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 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 18 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,257 1,501 1,821
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.96% 9.58% 9.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.71% 10.22% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 893 1,308
10th Percentile £450 £500 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £630 £667
Median % change year-on-year - -5.48% -1.26%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £745
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £63.00 £43.39 £44.59
25th Percentile £65.25 £55.97 £46.94
Median hourly rate £78.75 £76.93 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +34.38% -23.67%
75th Percentile £94.69 £97.90 £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £110.47 -
England median hourly rate £85.00 £66.75 £76.53
% change year-on-year +27.34% -12.78% +9.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,950 14,681 18,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 93.66% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,600 9,530 13,307
10th Percentile £335 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £790
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 159 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.80 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +1.83% +3.26%
75th Percentile £52.88 £57.38 £59.69
90th Percentile £75.79 £81.24 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -1 172 £650 - 87
West London +4 30 £450 -28.00% 31
South London +8 15 £613 +22.50% 11
East London +6 13 £675 - 13
North London +3 3 £700 -7.50% 5
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, 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.

1 421 (33.49%) Azure
2 301 (23.95%) AWS
3 275 (21.88%) Security Cleared
4 226 (17.98%) SC Cleared
5 215 (17.10%) Microsoft
6 198 (15.75%) Agile
7 185 (14.72%) Roadmaps
8 172 (13.68%) DevOps
9 168 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 164 (13.05%) Data Modelling
11 160 (12.73%) Migration
12 159 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
13 149 (11.85%) CI/CD
14 142 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 135 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 128 (10.18%) Data Architecture
17 125 (9.94%) Microservices
18 124 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
19 120 (9.55%) Analytics
20 116 (9.23%) AI
20 116 (9.23%) TOGAF
21 113 (8.99%) GCP
22 112 (8.91%) Data Governance
23 108 (8.59%) Python
24 104 (8.27%) Terraform
25 95 (7.56%) Security Architecture
26 94 (7.48%) REST
27 92 (7.32%) Integration Patterns
28 87 (6.92%) Firewall
29 85 (6.76%) 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 34 (2.70%) Confluence
2 22 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.03%) CMS
4 12 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.72%) Apache
7 6 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.32%) SAS
8 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) Mule
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.080%) Ethereum
Applications
1 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (0.64%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.080%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 36 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.72%) Endur
4 9 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.56%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.48%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.48%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
7 5 (0.40%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.32%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.32%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.32%) thinkFolio
9 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 421 (33.49%) Azure
2 301 (23.95%) AWS
3 113 (8.99%) GCP
4 79 (6.28%) Power Platform
5 69 (5.49%) SaaS
6 52 (4.14%) IaaS
7 50 (3.98%) Entra ID
8 46 (3.66%) Serverless
9 44 (3.50%) Snowflake
10 42 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.86%) PaaS
12 35 (2.78%) GitHub
13 31 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 26 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.99%) Amazon S3
16 25 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
17 23 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 87 (6.92%) Firewall
2 46 (3.66%) WAN
3 44 (3.50%) LAN
4 40 (3.18%) Network Security
5 37 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 36 (2.86%) VPN
7 26 (2.07%) DNS
7 26 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 17 (1.35%) SSL
10 10 (0.80%) BGP
10 10 (0.80%) DHCP
11 9 (0.72%) Internet
12 7 (0.56%) OSPF
13 6 (0.48%) NAS
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
13 6 (0.48%) SAN
13 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.48%) VSAN
14 5 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.06%) Data Lake
2 49 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (3.58%) Power BI
4 41 (3.26%) Metadata
5 24 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 18 (1.43%) Data Vault
9 16 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.11%) Big Data
11 12 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.95%) BigQuery
11 12 (0.95%) Delta Lake
12 10 (0.80%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.64%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.64%) MongoDB
13 8 (0.64%) Tableau
14 7 (0.56%) SAP BW
14 7 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.42%) JIRA
2 17 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.88%) Git
4 9 (0.72%) GitLab
5 8 (0.64%) ERwin
6 3 (0.24%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.16%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.16%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.16%) GCC
7 2 (0.16%) MLflow
7 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.080%) Postman
8 1 (0.080%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.080%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 343 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 315 (25.06%) Finance
3 144 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 121 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (8.59%) Banking
6 39 (3.10%) Retail
7 37 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 30 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (2.31%) Legal
10 29 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 28 (2.23%) Marketing
12 26 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.67%) Billing
15 16 (1.27%) Back Office
16 11 (0.88%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.72%) Electronics
17 9 (0.72%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (7.48%) REST
2 56 (4.46%) JSON
3 47 (3.74%) Middleware
4 43 (3.42%) .NET
5 35 (2.78%) SOAP
6 34 (2.70%) AngularJS
7 32 (2.55%) Kafka
8 29 (2.31%) SAML
9 28 (2.23%) OAuth
10 22 (1.75%) React
11 21 (1.67%) RESTful
12 20 (1.59%) OpenID
13 19 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (1.51%) Web Services
14 17 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
15 16 (1.27%) LDAP
15 16 (1.27%) OAuth2
16 15 (1.19%) PySpark
17 13 (1.03%) HTML
18 12 (0.95%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 114 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 52 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
3 48 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.02%) PKI
6 35 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.35%) Low-Code
11 16 (1.27%) CMDB
11 16 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.11%) Reinsurance
12 14 (1.11%) Replication
13 13 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.86%) Windows
2 25 (1.99%) Linux
3 13 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.40%) Android
4 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.40%) Unix
5 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.16%) CentOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.080%) AIX
8 1 (0.080%) Solaris
8 1 (0.080%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (15.75%) Agile
2 185 (14.72%) Roadmaps
3 172 (13.68%) DevOps
4 168 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 164 (13.05%) Data Modelling
6 160 (12.73%) Migration
7 159 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
8 149 (11.85%) CI/CD
9 142 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
10 135 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 128 (10.18%) Data Architecture
12 125 (9.94%) Microservices
13 124 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
14 120 (9.55%) Analytics
15 116 (9.23%) AI
15 116 (9.23%) TOGAF
16 112 (8.91%) Data Governance
17 95 (7.56%) Security Architecture
18 92 (7.32%) Integration Patterns
19 77 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 108 (8.59%) Python
2 85 (6.76%) SQL
3 66 (5.25%) Java
4 54 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 39 (3.10%) JavaScript
6 33 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.23%) C#
8 20 (1.59%) Bicep
9 17 (1.35%) Bash
10 12 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.48%) C
12 6 (0.48%) Korn
13 5 (0.40%) C++
13 5 (0.40%) R
13 5 (0.40%) Scala
13 5 (0.40%) SOQL
14 4 (0.32%) Perl
14 4 (0.32%) PHP
14 4 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 275 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 226 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 66 (5.25%) Degree
4 43 (3.42%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.07%) CISSP
9 23 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (1.19%) CCNP
13 15 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.80%) CCIE
15 8 (0.64%) CISM
16 5 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.40%) JNCIE
17 4 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.65%) GDPR
2 47 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (3.02%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.78%) NIST
5 23 (1.83%) QA
6 18 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.11%) HIPAA
8 11 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.88%) NCSC
9 10 (0.80%) GRC
10 8 (0.64%) MiFID
11 7 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.40%) COBIT
12 5 (0.40%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.24%) PERC
14 3 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (4.46%) Docker
2 46 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.48%) vSphere
6 5 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.080%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.080%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.080%) GPFS
8 1 (0.080%) Lustre
8 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.080%) Postfix
8 1 (0.080%) Varnish
8 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (8.27%) Terraform
2 65 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.55%) Ansible
4 26 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.56%) Grafana
8 6 (0.48%) SCCM
9 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.16%) Argo
9 2 (0.16%) Nagios
9 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.16%) vRealize
10 1 (0.080%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.080%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.080%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.080%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.080%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 1 (0.080%) VxRail
Vendors
1 215 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.60%) ServiceNow
3 80 (6.36%) SAP
4 70 (5.57%) Salesforce
5 67 (5.33%) Databricks
6 60 (4.77%) Oracle
7 48 (3.82%) Google
8 46 (3.66%) Cisco
9 31 (2.47%) Fortinet
10 24 (1.91%) Splunk
10 24 (1.91%) VMware
11 19 (1.51%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.27%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.27%) Remedy
14 15 (1.19%) IBM
14 15 (1.19%) Pega
15 14 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.11%) Workday
16 12 (0.95%) F5