Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,611 1,360 1,740
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.28% 10.25% 9.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.11% 10.95% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 824 1,255
10th Percentile £475 £485 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £748
90th Percentile £838 £813 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
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 £71.25 £71.25 £78.74
% change year-on-year - -9.51% +12.49%

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 14,505 12,417 17,065
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 93.59% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,704 8,097 12,321
10th Percentile £350 £335 £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 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 142 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.21 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.14 £25.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +30.70% -17.99%
75th Percentile £60.19 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £65.30
England median hourly rate £33.34 £36.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.04% +3.57% -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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +1 225 £650 -1.52% 67
South London +6 24 £600 -26.83% 7
West London -10 20 £662 +32.40% 11
East London -2 7 £540 -13.60% 11
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 24 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.

1 507 (31.47%) Azure
2 455 (28.24%) Security Cleared
3 410 (25.45%) AWS
4 388 (24.08%) SC Cleared
5 238 (14.77%) Microsoft
6 230 (14.28%) Roadmaps
7 224 (13.90%) DevOps
8 202 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 200 (12.41%) Migration
10 196 (12.17%) CI/CD
11 195 (12.10%) Agile
12 190 (11.79%) AI
13 174 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
14 172 (10.68%) GCP
15 171 (10.61%) Data Modelling
16 163 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 163 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
17 162 (10.06%) Analytics
18 158 (9.81%) Integration Patterns
19 155 (9.62%) Data Architecture
20 152 (9.44%) Enterprise Architecture
21 148 (9.19%) Python
22 138 (8.57%) TOGAF
23 128 (7.95%) Terraform
24 120 (7.45%) REST
25 115 (7.14%) Microservices
26 114 (7.08%) Architectural Patterns
26 114 (7.08%) SQL
27 110 (6.83%) Kubernetes
28 106 (6.58%) 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 31 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.43%) Confluence
3 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.68%) 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%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.12%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) 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 43 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.43%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.31%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) Endur
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 Financials
Cloud Services
1 507 (31.47%) Azure
2 410 (25.45%) AWS
3 172 (10.68%) GCP
4 73 (4.53%) Power Platform
5 72 (4.47%) Serverless
6 67 (4.16%) SaaS
7 56 (3.48%) Entra ID
8 50 (3.10%) IaaS
9 49 (3.04%) Amazon S3
10 47 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (2.79%) GitHub
13 38 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (2.23%) PaaS
14 36 (2.23%) Snowflake
15 34 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 78 (4.84%) Firewall
2 64 (3.97%) Network Security
3 48 (2.98%) WAN
4 42 (2.61%) VPN
5 39 (2.42%) DNS
6 29 (1.80%) LAN
7 27 (1.68%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.87%) BGP
10 13 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (0.74%) OSPF
12 8 (0.50%) SSL
13 7 (0.43%) 5G
13 7 (0.43%) 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%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.17%) Data Lake
1 51 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (2.73%) Metadata
3 42 (2.61%) Power BI
4 31 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 19 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (1.06%) Tableau
9 16 (0.99%) Data Vault
10 12 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (0.74%) DB2
10 12 (0.74%) Delta Lake
11 11 (0.68%) Big Data
11 11 (0.68%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.68%) Oracle Database
12 10 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (2.67%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.86%) JIRA
3 22 (1.37%) GitLab
4 13 (0.81%) Git
5 10 (0.62%) ERwin
6 7 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.43%) 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
8 3 (0.19%) Snyk
9 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.12%) Maven
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.062%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.062%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.062%) Katalon Studio
General
1 396 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 341 (21.17%) Finance
3 184 (11.42%) Public Sector
4 114 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (6.70%) Banking
6 61 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (2.55%) Retail
9 39 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.36%) Legal
11 32 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.61%) Marketing
14 23 (1.43%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.30%) Billing
15 21 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.24%) Law
17 13 (0.81%) Military
18 9 (0.56%) Electronics
19 8 (0.50%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (7.45%) REST
2 85 (5.28%) Middleware
3 64 (3.97%) SOAP
4 61 (3.79%) LDAP
5 44 (2.73%) OpenID
6 43 (2.67%) .NET
7 40 (2.48%) JSON
8 34 (2.11%) Kafka
8 34 (2.11%) SAML
9 29 (1.80%) OAuth
10 23 (1.43%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.12%) React
12 16 (0.99%) PySpark
13 14 (0.87%) RESTful
14 13 (0.81%) OAuth2
15 12 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
16 11 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (0.68%) Spring
16 11 (0.68%) XML
17 10 (0.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.50%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
2 58 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 45 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.36%) PKI
5 38 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 26 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 24 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.12%) Replication
15 16 (0.99%) CMDB
16 15 (0.93%) FMCG
16 15 (0.93%) Private Cloud
17 14 (0.87%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.17%) Windows
2 20 (1.24%) Linux
3 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.43%) 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
1 230 (14.28%) Roadmaps
2 224 (13.90%) DevOps
3 202 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 200 (12.41%) Migration
5 196 (12.17%) CI/CD
6 195 (12.10%) Agile
7 190 (11.79%) AI
8 174 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (10.61%) Data Modelling
10 163 (10.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 163 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
11 162 (10.06%) Analytics
12 158 (9.81%) Integration Patterns
13 155 (9.62%) Data Architecture
14 152 (9.44%) Enterprise Architecture
15 138 (8.57%) TOGAF
16 115 (7.14%) Microservices
17 114 (7.08%) Architectural Patterns
18 106 (6.58%) Infrastructure as Code
19 100 (6.21%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 148 (9.19%) Python
2 114 (7.08%) SQL
3 85 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 57 (3.54%) Java
5 29 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.74%) C#
7 24 (1.49%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.18%) Bicep
9 14 (0.87%) Bash
10 10 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) ProC
Qualifications
1 455 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 388 (24.08%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.41%) Degree
4 55 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 47 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 41 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.11%) CISSP
10 27 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.93%) CISM
15 14 (0.87%) CCNP
16 11 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.62%) CCIE
17 10 (0.62%) CCSP
18 5 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.10%) GDPR
2 49 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (2.98%) Data Quality
4 42 (2.61%) NIST
5 37 (2.30%) NCSC
6 35 (2.17%) QA
7 21 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.74%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.62%) GRC
11 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.43%) 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 (4.84%) Docker
2 71 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.43%) 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
1 128 (7.95%) Terraform
2 110 (6.83%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.23%) Ansible
4 21 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (1.12%) Grafana
6 16 (0.99%) FortiGate
7 12 (0.74%) 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%) Puppet
Vendors
1 238 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.59%) SAP
3 88 (5.46%) Salesforce
4 84 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 83 (5.15%) Databricks
6 69 (4.28%) Oracle
7 63 (3.91%) CyberArk
8 40 (2.48%) Google
9 38 (2.36%) Cisco
10 35 (2.17%) Splunk
11 34 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (2.11%) Centrify
12 27 (1.68%) VMware
13 25 (1.55%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.37%) IBM
14 22 (1.37%) MuleSoft
15 21 (1.30%) OpenAI
16 18 (1.12%) Workday
17 16 (0.99%) Zscaler
18 12 (0.74%) Sparx