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 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,239 1,272 1,750
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.13% 10.51% 10.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.05% 11.24% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 822 1,265
10th Percentile £475 £500 £489
25th Percentile £515 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £825 £800 £870
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
10th Percentile £54.65 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £61.63 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £78.23 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £98.58 £93.50 £61.85
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 17,154 11,319 16,339
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 93.55% 93.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,330 7,658 11,782
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 157 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.07% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £46.86
90th Percentile £76.98 £63.10 £67.60
England median hourly rate £45.56 £29.27 £37.75
% change year-on-year +55.64% -22.46% -16.11%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +17 340 £625 -7.41% 159
West London -3 32 £633 -5.60% 28
South London -2 22 £723 -0.34% 12
East London +3 15 £669 +11.50% 9
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 5 June 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.

1 648 (28.94%) Azure
2 640 (28.58%) Security Cleared
3 545 (24.34%) SC Cleared
4 541 (24.16%) AWS
5 371 (16.57%) Migration
6 315 (14.07%) Roadmaps
7 311 (13.89%) Microsoft
8 299 (13.35%) AI
9 292 (13.04%) DevOps
10 265 (11.84%) CI/CD
11 252 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 241 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 240 (10.72%) Integration Patterns
14 228 (10.18%) Data Modelling
15 226 (10.09%) Analytics
16 224 (10.00%) GCP
17 216 (9.65%) Data Architecture
18 211 (9.42%) Agile
19 207 (9.25%) Enterprise Architecture
20 203 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
21 192 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
22 187 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
23 182 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
23 182 (8.13%) Python
24 169 (7.55%) TOGAF
25 160 (7.15%) Architectural Design
26 139 (6.21%) Microservices
27 137 (6.12%) Security Architecture
27 137 (6.12%) ServiceNow
28 136 (6.07%) 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 43 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.12%) Confluence
3 21 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 19 (0.85%) Apache
5 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.54%) nginx
7 9 (0.40%) Camunda
7 9 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.27%) SAS
11 5 (0.22%) Mule
12 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.13%) Appian
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
13 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.089%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.045%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.045%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.045%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.045%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.36%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.18%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.13%) Endur
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.089%) Oracle HRMS
9 2 (0.089%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 648 (28.94%) Azure
2 541 (24.16%) AWS
3 224 (10.00%) GCP
4 127 (5.67%) Power Platform
5 92 (4.11%) Serverless
6 88 (3.93%) SaaS
7 78 (3.48%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (2.64%) GitHub
10 58 (2.59%) Amazon S3
11 57 (2.55%) PaaS
12 55 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
13 52 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (2.23%) Snowflake
15 43 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 40 (1.79%) IaaS
16 40 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
17 35 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
18 34 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
19 31 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.89%) Network Security
2 67 (2.99%) Firewall
3 45 (2.01%) WAN
4 44 (1.97%) DNS
5 43 (1.92%) VPN
6 26 (1.16%) LAN
7 21 (0.94%) SD-WAN
8 17 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.63%) BGP
10 13 (0.58%) OSPF
11 11 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.45%) MPLS
12 10 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.40%) 5G
13 9 (0.40%) OpenVPN
14 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
14 8 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
16 5 (0.22%) NGFW
16 5 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (4.06%) Power BI
2 73 (3.26%) Data Lake
3 53 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (2.37%) Metadata
4 34 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (1.52%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.21%) NoSQL
6 26 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 20 (0.89%) Big Data
8 20 (0.89%) Delta Lake
9 18 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (0.71%) Tableau
11 15 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
14 12 (0.54%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.54%) Db2
14 12 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 45 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 33 (1.47%) Git
3 27 (1.21%) JIRA
4 23 (1.03%) GitLab
5 10 (0.45%) ERwin
5 10 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.36%) MLflow
7 7 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.22%) Maven
8 5 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.18%) Snyk
9 4 (0.18%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.13%) JMeter
10 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.13%) Postman
11 2 (0.089%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.089%) MSI
11 2 (0.089%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.089%) Robot Framework
General
1 428 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 417 (18.62%) Finance
3 259 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 140 (6.25%) Banking
5 104 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (3.80%) Retail
7 77 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 69 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 62 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.28%) Law
10 51 (2.28%) Legal
11 34 (1.52%) Billing
12 27 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.16%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.12%) Marketing
15 23 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (0.67%) Military
18 9 (0.40%) Aviation
18 9 (0.40%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (5.67%) REST
2 83 (3.71%) Middleware
3 79 (3.53%) SOAP
4 75 (3.35%) .NET
5 68 (3.04%) LDAP
6 42 (1.88%) OpenID
7 41 (1.83%) Kafka
8 33 (1.47%) OAuth
9 32 (1.43%) SAML
10 26 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
10 26 (1.16%) React
11 22 (0.98%) .NET Framework
12 21 (0.94%) AngularJS
13 17 (0.76%) PySpark
14 16 (0.71%) OAuth2
14 16 (0.71%) RESTful
15 15 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
15 15 (0.67%) Spring
16 14 (0.63%) J2EE
16 14 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 229 (10.23%) Cloud Native
2 73 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
3 72 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 60 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.59%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.59%) Security Posture
8 49 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 43 (1.92%) CMDB
9 43 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 40 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 36 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.16%) Mainframe
13 21 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 20 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.89%) NHS
14 20 (0.89%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.70%) Linux
2 34 (1.52%) Windows
3 10 (0.45%) Android
3 10 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.45%) Unix
4 9 (0.40%) zOS
5 8 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 3 (0.13%) AIX
10 2 (0.089%) CentOS
10 2 (0.089%) VMS
10 2 (0.089%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (16.57%) Migration
2 315 (14.07%) Roadmaps
3 299 (13.35%) AI
4 292 (13.04%) DevOps
5 265 (11.84%) CI/CD
6 252 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 241 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 240 (10.72%) Integration Patterns
9 228 (10.18%) Data Modelling
10 226 (10.09%) Analytics
11 216 (9.65%) Data Architecture
12 211 (9.42%) Agile
13 207 (9.25%) Enterprise Architecture
14 203 (9.07%) Technical Leadership
15 192 (8.58%) Architectural Patterns
16 187 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
17 182 (8.13%) Problem-Solving
18 169 (7.55%) TOGAF
19 160 (7.15%) Architectural Design
20 139 (6.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 182 (8.13%) Python
2 130 (5.81%) SQL
3 102 (4.56%) Java
4 79 (3.53%) PowerShell
5 38 (1.70%) JavaScript
6 31 (1.38%) C#
7 27 (1.21%) Bicep
8 18 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.71%) Ruby
10 14 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 14 (0.63%) Bash
11 9 (0.40%) Scala
12 6 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.22%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.18%) Go
14 4 (0.18%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.18%) R
15 3 (0.13%) C++
15 3 (0.13%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 640 (28.58%) Security Cleared
2 545 (24.34%) SC Cleared
3 80 (3.57%) Degree
4 67 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 58 (2.59%) CISSP
6 49 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (1.38%) CISM
10 31 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.63%) CCNP
16 14 (0.63%) CISA
17 13 (0.58%) CCSP
18 9 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (3.26%) NIST
2 71 (3.17%) GDPR
3 66 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 66 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (2.10%) NCSC
5 41 (1.83%) QA
6 22 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 15 (0.67%) GRC
9 13 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.58%) SEPA
10 11 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.45%) PSD2
12 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.31%) HL7
14 7 (0.31%) SLA
15 6 (0.27%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) IFRS
System Software
1 83 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 60 (2.68%) Docker
3 25 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.58%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.40%) Squid
6 8 (0.36%) Varnish
7 7 (0.31%) Postfix
8 6 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
10 4 (0.18%) vSphere
11 2 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.045%) Ceph
12 1 (0.045%) Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) HDFS
12 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.045%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (6.07%) Terraform
2 121 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 43 (1.92%) Ansible
4 23 (1.03%) Grafana
4 23 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.31%) Consul
7 7 (0.31%) HAProxy
8 5 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.18%) Argo
9 4 (0.18%) Istio
9 4 (0.18%) Kibana
9 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.18%) Puppet
10 3 (0.13%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.13%) SCCM
11 2 (0.089%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.089%) QRadar
11 2 (0.089%) VxRail
Vendors
1 311 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 137 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 127 (5.67%) Databricks
4 110 (4.91%) SAP
5 108 (4.82%) Oracle
6 100 (4.47%) Salesforce
7 75 (3.35%) CyberArk
8 51 (2.28%) Cisco
9 45 (2.01%) Google
10 40 (1.79%) Splunk
11 35 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
12 34 (1.52%) Centrify
13 29 (1.30%) IBM
13 29 (1.30%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.30%) VMware
13 29 (1.30%) Workday
14 25 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.07%) OpenAI
16 21 (0.94%) Foundry
17 20 (0.89%) Ariba