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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,728 1,335 1,740
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.67% 10.34% 9.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.52% 11.04% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 833 1,263
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £650 £665
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -2.26% -1.48%
75th Percentile £750 £760 £750
90th Percentile £838 £825 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.75 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.50 £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 £94.38 £59.38 £59.15
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.25 £61.16
England median hourly rate £71.27 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year -1.70% -5.27% +9.33%

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 14,998 12,094 17,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.68% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,058 8,110 12,281
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £450
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 £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 142 343
10th Percentile £18.09 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +24.37% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.50 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.31 £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.29%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -2 229 £650 -2.99% 125
South London +10 27 £619 -15.85% 6
West London -1 25 £633 +26.50% 14
East London -4 8 £543 -13.20% 16
North London 0 2 £663 -4.57% 2
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 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.

1 537 (31.08%) Azure
2 502 (29.05%) Security Cleared
3 436 (25.23%) AWS
4 429 (24.83%) SC Cleared
5 254 (14.70%) Roadmaps
6 250 (14.47%) Microsoft
7 245 (14.18%) DevOps
8 238 (13.77%) Migration
9 210 (12.15%) CI/CD
10 206 (11.92%) Agile
11 205 (11.86%) AI
12 204 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 183 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
14 181 (10.47%) Data Modelling
14 181 (10.47%) GCP
15 179 (10.36%) Integration Patterns
16 178 (10.30%) Analytics
17 173 (10.01%) Data Architecture
17 173 (10.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 173 (10.01%) Technical Leadership
18 161 (9.32%) Enterprise Architecture
18 161 (9.32%) Python
19 144 (8.33%) TOGAF
20 130 (7.52%) SQL
20 130 (7.52%) Terraform
21 128 (7.41%) Architectural Patterns
21 128 (7.41%) REST
22 124 (7.18%) Microservices
23 121 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
24 120 (6.94%) Kubernetes

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 39 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.39%) Confluence
3 17 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.58%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) nginx
6 7 (0.41%) Apache
7 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.29%) Camunda
7 5 (0.29%) Mule
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Appian
10 2 (0.12%) JBoss
10 2 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.058%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.058%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.058%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 47 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.41%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.35%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.17%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.17%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.17%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.12%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 537 (31.08%) Azure
2 436 (25.23%) AWS
3 181 (10.47%) GCP
4 85 (4.92%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.22%) Serverless
6 69 (3.99%) SaaS
7 62 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 53 (3.07%) IaaS
9 50 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
10 49 (2.84%) GitHub
11 47 (2.72%) Amazon S3
12 44 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
13 38 (2.20%) PaaS
13 38 (2.20%) Snowflake
13 38 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 35 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 33 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.22%) Firewall
2 70 (4.05%) Network Security
3 52 (3.01%) WAN
4 42 (2.43%) VPN
5 39 (2.26%) DNS
6 30 (1.74%) SD-WAN
7 28 (1.62%) LAN
8 17 (0.98%) BGP
9 15 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 14 (0.81%) OSPF
11 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.58%) VXLAN
13 8 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.46%) MPLS
13 8 (0.46%) OpenVPN
14 6 (0.35%) 5G
14 6 (0.35%) Internet
14 6 (0.35%) VSAN
15 5 (0.29%) SSL
16 4 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (3.18%) Data Lake
2 55 (3.18%) Power BI
3 46 (2.66%) Metadata
4 34 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 29 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 24 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 17 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (0.98%) Delta Lake
9 17 (0.98%) Tableau
10 15 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 15 (0.87%) DB2
11 14 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (0.81%) Big Data
12 12 (0.69%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.64%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
14 10 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (2.37%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.62%) JIRA
3 24 (1.39%) GitLab
4 23 (1.33%) Git
5 10 (0.58%) ERwin
6 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
8 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.12%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.12%) Maven
10 2 (0.12%) Postman
10 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.058%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.058%) ER Studio
General
1 407 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 361 (20.89%) Finance
3 209 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 125 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (6.94%) Banking
6 69 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (2.60%) Retail
9 40 (2.31%) Legal
10 37 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.56%) Law
13 26 (1.50%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.50%) Marketing
14 23 (1.33%) Billing
15 18 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.75%) Military
17 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.58%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (7.41%) REST
2 93 (5.38%) Middleware
3 67 (3.88%) SOAP
4 61 (3.53%) LDAP
5 44 (2.55%) .NET
5 44 (2.55%) OpenID
6 38 (2.20%) JSON
7 33 (1.91%) Kafka
7 33 (1.91%) SAML
8 30 (1.74%) OAuth
9 25 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.04%) React
11 16 (0.93%) PySpark
12 15 (0.87%) Spring
13 14 (0.81%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (0.69%) RESTful
15 11 (0.64%) Vue
15 11 (0.64%) XML
16 10 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 69 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
3 60 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.66%) Security Posture
6 45 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 38 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.20%) PKI
9 36 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
10 35 (2.03%) Product Ownership
11 31 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.27%) CMDB
14 20 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.10%) Replication
16 17 (0.98%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.93%) Private Cloud
18 15 (0.87%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.85%) Windows
2 22 (1.27%) Linux
3 10 (0.58%) zOS
4 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.23%) Android
5 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.17%) Unix
6 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.058%) CentOS
8 1 (0.058%) Solaris
8 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (14.70%) Roadmaps
2 245 (14.18%) DevOps
3 238 (13.77%) Migration
4 210 (12.15%) CI/CD
5 206 (11.92%) Agile
6 205 (11.86%) AI
7 204 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 183 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
9 181 (10.47%) Data Modelling
10 179 (10.36%) Integration Patterns
11 178 (10.30%) Analytics
12 173 (10.01%) Data Architecture
12 173 (10.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 173 (10.01%) Technical Leadership
13 161 (9.32%) Enterprise Architecture
14 144 (8.33%) TOGAF
15 128 (7.41%) Architectural Patterns
16 124 (7.18%) Microservices
17 121 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 107 (6.19%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.32%) Python
2 130 (7.52%) SQL
3 88 (5.09%) PowerShell
4 64 (3.70%) Java
5 28 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.50%) C#
7 23 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.10%) Bicep
9 14 (0.81%) Bash
10 9 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.46%) Ruby
12 7 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.35%) Scala
14 5 (0.29%) R
15 4 (0.23%) Go
15 4 (0.23%) Korn
16 3 (0.17%) C++
16 3 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 502 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 429 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 76 (4.40%) Degree
4 70 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 49 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 48 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 38 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 32 (1.85%) CISSP
9 31 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (0.98%) CCNP
14 16 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.87%) CISM
16 13 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.75%) CCIE
17 11 (0.64%) CCSP
18 5 (0.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.88%) GDPR
2 56 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 48 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.37%) NIST
5 40 (2.31%) NCSC
6 35 (2.03%) QA
7 26 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.81%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.58%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.58%) GRC
10 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.46%) PSD2
12 7 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.41%) SEPA
13 6 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.29%) HL7
14 5 (0.29%) PERC
14 5 (0.29%) SLA
15 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (4.34%) Active Directory
1 75 (4.34%) Docker
2 26 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.98%) VMware NSX
4 9 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.46%) Squid
6 6 (0.35%) vSphere
7 5 (0.29%) Varnish
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Firmware
9 2 (0.12%) Lustre
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.058%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 130 (7.52%) Terraform
2 120 (6.94%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.31%) Ansible
4 22 (1.27%) Grafana
5 20 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.98%) FortiGate
7 14 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.41%) Consul
10 4 (0.23%) Istio
10 4 (0.23%) Kibana
11 3 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.12%) Puppet
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 250 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.44%) SAP
3 91 (5.27%) Salesforce
3 91 (5.27%) ServiceNow
4 90 (5.21%) Databricks
5 70 (4.05%) Oracle
6 61 (3.53%) CyberArk
7 43 (2.49%) Cisco
8 42 (2.43%) Google
9 34 (1.97%) BeyondTrust
9 34 (1.97%) Centrify
9 34 (1.97%) Splunk
10 32 (1.85%) VMware
11 26 (1.50%) IBM
12 24 (1.39%) Palo Alto
13 23 (1.33%) MuleSoft
14 22 (1.27%) Workday
15 21 (1.22%) OpenAI
16 19 (1.10%) Zscaler
17 15 (0.87%) Ariba