Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,450 1,425 1,765
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.40% 10.51% 10.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.35% 11.27% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,661 934 1,264
10th Percentile £463 £488 £488
25th Percentile £515 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £735 £738 £753
90th Percentile £800 £801 £875
England median daily rate £616 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.40% -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £53.95 £54.50 £53.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £54.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83.44 £83.75 £90.68
90th Percentile £100.73 £93.50 £107.59
England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

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 18,355 12,645 16,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.24% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,046 8,538 11,642
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £447 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 199 292
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.43 £22.83 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.50 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +7.69% -21.83%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £63.75 £69.43
England median hourly rate £46.73 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.89% -30.00% -6.98%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +15 366 £621 -7.96% 90
West London -11 30 £625 +25.00% 24
South London -8 22 £723 +6.68% 2
East London +4 16 £672 +12.00% 10
North London -3 1 £650 -3.70% 1
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 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.

1 690 (28.16%) Azure
2 638 (26.04%) Security Cleared
3 581 (23.71%) AWS
4 542 (22.12%) SC Cleared
5 405 (16.53%) Migration
6 396 (16.16%) Roadmaps
7 378 (15.43%) AI
8 319 (13.02%) Microsoft
8 319 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 310 (12.65%) DevOps
10 286 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
11 285 (11.63%) Data Modelling
12 284 (11.59%) Analytics
13 277 (11.31%) CI/CD
14 249 (10.16%) Agile
15 248 (10.12%) Data Architecture
16 242 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 230 (9.39%) Integration Patterns
18 220 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
19 216 (8.82%) GCP
20 207 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
20 207 (8.45%) TOGAF
21 186 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
22 169 (6.90%) Architectural Design
22 169 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
23 155 (6.33%) Microservices
23 155 (6.33%) Python
24 154 (6.29%) Event-Driven
24 154 (6.29%) Security Architecture
25 151 (6.16%) ERP

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 42 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.22%) Confluence
3 28 (1.14%) Apache
4 26 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.90%) SAS
6 17 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.45%) nginx
9 10 (0.41%) CMS
10 9 (0.37%) Camunda
10 9 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.33%) Appian
12 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.082%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.082%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.041%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.041%) Notion
4 1 (0.041%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.041%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 62 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.33%) SAP BRIM
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.24%) Endur
8 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
9 4 (0.16%) SAP Convergent Charging
9 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
10 3 (0.12%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 690 (28.16%) Azure
2 581 (23.71%) AWS
3 216 (8.82%) GCP
4 151 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 106 (4.33%) SaaS
6 90 (3.67%) Entra ID
7 86 (3.51%) Serverless
8 79 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
9 67 (2.73%) GitHub
10 66 (2.69%) Snowflake
11 63 (2.57%) PaaS
12 56 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (2.04%) Amazon S3
14 45 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
16 42 (1.71%) IaaS
17 36 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 33 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
19 31 (1.27%) PowerApps
20 30 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 93 (3.80%) Network Security
2 69 (2.82%) Firewall
3 45 (1.84%) VPN
4 38 (1.55%) DNS
5 25 (1.02%) WAN
6 18 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.61%) LAN
8 12 (0.49%) BGP
9 11 (0.45%) OSPF
9 11 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.41%) MPLS
10 10 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.37%) 5G
11 9 (0.37%) OpenVPN
11 9 (0.37%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.33%) NGFW
13 7 (0.29%) 3GPP
13 7 (0.29%) 4G
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (4.45%) Power BI
2 86 (3.51%) Data Lake
3 74 (3.02%) Metadata
4 68 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 31 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 30 (1.22%) Big Data
7 26 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (0.61%) Delta Lake
11 15 (0.61%) Tableau
12 14 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
14 10 (0.41%) Data Vault
14 10 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (1.71%) JIRA
2 39 (1.59%) Git
2 39 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.65%) GitLab
4 10 (0.41%) ERwin
5 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.33%) MLflow
7 7 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
9 5 (0.20%) Maven
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.16%) Snyk
11 3 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.12%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.12%) JMeter
11 3 (0.12%) Storybook
11 3 (0.12%) VTune
12 2 (0.082%) Robot Framework
General
1 477 (19.47%) Finance
2 452 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 280 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 165 (6.73%) Banking
5 125 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (5.10%) Retail
6 80 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 77 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.04%) Legal
10 40 (1.63%) Law
11 39 (1.59%) Billing
12 32 (1.31%) Marketing
13 27 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 20 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.41%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.37%) Local Government
17 9 (0.37%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (5.14%) REST
2 87 (3.55%) Middleware
3 82 (3.35%) .NET
4 62 (2.53%) SOAP
5 56 (2.29%) Kafka
6 36 (1.47%) OAuth
6 36 (1.47%) OpenID
7 32 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 32 (1.31%) SAML
8 30 (1.22%) .NET Framework
8 30 (1.22%) React
9 28 (1.14%) LDAP
10 21 (0.86%) PySpark
11 20 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
12 19 (0.78%) AngularJS
12 19 (0.78%) OAuth2
13 18 (0.73%) JSON
14 17 (0.69%) RESTful
15 16 (0.65%) XML
16 14 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 241 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.14%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 65 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 61 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 60 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 54 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 51 (2.08%) CMDB
9 49 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 46 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 38 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 28 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.02%) Mainframe
15 25 (1.02%) Public Cloud
15 25 (1.02%) Taxonomies
16 22 (0.90%) IoT
16 22 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 38 (1.55%) Linux
2 30 (1.22%) Windows
3 10 (0.41%) Android
3 10 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 10 (0.41%) Unix
4 8 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.33%) zOS
5 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Solaris
9 2 (0.082%) CentOS
9 2 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (16.53%) Migration
2 396 (16.16%) Roadmaps
3 378 (15.43%) AI
4 319 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 310 (12.65%) DevOps
6 286 (11.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 285 (11.63%) Data Modelling
8 284 (11.59%) Analytics
9 277 (11.31%) CI/CD
10 249 (10.16%) Agile
11 248 (10.12%) Data Architecture
12 242 (9.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 230 (9.39%) Integration Patterns
14 220 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
15 207 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
15 207 (8.45%) TOGAF
16 186 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
17 169 (6.90%) Architectural Design
17 169 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
18 155 (6.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 155 (6.33%) Python
2 128 (5.22%) SQL
3 108 (4.41%) Java
4 53 (2.16%) JavaScript
5 42 (1.71%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.47%) C#
7 25 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.94%) Bicep
9 20 (0.82%) Apex Code
10 17 (0.69%) Bash
11 15 (0.61%) Ruby
12 9 (0.37%) Scala
13 7 (0.29%) Go
13 7 (0.29%) R
13 7 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.24%) C++
15 5 (0.20%) Cypher
15 5 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.20%) Rust
16 4 (0.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 638 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 542 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 82 (3.35%) Degree
4 67 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 66 (2.69%) CISSP
6 58 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 48 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (1.43%) CISM
9 35 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.61%) CCSP
16 14 (0.57%) CISA
17 13 (0.53%) CCNP
18 10 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (3.51%) GDPR
2 85 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 75 (3.06%) NIST
4 66 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.76%) NCSC
6 32 (1.31%) GRC
7 30 (1.22%) QA
8 19 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.73%) SEPA
10 16 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.57%) NIST 800
12 12 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.33%) PSD2
15 7 (0.29%) IFRS
16 6 (0.24%) COBIT
16 6 (0.24%) HL7
17 5 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 57 (2.33%) Docker
2 50 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.37%) Squid
5 8 (0.33%) Varnish
5 8 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.29%) Postfix
7 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.20%) NFS
9 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.082%) IAG
10 2 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.041%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.041%) HDFS
11 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.39%) Terraform
3 45 (1.84%) Ansible
4 30 (1.22%) Grafana
5 24 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.29%) Consul
9 7 (0.29%) HAProxy
10 6 (0.24%) Argo
11 4 (0.16%) SCCM
12 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.082%) Istio
13 2 (0.082%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.082%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.082%) Puppet
13 2 (0.082%) QRadar
13 2 (0.082%) VxRail
Vendors
1 319 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 144 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 141 (5.76%) Oracle
4 138 (5.63%) SAP
5 134 (5.47%) Databricks
6 110 (4.49%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.88%) Cisco
7 46 (1.88%) Google
8 43 (1.76%) CyberArk
9 39 (1.59%) Splunk
10 33 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 33 (1.35%) Workday
11 32 (1.31%) IBM
12 29 (1.18%) OpenAI
13 28 (1.14%) Foundry
14 26 (1.06%) Ariba
15 24 (0.98%) VMware
16 21 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 20 (0.82%) Dynatrace
18 16 (0.65%) Sparx