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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,020 1,277 1,793
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.52% 10.02% 10.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.42% 10.71% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 853 1,285
10th Percentile £475 £493 £500
25th Percentile £515 £556 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -5.36%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £750
90th Percentile £837 £800 £841
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £60.05 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £69.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £76.25 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £98.58 £90.25 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 16,261 11,918 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,837 8,182 12,042
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £442
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 £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 146 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.73 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.63 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +26.56% -21.55%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £64.45
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +9 295 £650 -2.99% 62
West London -5 28 £625 -7.41% 18
South London +3 22 £637 -2.00% 1
East London -6 12 £630 +0.80% 11
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 569 (28.17%) Azure
2 566 (28.02%) Security Cleared
3 502 (24.85%) AWS
4 480 (23.76%) SC Cleared
5 321 (15.89%) Migration
6 288 (14.26%) Microsoft
7 280 (13.86%) Roadmaps
8 269 (13.32%) DevOps
9 254 (12.57%) AI
10 248 (12.28%) CI/CD
11 235 (11.63%) Agile
12 221 (10.94%) Integration Patterns
13 213 (10.54%) Analytics
14 211 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 211 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 207 (10.25%) GCP
16 203 (10.05%) Data Modelling
17 188 (9.31%) Data Architecture
17 188 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
17 188 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
18 184 (9.11%) Enterprise Architecture
19 178 (8.81%) Python
20 170 (8.42%) Architectural Patterns
21 164 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
22 151 (7.48%) Architectural Design
23 150 (7.43%) TOGAF
24 138 (6.83%) Microservices
24 138 (6.83%) Terraform
25 136 (6.73%) REST
25 136 (6.73%) SQL

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 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.24%) Confluence
3 17 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (0.64%) Apache
6 12 (0.59%) nginx
7 10 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.35%) Camunda
8 7 (0.35%) CMS
9 6 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.25%) Mule
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.15%) Appian
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.050%) ArchiCAD
3 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.050%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 50 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.30%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.20%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.20%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 569 (28.17%) Azure
2 502 (24.85%) AWS
3 207 (10.25%) GCP
4 109 (5.40%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.26%) Serverless
6 81 (4.01%) SaaS
7 77 (3.81%) Entra ID
8 71 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (2.87%) Amazon S3
10 56 (2.77%) IaaS
11 55 (2.72%) GitHub
12 52 (2.57%) PaaS
13 51 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
14 50 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
15 47 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
16 46 (2.28%) Snowflake
17 43 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 38 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
20 30 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.76%) Network Security
2 67 (3.32%) Firewall
3 50 (2.48%) WAN
4 45 (2.23%) DNS
5 43 (2.13%) VPN
6 28 (1.39%) LAN
7 27 (1.34%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.74%) BGP
9 14 (0.69%) OSPF
9 14 (0.69%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.50%) MPLS
11 10 (0.50%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.45%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.40%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.40%) 5G
13 8 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.30%) VSAN
15 5 (0.25%) NAS
15 5 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (3.81%) Power BI
2 69 (3.42%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.18%) Metadata
5 36 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 32 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (0.94%) BigQuery
10 18 (0.89%) Big Data
10 18 (0.89%) Delta Lake
11 17 (0.84%) Tableau
12 16 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.69%) DB2
14 13 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.59%) Data Vault
15 12 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 27 (1.34%) Git
2 27 (1.34%) JIRA
3 22 (1.09%) GitLab
4 9 (0.45%) ERwin
5 8 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.40%) MLflow
5 8 (0.40%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.25%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.20%) Snyk
7 4 (0.20%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.15%) Maven
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.15%) Postman
9 2 (0.099%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.099%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.099%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (0.099%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.099%) Robot Framework
General
1 412 (20.40%) Social Skills
2 397 (19.65%) Finance
3 224 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 138 (6.83%) Banking
5 123 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (3.27%) Retail
8 59 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.72%) Law
10 50 (2.48%) Legal
11 48 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 36 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.49%) Marketing
14 25 (1.24%) Billing
14 25 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.19%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.59%) Military
18 10 (0.50%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.50%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (6.73%) REST
2 90 (4.46%) Middleware
3 77 (3.81%) SOAP
4 67 (3.32%) LDAP
5 61 (3.02%) .NET
6 44 (2.18%) Kafka
6 44 (2.18%) OpenID
7 34 (1.68%) JSON
8 31 (1.53%) SAML
9 29 (1.44%) OAuth
10 25 (1.24%) React
11 22 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 22 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
12 18 (0.89%) Spring
13 17 (0.84%) RESTful
14 15 (0.74%) .NET Framework
14 15 (0.74%) Vue
14 15 (0.74%) Web Services
15 14 (0.69%) J2EE
16 13 (0.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 51 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 47 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 46 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 35 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 34 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.53%) CMDB
10 31 (1.53%) PKI
11 30 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 19 (0.94%) Mainframe
14 18 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 17 (0.84%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.68%) Windows
2 30 (1.49%) Linux
3 10 (0.50%) zOS
4 8 (0.40%) Android
4 8 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.40%) Unix
5 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Solaris
7 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.099%) AIX
8 2 (0.099%) CentOS
8 2 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (15.89%) Migration
2 280 (13.86%) Roadmaps
3 269 (13.32%) DevOps
4 254 (12.57%) AI
5 248 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 235 (11.63%) Agile
7 221 (10.94%) Integration Patterns
8 213 (10.54%) Analytics
9 211 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 211 (10.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 203 (10.05%) Data Modelling
11 188 (9.31%) Data Architecture
11 188 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
11 188 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
12 184 (9.11%) Enterprise Architecture
13 170 (8.42%) Architectural Patterns
14 164 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 151 (7.48%) Architectural Design
16 150 (7.43%) TOGAF
17 138 (6.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 178 (8.81%) Python
2 136 (6.73%) SQL
3 100 (4.95%) Java
4 91 (4.50%) PowerShell
5 30 (1.49%) C#
6 27 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.04%) Bicep
8 19 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.74%) Ruby
10 13 (0.64%) Bash
11 11 (0.54%) Scala
12 9 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.20%) C++
15 4 (0.20%) Go
15 4 (0.20%) Korn
15 4 (0.20%) R
15 4 (0.20%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 566 (28.02%) Security Cleared
2 480 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 75 (3.71%) Degree
4 70 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.57%) AWS Certification
6 45 (2.23%) CISSP
7 41 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 32 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.19%) CISM
11 24 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (0.79%) CCNP
15 15 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.64%) CCIE
17 11 (0.54%) CCSP
18 9 (0.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.76%) GDPR
2 56 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 56 (2.77%) NIST
3 54 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.08%) NCSC
5 36 (1.78%) QA
6 24 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.84%) ISO 20022
8 14 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.59%) SEPA
10 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.40%) GRC
10 8 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.40%) PSD2
10 8 (0.40%) SLA
11 7 (0.35%) HL7
11 7 (0.35%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.25%) PERC
13 4 (0.20%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.20%) IFRS
System Software
1 81 (4.01%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.27%) Docker
3 27 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.45%) Squid
5 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.35%) Varnish
7 6 (0.30%) vSphere
8 5 (0.25%) Postfix
8 5 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.20%) NFS
10 3 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.099%) Ceph
11 2 (0.099%) Firmware
11 2 (0.099%) Lustre
11 2 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.099%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 138 (6.83%) Terraform
2 125 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.73%) Ansible
4 27 (1.34%) Grafana
5 22 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.35%) Consul
10 5 (0.25%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.20%) Argo
11 4 (0.20%) Istio
11 4 (0.20%) Kibana
12 3 (0.15%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.15%) Puppet
12 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.099%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.099%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.099%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.099%) SCCM
Vendors
1 288 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 127 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 107 (5.30%) Databricks
4 106 (5.25%) SAP
5 101 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 100 (4.95%) Oracle
7 66 (3.27%) CyberArk
8 41 (2.03%) Google
9 37 (1.83%) Cisco
10 35 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.68%) Centrify
12 33 (1.63%) Splunk
12 33 (1.63%) VMware
13 31 (1.53%) Workday
14 29 (1.44%) IBM
15 25 (1.24%) OpenAI
16 22 (1.09%) MuleSoft
17 20 (0.99%) Ariba
17 20 (0.99%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.94%) Zscaler