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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 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 1,636 1,380 1,737
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.30% 10.27% 9.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.13% 10.97% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 842 1,255
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £528 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £756 £745
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 £70.64 £71.25 £78.74
% change year-on-year -0.86% -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 14,699 12,578 16,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.64% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,859 8,208 12,273
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.01%
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 225 144 334
10th Percentile £18.14 £21.22 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.01
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £34.52
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.30% -13.71%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 0 229 £650 -2.99% 71
South London +6 25 £575 -29.88% 5
West London -5 22 £662 +32.40% 12
East London -5 7 £540 -13.60% 11
North London +1 2 £663 -4.57% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 (31.11%) Azure
2 465 (28.42%) Security Cleared
3 415 (25.37%) AWS
4 396 (24.21%) SC Cleared
5 235 (14.36%) Roadmaps
6 234 (14.30%) Microsoft
7 226 (13.81%) DevOps
8 206 (12.59%) Migration
9 200 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 197 (12.04%) CI/CD
11 192 (11.74%) AI
12 188 (11.49%) Agile
13 179 (10.94%) GCP
14 178 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
15 173 (10.57%) Data Modelling
16 168 (10.27%) Analytics
17 164 (10.02%) Integration Patterns
17 164 (10.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 163 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
19 161 (9.84%) Data Architecture
20 152 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
21 150 (9.17%) Python
22 138 (8.44%) TOGAF
23 127 (7.76%) Terraform
24 120 (7.33%) REST
25 119 (7.27%) Architectural Patterns
26 118 (7.21%) SQL
27 116 (7.09%) Microservices
28 112 (6.85%) Kubernetes
29 108 (6.60%) 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 34 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.34%) Confluence
3 15 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.61%) nginx
6 9 (0.55%) CMS
7 7 (0.43%) Apache
8 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.31%) Mule
9 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.12%) Appian
11 2 (0.12%) JBoss
11 2 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 43 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.49%) 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 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.18%) Endur
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.18%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.18%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 509 (31.11%) Azure
2 415 (25.37%) AWS
3 179 (10.94%) GCP
4 73 (4.46%) Power Platform
5 69 (4.22%) Serverless
6 68 (4.16%) SaaS
7 55 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 50 (3.06%) IaaS
9 46 (2.81%) Amazon S3
10 45 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
11 43 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (2.63%) GitHub
12 40 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (2.26%) Snowflake
14 36 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (2.14%) PaaS
15 35 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
16 30 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.83%) Firewall
2 63 (3.85%) Network Security
3 49 (3.00%) WAN
4 42 (2.57%) DNS
5 41 (2.51%) VPN
6 28 (1.71%) LAN
6 28 (1.71%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.92%) BGP
7 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.73%) OSPF
10 8 (0.49%) OpenVPN
11 7 (0.43%) 5G
11 7 (0.43%) SSL
12 6 (0.37%) MPLS
12 6 (0.37%) VSAN
12 6 (0.37%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.31%) DHCP
13 5 (0.31%) Internet
13 5 (0.31%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
2 53 (3.24%) Data Lake
3 45 (2.75%) Metadata
4 42 (2.57%) Power BI
5 33 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 29 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.53%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (1.04%) Tableau
11 16 (0.98%) Data Vault
12 13 (0.79%) DB2
12 13 (0.79%) Delta Lake
13 12 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.67%) Big Data
14 11 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 10 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (2.51%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.77%) JIRA
3 22 (1.34%) GitLab
4 15 (0.92%) Git
5 10 (0.61%) ERwin
6 8 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.18%) Snyk
9 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.12%) Maven
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.061%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.061%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.061%) Katalon Studio
General
1 402 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 345 (21.09%) Finance
3 187 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 116 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (6.91%) Banking
6 64 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (2.69%) Retail
9 39 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.32%) Legal
11 33 (2.02%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.65%) Marketing
14 24 (1.47%) Billing
14 24 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.22%) Law
17 13 (0.79%) Military
18 9 (0.55%) Electronics
19 8 (0.49%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (7.33%) REST
2 85 (5.20%) Middleware
3 62 (3.79%) LDAP
3 62 (3.79%) SOAP
4 45 (2.75%) OpenID
5 42 (2.57%) .NET
6 40 (2.44%) JSON
7 33 (2.02%) SAML
8 32 (1.96%) Kafka
9 29 (1.77%) OAuth
10 22 (1.34%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.04%) React
12 16 (0.98%) PySpark
13 14 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.79%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.79%) RESTful
15 11 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
15 11 (0.67%) Spring
15 11 (0.67%) XML
16 10 (0.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 142 (8.68%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
3 59 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 46 (2.81%) Security Posture
5 39 (2.38%) PKI
5 39 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 30 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.47%) Management Information System
12 23 (1.41%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.16%) Replication
14 16 (0.98%) CMDB
14 16 (0.98%) Private Cloud
15 15 (0.92%) FMCG
16 14 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.08%) Windows
2 23 (1.41%) Linux
3 8 (0.49%) zOS
4 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.37%) Unix
6 5 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Android
8 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.061%) Solaris
9 1 (0.061%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (14.36%) Roadmaps
2 226 (13.81%) DevOps
3 206 (12.59%) Migration
4 200 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 197 (12.04%) CI/CD
6 192 (11.74%) AI
7 188 (11.49%) Agile
8 178 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
9 173 (10.57%) Data Modelling
10 168 (10.27%) Analytics
11 164 (10.02%) Integration Patterns
11 164 (10.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 163 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
13 161 (9.84%) Data Architecture
14 152 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
15 138 (8.44%) TOGAF
16 119 (7.27%) Architectural Patterns
17 116 (7.09%) Microservices
18 108 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (6.05%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.17%) Python
2 118 (7.21%) SQL
3 84 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 54 (3.30%) Java
5 28 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.65%) C#
7 24 (1.47%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.04%) Bicep
9 15 (0.92%) Bash
10 10 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.43%) Ruby
12 7 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.31%) Korn
13 5 (0.31%) R
13 5 (0.31%) Scala
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 2 (0.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 465 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 396 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.28%) Degree
4 56 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.81%) AWS Certification
6 42 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.08%) CISSP
10 27 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.92%) CCNP
14 15 (0.92%) CISM
15 11 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.61%) CCIE
16 10 (0.61%) CCSP
17 5 (0.31%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (3.91%) GDPR
2 51 (3.12%) Data Quality
3 46 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.57%) NIST
5 36 (2.20%) NCSC
6 35 (2.14%) QA
7 22 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.79%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.61%) GRC
10 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.49%) PSD2
12 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.37%) SEPA
13 5 (0.31%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.31%) HL7
13 5 (0.31%) PERC
13 5 (0.31%) SLA
14 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (4.58%) Docker
2 72 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.49%) Squid
7 6 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.18%) Varnish
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Lustre
9 2 (0.12%) Postfix
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.061%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.061%) HDFS
10 1 (0.061%) NFS
Systems Management
1 127 (7.76%) Terraform
2 112 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.38%) Ansible
4 21 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (1.22%) Grafana
6 17 (1.04%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.43%) Consul
10 4 (0.24%) Kibana
11 3 (0.18%) Argo
11 3 (0.18%) Istio
11 3 (0.18%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.18%) SCCM
11 3 (0.18%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.12%) Nagios
12 2 (0.12%) VxRail
Vendors
1 234 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.56%) SAP
3 90 (5.50%) Salesforce
4 86 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 82 (5.01%) Databricks
6 72 (4.40%) Oracle
7 63 (3.85%) CyberArk
8 39 (2.38%) Google
9 38 (2.32%) Cisco
10 36 (2.20%) Splunk
11 34 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (2.08%) Centrify
12 28 (1.71%) VMware
13 25 (1.53%) Palo Alto
14 22 (1.34%) IBM
14 22 (1.34%) MuleSoft
15 20 (1.22%) OpenAI
15 20 (1.22%) Workday
16 16 (0.98%) Zscaler
17 13 (0.79%) Red Hat