1.41%) Workday
14 29 (1.37%) VMware
15 27 (1.27%) IBM
16 25 (1.18%) OpenAI
17 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
18 22 (1.04%) Palo Alto
19 21 (0.99%) Zscaler
20 20 (0.94%) Ariba