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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,548 1,344 1,582
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.69% 9.91% 9.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.62% 10.66% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 867 1,113
10th Percentile £481 £478 £488
25th Percentile £525 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £734 £763
90th Percentile £813 £800 £850
England median daily rate £620 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.80% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £48.20 £66.25 £58.69
25th Percentile £55.00 £71.88 £68.72
Median hourly rate £61.00 £82.50 £86.43
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% -4.55% +32.97%
75th Percentile £78.75 £91.88 £103.15
90th Percentile £99.65 £96.75 £112.57
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 18,713 12,606 15,208
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 92.95% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,486 10,681
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 208 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -11.24%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.81 £54.69
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +16 357 £625 -6.19% 91
West London -11 37 £625 +38.89% 15
East London 0 13 £700 +3.70% 8
South London -17 8 £688 +1.51% 4
North London -3 2 £650 -17.46%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 724 (28.41%) Azure
2 649 (25.47%) Security Cleared
3 587 (23.04%) AWS
4 538 (21.11%) SC Cleared
5 420 (16.48%) Roadmaps
6 416 (16.33%) Migration
7 393 (15.42%) AI
8 386 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 343 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 332 (13.03%) Microsoft
11 310 (12.17%) Analytics
12 301 (11.81%) Data Modelling
13 300 (11.77%) DevOps
14 281 (11.03%) CI/CD
15 275 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 273 (10.71%) Data Architecture
17 263 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
18 261 (10.24%) Integration Patterns
19 251 (9.85%) Agile
20 220 (8.63%) GCP
21 206 (8.08%) TOGAF
22 202 (7.93%) Architectural Patterns
23 186 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
24 178 (6.99%) Security Architecture
25 173 (6.79%) Event-Driven
26 168 (6.59%) Data Governance
27 167 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
28 166 (6.51%) Power Platform
29 165 (6.48%) Translating Business Requirements
30 159 (6.24%) Architectural Design

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 38 (1.49%) SAS
1 38 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.33%) Apache
3 32 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 25 (0.98%) Confluence
5 18 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.51%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.27%) Camunda
10 6 (0.24%) Appian
10 6 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.16%) nginx
12 3 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.078%) Mendix
13 2 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.039%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.039%) Notion
3 1 (0.039%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.039%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.31%) SAP BRIM
6 6 (0.24%) Endur
7 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 724 (28.41%) Azure
2 587 (23.04%) AWS
3 220 (8.63%) GCP
4 166 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 103 (4.04%) SaaS
6 99 (3.89%) Entra ID
7 84 (3.30%) Serverless
8 81 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
9 78 (3.06%) GitHub
10 72 (2.83%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
11 62 (2.43%) PaaS
12 49 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
13 44 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 41 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.49%) IaaS
16 34 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 34 (1.33%) OCI
17 33 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 31 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.41%) Network Security
2 51 (2.00%) Firewall
3 32 (1.26%) VPN
4 28 (1.10%) WAN
5 26 (1.02%) DNS
6 19 (0.75%) LAN
7 15 (0.59%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.43%) BGP
9 11 (0.43%) MPLS
10 10 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.35%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) 5G
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
14 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.24%) DMZ
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (4.55%) Power BI
2 95 (3.73%) Data Lake
3 79 (3.10%) Metadata
4 76 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.26%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.22%) Big Data
7 26 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 26 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (0.86%) Delta Lake
10 14 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (0.55%) Data Vault
11 13 (0.51%) Tableau
12 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.43%) GIS
13 11 (0.43%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (1.49%) Git
2 37 (1.45%) JIRA
3 27 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.71%) GitLab
5 7 (0.27%) ERwin
5 7 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.24%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.24%) Storybook
7 5 (0.20%) Maven
7 5 (0.20%) MLflow
7 5 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.16%) Snyk
9 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.12%) JMeter
9 3 (0.12%) VTune
10 2 (0.078%) Flyway
10 2 (0.078%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.078%) MSI
General
1 488 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 470 (18.45%) Finance
3 285 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 162 (6.36%) Banking
5 142 (5.57%) Retail
6 129 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 75 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 54 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 53 (2.08%) Legal
11 43 (1.69%) Law
12 40 (1.57%) Marketing
13 37 (1.45%) Billing
14 27 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 25 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.90%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.59%) Local Government
17 15 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.47%) Aviation
18 12 (0.47%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (5.77%) REST
2 83 (3.26%) .NET
3 76 (2.98%) Middleware
4 72 (2.83%) Kafka
5 66 (2.59%) SOAP
6 46 (1.81%) OAuth
7 31 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
8 30 (1.18%) .NET Framework
9 29 (1.14%) JSON
10 27 (1.06%) React
11 26 (1.02%) OAuth2
11 26 (1.02%) PySpark
12 23 (0.90%) RESTful
13 22 (0.86%) SAML
14 20 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
14 20 (0.78%) OpenID
14 20 (0.78%) XML
15 18 (0.71%) JWT
16 16 (0.63%) AngularJS
16 16 (0.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 245 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 76 (2.98%) Data Centre
3 73 (2.86%) AI Agents
3 73 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 68 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 66 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 56 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 55 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
9 53 (2.08%) CMDB
10 52 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
13 35 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.26%) Security Posture
15 29 (1.14%) Taxonomies
16 26 (1.02%) Mainframe
17 25 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 22 (0.86%) IoT
19 21 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (1.65%) Linux
2 33 (1.30%) Windows
3 12 (0.47%) Unix
4 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.31%) Android
6 5 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.16%) zOS
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.078%) VMS
10 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (16.48%) Roadmaps
2 416 (16.33%) Migration
3 393 (15.42%) AI
4 386 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 343 (13.46%) Enterprise Architecture
6 310 (12.17%) Analytics
7 301 (11.81%) Data Modelling
8 300 (11.77%) DevOps
9 281 (11.03%) CI/CD
10 275 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 273 (10.71%) Data Architecture
12 263 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
13 261 (10.24%) Integration Patterns
14 251 (9.85%) Agile
15 206 (8.08%) TOGAF
16 202 (7.93%) Architectural Patterns
17 186 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 178 (6.99%) Security Architecture
19 173 (6.79%) Event-Driven
20 168 (6.59%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 144 (5.65%) Python
2 133 (5.22%) SQL
3 104 (4.08%) Java
4 61 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 46 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 35 (1.37%) C#
7 26 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 25 (0.98%) Bicep
9 20 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 18 (0.71%) Bash
11 14 (0.55%) Ruby
12 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.39%) C++
14 8 (0.31%) Scala
15 7 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.24%) Cypher
16 6 (0.24%) Groovy
16 6 (0.24%) Rust
17 4 (0.16%) Gremlin
17 4 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 649 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 538 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 74 (2.90%) Degree
4 68 (2.67%) CISSP
5 64 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 58 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 38 (1.49%) CISM
9 36 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 29 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (0.55%) CISA
16 14 (0.55%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.47%) CCSP
18 11 (0.43%) CCNP
19 8 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 89 (3.49%) GDPR
3 79 (3.10%) NIST
4 72 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.96%) GRC
6 32 (1.26%) NCSC
7 29 (1.14%) QA
8 21 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.67%) SEPA
11 14 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 13 (0.51%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
13 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.31%) IFRS
16 6 (0.24%) COBIT
16 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (2.32%) Active Directory
2 47 (1.84%) Docker
3 21 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Varnish
4 7 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.24%) Postfix
6 5 (0.20%) NFS
6 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
7 4 (0.16%) vSphere
8 3 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.078%) IAG
9 2 (0.078%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.078%) Squid
10 1 (0.039%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.039%) Firmware
10 1 (0.039%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (4.67%) Terraform
2 108 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 44 (1.73%) Ansible
4 24 (0.94%) Grafana
5 20 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.35%) Argo
8 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
10 4 (0.16%) SCCM
11 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 3 (0.12%) Istio
11 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.078%) Puppet
12 2 (0.078%) QRadar
12 2 (0.078%) VxRail
13 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 332 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 159 (6.24%) Oracle
3 151 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 149 (5.85%) Databricks
5 141 (5.53%) SAP
6 119 (4.67%) Salesforce
7 63 (2.47%) Google
8 51 (2.00%) Cisco
9 35 (1.37%) CyberArk
9 35 (1.37%) Workday
10 31 (1.22%) IBM
11 30 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 29 (1.14%) Foundry
13 26 (1.02%) Ariba
13 26 (1.02%) OpenAI
14 25 (0.98%) Splunk
14 25 (0.98%) VMware
15 22 (0.86%) Palo Alto
16 19 (0.75%) Adobe
16 19 (0.75%) Sparx