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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,632 1,263 1,538
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.94% 9.38% 9.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.88% 10.11% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,766 818 955
10th Percentile £491 £462 £488
25th Percentile £538 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -1.15% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £734 £750
90th Percentile £808 £800 £838
England median daily rate £620 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -0.80% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £52.20 - £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 - £68.72
Median hourly rate £77.50 £100.00 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +15.70% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £103.15
90th Percentile - - £112.57
England median hourly rate £68.17 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.98% +3.57% -3.34%

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 18,962 12,491 15,139
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.75% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,257 8,339 9,944
10th Percentile £360 £330 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 201 175
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.35
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.22% -19.64% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -0.46%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +12 341 £625 -3.85% 299
West London -20 28 £650 +44.44% 54
South London -8 15 £650 -8.26% 21
East London +2 10 £665 -1.48% 8
North London -1 2 £650 -14.75% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 761 (28.91%) Azure
2 698 (26.52%) Security Cleared
3 577 (21.92%) SC Cleared
4 568 (21.58%) AWS
5 506 (19.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 479 (18.20%) Roadmaps
7 440 (16.72%) AI
8 425 (16.15%) Migration
9 372 (14.13%) Enterprise Architecture
10 338 (12.84%) Microsoft
11 327 (12.42%) DevOps
12 311 (11.82%) Data Modelling
13 303 (11.51%) Analytics
14 302 (11.47%) Technical Leadership
15 301 (11.44%) CI/CD
16 290 (11.02%) Data Architecture
17 259 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 257 (9.76%) Agile
19 256 (9.73%) Integration Patterns
20 218 (8.28%) GCP
21 206 (7.83%) Security Architecture
22 201 (7.64%) TOGAF
23 193 (7.33%) Architectural Patterns
24 191 (7.26%) Decision-Making
25 190 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
26 188 (7.14%) Data Governance
27 187 (7.10%) Event-Driven
28 169 (6.42%) Architecture Governance
29 165 (6.27%) Databricks
30 161 (6.12%) Machine Learning

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 (1.48%) SAS
2 33 (1.25%) Apache
3 29 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 23 (0.87%) Confluence
6 17 (0.65%) CMS
7 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.23%) Appian
9 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Camunda
12 3 (0.11%) JBoss
12 3 (0.11%) nginx
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.076%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.076%) IIS
13 2 (0.076%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.076%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.076%) Gliffy
3 2 (0.076%) Revit
4 1 (0.038%) Notion
4 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 76 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.30%) SAP BRIM
7 7 (0.27%) SAP MM
8 6 (0.23%) SAP HCM
9 5 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.15%) Endur
10 4 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 761 (28.91%) Azure
2 568 (21.58%) AWS
3 218 (8.28%) GCP
4 151 (5.74%) Power Platform
5 117 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 100 (3.80%) SaaS
7 99 (3.76%) Serverless
8 78 (2.96%) GitHub
9 77 (2.93%) Snowflake
10 72 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
12 49 (1.86%) PaaS
13 46 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (1.56%) Amazon S3
16 39 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
16 39 (1.48%) dbt
17 37 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
17 37 (1.41%) Power Automate
18 36 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.58%) Network Security
2 47 (1.79%) Firewall
3 32 (1.22%) WAN
4 26 (0.99%) VPN
5 21 (0.80%) LAN
6 15 (0.57%) DNS
7 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
8 9 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.27%) BGP
10 7 (0.27%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
10 7 (0.27%) Wireless
11 6 (0.23%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.23%) MPLS
11 6 (0.23%) SMS
11 6 (0.23%) SSL
11 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (4.07%) Metadata
2 90 (3.42%) Data Lake
3 88 (3.34%) Power BI
4 79 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 25 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (0.95%) Delta Lake
6 25 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.80%) Big Data
8 20 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 19 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 18 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (0.65%) Data Vault
12 16 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
13 14 (0.53%) Star Schema
14 13 (0.49%) MongoDB
14 13 (0.49%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.46%) Neo4j
15 12 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (1.37%) JIRA
2 34 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.14%) Git
4 21 (0.80%) GitLab
5 9 (0.34%) RStudio
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.27%) ERwin
8 6 (0.23%) Storybook
9 4 (0.15%) Maven
9 4 (0.15%) MLflow
9 4 (0.15%) Postman
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.11%) VTune
11 2 (0.076%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.076%) Selenium
General
1 529 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 449 (17.06%) Finance
3 306 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 168 (6.38%) Banking
5 145 (5.51%) Retail
6 121 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 83 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (3.00%) Telecoms
9 46 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 44 (1.67%) Legal
10 44 (1.67%) Marketing
11 41 (1.56%) Billing
12 30 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.65%) Automotive
14 17 (0.65%) Military
15 14 (0.53%) Police
16 13 (0.49%) Law
16 13 (0.49%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (5.81%) REST
2 129 (4.90%) Terraform
3 89 (3.38%) Kafka
4 82 (3.12%) .NET
5 69 (2.62%) SOAP
6 61 (2.32%) Middleware
7 50 (1.90%) OAuth
8 36 (1.37%) .NET Framework
9 35 (1.33%) PySpark
10 32 (1.22%) JSON
11 31 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (1.03%) OAuth2
13 26 (0.99%) OpenID
14 25 (0.95%) XML
15 23 (0.87%) SAML
16 20 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
17 19 (0.72%) JWT
17 19 (0.72%) React
17 19 (0.72%) RESTful
17 19 (0.72%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 250 (9.50%) Cloud Native
2 87 (3.31%) Onboarding
3 76 (2.89%) AI Agents
4 72 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 64 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 62 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 60 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 52 (1.98%) CMDB
11 51 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
13 37 (1.41%) Data Structures
14 35 (1.33%) Taxonomies
15 32 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 31 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
16 31 (1.18%) Security Posture
17 23 (0.87%) Mainframe
18 22 (0.84%) IoT
18 22 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (1.37%) Linux
2 31 (1.18%) Windows
3 13 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.42%) Unix
5 6 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.19%) Android
7 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.15%) VMS
8 3 (0.11%) AIX
8 3 (0.11%) Solaris
9 2 (0.076%) CentOS
9 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.076%) OpenWrt
9 2 (0.076%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (19.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 479 (18.20%) Roadmaps
3 440 (16.72%) AI
4 425 (16.15%) Migration
5 372 (14.13%) Enterprise Architecture
6 327 (12.42%) DevOps
7 311 (11.82%) Data Modelling
8 303 (11.51%) Analytics
9 302 (11.47%) Technical Leadership
10 301 (11.44%) CI/CD
11 290 (11.02%) Data Architecture
12 259 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 257 (9.76%) Agile
14 256 (9.73%) Integration Patterns
15 206 (7.83%) Security Architecture
16 201 (7.64%) TOGAF
17 193 (7.33%) Architectural Patterns
18 191 (7.26%) Decision-Making
19 190 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
20 188 (7.14%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 131 (4.98%) SQL
2 126 (4.79%) Python
3 99 (3.76%) Java
4 59 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 43 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 39 (1.48%) C#
7 30 (1.14%) TypeScript
8 27 (1.03%) Bicep
9 20 (0.76%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.65%) Bash
11 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.34%) ABAP
13 8 (0.30%) C++
14 7 (0.27%) R
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Ruby
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
15 6 (0.23%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.19%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 698 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 577 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 75 (2.85%) Degree
4 71 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 63 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 61 (2.32%) CISSP
7 56 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 52 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 41 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 36 (1.37%) CISM
11 27 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.49%) CISA
15 13 (0.49%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.46%) CCSP
17 11 (0.42%) CCNP
18 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 82 (3.12%) GDPR
2 82 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (3.08%) NIST
4 51 (1.94%) GRC
5 42 (1.60%) NCSC
6 24 (0.91%) QA
7 18 (0.68%) SEPA
8 17 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.53%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 12 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 11 (0.42%) SLA
13 10 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.30%) PMO
14 8 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 71 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 44 (1.67%) Docker
3 19 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.15%) Postfix
6 4 (0.15%) Varnish
6 4 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.11%) NFS
7 3 (0.11%) Sendmail
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.076%) IAG
8 2 (0.076%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.038%) Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 109 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 46 (1.75%) Ansible
3 26 (0.99%) Grafana
4 18 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.34%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.23%) Puppet
9 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.15%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.15%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 2 (0.076%) CASB
10 2 (0.076%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.076%) Istio
10 2 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.076%) QRadar
11 1 (0.038%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.038%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 338 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 165 (6.27%) Databricks
3 157 (5.97%) SAP
4 146 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 145 (5.51%) Oracle
6 118 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 78 (2.96%) Google
8 51 (1.94%) Cisco
9 39 (1.48%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.25%) MuleSoft
11 30 (1.14%) Workday
12 28 (1.06%) Foundry
12 28 (1.06%) OpenAI
13 27 (1.03%) IBM
13 27 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.95%) VMware
15 22 (0.84%) Splunk
16 21 (0.80%) Sparx
17 20 (0.76%) Adobe
18 18 (0.68%) Okta