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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,600 1,366 1,602
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.82% 10.06% 9.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.77% 10.82% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,770 890 1,130
10th Percentile £475 £481 £488
25th Percentile £525 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £737 £763
90th Percentile £808 £800 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £49.85 £66.25 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £82.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +37.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £90.68
90th Percentile £98.58 £96.75 £107.59
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -

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 18,882 12,622 15,268
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.97% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,313 8,534 10,791
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.10 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +65.78% -42.22% +5.88%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +15 371 £625 -7.41% 181
West London -16 36 £625 +38.89% 31
South London -13 18 £723 +6.68% 10
East London +1 13 £700 +3.70% 7
North London -4 1 £650 -17.46% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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.

1 735 (28.27%) Azure
2 678 (26.08%) Security Cleared
3 610 (23.46%) AWS
4 567 (21.81%) SC Cleared
5 415 (15.96%) Migration
6 412 (15.85%) Roadmaps
7 408 (15.69%) AI
8 367 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 334 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
10 326 (12.54%) Microsoft
11 319 (12.27%) Analytics
12 315 (12.12%) DevOps
13 307 (11.81%) Data Modelling
14 290 (11.15%) CI/CD
15 277 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 274 (10.54%) Data Architecture
17 268 (10.31%) Integration Patterns
18 257 (9.88%) Agile
19 256 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
20 233 (8.96%) GCP
21 222 (8.54%) TOGAF
22 210 (8.08%) Architectural Patterns
23 185 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
24 178 (6.85%) Security Architecture
25 173 (6.65%) Event-Driven
26 170 (6.54%) Data Governance
27 168 (6.46%) Problem-Solving
28 166 (6.38%) Microservices
29 162 (6.23%) Business Intelligence
30 160 (6.15%) 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 41 (1.58%) SharePoint
2 38 (1.46%) SAS
3 35 (1.35%) Apache
4 34 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.04%) Confluence
6 18 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.46%) CMS
9 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.27%) Camunda
11 6 (0.23%) Appian
11 6 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.23%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.077%) Mendix
13 2 (0.077%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.038%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.038%) Notion
3 1 (0.038%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.038%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 64 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
7 7 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.23%) Endur
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP IBP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
10 4 (0.15%) SAP Convergent Charging
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
11 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 735 (28.27%) Azure
2 610 (23.46%) AWS
3 233 (8.96%) GCP
4 159 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 104 (4.00%) SaaS
6 97 (3.73%) Entra ID
7 83 (3.19%) Serverless
8 81 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
9 75 (2.88%) GitHub
10 68 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (2.38%) PaaS
12 47 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 46 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
14 41 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.46%) IaaS
16 33 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (1.27%) OCI
17 31 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 31 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 96 (3.69%) Network Security
2 55 (2.12%) Firewall
3 35 (1.35%) VPN
4 28 (1.08%) DNS
4 28 (1.08%) WAN
5 19 (0.73%) LAN
6 11 (0.42%) MPLS
6 11 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.42%) VXLAN
7 10 (0.38%) BGP
8 9 (0.35%) 4G
8 9 (0.35%) 5G
8 9 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
8 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.31%) NGFW
10 7 (0.27%) 3GPP
10 7 (0.27%) OSPF
11 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.23%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (4.38%) Power BI
2 97 (3.73%) Data Lake
3 78 (3.00%) Metadata
4 76 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.27%) Big Data
6 32 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.15%) NoSQL
8 25 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 23 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 20 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.46%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.46%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
14 12 (0.46%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.46%) Tableau
15 11 (0.42%) Db2
Development Applications
1 39 (1.50%) Git
2 38 (1.46%) JIRA
3 30 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 17 (0.65%) GitLab
5 8 (0.31%) ERwin
5 8 (0.31%) MLflow
6 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.23%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.23%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.23%) Maven
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.23%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.23%) Storybook
8 4 (0.15%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.077%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.077%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.077%) MSI
General
1 492 (18.92%) Finance
2 485 (18.65%) Social Skills
3 292 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.65%) Banking
5 146 (5.62%) Retail
6 129 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 73 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.00%) Legal
11 43 (1.65%) Law
12 37 (1.42%) Billing
12 37 (1.42%) Marketing
13 27 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.58%) Local Government
17 12 (0.46%) Aviation
17 12 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (5.42%) REST
2 88 (3.38%) .NET
3 86 (3.31%) Middleware
4 71 (2.73%) Kafka
5 65 (2.50%) SOAP
6 43 (1.65%) OAuth
7 31 (1.19%) .NET Framework
7 31 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.15%) React
9 26 (1.00%) JSON
9 26 (1.00%) OAuth2
9 26 (1.00%) PySpark
10 23 (0.88%) RESTful
11 21 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
11 21 (0.81%) OpenID
11 21 (0.81%) SAML
12 20 (0.77%) XML
13 18 (0.69%) AngularJS
14 17 (0.65%) HTML
14 17 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 252 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 76 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
3 73 (2.81%) AI Agents
4 68 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 67 (2.58%) Product Ownership
6 66 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 58 (2.23%) Management Information System
8 54 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 50 (1.92%) CMDB
9 50 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 40 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 33 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
13 30 (1.15%) Taxonomies
14 28 (1.08%) Mainframe
15 25 (0.96%) Public Cloud
16 22 (0.85%) NHS
17 21 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.65%) Linux
2 32 (1.23%) Windows
3 11 (0.42%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.23%) zOS
7 5 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.077%) VMS
11 1 (0.038%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (15.96%) Migration
2 412 (15.85%) Roadmaps
3 408 (15.69%) AI
4 367 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 334 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
6 319 (12.27%) Analytics
7 315 (12.12%) DevOps
8 307 (11.81%) Data Modelling
9 290 (11.15%) CI/CD
10 277 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 274 (10.54%) Data Architecture
12 268 (10.31%) Integration Patterns
13 257 (9.88%) Agile
14 256 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
15 222 (8.54%) TOGAF
16 210 (8.08%) Architectural Patterns
17 185 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 178 (6.85%) Security Architecture
19 173 (6.65%) Event-Driven
20 170 (6.54%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 152 (5.85%) Python
2 137 (5.27%) SQL
3 107 (4.12%) Java
4 64 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.62%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.54%) C#
7 28 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.88%) Bicep
9 21 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.69%) Bash
11 14 (0.54%) Ruby
12 10 (0.38%) C++
12 10 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.35%) Scala
14 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.23%) Cypher
15 6 (0.23%) Groovy
15 6 (0.23%) Rust
16 4 (0.15%) Gremlin
16 4 (0.15%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 678 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 567 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 77 (2.96%) Degree
4 70 (2.69%) CISSP
5 68 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 62 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 38 (1.46%) CISM
10 33 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 16 (0.62%) Master's Degree
17 14 (0.54%) CCSP
17 14 (0.54%) CISA
18 12 (0.46%) CCNP
19 8 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 93 (3.58%) GDPR
3 74 (2.85%) NIST
4 68 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.92%) GRC
6 32 (1.23%) NCSC
7 30 (1.15%) QA
8 21 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.73%) SEPA
10 17 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.50%) Accessibility
14 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
15 10 (0.38%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.31%) PSD2
18 7 (0.27%) IFRS
19 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (2.27%) Docker
2 56 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Postfix
6 5 (0.19%) NFS
7 4 (0.15%) Sendmail
8 3 (0.12%) Squid
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.077%) IAG
9 2 (0.077%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.077%) vSphere
10 1 (0.038%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.038%) Firmware
10 1 (0.038%) HDFS
10 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 121 (4.65%) Terraform
3 43 (1.65%) Ansible
4 25 (0.96%) Grafana
5 20 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 20 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.35%) Argo
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.23%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.15%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.077%) Consul
11 2 (0.077%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.077%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.077%) Puppet
11 2 (0.077%) QRadar
11 2 (0.077%) VxRail
Vendors
1 326 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.12%) Oracle
3 151 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 147 (5.65%) Databricks
5 144 (5.54%) SAP
6 118 (4.54%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.23%) Google
8 48 (1.85%) Cisco
9 38 (1.46%) Workday
10 35 (1.35%) IBM
11 34 (1.31%) CyberArk
12 32 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 30 (1.15%) Foundry
14 29 (1.12%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.96%) Ariba
15 25 (0.96%) Splunk
16 22 (0.85%) Palo Alto
16 22 (0.85%) VMware
17 19 (0.73%) Sparx
18 18 (0.69%) Adobe