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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,794 1,317 1,758
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.78% 10.34% 9.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.65% 11.03% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 833 1,269
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.46%
75th Percentile £750 £758 £750
90th Percentile £838 £825 £833
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £38.50 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.75 £43.75 £46.65
Median hourly rate £73.34 £60.00 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +13.15% +51.51%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 £59.15
90th Percentile £97.25 - £61.16
England median hourly rate £72.50 £71.25 £81.27
% change year-on-year +1.75% -12.32% +16.09%

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 15,398 11,935 16,887
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.66% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,315 8,083 12,185
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 145 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.89 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +25.93% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £73.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -2 242 £650 -2.99% 127
West London -2 25 £633 +26.50% 20
South London +5 24 £600 -18.37% 3
East London -6 9 £545 -12.80% 15
North London 0 2 £663 -4.57%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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.

1 541 (30.16%) Azure
2 522 (29.10%) Security Cleared
3 454 (25.31%) AWS
4 442 (24.64%) SC Cleared
5 269 (14.99%) Roadmaps
6 260 (14.49%) Microsoft
7 255 (14.21%) Migration
8 247 (13.77%) DevOps
9 216 (12.04%) AI
10 215 (11.98%) CI/CD
11 208 (11.59%) Agile
12 205 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 195 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 191 (10.65%) Data Modelling
14 191 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
15 186 (10.37%) GCP
15 186 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
16 180 (10.03%) Technical Leadership
17 179 (9.98%) Analytics
18 178 (9.92%) Data Architecture
19 170 (9.48%) Enterprise Architecture
20 169 (9.42%) Python
21 154 (8.58%) TOGAF
22 138 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
23 133 (7.41%) SQL
24 131 (7.30%) Terraform
25 130 (7.25%) REST
26 127 (7.08%) Architectural Design
27 126 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
28 122 (6.80%) Microservices

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 38 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.28%) Confluence
3 17 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.61%) CMS
5 11 (0.61%) nginx
6 7 (0.39%) Apache
7 6 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.33%) Camunda
8 5 (0.28%) Mule
9 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.056%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.056%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 45 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.39%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.33%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.17%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 541 (30.16%) Azure
2 454 (25.31%) AWS
3 186 (10.37%) GCP
4 99 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 78 (4.35%) Serverless
6 73 (4.07%) SaaS
7 63 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 55 (3.07%) IaaS
9 50 (2.79%) Amazon S3
9 50 (2.79%) GitHub
10 49 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 41 (2.29%) PaaS
13 41 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 39 (2.17%) Snowflake
15 34 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 32 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.24%) Network Security
2 72 (4.01%) Firewall
3 53 (2.95%) WAN
4 43 (2.40%) VPN
5 42 (2.34%) DNS
6 30 (1.67%) SD-WAN
7 28 (1.56%) LAN
8 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.95%) BGP
10 15 (0.84%) OSPF
11 12 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.61%) VXLAN
13 9 (0.50%) MPLS
13 9 (0.50%) OpenVPN
14 8 (0.45%) 5G
14 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (0.39%) VSAN
16 6 (0.33%) Internet
17 5 (0.28%) 3GPP
17 5 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.79%) Power BI
2 58 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 55 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (2.68%) Metadata
5 35 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.95%) Big Data
11 16 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (0.89%) Tableau
12 15 (0.84%) Data Vault
12 15 (0.84%) Delta Lake
13 14 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (0.78%) DB2
14 12 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
16 10 (0.56%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 42 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.62%) JIRA
3 25 (1.39%) Git
4 23 (1.28%) GitLab
5 11 (0.61%) ERwin
6 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.28%) MLflow
7 5 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.22%) Snyk
8 4 (0.22%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.17%) Maven
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.11%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.056%) ER Studio
General
1 421 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 375 (20.90%) Finance
3 217 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 125 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (6.58%) Banking
6 73 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (2.56%) Retail
9 41 (2.29%) Legal
10 40 (2.23%) Law
10 40 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.62%) Marketing
13 25 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 25 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.34%) Billing
15 17 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.72%) Military
17 11 (0.61%) Local Government
18 10 (0.56%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.25%) REST
2 93 (5.18%) Middleware
3 66 (3.68%) SOAP
4 64 (3.57%) LDAP
5 45 (2.51%) OpenID
6 43 (2.40%) .NET
7 40 (2.23%) JSON
8 36 (2.01%) Kafka
9 33 (1.84%) SAML
10 30 (1.67%) OAuth
11 27 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 22 (1.23%) React
13 15 (0.84%) Spring
13 15 (0.84%) Vue
14 14 (0.78%) OAuth2
15 13 (0.72%) PySpark
16 12 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
16 12 (0.67%) XML
17 11 (0.61%) gRPC
17 11 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 169 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 68 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 67 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.79%) Security Posture
6 47 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 43 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 40 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 40 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 38 (2.12%) PKI
9 38 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.23%) CMDB
14 21 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.06%) AI Agents
15 19 (1.06%) Replication
16 16 (0.89%) Private Cloud
17 15 (0.84%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.78%) Windows
2 24 (1.34%) Linux
3 10 (0.56%) zOS
4 6 (0.33%) Android
4 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.17%) Unix
6 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.056%) CentOS
8 1 (0.056%) Solaris
8 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.056%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (14.99%) Roadmaps
2 255 (14.21%) Migration
3 247 (13.77%) DevOps
4 216 (12.04%) AI
5 215 (11.98%) CI/CD
6 208 (11.59%) Agile
7 205 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 195 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 191 (10.65%) Data Modelling
9 191 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
10 186 (10.37%) Integration Patterns
11 180 (10.03%) Technical Leadership
12 179 (9.98%) Analytics
13 178 (9.92%) Data Architecture
14 170 (9.48%) Enterprise Architecture
15 154 (8.58%) TOGAF
16 138 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
17 127 (7.08%) Architectural Design
18 126 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
19 122 (6.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 169 (9.42%) Python
2 133 (7.41%) SQL
3 90 (5.02%) PowerShell
4 76 (4.24%) Java
5 27 (1.51%) C#
6 24 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.89%) Bicep
9 13 (0.72%) Bash
10 12 (0.67%) Ruby
11 10 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.39%) Scala
13 7 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.22%) C++
14 4 (0.22%) Go
14 4 (0.22%) Korn
14 4 (0.22%) R
14 4 (0.22%) SOQL
15 3 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 522 (29.10%) Security Cleared
2 442 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 75 (4.18%) Degree
4 68 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 47 (2.62%) AWS Certification
6 45 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (2.23%) CISSP
8 39 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 37 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.23%) CISM
11 22 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.89%) CCNP
16 15 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.72%) CCIE
18 12 (0.67%) CCSP
19 5 (0.28%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.18%) GDPR
2 56 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.51%) NIST
5 42 (2.34%) NCSC
6 36 (2.01%) QA
7 27 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.78%) ISO 20022
9 12 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.56%) GRC
10 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.45%) PSD2
12 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.33%) SLA
14 5 (0.28%) HL7
14 5 (0.28%) PERC
15 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 72 (4.01%) Docker
3 28 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.50%) Squid
5 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.33%) vSphere
7 5 (0.28%) Varnish
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Ceph
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Lustre
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.056%) HDFS
10 1 (0.056%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 131 (7.30%) Terraform
2 119 (6.63%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.23%) Ansible
4 25 (1.39%) Grafana
5 22 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 17 (0.95%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.39%) Consul
10 4 (0.22%) Istio
10 4 (0.22%) Kibana
11 3 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.17%) VxRail
12 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 260 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.57%) SAP
3 94 (5.24%) Salesforce
4 93 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 88 (4.91%) Databricks
6 76 (4.24%) Oracle
7 60 (3.34%) CyberArk
8 43 (2.40%) Cisco
9 39 (2.17%) Google
10 35 (1.95%) VMware
11 34 (1.90%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.90%) Centrify
12 33 (1.84%) Splunk
13 29 (1.62%) IBM
14 25 (1.39%) Palo Alto
14 25 (1.39%) Workday
15 23 (1.28%) MuleSoft
15 23 (1.28%) OpenAI
16 19 (1.06%) Zscaler
17 16 (0.89%) Ariba