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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,552 1,319 1,590
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.71% 9.81% 9.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.64% 10.56% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,736 849 1,113
10th Percentile £484 £475 £488
25th Percentile £525 £559 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £738 £737 £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 18,705 12,491 15,254
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.91% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,164 8,408 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 £659 £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 354 206 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.04 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% -12.77% -11.05%
75th Percentile £59.94 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £79.63 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +15 356 £625 -6.19% 66
West London -16 37 £625 +38.89% 13
East London 0 13 £700 +3.70% 10
South London -15 8 £688 +1.51% 7
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 19 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.

1 728 (28.53%) Azure
2 649 (25.43%) Security Cleared
3 593 (23.24%) AWS
4 539 (21.12%) SC Cleared
5 426 (16.69%) Roadmaps
6 421 (16.50%) Migration
7 402 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 398 (15.60%) AI
9 345 (13.52%) Enterprise Architecture
10 335 (13.13%) Microsoft
11 311 (12.19%) Analytics
12 308 (12.07%) Data Modelling
13 303 (11.87%) DevOps
14 290 (11.36%) CI/CD
15 277 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 275 (10.78%) Data Architecture
17 264 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
18 261 (10.23%) Integration Patterns
19 253 (9.91%) Agile
20 226 (8.86%) GCP
21 204 (7.99%) TOGAF
22 199 (7.80%) Architectural Patterns
23 193 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
24 181 (7.09%) Security Architecture
25 179 (7.01%) Event-Driven
26 172 (6.74%) Data Governance
27 169 (6.62%) Power Platform
28 167 (6.54%) Translating Business Requirements
29 166 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
30 164 (6.43%) Business Intelligence

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
2 37 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.33%) Apache
4 32 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 23 (0.90%) Confluence
6 18 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.51%) CMS
7 13 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
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 65 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.74%) 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 MM
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%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.12%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 728 (28.53%) Azure
2 593 (23.24%) AWS
3 226 (8.86%) GCP
4 169 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 105 (4.11%) SaaS
6 101 (3.96%) Entra ID
7 87 (3.41%) Serverless
8 82 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
9 81 (3.17%) GitHub
10 73 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 62 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
12 59 (2.31%) PaaS
13 47 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
14 44 (1.72%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 35 (1.37%) IaaS
18 34 (1.33%) OCI
19 32 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.41%) Network Security
2 50 (1.96%) Firewall
3 32 (1.25%) VPN
4 30 (1.18%) WAN
5 26 (1.02%) DNS
6 19 (0.74%) LAN
7 16 (0.63%) VXLAN
8 14 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.47%) BGP
10 11 (0.43%) MPLS
10 11 (0.43%) NX-OS
11 10 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.39%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.31%) 4G
12 8 (0.31%) 5G
13 7 (0.27%) NGFW
14 6 (0.24%) 3GPP
14 6 (0.24%) DMZ
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (4.70%) Power BI
2 96 (3.76%) Data Lake
3 81 (3.17%) Metadata
4 79 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 31 (1.21%) Big Data
7 26 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 26 (1.02%) NoSQL
8 24 (0.94%) Delta Lake
9 23 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (0.55%) Data Vault
11 14 (0.55%) Tableau
12 12 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.47%) MongoDB
12 12 (0.47%) Star Schema
13 11 (0.43%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (1.53%) Git
2 34 (1.33%) 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%) MLflow
6 6 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.24%) Storybook
7 5 (0.20%) Maven
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%) Robot Framework
General
1 494 (19.36%) Social Skills
2 471 (18.46%) Finance
3 286 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 161 (6.31%) Banking
5 146 (5.72%) Retail
6 131 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (3.37%) Telecoms
8 77 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (2.04%) Legal
11 44 (1.72%) Law
12 42 (1.65%) Marketing
13 37 (1.45%) Billing
14 29 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 24 (0.94%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.59%) Local Government
16 15 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.51%) Police
18 12 (0.47%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (5.92%) REST
2 82 (3.21%) .NET
3 77 (3.02%) Middleware
4 73 (2.86%) Kafka
5 68 (2.66%) SOAP
6 47 (1.84%) OAuth
7 31 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 29 (1.14%) .NET Framework
8 29 (1.14%) JSON
9 28 (1.10%) PySpark
10 27 (1.06%) OAuth2
11 26 (1.02%) React
12 23 (0.90%) RESTful
12 23 (0.90%) SAML
13 21 (0.82%) OpenID
14 20 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
14 20 (0.78%) XML
15 19 (0.74%) JWT
16 17 (0.67%) AngularJS
17 15 (0.59%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 250 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 77 (3.02%) Data Centre
3 75 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 74 (2.90%) AI Agents
5 67 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 66 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 59 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 53 (2.08%) CMDB
10 51 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 39 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
13 35 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.25%) Security Posture
15 29 (1.14%) Taxonomies
16 26 (1.02%) Mainframe
17 25 (0.98%) Public Cloud
18 23 (0.90%) IoT
19 22 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (1.68%) Linux
2 33 (1.29%) Windows
3 12 (0.47%) Unix
4 10 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.31%) Android
7 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.16%) zOS
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 3 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.078%) CentOS
10 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.078%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (16.69%) Roadmaps
2 421 (16.50%) Migration
3 402 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 398 (15.60%) AI
5 345 (13.52%) Enterprise Architecture
6 311 (12.19%) Analytics
7 308 (12.07%) Data Modelling
8 303 (11.87%) DevOps
9 290 (11.36%) CI/CD
10 277 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 275 (10.78%) Data Architecture
12 264 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
13 261 (10.23%) Integration Patterns
14 253 (9.91%) Agile
15 204 (7.99%) TOGAF
16 199 (7.80%) Architectural Patterns
17 193 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 181 (7.09%) Security Architecture
19 179 (7.01%) Event-Driven
20 172 (6.74%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 147 (5.76%) Python
2 138 (5.41%) SQL
3 106 (4.15%) Java
4 61 (2.39%) JavaScript
5 48 (1.88%) 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%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 649 (25.43%) Security Cleared
2 539 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 74 (2.90%) Degree
4 70 (2.74%) CISSP
5 63 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 60 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 54 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 40 (1.57%) CISM
9 34 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 14 (0.55%) CISA
15 14 (0.55%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.47%) CCNP
16 12 (0.47%) CCSP
17 9 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (4.19%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.57%) GDPR
3 82 (3.21%) NIST
4 73 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.96%) GRC
6 33 (1.29%) NCSC
7 28 (1.10%) QA
8 20 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.67%) SEPA
10 14 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 12 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
11 12 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.31%) IFRS
15 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 49 (1.92%) 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
6 5 (0.20%) vSphere
7 4 (0.16%) Sendmail
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
1 124 (4.86%) Terraform
2 111 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 45 (1.76%) Ansible
4 26 (1.02%) Grafana
5 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.35%) Argo
8 6 (0.24%) HAProxy
8 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.16%) SCCM
10 3 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
10 3 (0.12%) Istio
10 3 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.12%) Puppet
11 2 (0.078%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.078%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.078%) QRadar
11 2 (0.078%) VxRail
12 1 (0.039%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 335 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 160 (6.27%) Oracle
3 154 (6.03%) Databricks
4 149 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 146 (5.72%) SAP
6 119 (4.66%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.59%) Google
8 53 (2.08%) Cisco
9 36 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.37%) Workday
11 33 (1.29%) IBM
12 30 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 29 (1.14%) Foundry
14 27 (1.06%) Ariba
15 26 (1.02%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.02%) VMware
16 25 (0.98%) Splunk
17 22 (0.86%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.82%) Adobe
19 19 (0.74%) Sparx