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 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,447 1,389 1,739
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.83% 10.06% 9.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.60% 10.75% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 817 1,251
10th Percentile £471 £488 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £658
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.22% -2.52%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £745
90th Percentile £838 £811 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £64.20 - £43.55
25th Percentile £65.00 - £44.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -26.74% -
75th Percentile £93.75 - £50.33
90th Percentile £95.00 - £50.58
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% -10.26% +11.43%

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 13,645 12,924 17,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 93.63% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,056 8,253 12,514
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 139 327
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.95 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.66 £19.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -15.09%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.15 £65.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.90% +2.99%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -3 200 £650 - 109
West London -14 17 £669 +33.70% 14
South London +7 14 £534 -19.05% 9
East London -2 10 £565 -11.37% 15
North London +4 2 £663 -7.15%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 474 (32.76%) Azure
2 387 (26.74%) Security Cleared
3 362 (25.02%) AWS
4 331 (22.87%) SC Cleared
5 226 (15.62%) Microsoft
6 203 (14.03%) Roadmaps
7 193 (13.34%) DevOps
8 187 (12.92%) Agile
9 186 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 176 (12.16%) Migration
11 174 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
12 170 (11.75%) CI/CD
13 159 (10.99%) AI
14 157 (10.85%) Data Modelling
14 157 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 153 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
16 146 (10.09%) GCP
17 144 (9.95%) Enterprise Architecture
18 140 (9.68%) Analytics
18 140 (9.68%) Data Architecture
19 138 (9.54%) Python
20 136 (9.40%) Integration Patterns
21 119 (8.22%) Terraform
22 114 (7.88%) REST
23 111 (7.67%) TOGAF
24 107 (7.39%) Microservices
25 106 (7.33%) SQL
26 102 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
27 94 (6.50%) Security Architecture
28 91 (6.29%) Architectural Patterns

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 25 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.31%) Confluence
3 12 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 12 (0.83%) CMS
4 11 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.48%) Apache
7 6 (0.41%) nginx
7 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.35%) Mule
9 4 (0.28%) Camunda
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Luigi
11 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.069%) ArchiCAD
6 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 35 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.41%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.28%) Endur
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.21%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.21%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 474 (32.76%) Azure
2 362 (25.02%) AWS
3 146 (10.09%) GCP
4 76 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 70 (4.84%) Serverless
6 65 (4.49%) SaaS
7 51 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 48 (3.32%) IaaS
9 43 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
10 42 (2.90%) Amazon S3
10 42 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (2.70%) GitHub
12 37 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
13 36 (2.49%) Snowflake
14 33 (2.28%) PaaS
15 32 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
18 27 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.63%) Firewall
2 53 (3.66%) Network Security
3 49 (3.39%) WAN
4 40 (2.76%) VPN
5 33 (2.28%) DNS
6 29 (2.00%) LAN
7 27 (1.87%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.83%) BGP
9 12 (0.83%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.69%) OSPF
11 8 (0.55%) SSL
12 6 (0.41%) Internet
13 5 (0.35%) 5G
13 5 (0.35%) DHCP
13 5 (0.35%) MPLS
13 5 (0.35%) NGFW
13 5 (0.35%) OpenVPN
13 5 (0.35%) VSAN
14 4 (0.28%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.46%) Data Lake
2 47 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (3.11%) Power BI
4 33 (2.28%) Metadata
5 31 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (1.11%) Tableau
11 15 (1.04%) Data Vault
12 12 (0.83%) Delta Lake
13 11 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (0.76%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (0.62%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.62%) DB2
15 9 (0.62%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 25 (1.73%) JIRA
3 18 (1.24%) GitLab
4 9 (0.62%) ERwin
5 8 (0.55%) Git
6 6 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.28%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.14%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.069%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.069%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.069%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.069%) MLflow
10 1 (0.069%) Postman
10 1 (0.069%) PowerBuilder
10 1 (0.069%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.069%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 378 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 315 (21.77%) Finance
3 162 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 113 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.12%) Banking
6 50 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 37 (2.56%) Legal
8 37 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.14%) Marketing
10 31 (2.14%) Retail
11 25 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.59%) Billing
12 23 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 20 (1.38%) Law
14 13 (0.90%) Military
15 11 (0.76%) Back Office
15 11 (0.76%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (7.88%) REST
2 60 (4.15%) LDAP
2 60 (4.15%) SOAP
3 58 (4.01%) Middleware
4 42 (2.90%) OpenID
5 41 (2.83%) JSON
6 39 (2.70%) .NET
7 35 (2.42%) SAML
8 33 (2.28%) Kafka
9 29 (2.00%) OAuth
10 21 (1.45%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.11%) PySpark
12 14 (0.97%) RESTful
13 13 (0.90%) React
14 12 (0.83%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.69%) ARM Templates
15 10 (0.69%) Spring
15 10 (0.69%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.69%) XML
16 9 (0.62%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 58 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
3 47 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (3.18%) Onboarding
5 44 (3.04%) Security Posture
6 38 (2.63%) PKI
7 36 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 35 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (2.28%) Product Ownership
10 26 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.59%) Management Information System
13 20 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.11%) CMDB
14 16 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.04%) Private Cloud
16 14 (0.97%) IoT
16 14 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.28%) Windows
2 20 (1.38%) Linux
3 10 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.41%) Android
4 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.28%) zOS
7 3 (0.21%) CentOS
7 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.069%) Solaris
9 1 (0.069%) VMS
9 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (14.03%) Roadmaps
2 193 (13.34%) DevOps
3 187 (12.92%) Agile
4 186 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 176 (12.16%) Migration
6 174 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
7 170 (11.75%) CI/CD
8 159 (10.99%) AI
9 157 (10.85%) Data Modelling
9 157 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 153 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
11 144 (9.95%) Enterprise Architecture
12 140 (9.68%) Analytics
12 140 (9.68%) Data Architecture
13 136 (9.40%) Integration Patterns
14 111 (7.67%) TOGAF
15 107 (7.39%) Microservices
16 102 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 94 (6.50%) Security Architecture
18 91 (6.29%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 138 (9.54%) Python
2 106 (7.33%) SQL
3 84 (5.81%) PowerShell
4 53 (3.66%) Java
5 25 (1.73%) C#
5 25 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.52%) TypeScript
7 18 (1.24%) Bicep
8 12 (0.83%) Bash
9 8 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.41%) Ruby
12 5 (0.35%) Korn
12 5 (0.35%) R
13 4 (0.28%) Go
13 4 (0.28%) Scala
14 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.14%) SOQL
15 2 (0.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 387 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 331 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.70%) Degree
4 50 (3.46%) Azure Certification
5 41 (2.83%) AWS Certification
6 37 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.59%) CISSP
11 20 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.83%) CCNP
16 8 (0.55%) CCIE
16 8 (0.55%) CISM
17 5 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.35%) CCSE
17 5 (0.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.94%) GDPR
2 51 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (3.18%) NIST
4 42 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 36 (2.49%) NCSC
6 35 (2.42%) QA
7 19 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.76%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.69%) GRC
11 8 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.35%) PERC
14 4 (0.28%) MiFID
14 4 (0.28%) PSD2
14 4 (0.28%) SEPA
14 4 (0.28%) SLA
15 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 72 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.63%) Docker
3 20 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.35%) Squid
6 5 (0.35%) vSphere
7 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.21%) Lustre
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Ceph
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Varnish
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.069%) GPFS
9 1 (0.069%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 119 (8.22%) Terraform
2 88 (6.08%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.21%) Ansible
4 20 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.97%) FortiGate
5 14 (0.97%) Grafana
6 10 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.35%) Consul
9 4 (0.28%) Kibana
9 4 (0.28%) SCCM
10 3 (0.21%) Istio
10 3 (0.21%) Karpenter
11 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.14%) Argo
11 2 (0.14%) Nagios
11 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 226 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.67%) Salesforce
3 81 (5.60%) SAP
4 77 (5.32%) Databricks
4 77 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 66 (4.56%) CyberArk
6 61 (4.22%) Oracle
7 43 (2.97%) Google
8 37 (2.56%) Cisco
9 34 (2.35%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (2.35%) Centrify
10 33 (2.28%) Splunk
11 24 (1.66%) Palo Alto
12 23 (1.59%) VMware
13 18 (1.24%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.17%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.04%) IBM
16 14 (0.97%) Zscaler
17 13 (0.90%) Pega
17 13 (0.90%) Workday