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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,586 1,292 1,591
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 9.66% 9.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.75% 10.40% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,749 831 1,089
10th Percentile £482 £468 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -5.52%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £756
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 12 2 2
10th Percentile £51.85 £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 £95.63 £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 18,810 12,420 15,268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 92.91% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,163 8,366 10,558
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -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 369 206 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.04 £17.69
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.87% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £44.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.84% +0.32%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +15 351 £625 -5.30% 150
West London -15 33 £640 +42.22% 41
East London +4 13 £700 +3.70% 7
South London -16 10 £650 -7.74% 10
North London 0 2 £650 -27.78% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 742 (28.69%) Azure
2 664 (25.68%) Security Cleared
3 591 (22.85%) AWS
4 552 (21.35%) SC Cleared
5 436 (16.86%) Roadmaps
6 434 (16.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 429 (16.59%) Migration
8 418 (16.16%) AI
9 352 (13.61%) Enterprise Architecture
10 349 (13.50%) Microsoft
11 314 (12.14%) DevOps
12 310 (11.99%) Data Modelling
13 309 (11.95%) Analytics
14 301 (11.64%) CI/CD
15 285 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 278 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
17 274 (10.60%) Data Architecture
18 263 (10.17%) Agile
18 263 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
19 223 (8.62%) GCP
20 200 (7.73%) Architectural Patterns
21 199 (7.70%) TOGAF
22 196 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
23 195 (7.54%) Security Architecture
24 185 (7.15%) Data Governance
25 180 (6.96%) Event-Driven
26 178 (6.88%) Power Platform
27 170 (6.57%) Business Intelligence
28 169 (6.54%) Databricks
29 165 (6.38%) Translating Business Requirements

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 34 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.28%) Apache
4 31 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 24 (0.93%) Confluence
6 20 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) CMS
8 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.23%) Appian
10 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.23%) Camunda
11 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.12%) nginx
11 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.077%) Mendix
12 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 63 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) 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%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 742 (28.69%) Azure
2 591 (22.85%) AWS
3 223 (8.62%) GCP
4 178 (6.88%) Power Platform
5 110 (4.25%) Entra ID
6 106 (4.10%) SaaS
7 98 (3.79%) Serverless
8 85 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 83 (3.21%) GitHub
10 73 (2.82%) Snowflake
11 65 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (2.20%) PaaS
13 50 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
14 46 (1.78%) Amazon S3
15 44 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 36 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
18 33 (1.28%) IaaS
18 33 (1.28%) PowerApps
19 32 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.21%) Network Security
2 48 (1.86%) Firewall
3 31 (1.20%) VPN
4 30 (1.16%) WAN
5 20 (0.77%) DNS
5 20 (0.77%) LAN
6 14 (0.54%) VXLAN
7 11 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
8 10 (0.39%) BGP
8 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (0.35%) MPLS
9 9 (0.35%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.31%) 4G
10 8 (0.31%) 5G
11 7 (0.27%) NGFW
11 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.23%) SMS
12 6 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.80%) Power BI
2 97 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 87 (3.36%) Metadata
4 80 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (1.16%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.12%) Big Data
7 26 (1.01%) Delta Lake
8 25 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 24 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 22 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.54%) Data Vault
12 14 (0.54%) Tableau
13 13 (0.50%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
13 13 (0.50%) Star Schema
14 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (1.47%) Git
2 35 (1.35%) JIRA
3 28 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.73%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) MLflow
5 7 (0.27%) RStudio
6 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.23%) Storybook
7 5 (0.19%) Maven
7 5 (0.19%) 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%) Flyway
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
10 2 (0.077%) Postman
General
1 518 (20.03%) Social Skills
2 460 (17.79%) Finance
3 290 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 159 (6.15%) Banking
5 145 (5.61%) Retail
6 135 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 81 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.01%) Legal
10 43 (1.66%) Law
11 42 (1.62%) Marketing
12 38 (1.47%) Billing
13 30 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.62%) Financial Institution
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 14 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.50%) Military
18 13 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (5.88%) REST
2 125 (4.83%) Terraform
3 84 (3.25%) .NET
4 74 (2.86%) Kafka
5 69 (2.67%) SOAP
6 68 (2.63%) Middleware
7 50 (1.93%) OAuth
8 34 (1.31%) PySpark
9 31 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 31 (1.20%) JSON
10 28 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (1.01%) OAuth2
12 25 (0.97%) React
13 24 (0.93%) OpenID
13 24 (0.93%) SAML
13 24 (0.93%) XML
14 22 (0.85%) RESTful
15 20 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
16 19 (0.73%) JWT
17 18 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 255 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 81 (3.13%) AI Agents
2 81 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 76 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 68 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 65 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 60 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 52 (2.01%) CMDB
9 52 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
12 33 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 32 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.08%) Taxonomies
15 26 (1.01%) Mainframe
16 25 (0.97%) Public Cloud
17 23 (0.89%) IoT
18 21 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.55%) Linux
2 29 (1.12%) Windows
3 11 (0.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.15%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 2 (0.077%) CentOS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.077%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (16.86%) Roadmaps
2 434 (16.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 429 (16.59%) Migration
4 418 (16.16%) AI
5 352 (13.61%) Enterprise Architecture
6 314 (12.14%) DevOps
7 310 (11.99%) Data Modelling
8 309 (11.95%) Analytics
9 301 (11.64%) CI/CD
10 285 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 278 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
12 274 (10.60%) Data Architecture
13 263 (10.17%) Agile
13 263 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
14 200 (7.73%) Architectural Patterns
15 199 (7.70%) TOGAF
16 196 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 195 (7.54%) Security Architecture
18 185 (7.15%) Data Governance
19 180 (6.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 149 (5.76%) Python
2 139 (5.38%) SQL
3 111 (4.29%) Java
4 62 (2.40%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.78%) PowerShell
6 38 (1.47%) C#
7 29 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.97%) Bicep
9 20 (0.77%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.70%) Bash
11 13 (0.50%) Ruby
12 12 (0.46%) 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
1 664 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 552 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 81 (3.13%) Degree
4 71 (2.75%) CISSP
5 63 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 61 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.55%) CISM
9 35 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.58%) CISA
16 15 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.43%) CCNP
18 10 (0.39%) CCSP
18 10 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.52%) GDPR
3 89 (3.44%) NIST
4 77 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (2.01%) GRC
6 32 (1.24%) NCSC
7 27 (1.04%) QA
8 20 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.66%) SEPA
10 14 (0.54%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.46%) SLA
12 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 7 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 61 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.89%) Docker
3 21 (0.81%) 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%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.039%) Squid
10 1 (0.039%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 112 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 42 (1.62%) 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
1 349 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 169 (6.54%) Databricks
3 156 (6.03%) Oracle
4 152 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 146 (5.65%) SAP
6 118 (4.56%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.63%) Google
8 53 (2.05%) Cisco
9 37 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 36 (1.39%) Workday
11 34 (1.31%) IBM
12 32 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.12%) Foundry
14 28 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.97%) VMware
16 24 (0.93%) Ariba
17 23 (0.89%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.81%) Adobe
18 21 (0.81%) Splunk
19 19 (0.73%) Sparx