Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £636, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,603 1,383 1,757
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.23% 10.24% 9.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.05% 10.94% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 833 1,269
10th Percentile £474 £488 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £745
90th Percentile £838 £813 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £64.60 £36.75 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.25 £39.38 £46.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -10.42% +51.51%
75th Percentile £89.48 £59.38 £59.15
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.25 £61.16
England median hourly rate £70.00 £71.25 £78.37
% change year-on-year -1.75% -9.09% +11.96%

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 14,510 12,646 17,206
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.61% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,685 8,217 12,412
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 144 338
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.83 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £29.36
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +25.17% -16.11%
75th Percentile £59.86 £53.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -12.50%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -2 222 £650 -2.99% 70
South London +10 24 £600 -26.83% 8
West London -12 19 £669 +33.70% 15
East London -1 7 £540 -13.60% 13
North London +2 2 £663 -4.57% 4
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 509 (31.75%) Azure
2 448 (27.95%) Security Cleared
3 408 (25.45%) AWS
4 381 (23.77%) SC Cleared
5 236 (14.72%) Microsoft
6 225 (14.04%) DevOps
6 225 (14.04%) Roadmaps
7 199 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 196 (12.23%) Migration
9 195 (12.16%) CI/CD
10 194 (12.10%) Agile
11 188 (11.73%) AI
12 176 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
13 173 (10.79%) GCP
14 168 (10.48%) Data Modelling
15 163 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 162 (10.11%) Analytics
16 162 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
17 156 (9.73%) Data Architecture
18 155 (9.67%) Integration Patterns
19 151 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
20 150 (9.36%) Python
21 135 (8.42%) TOGAF
22 125 (7.80%) Terraform
23 118 (7.36%) REST
24 115 (7.17%) Microservices
25 113 (7.05%) Architectural Patterns
26 112 (6.99%) SQL
27 110 (6.86%) Kubernetes
28 106 (6.61%) 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 28 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.43%) Confluence
3 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.56%) CMS
5 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.56%) nginx
6 6 (0.37%) Apache
7 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.31%) Mule
8 4 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.12%) Appian
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.062%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 41 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.44%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.31%) Endur
6 5 (0.31%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.19%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 509 (31.75%) Azure
2 408 (25.45%) AWS
3 173 (10.79%) GCP
4 74 (4.62%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.49%) Serverless
6 69 (4.30%) SaaS
7 55 (3.43%) Entra ID
8 51 (3.18%) IaaS
9 49 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 48 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (2.81%) GitHub
13 38 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
14 37 (2.31%) Snowflake
15 36 (2.25%) PaaS
16 34 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 30 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
19 29 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
19 29 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.80%) Firewall
2 62 (3.87%) Network Security
3 48 (2.99%) WAN
4 42 (2.62%) VPN
5 36 (2.25%) DNS
6 29 (1.81%) LAN
7 27 (1.68%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.87%) BGP
10 13 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.75%) OSPF
12 8 (0.50%) SSL
13 7 (0.44%) 5G
13 7 (0.44%) OpenVPN
14 6 (0.37%) Internet
15 5 (0.31%) DHCP
15 5 (0.31%) MPLS
15 5 (0.31%) NGFW
15 5 (0.31%) VSAN
16 4 (0.25%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.18%) Data Lake
2 50 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (2.74%) Metadata
4 42 (2.62%) Power BI
5 32 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.06%) Tableau
10 15 (0.94%) Data Vault
11 12 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (0.75%) DB2
11 12 (0.75%) Delta Lake
12 11 (0.69%) Big Data
12 11 (0.69%) BigQuery
12 11 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.62%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 43 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 31 (1.93%) JIRA
3 22 (1.37%) GitLab
4 13 (0.81%) Git
5 10 (0.62%) ERwin
6 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.25%) MLflow
7 4 (0.25%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.12%) Maven
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.12%) Snyk
10 1 (0.062%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.062%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.062%) Katalon Studio
General
1 398 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 341 (21.27%) Finance
3 181 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 115 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (6.80%) Banking
6 61 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (2.50%) Retail
9 39 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.37%) Legal
11 32 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.75%) Marketing
14 22 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (1.31%) Billing
16 19 (1.19%) Law
17 13 (0.81%) Military
18 10 (0.62%) Electronics
19 9 (0.56%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (7.36%) REST
2 83 (5.18%) Middleware
3 64 (3.99%) SOAP
4 61 (3.81%) LDAP
5 44 (2.74%) OpenID
6 43 (2.68%) .NET
7 41 (2.56%) JSON
8 34 (2.12%) Kafka
8 34 (2.12%) SAML
9 29 (1.81%) OAuth
10 23 (1.43%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.12%) React
12 17 (1.06%) PySpark
13 14 (0.87%) RESTful
14 13 (0.81%) OAuth2
15 11 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
15 11 (0.69%) Spring
15 11 (0.69%) XML
16 10 (0.62%) .NET Framework
16 10 (0.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
3 58 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 45 (2.81%) Security Posture
5 38 (2.37%) PKI
5 38 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 26 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 24 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.00%) CMDB
15 15 (0.94%) FMCG
15 15 (0.94%) Operational Technology
15 15 (0.94%) Private Cloud
16 14 (0.87%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.00%) Windows
2 20 (1.25%) Linux
3 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.44%) zOS
5 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.31%) Unix
6 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) Android
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.19%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.062%) Solaris
9 1 (0.062%) VMS
9 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (14.04%) DevOps
1 225 (14.04%) Roadmaps
2 199 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 196 (12.23%) Migration
4 195 (12.16%) CI/CD
5 194 (12.10%) Agile
6 188 (11.73%) AI
7 176 (10.98%) Problem-Solving
8 168 (10.48%) Data Modelling
9 163 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 162 (10.11%) Analytics
10 162 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
11 156 (9.73%) Data Architecture
12 155 (9.67%) Integration Patterns
13 151 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
14 135 (8.42%) TOGAF
15 115 (7.17%) Microservices
16 113 (7.05%) Architectural Patterns
17 106 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
18 101 (6.30%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.36%) Python
2 112 (6.99%) SQL
3 82 (5.12%) PowerShell
4 60 (3.74%) Java
5 29 (1.81%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.75%) C#
7 25 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.19%) Bicep
9 14 (0.87%) Bash
10 10 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.37%) Ruby
13 5 (0.31%) Korn
13 5 (0.31%) R
13 5 (0.31%) Scala
14 3 (0.19%) Go
14 3 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.19%) SOQL
15 2 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 448 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 381 (23.77%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.43%) Degree
4 56 (3.49%) Azure Certification
5 48 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
9 32 (2.00%) CISSP
10 26 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.87%) CCNP
15 13 (0.81%) CISM
16 10 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.62%) CCIE
17 9 (0.56%) CCSP
18 5 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.12%) GDPR
2 48 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.68%) NIST
5 36 (2.25%) NCSC
6 34 (2.12%) QA
7 21 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.75%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.62%) GRC
11 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.44%) PSD2
13 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.37%) SEPA
14 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.31%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.31%) HL7
14 5 (0.31%) PERC
14 5 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (4.87%) Docker
2 71 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.44%) Squid
7 6 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Lustre
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Varnish
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.062%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.062%) HDFS
10 1 (0.062%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 125 (7.80%) Terraform
2 110 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.25%) Ansible
4 21 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.12%) Grafana
6 16 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.37%) Consul
10 4 (0.25%) Kibana
11 3 (0.19%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) Istio
11 3 (0.19%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.19%) SCCM
11 3 (0.19%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) Nagios
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 236 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.61%) Salesforce
2 90 (5.61%) SAP
3 85 (5.30%) ServiceNow
4 83 (5.18%) Databricks
5 66 (4.12%) Oracle
6 64 (3.99%) CyberArk
7 42 (2.62%) Google
8 37 (2.31%) Cisco
9 35 (2.18%) Splunk
10 34 (2.12%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (2.12%) Centrify
11 27 (1.68%) VMware
12 25 (1.56%) Palo Alto
13 22 (1.37%) IBM
13 22 (1.37%) MuleSoft
14 21 (1.31%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.12%) Workday
16 16 (1.00%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.75%) Sparx