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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,163 1,276 1,775
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.01% 10.29% 10.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.95% 11.03% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 834 1,274
10th Percentile £475 £488 £500
25th Percentile £515 £562 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £671
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.13% -4.14%
75th Percentile £740 £738 £763
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £621 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -0.68% -3.85% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £58.70 £54.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £76.67 £83.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £99.65 £93.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £71.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -

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 16,704 11,571 16,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.31% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,077 7,921 11,790
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £430 £427 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £688
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -2.19% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 143 317
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% -21.99%
75th Percentile £61.50 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +14 327 £650 -2.99% 119
West London 0 34 £625 -7.41% 19
South London -1 22 £723 +3.21% 3
East London +1 17 £630 +0.80% 9
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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.

1 603 (27.88%) Azure
2 591 (27.32%) Security Cleared
3 520 (24.04%) AWS
4 502 (23.21%) SC Cleared
5 345 (15.95%) Migration
6 307 (14.19%) Microsoft
7 297 (13.73%) Roadmaps
8 280 (12.94%) AI
9 278 (12.85%) DevOps
10 254 (11.74%) CI/CD
11 234 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 232 (10.73%) Integration Patterns
13 217 (10.03%) Analytics
14 216 (9.99%) Data Modelling
15 215 (9.94%) GCP
16 208 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (9.43%) Agile
18 200 (9.25%) Data Architecture
19 190 (8.78%) Enterprise Architecture
20 187 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
21 181 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
21 181 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
22 171 (7.91%) Python
23 169 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
24 154 (7.12%) TOGAF
25 151 (6.98%) Architectural Design
26 139 (6.43%) Microservices
27 136 (6.29%) ServiceNow
28 131 (6.06%) SQL
29 128 (5.92%) Terraform

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 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.11%) Confluence
3 20 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.74%) Apache
5 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.55%) nginx
6 9 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.42%) Camunda
7 8 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.23%) Mule
10 4 (0.18%) CMS
10 4 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.14%) Appian
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.092%) JBoss
Applications
1 10 (0.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.046%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.046%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.32%) SAP BRIM
5 7 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.18%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 603 (27.88%) Azure
2 520 (24.04%) AWS
3 215 (9.94%) GCP
4 115 (5.32%) Power Platform
5 85 (3.93%) SaaS
6 84 (3.88%) Serverless
7 81 (3.74%) Entra ID
8 69 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 55 (2.54%) GitHub
11 50 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (2.31%) PaaS
11 50 (2.31%) Snowflake
12 48 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
15 37 (1.71%) IaaS
16 36 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
18 29 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.56%) Network Security
2 65 (3.01%) Firewall
3 45 (2.08%) WAN
4 40 (1.85%) DNS
4 40 (1.85%) VPN
5 26 (1.20%) LAN
6 22 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.69%) BGP
8 14 (0.65%) OSPF
8 14 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.51%) MPLS
10 10 (0.46%) VXLAN
10 10 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.42%) OpenVPN
12 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.37%) 5G
12 8 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.28%) NAS
13 6 (0.28%) SAN
13 6 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.79%) Power BI
2 67 (3.10%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (2.08%) Metadata
5 34 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (1.48%) SQL Server
7 25 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 25 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 23 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 20 (0.92%) Delta Lake
10 19 (0.88%) Big Data
11 17 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (0.79%) Tableau
12 16 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (0.65%) DB2
14 13 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
15 12 (0.55%) Data Vault
15 12 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 43 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.29%) Git
3 24 (1.11%) JIRA
4 23 (1.06%) GitLab
5 10 (0.46%) ERwin
5 10 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.37%) MLflow
7 6 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.23%) Maven
9 4 (0.18%) Snyk
9 4 (0.18%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.14%) Postman
11 2 (0.092%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.092%) MSI
11 2 (0.092%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.092%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.046%) VersionOne
General
1 414 (19.14%) Finance
2 403 (18.63%) Social Skills
3 228 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 142 (6.56%) Banking
5 97 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (3.61%) Retail
7 72 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (2.77%) Telecoms
10 54 (2.50%) Legal
11 53 (2.45%) Law
12 37 (1.71%) Billing
13 35 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.29%) Marketing
15 25 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 24 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.55%) Military
19 10 (0.46%) Local Government
20 9 (0.42%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.41%) REST
2 88 (4.07%) Middleware
3 75 (3.47%) SOAP
4 67 (3.10%) LDAP
5 62 (2.87%) .NET
6 44 (2.03%) Kafka
7 40 (1.85%) OpenID
8 29 (1.34%) SAML
9 27 (1.25%) OAuth
10 25 (1.16%) React
11 22 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (0.88%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.74%) .NET Framework
13 16 (0.74%) RESTful
14 15 (0.69%) Spring
15 14 (0.65%) J2EE
15 14 (0.65%) Vue
15 14 (0.65%) Web Services
16 13 (0.60%) PySpark
16 13 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 209 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
3 65 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 60 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
6 57 (2.64%) Data Centre
7 55 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 54 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 45 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.62%) AI Agents
12 34 (1.57%) CMDB
13 24 (1.11%) Mainframe
14 22 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 20 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (0.88%) NHS
17 18 (0.83%) Public Cloud
17 18 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.43%) Linux
2 29 (1.34%) Windows
3 10 (0.46%) zOS
4 9 (0.42%) Unix
5 8 (0.37%) Android
5 8 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.14%) Solaris
7 2 (0.092%) AIX
7 2 (0.092%) CentOS
7 2 (0.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.092%) VMS
7 2 (0.092%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.092%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.046%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (15.95%) Migration
2 297 (13.73%) Roadmaps
3 280 (12.94%) AI
4 278 (12.85%) DevOps
5 254 (11.74%) CI/CD
6 234 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 232 (10.73%) Integration Patterns
8 217 (10.03%) Analytics
9 216 (9.99%) Data Modelling
10 208 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 204 (9.43%) Agile
12 200 (9.25%) Data Architecture
13 190 (8.78%) Enterprise Architecture
14 187 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
15 181 (8.37%) Architectural Patterns
15 181 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
16 169 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
17 154 (7.12%) TOGAF
18 151 (6.98%) Architectural Design
19 139 (6.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 171 (7.91%) Python
2 131 (6.06%) SQL
3 101 (4.67%) Java
4 71 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 28 (1.29%) C#
5 28 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 21 (0.97%) Bicep
7 15 (0.69%) Ruby
7 15 (0.69%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 11 (0.51%) Bash
9 10 (0.46%) Scala
10 6 (0.28%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.28%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.23%) R
11 5 (0.23%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.18%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Go
12 4 (0.18%) SOQL
13 3 (0.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 591 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 502 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 75 (3.47%) Degree
4 66 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 52 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 52 (2.40%) CISSP
6 38 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 32 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (1.25%) CISM
10 24 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 14 (0.65%) CCNP
14 12 (0.55%) CCSP
15 11 (0.51%) CISA
16 10 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.24%) GDPR
2 67 (3.10%) NIST
3 59 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.13%) NCSC
5 38 (1.76%) QA
6 23 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 14 (0.65%) GRC
9 13 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.60%) SEPA
10 10 (0.46%) PSD2
11 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.37%) SLA
13 7 (0.32%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.32%) HL7
14 6 (0.28%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) IFRS
System Software
1 83 (3.84%) Active Directory
2 63 (2.91%) Docker
3 25 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.42%) Squid
5 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) Varnish
7 6 (0.28%) Postfix
8 5 (0.23%) NFS
8 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.18%) Sendmail
9 4 (0.18%) vSphere
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.092%) Ceph
11 2 (0.092%) Firmware
11 2 (0.092%) Lustre
11 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.046%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 128 (5.92%) Terraform
2 121 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 32 (1.48%) Ansible
4 24 (1.11%) Grafana
5 22 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 17 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.32%) Consul
8 6 (0.28%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.18%) Argo
9 4 (0.18%) Istio
9 4 (0.18%) Kibana
10 3 (0.14%) Karpenter
10 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.092%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.092%) QRadar
11 2 (0.092%) SCCM
11 2 (0.092%) VxRail
Vendors
1 307 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 136 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 121 (5.59%) Databricks
4 116 (5.36%) SAP
5 103 (4.76%) Oracle
6 99 (4.58%) Salesforce
7 74 (3.42%) CyberArk
8 44 (2.03%) Cisco
9 40 (1.85%) Google
10 35 (1.62%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.57%) Centrify
11 34 (1.57%) Splunk
12 32 (1.48%) Workday
13 29 (1.34%) VMware
14 26 (1.20%) IBM
14 26 (1.20%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.16%) MuleSoft
16 22 (1.02%) Palo Alto
17 21 (0.97%) Zscaler
18 20 (0.92%) Ariba