Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,371 1,395 1,717
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.51% 9.63% 9.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.29% 10.30% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 818 1,212
10th Percentile £463 £489 £500
25th Percentile £538 £550 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £660
Median % change year-on-year - -1.52% -2.22%
75th Percentile £738 £760 £743
90th Percentile £832 £813 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £64.20 £43.39 £43.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.97 £44.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £76.93 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +61.02% -36.30%
75th Percentile £93.75 £97.90 £50.33
90th Percentile £95.00 £110.47 £50.58
England median hourly rate £83.82 £70.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year +19.74% -8.53% +9.33%

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 13,326 13,539 17,116
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 93.42% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 8,731 12,345
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -0.45% -4.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £794 £788
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 150 222
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.76 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £20.88
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +1.45% +1.47%
75th Percentile £58.13 £53.75 £56.88
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +36.36%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -2 183 £650 - 85
West London +2 29 £508 +1.50% 9
East London +1 10 £675 +1.89% 5
South London -1 9 £600 -9.09% 1
North London +5 3 £700 -1.89%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 January 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.

1 463 (33.77%) Azure
2 344 (25.09%) AWS
3 343 (25.02%) Security Cleared
4 285 (20.79%) SC Cleared
5 223 (16.27%) Microsoft
6 197 (14.37%) Roadmaps
7 188 (13.71%) Agile
8 175 (12.76%) DevOps
9 173 (12.62%) Data Modelling
10 170 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
11 168 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 159 (11.60%) Migration
12 159 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 156 (11.38%) CI/CD
14 155 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
15 145 (10.58%) Enterprise Architecture
16 142 (10.36%) Data Architecture
17 141 (10.28%) Integration Patterns
18 137 (9.99%) Analytics
19 136 (9.92%) AI
20 130 (9.48%) Python
21 129 (9.41%) GCP
22 124 (9.04%) Microservices
23 113 (8.24%) REST
24 111 (8.10%) Terraform
25 109 (7.95%) TOGAF
26 104 (7.59%) Data Governance
27 98 (7.15%) SQL
28 95 (6.93%) Security Architecture
29 89 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code

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 25 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.60%) Confluence
3 13 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (0.95%) CMS
4 10 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.44%) Apache
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) CICS
11 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 40 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.58%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.44%) Endur
7 6 (0.44%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
8 5 (0.36%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.29%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.22%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 463 (33.77%) Azure
2 344 (25.09%) AWS
3 129 (9.41%) GCP
4 81 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 62 (4.52%) SaaS
6 61 (4.45%) Serverless
7 53 (3.87%) Entra ID
8 46 (3.36%) IaaS
9 41 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (2.77%) GitHub
11 37 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (2.63%) Amazon S3
12 36 (2.63%) Snowflake
13 29 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 29 (2.12%) PaaS
14 28 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 28 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 76 (5.54%) Firewall
2 54 (3.94%) WAN
3 47 (3.43%) Network Security
4 44 (3.21%) LAN
5 40 (2.92%) VPN
6 34 (2.48%) SD-WAN
7 26 (1.90%) DNS
8 25 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
10 14 (1.02%) SSL
11 10 (0.73%) BGP
12 8 (0.58%) OSPF
13 7 (0.51%) DHCP
13 7 (0.51%) Internet
13 7 (0.51%) VSAN
14 6 (0.44%) NGFW
14 6 (0.44%) TCP/IP
15 5 (0.36%) MPLS
15 5 (0.36%) NAS
16 4 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.16%) Data Lake
2 50 (3.65%) Power BI
3 47 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (2.41%) Metadata
5 29 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (1.39%) Data Vault
8 19 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.24%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (0.95%) Tableau
12 12 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.80%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.80%) Spark SQL
14 9 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
14 9 (0.66%) Relational Database
15 8 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (1.97%) JIRA
2 24 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.24%) GitLab
4 9 (0.66%) Git
5 8 (0.58%) ERwin
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.15%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.15%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.15%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.15%) GCC
9 2 (0.15%) Postman
9 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.073%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.073%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.073%) MLflow
10 1 (0.073%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 365 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 312 (22.76%) Finance
3 165 (12.04%) Public Sector
4 115 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (7.44%) Banking
6 40 (2.92%) Retail
7 39 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.63%) Legal
9 33 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.26%) Marketing
11 29 (2.12%) Manufacturing
12 28 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.97%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.46%) Billing
15 15 (1.09%) Back Office
15 15 (1.09%) Law
16 12 (0.88%) Electronics
17 11 (0.80%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (8.24%) REST
2 60 (4.38%) SOAP
3 56 (4.08%) Middleware
4 50 (3.65%) JSON
5 44 (3.21%) LDAP
6 37 (2.70%) .NET
7 32 (2.33%) Kafka
8 27 (1.97%) OAuth
9 26 (1.90%) SAML
10 24 (1.75%) AngularJS
11 21 (1.53%) OpenID
12 19 (1.39%) PySpark
13 18 (1.31%) RESTful
14 13 (0.95%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.95%) React
15 12 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
15 12 (0.88%) Web Services
16 11 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (0.80%) Node.js
16 11 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
3 48 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (3.06%) Product Ownership
4 42 (3.06%) Security Posture
5 39 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 38 (2.77%) PKI
7 34 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 27 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.46%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.31%) Private Cloud
14 17 (1.24%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.24%) Mobile App
15 16 (1.17%) Reinsurance
16 15 (1.09%) Operational Technology
16 15 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.41%) Windows
2 20 (1.46%) Linux
3 11 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.36%) Unix
5 4 (0.29%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.15%) CentOS
7 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.073%) AIX
8 1 (0.073%) Solaris
8 1 (0.073%) VMS
8 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (14.37%) Roadmaps
2 188 (13.71%) Agile
3 175 (12.76%) DevOps
4 173 (12.62%) Data Modelling
5 170 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (12.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 159 (11.60%) Migration
7 159 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 156 (11.38%) CI/CD
9 155 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
10 145 (10.58%) Enterprise Architecture
11 142 (10.36%) Data Architecture
12 141 (10.28%) Integration Patterns
13 137 (9.99%) Analytics
14 136 (9.92%) AI
15 124 (9.04%) Microservices
16 109 (7.95%) TOGAF
17 104 (7.59%) Data Governance
18 95 (6.93%) Security Architecture
19 89 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 130 (9.48%) Python
2 98 (7.15%) SQL
3 81 (5.91%) PowerShell
4 55 (4.01%) Java
5 32 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.90%) C#
7 25 (1.82%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.39%) Bicep
9 13 (0.95%) Bash
10 8 (0.58%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.36%) Korn
13 5 (0.36%) Ruby
14 4 (0.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.22%) R
15 3 (0.22%) SOQL
16 2 (0.15%) Go
16 2 (0.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 343 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 285 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 69 (5.03%) Degree
4 48 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 47 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 41 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 39 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 22 (1.60%) CISSP
9 22 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.02%) CCNP
14 9 (0.66%) CCIE
15 7 (0.51%) CISM
16 5 (0.36%) CCSE
16 5 (0.36%) JNCIE
16 5 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.52%) GDPR
2 42 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.63%) QA
4 33 (2.41%) NIST
5 19 (1.39%) NCSC
6 17 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.66%) GRC
10 7 (0.51%) MiFID
10 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.36%) PERC
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 72 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 61 (4.45%) Docker
3 18 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.51%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.22%) Lustre
7 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) Ceph
8 2 (0.15%) Firmware
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.073%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.073%) GPFS
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.073%) Postfix
9 1 (0.073%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 111 (8.10%) Terraform
2 67 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.55%) Ansible
4 20 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.73%) Grafana
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.29%) Kibana
9 4 (0.29%) SCCM
10 3 (0.22%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Istio
11 2 (0.15%) Nagios
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.073%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.073%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 223 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.35%) SAP
3 80 (5.84%) Salesforce
3 80 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 76 (5.54%) Databricks
5 64 (4.67%) Oracle
6 51 (3.72%) CyberArk
7 48 (3.50%) Cisco
8 36 (2.63%) Google
9 31 (2.26%) BeyondTrust
9 31 (2.26%) Centrify
10 24 (1.75%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.53%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.53%) VMware
12 20 (1.46%) Splunk
13 18 (1.31%) OpenAI
14 16 (1.17%) Pega
15 14 (1.02%) IBM
16 13 (0.95%) Remedy
16 13 (0.95%) Zscaler