Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,391 1,365 1,693
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.52% 9.76% 9.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.29% 10.44% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 803 1,206
10th Percentile £463 £488 £500
25th Percentile £538 £546 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £763 £743
90th Percentile £838 £810 £800
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -
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 £81.50 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +12.41% -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 13,515 13,078 16,836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.55% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,985 8,419 12,143
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% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 143 275
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.34 £18.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.05% -9.05%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £67.20
England median hourly rate £28.84 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.61% -12.50% +14.29%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -3 191 £650 - 73
West London -8 19 £644 +14.40% 13
South London -1 8 £538 -18.56% 9
East London -4 7 £675 +3.85% 11
North London +8 3 £700 -1.89%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 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.

1 457 (32.85%) Azure
2 377 (27.10%) Security Cleared
3 343 (24.66%) AWS
4 317 (22.79%) SC Cleared
5 215 (15.46%) Microsoft
6 187 (13.44%) Roadmaps
7 179 (12.87%) Agile
8 176 (12.65%) DevOps
9 175 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 169 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
11 162 (11.65%) Migration
12 160 (11.50%) CI/CD
13 156 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
14 154 (11.07%) Data Modelling
14 154 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 149 (10.71%) AI
16 135 (9.71%) Analytics
16 135 (9.71%) Enterprise Architecture
17 134 (9.63%) Python
18 133 (9.56%) Data Architecture
19 130 (9.35%) Integration Patterns
20 128 (9.20%) GCP
21 108 (7.76%) REST
21 108 (7.76%) Terraform
22 107 (7.69%) Microservices
23 103 (7.40%) TOGAF
24 99 (7.12%) SQL
25 94 (6.76%) Security Architecture
26 93 (6.69%) Data Governance
27 92 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code

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 26 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.15%) Confluence
3 12 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (0.86%) CMS
4 10 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.43%) Apache
7 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.22%) Mule
9 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Luigi
9 2 (0.14%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.14%) SAS
9 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.14%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.072%) ArchiCAD
5 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.43%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.36%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.29%) Endur
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.22%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.22%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.22%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 457 (32.85%) Azure
2 343 (24.66%) AWS
3 128 (9.20%) GCP
4 75 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 63 (4.53%) Serverless
6 56 (4.03%) SaaS
7 52 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 46 (3.31%) IaaS
9 41 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (2.73%) Amazon S3
11 38 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (2.66%) GitHub
13 32 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 30 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 29 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (2.08%) PaaS
16 26 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 25 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.67%) Firewall
2 56 (4.03%) WAN
3 51 (3.67%) Network Security
4 37 (2.66%) VPN
5 36 (2.59%) LAN
6 30 (2.16%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.94%) DNS
8 14 (1.01%) BGP
8 14 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.86%) OSPF
10 8 (0.58%) SSL
11 7 (0.50%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.43%) BIG-IP
12 6 (0.43%) Internet
12 6 (0.43%) NGFW
13 5 (0.36%) 5G
13 5 (0.36%) DHCP
13 5 (0.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (0.36%) MPLS
13 5 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.67%) Data Lake
2 45 (3.24%) Power BI
3 43 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (2.01%) Metadata
6 22 (1.58%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.22%) Data Vault
10 16 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (0.93%) Delta Lake
12 13 (0.93%) Tableau
13 12 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (0.65%) Spark SQL
16 9 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.58%) DB2
Development Applications
1 32 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.44%) JIRA
3 18 (1.29%) GitLab
4 8 (0.58%) Git
5 7 (0.50%) ERwin
6 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.14%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.072%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.072%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.072%) MLflow
9 1 (0.072%) Postman
9 1 (0.072%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.072%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.072%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.072%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 360 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 303 (21.78%) Finance
3 162 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 111 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (7.05%) Banking
6 36 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 36 (2.59%) Legal
7 35 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 33 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 31 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (2.23%) Retail
10 29 (2.08%) Marketing
11 27 (1.94%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.65%) Billing
14 18 (1.29%) Law
15 13 (0.93%) Military
16 11 (0.79%) Back Office
16 11 (0.79%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (7.76%) REST
2 57 (4.10%) Middleware
2 57 (4.10%) SOAP
3 49 (3.52%) LDAP
4 41 (2.95%) JSON
5 35 (2.52%) .NET
6 34 (2.44%) Kafka
7 29 (2.08%) OpenID
8 27 (1.94%) OAuth
8 27 (1.94%) SAML
9 20 (1.44%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.29%) PySpark
11 15 (1.08%) RESTful
12 13 (0.93%) OAuth2
13 11 (0.79%) React
14 10 (0.72%) ARM Templates
14 10 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (0.72%) Spring
14 10 (0.72%) Spring Boot
15 9 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
3 44 (3.16%) Security Posture
4 43 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 38 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 38 (2.73%) PKI
7 34 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.23%) Product Ownership
10 26 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.01%) Replication
15 13 (0.93%) CMDB
15 13 (0.93%) FMCG
15 13 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.37%) Windows
2 20 (1.44%) Linux
3 10 (0.72%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.43%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) Android
5 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.22%) CentOS
7 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.22%) zOS
8 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.072%) Solaris
9 1 (0.072%) VMS
9 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (13.44%) Roadmaps
2 179 (12.87%) Agile
3 176 (12.65%) DevOps
4 175 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 169 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (11.65%) Migration
7 160 (11.50%) CI/CD
8 156 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
9 154 (11.07%) Data Modelling
9 154 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 149 (10.71%) AI
11 135 (9.71%) Analytics
11 135 (9.71%) Enterprise Architecture
12 133 (9.56%) Data Architecture
13 130 (9.35%) Integration Patterns
14 107 (7.69%) Microservices
15 103 (7.40%) TOGAF
16 94 (6.76%) Security Architecture
17 93 (6.69%) Data Governance
18 92 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 134 (9.63%) Python
2 99 (7.12%) SQL
3 84 (6.04%) PowerShell
4 50 (3.59%) Java
5 25 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.58%) C#
7 19 (1.37%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.29%) Bicep
9 12 (0.86%) Bash
10 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.43%) Ruby
13 4 (0.29%) Korn
13 4 (0.29%) Scala
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) R
14 3 (0.22%) SOQL
15 2 (0.14%) SOSL
15 2 (0.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 377 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 317 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.60%) Degree
4 46 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 45 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 35 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.44%) CISSP
11 19 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.01%) CCNP
16 10 (0.72%) CCIE
17 7 (0.50%) CCSE
17 7 (0.50%) CISM
18 6 (0.43%) JNCIE
19 5 (0.36%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.81%) GDPR
2 46 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 40 (2.88%) NIST
5 34 (2.44%) QA
6 29 (2.08%) NCSC
7 19 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.58%) GRC
11 7 (0.50%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.36%) PERC
13 4 (0.29%) MiFID
13 4 (0.29%) SLA
14 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) GxP
System Software
1 72 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 63 (4.53%) Docker
3 17 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.72%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.36%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.22%) Lustre
7 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Ceph
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.14%) Varnish
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.072%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.072%) GPFS
9 1 (0.072%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 108 (7.76%) Terraform
2 76 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.44%) Ansible
4 14 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.50%) Grafana
7 5 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.29%) Kibana
8 4 (0.29%) SCCM
9 3 (0.22%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.14%) Argo
10 2 (0.14%) Istio
10 2 (0.14%) Nagios
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.072%) vRealize
Vendors
1 215 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.04%) SAP
3 80 (5.75%) Salesforce
4 74 (5.32%) Databricks
5 73 (5.25%) ServiceNow
6 62 (4.46%) CyberArk
7 60 (4.31%) Oracle
8 40 (2.88%) Cisco
9 35 (2.52%) Google
10 34 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (2.44%) Centrify
11 27 (1.94%) Splunk
12 24 (1.73%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.44%) VMware
14 19 (1.37%) OpenAI
15 15 (1.08%) IBM
15 15 (1.08%) Zscaler
16 13 (0.93%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.93%) Pega
16 13 (0.93%) Workday