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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,330 1,323 1,778
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.19% 10.42% 10.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.12% 11.15% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,593 861 1,283
10th Percentile £473 £500 £488
25th Percentile £513 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £763
90th Percentile £815 £800 £875
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £53.95 £54.50 £52.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £53.38
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -12.31%
75th Percentile £83.44 £83.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £61.85
England median hourly rate £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -1.79% -

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 17,759 11,870 16,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.49% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,724 8,036 11,854
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £760 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 182 316
10th Percentile £18.48 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +17.27% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £46.49
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +17 364 £625 -7.41% 66
West London -7 28 £625 -6.72% 22
South London +2 22 £723 +1.40% 2
East London +6 15 £669 +14.36% 11
North London 0 1 £650 -3.70% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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.

1 670 (28.76%) Azure
2 632 (27.12%) Security Cleared
3 546 (23.43%) AWS
4 538 (23.09%) SC Cleared
5 385 (16.52%) Migration
6 356 (15.28%) AI
7 346 (14.85%) Roadmaps
8 308 (13.22%) Microsoft
9 302 (12.96%) DevOps
10 286 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 278 (11.93%) CI/CD
12 254 (10.90%) Analytics
13 245 (10.52%) Data Modelling
14 243 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 236 (10.13%) Data Architecture
15 236 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture
16 232 (9.96%) Agile
17 228 (9.79%) Integration Patterns
18 218 (9.36%) GCP
19 207 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
20 197 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
21 188 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
22 186 (7.98%) TOGAF
23 175 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
24 163 (7.00%) Python
25 162 (6.95%) Architectural Design
26 149 (6.39%) Security Architecture
27 140 (6.01%) Microservices
27 140 (6.01%) Power Platform
28 139 (5.97%) Translating Business Requirements

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 44 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.20%) Confluence
3 22 (0.94%) Apache
3 22 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.47%) nginx
7 9 (0.39%) Camunda
7 9 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.39%) SAS
8 7 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.30%) CMS
9 5 (0.21%) Appian
9 5 (0.21%) Mule
10 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.086%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.086%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.043%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.043%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.043%) Notion
4 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 56 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 16 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.34%) SAP BRIM
6 5 (0.21%) Endur
6 5 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.17%) SAP Convergent Charging
7 4 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
8 3 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP FSCM
8 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.086%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 670 (28.76%) Azure
2 546 (23.43%) AWS
3 218 (9.36%) GCP
4 140 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 93 (3.99%) Serverless
6 91 (3.91%) SaaS
7 82 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (2.88%) GitHub
10 60 (2.58%) Snowflake
11 58 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (2.45%) PaaS
13 55 (2.36%) Amazon S3
14 50 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
16 40 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 39 (1.67%) IaaS
18 33 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
19 32 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
20 31 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 94 (4.03%) Network Security
2 69 (2.96%) Firewall
3 46 (1.97%) VPN
4 42 (1.80%) DNS
5 35 (1.50%) WAN
6 19 (0.82%) LAN
6 19 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.60%) BGP
9 13 (0.56%) OSPF
10 10 (0.43%) MPLS
10 10 (0.43%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.39%) 5G
11 9 (0.39%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.34%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.30%) NGFW
14 6 (0.26%) 4G
15 5 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (4.33%) Power BI
2 76 (3.26%) Data Lake
3 66 (2.83%) Metadata
4 61 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 31 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.12%) BigQuery
8 24 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (1.03%) Big Data
9 21 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (0.77%) Delta Lake
11 16 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (0.56%) Tableau
14 12 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.52%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.47%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 38 (1.63%) JIRA
3 36 (1.55%) Git
4 18 (0.77%) GitLab
5 11 (0.47%) ERwin
6 9 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.34%) MLflow
8 7 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
10 5 (0.21%) Maven
11 4 (0.17%) Snyk
12 3 (0.13%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.13%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.13%) JMeter
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.13%) VTune
13 2 (0.086%) MSI
13 2 (0.086%) Postman
13 2 (0.086%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.086%) Robot Framework
General
1 453 (19.44%) Finance
2 440 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 273 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 157 (6.74%) Banking
5 117 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 103 (4.42%) Retail
7 76 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 63 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 53 (2.27%) Legal
11 48 (2.06%) Law
12 33 (1.42%) Billing
13 26 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.07%) Marketing
15 22 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 20 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (0.47%) Military
19 10 (0.43%) Local Government
20 9 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (5.11%) REST
2 84 (3.61%) Middleware
3 78 (3.35%) .NET
4 65 (2.79%) SOAP
5 44 (1.89%) Kafka
6 42 (1.80%) LDAP
7 40 (1.72%) OpenID
8 35 (1.50%) OAuth
9 34 (1.46%) SAML
10 31 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
11 28 (1.20%) React
12 27 (1.16%) .NET Framework
13 21 (0.90%) AngularJS
14 19 (0.82%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.77%) Lightning Web Components
15 18 (0.77%) PySpark
15 18 (0.77%) RESTful
16 16 (0.69%) JSON
17 15 (0.64%) Spring
18 13 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 238 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 64 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 61 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 60 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 53 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 50 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 49 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 48 (2.06%) AI Agents
11 44 (1.89%) CMDB
12 40 (1.72%) Security Posture
13 35 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 26 (1.12%) Mainframe
16 24 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
17 22 (0.94%) Taxonomies
18 21 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 21 (0.90%) IoT
18 21 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.67%) Linux
2 36 (1.55%) Windows
3 11 (0.47%) Android
3 11 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.39%) zOS
6 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.17%) Solaris
9 3 (0.13%) AIX
10 2 (0.086%) CentOS
10 2 (0.086%) VMS
11 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (16.52%) Migration
2 356 (15.28%) AI
3 346 (14.85%) Roadmaps
4 302 (12.96%) DevOps
5 286 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 278 (11.93%) CI/CD
7 254 (10.90%) Analytics
8 245 (10.52%) Data Modelling
9 243 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 236 (10.13%) Data Architecture
10 236 (10.13%) Enterprise Architecture
11 232 (9.96%) Agile
12 228 (9.79%) Integration Patterns
13 207 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
14 197 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
15 188 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 186 (7.98%) TOGAF
17 175 (7.51%) Problem-Solving
18 162 (6.95%) Architectural Design
19 149 (6.39%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 163 (7.00%) Python
2 125 (5.36%) SQL
3 107 (4.59%) Java
4 56 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 34 (1.46%) C#
7 25 (1.07%) Bicep
8 20 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.73%) Apex Code
9 17 (0.73%) Bash
10 15 (0.64%) Ruby
11 8 (0.34%) Scala
12 7 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.26%) C++
13 6 (0.26%) R
14 5 (0.21%) Go
15 4 (0.17%) Cypher
15 4 (0.17%) Rust
15 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.13%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 632 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 538 (23.09%) SC Cleared
3 82 (3.52%) Degree
4 66 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 62 (2.66%) CISSP
6 51 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.42%) CISM
11 32 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 27 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 14 (0.60%) CCNP
16 14 (0.60%) CCSP
16 14 (0.60%) CISA
17 10 (0.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.48%) GDPR
2 75 (3.22%) NIST
3 74 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 69 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.06%) NCSC
6 36 (1.55%) QA
7 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.69%) GRC
8 16 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 14 (0.60%) SEPA
10 12 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.39%) PSD2
13 8 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 7 (0.30%) IFRS
15 6 (0.26%) COBIT
15 6 (0.26%) HL7
16 4 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 59 (2.53%) Docker
2 58 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 22 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.34%) Varnish
6 8 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.30%) Postfix
8 5 (0.21%) NFS
9 4 (0.17%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.043%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.043%) IAG
11 1 (0.043%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 136 (5.84%) Terraform
2 128 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 46 (1.97%) Ansible
4 25 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
5 24 (1.03%) Grafana
6 18 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.64%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.30%) Consul
8 7 (0.30%) HAProxy
8 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.21%) Argo
9 5 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.17%) Puppet
10 4 (0.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.086%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.086%) Istio
11 2 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.086%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.086%) QRadar
11 2 (0.086%) VxRail
Vendors
1 308 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 132 (5.67%) Databricks
4 120 (5.15%) Oracle
5 118 (5.06%) SAP
6 107 (4.59%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.36%) CyberArk
8 51 (2.19%) Cisco
9 47 (2.02%) Google
10 39 (1.67%) Splunk
11 33 (1.42%) MuleSoft
12 32 (1.37%) IBM
12 32 (1.37%) Workday
13 30 (1.29%) OpenAI
14 26 (1.12%) Foundry
14 26 (1.12%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.12%) VMware
15 19 (0.82%) Dynatrace
16 17 (0.73%) Ariba
16 17 (0.73%) Sparx