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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,165 1,288 1,770
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.06% 10.29% 10.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.99% 11.04% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 841 1,269
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £515 £560 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £660
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £740 £738 £763
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £622 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.85% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £58.70 £54.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £76.67 £83.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £99.65 £93.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -

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 16,664 11,670 16,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 93.28% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,988 11,809
10th Percentile £352 £344 £325
25th Percentile £430 £427 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 143 318
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.07
Median hourly rate £38.29 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.62% +23.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.59 £30.00 £36.92
% change year-on-year +51.95% -18.73% -17.54%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +15 329 £650 -2.99% 100
West London -2 33 £625 -7.41% 18
South London +2 21 £723 +3.21% 2
East London +1 17 £630 +0.80% 9
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 605 (27.94%) Azure
2 591 (27.30%) Security Cleared
3 516 (23.83%) AWS
4 503 (23.23%) SC Cleared
5 342 (15.80%) Migration
6 306 (14.13%) Microsoft
7 295 (13.63%) Roadmaps
8 280 (12.93%) AI
9 277 (12.79%) DevOps
10 253 (11.69%) CI/CD
11 232 (10.72%) Integration Patterns
11 232 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 218 (10.07%) Data Modelling
13 215 (9.93%) GCP
14 214 (9.88%) Analytics
15 207 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 204 (9.42%) Agile
17 202 (9.33%) Data Architecture
18 191 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
19 186 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
20 181 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
21 178 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
22 169 (7.81%) Python
23 168 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
24 155 (7.16%) TOGAF
25 151 (6.97%) Architectural Design
26 138 (6.37%) Microservices
27 135 (6.24%) ServiceNow
28 129 (5.96%) SQL
29 127 (5.87%) Security Architecture

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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.11%) Confluence
3 20 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.74%) Apache
5 12 (0.55%) nginx
6 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.42%) Camunda
8 8 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.23%) Mule
11 4 (0.18%) CMS
11 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.14%) Appian
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.092%) JBoss
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.046%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
5 7 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.18%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP Convergent Charging
9 3 (0.14%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.14%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 605 (27.94%) Azure
2 516 (23.83%) AWS
3 215 (9.93%) GCP
4 115 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.93%) SaaS
6 83 (3.83%) Serverless
7 80 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 69 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 55 (2.54%) GitHub
11 50 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (2.31%) PaaS
11 50 (2.31%) Snowflake
12 47 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (1.71%) IaaS
14 37 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
15 36 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.56%) Network Security
2 64 (2.96%) Firewall
3 45 (2.08%) WAN
4 40 (1.85%) DNS
4 40 (1.85%) VPN
5 26 (1.20%) LAN
6 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.69%) BGP
8 14 (0.65%) OSPF
8 14 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.51%) MPLS
10 10 (0.46%) VXLAN
10 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.42%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.37%) 5G
12 8 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.28%) VSAN
14 5 (0.23%) NAS
14 5 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.79%) Power BI
2 67 (3.09%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.03%) Metadata
5 33 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (1.48%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.11%) NoSQL
9 23 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 20 (0.92%) Delta Lake
11 19 (0.88%) Big Data
12 17 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (0.79%) Tableau
13 16 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
14 13 (0.60%) DB2
15 12 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.29%) Git
3 24 (1.11%) JIRA
4 22 (1.02%) GitLab
5 10 (0.46%) ERwin
5 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.37%) MLflow
7 6 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.18%) Snyk
9 4 (0.18%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.14%) Postman
11 2 (0.092%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.092%) MSI
11 2 (0.092%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.092%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.046%) Claude Code
General
1 414 (19.12%) Finance
2 400 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 227 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 139 (6.42%) Banking
5 97 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (3.60%) Retail
7 72 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (2.77%) Telecoms
10 54 (2.49%) Legal
11 53 (2.45%) Law
12 36 (1.66%) Billing
13 33 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.29%) Marketing
15 25 (1.15%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.55%) Military
18 10 (0.46%) Local Government
19 9 (0.42%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.40%) REST
2 87 (4.02%) Middleware
3 75 (3.46%) SOAP
4 67 (3.09%) LDAP
5 62 (2.86%) .NET
6 44 (2.03%) Kafka
7 40 (1.85%) OpenID
8 29 (1.34%) SAML
9 27 (1.25%) OAuth
10 25 (1.15%) React
11 22 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (0.88%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.74%) .NET Framework
14 15 (0.69%) RESTful
14 15 (0.69%) Spring
15 14 (0.65%) J2EE
15 14 (0.65%) Vue
15 14 (0.65%) Web Services
16 13 (0.60%) PySpark
16 13 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 208 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 55 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 54 (2.49%) Security Posture
9 44 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 34 (1.57%) AI Agents
11 34 (1.57%) CMDB
12 24 (1.11%) Mainframe
13 22 (1.02%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 19 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (0.88%) NHS
16 18 (0.83%) Public Cloud
17 17 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.39%) Linux
2 29 (1.34%) Windows
3 10 (0.46%) zOS
4 9 (0.42%) Unix
5 8 (0.37%) Android
5 8 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.14%) Solaris
7 2 (0.092%) AIX
7 2 (0.092%) CentOS
7 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.092%) VMS
7 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.092%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (15.80%) Migration
2 295 (13.63%) Roadmaps
3 280 (12.93%) AI
4 277 (12.79%) DevOps
5 253 (11.69%) CI/CD
6 232 (10.72%) Integration Patterns
6 232 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 218 (10.07%) Data Modelling
8 214 (9.88%) Analytics
9 207 (9.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 204 (9.42%) Agile
11 202 (9.33%) Data Architecture
12 191 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
13 186 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
14 181 (8.36%) Architectural Patterns
15 178 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
16 168 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 155 (7.16%) TOGAF
18 151 (6.97%) Architectural Design
19 138 (6.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 169 (7.81%) Python
2 129 (5.96%) SQL
3 99 (4.57%) Java
4 71 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.25%) C#
7 21 (0.97%) Bicep
8 15 (0.69%) Ruby
8 15 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.46%) Bash
10 10 (0.46%) Scala
11 6 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.23%) R
12 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.14%) C
14 3 (0.14%) C++
14 3 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 591 (27.30%) Security Cleared
2 503 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 75 (3.46%) Degree
4 66 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.40%) CISSP
6 51 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 32 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.25%) CISM
11 24 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.65%) CCNP
16 12 (0.55%) CCSP
17 11 (0.51%) CISA
18 10 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.23%) GDPR
2 67 (3.09%) NIST
3 59 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.12%) NCSC
5 38 (1.76%) QA
6 23 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 14 (0.65%) GRC
9 13 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.60%) SEPA
10 10 (0.46%) PSD2
11 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.37%) SLA
13 7 (0.32%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.32%) HL7
14 6 (0.28%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) IFRS
System Software
1 83 (3.83%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.86%) Docker
3 24 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.42%) Squid
5 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) Varnish
7 6 (0.28%) Postfix
8 5 (0.23%) NFS
8 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 2 (0.092%) Ceph
10 2 (0.092%) Firmware
10 2 (0.092%) Lustre
10 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.046%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 127 (5.87%) Terraform
2 119 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 33 (1.52%) Ansible
4 24 (1.11%) Grafana
5 22 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.32%) Consul
8 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.18%) Argo
9 4 (0.18%) Istio
9 4 (0.18%) 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 (0.092%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.092%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.092%) QRadar
11 2 (0.092%) SCCM
Vendors
1 306 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.24%) ServiceNow
3 121 (5.59%) Databricks
4 116 (5.36%) SAP
5 102 (4.71%) Oracle
6 100 (4.62%) Salesforce
7 74 (3.42%) CyberArk
8 44 (2.03%) Cisco
9 40 (1.85%) Google
10 35 (1.62%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.57%) Centrify
11 34 (1.57%) Splunk
12 32 (1.48%) Workday
13 28 (1.29%) VMware
14 26 (1.20%) IBM
14 26 (1.20%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.15%) MuleSoft
16 22 (1.02%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.97%) Zscaler
18 20 (0.92%) Ariba