Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £633, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 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 1,595 1,388 1,733
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.23% 10.25% 9.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.04% 10.95% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 830 1,249
10th Percentile £469 £487 £500
25th Percentile £529 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £650 £660
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -1.52% -2.22%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £745
90th Percentile £837 £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 £72.50 £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 14,448 12,681 16,978
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 93.64% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,636 8,215 12,242
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £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 £778
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 142 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +28.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £59.79 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £66.60
England median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +1 226 £650 -1.52% 75
South London +9 24 £600 -26.83% 8
West London -14 17 £669 +33.70% 17
East London -6 8 £543 -13.20% 13
North London +4 2 £663 -7.15% 4
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 510 (31.97%) Azure
2 446 (27.96%) Security Cleared
3 402 (25.20%) AWS
4 381 (23.89%) SC Cleared
5 233 (14.61%) Microsoft
6 225 (14.11%) DevOps
7 221 (13.86%) Roadmaps
8 197 (12.35%) Migration
9 195 (12.23%) CI/CD
10 194 (12.16%) Agile
11 192 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 189 (11.85%) AI
13 177 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
14 171 (10.72%) Data Modelling
14 171 (10.72%) GCP
15 163 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 162 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
17 161 (10.09%) Analytics
18 157 (9.84%) Integration Patterns
19 156 (9.78%) Data Architecture
20 151 (9.47%) Enterprise Architecture
20 151 (9.47%) Python
21 134 (8.40%) TOGAF
22 125 (7.84%) Terraform
23 120 (7.52%) Microservices
24 118 (7.40%) REST
25 114 (7.15%) SQL
26 113 (7.08%) Architectural Patterns
27 108 (6.77%) Kubernetes
28 107 (6.71%) 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 29 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.38%) Confluence
3 14 (0.88%) 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 (0.38%) Apache
7 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.31%) Mule
8 4 (0.25%) Camunda
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.063%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 40 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.82%) 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%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.25%) Endur
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%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.19%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 510 (31.97%) Azure
2 402 (25.20%) AWS
3 171 (10.72%) GCP
4 75 (4.70%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.58%) Serverless
6 66 (4.14%) SaaS
7 53 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 51 (3.20%) IaaS
9 49 (3.07%) Amazon S3
9 49 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (2.82%) GitHub
12 38 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 36 (2.26%) PaaS
13 36 (2.26%) Snowflake
14 35 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
16 30 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.83%) Firewall
2 63 (3.95%) Network Security
3 50 (3.13%) WAN
4 44 (2.76%) VPN
5 38 (2.38%) DNS
6 31 (1.94%) LAN
7 27 (1.69%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.88%) BGP
10 13 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.75%) OSPF
12 8 (0.50%) SSL
13 7 (0.44%) 5G
13 7 (0.44%) OpenVPN
14 6 (0.38%) 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 53 (3.32%) Data Lake
2 51 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (2.76%) Metadata
4 43 (2.70%) Power BI
5 32 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
6 27 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.44%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (1.07%) 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%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.63%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 43 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.88%) JIRA
3 22 (1.38%) GitLab
4 13 (0.82%) Git
5 10 (0.63%) 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
9 2 (0.13%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.13%) Maven
9 2 (0.13%) Postman
9 2 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.063%) Ant
10 1 (0.063%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.063%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.063%) JUnit
10 1 (0.063%) Katalon Studio
General
1 402 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 340 (21.32%) Finance
3 181 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 117 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (6.96%) Banking
6 61 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (2.51%) Retail
9 39 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.38%) Legal
11 32 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.76%) Marketing
14 23 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (1.32%) Billing
16 19 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 19 (1.19%) Law
17 13 (0.82%) Military
18 10 (0.63%) Back Office
18 10 (0.63%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (7.40%) REST
2 79 (4.95%) Middleware
3 63 (3.95%) SOAP
4 61 (3.82%) LDAP
5 45 (2.82%) .NET
6 44 (2.76%) OpenID
7 41 (2.57%) JSON
8 34 (2.13%) Kafka
8 34 (2.13%) SAML
9 29 (1.82%) OAuth
10 23 (1.44%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.13%) React
12 17 (1.07%) PySpark
13 14 (0.88%) RESTful
14 13 (0.82%) OAuth2
15 12 (0.75%) Spring
16 11 (0.69%) .NET Framework
16 11 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (0.69%) Spring Boot
16 11 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 58 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 45 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 39 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.38%) PKI
7 37 (2.32%) Data Centre
8 35 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 34 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 28 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.57%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.25%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.94%) CMDB
15 15 (0.94%) FMCG
15 15 (0.94%) Operational Technology
15 15 (0.94%) Private Cloud
15 15 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.01%) Windows
2 19 (1.19%) 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 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
9 1 (0.063%) VMS
9 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (14.11%) DevOps
2 221 (13.86%) Roadmaps
3 197 (12.35%) Migration
4 195 (12.23%) CI/CD
5 194 (12.16%) Agile
6 192 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (11.85%) AI
8 177 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (10.72%) Data Modelling
10 163 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 162 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
12 161 (10.09%) Analytics
13 157 (9.84%) Integration Patterns
14 156 (9.78%) Data Architecture
15 151 (9.47%) Enterprise Architecture
16 134 (8.40%) TOGAF
17 120 (7.52%) Microservices
18 113 (7.08%) Architectural Patterns
19 107 (6.71%) Infrastructure as Code
20 99 (6.21%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 151 (9.47%) Python
2 114 (7.15%) SQL
3 83 (5.20%) PowerShell
4 61 (3.82%) Java
5 29 (1.82%) C#
6 28 (1.76%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.19%) Bicep
9 14 (0.88%) Bash
10 10 (0.63%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.38%) Ruby
14 5 (0.31%) Korn
14 5 (0.31%) R
14 5 (0.31%) Scala
15 3 (0.19%) Go
15 3 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.19%) SOQL
16 2 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 446 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 381 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 72 (4.51%) Degree
4 57 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 48 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
9 30 (1.88%) CISSP
10 24 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.88%) CCNP
15 11 (0.69%) CISM
16 10 (0.63%) CCIE
17 8 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.44%) CCSP
19 5 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.14%) GDPR
2 48 (3.01%) Data Quality
2 48 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (2.70%) NIST
4 36 (2.26%) NCSC
5 34 (2.13%) QA
6 21 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.63%) GRC
10 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.44%) PSD2
12 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.38%) SEPA
13 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.31%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.31%) PERC
13 5 (0.31%) SLA
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 78 (4.89%) Docker
2 71 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.44%) Squid
7 6 (0.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.13%) Ceph
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Lustre
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Varnish
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.063%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.063%) HDFS
10 1 (0.063%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 125 (7.84%) Terraform
2 108 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.26%) Ansible
4 21 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.13%) Grafana
6 16 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 233 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.64%) SAP
3 87 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 84 (5.27%) ServiceNow
5 83 (5.20%) Databricks
6 65 (4.08%) Oracle
7 64 (4.01%) CyberArk
8 42 (2.63%) Google
9 37 (2.32%) Cisco
10 34 (2.13%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (2.13%) Centrify
11 32 (2.01%) Splunk
12 27 (1.69%) VMware
13 25 (1.57%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.38%) IBM
14 22 (1.38%) MuleSoft
15 21 (1.32%) OpenAI
16 18 (1.13%) Workday
17 16 (1.00%) Zscaler
18 12 (0.75%) Sparx