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 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 2,063 1,259 1,784
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.64% 10.04% 10.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.54% 10.74% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 833 1,286
10th Percentile £475 £489 £500
25th Percentile £515 £553 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -4.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £748 £753
90th Percentile £825 £800 £850
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £60.50 £40.25 -
25th Percentile £63.00 £48.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75.84 £75.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £97.50 £90.25 -
England median hourly rate £69.44 £72.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.22% +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 16,451 11,727 16,626
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.48% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,958 8,033 12,023
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 143 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £23.90 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +22.26% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.78 £36.31
% change year-on-year +52.70% -15.22% -19.32%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +9 306 £650 -1.37% 98
West London +2 31 £625 -7.41% 16
South London -4 21 £644 -1.00% 2
East London -6 12 £630 +0.80% 6
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 578 (28.02%) Azure
2 568 (27.53%) Security Cleared
3 504 (24.43%) AWS
4 480 (23.27%) SC Cleared
5 330 (16.00%) Migration
6 299 (14.49%) Microsoft
7 283 (13.72%) Roadmaps
8 270 (13.09%) DevOps
9 263 (12.75%) AI
10 252 (12.22%) CI/CD
11 229 (11.10%) Integration Patterns
12 225 (10.91%) Agile
13 216 (10.47%) Analytics
14 215 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 210 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 208 (10.08%) GCP
17 206 (9.99%) Data Modelling
18 192 (9.31%) Data Architecture
19 189 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
20 184 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
21 183 (8.87%) Enterprise Architecture
22 178 (8.63%) Python
23 171 (8.29%) Architectural Patterns
24 163 (7.90%) Infrastructure as Code
25 150 (7.27%) TOGAF
26 149 (7.22%) Architectural Design
27 138 (6.69%) SQL
28 137 (6.64%) Microservices
29 136 (6.59%) Terraform
30 134 (6.50%) ServiceNow

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 43 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.21%) Confluence
3 18 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.78%) Apache
5 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 10 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.39%) Camunda
8 8 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.34%) CMS
10 6 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.24%) Mule
12 4 (0.19%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.15%) Appian
13 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.097%) JBoss
14 2 (0.097%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.048%) ArchiCAD
3 1 (0.048%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.048%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.048%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 52 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 12 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.29%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
9 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 4 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.19%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP QM
10 3 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 578 (28.02%) Azure
2 504 (24.43%) AWS
3 208 (10.08%) GCP
4 113 (5.48%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.17%) Serverless
6 81 (3.93%) SaaS
7 76 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 69 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (2.81%) Amazon S3
10 56 (2.71%) GitHub
11 51 (2.47%) IaaS
12 50 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 50 (2.42%) PaaS
13 49 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
14 46 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
15 45 (2.18%) Snowflake
16 43 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 37 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
18 33 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
19 31 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.73%) Network Security
2 68 (3.30%) Firewall
3 51 (2.47%) WAN
4 44 (2.13%) DNS
5 43 (2.08%) VPN
6 30 (1.45%) LAN
7 27 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.73%) BGP
9 14 (0.68%) OSPF
9 14 (0.68%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.48%) MPLS
11 10 (0.48%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.44%) OpenVPN
13 8 (0.39%) 3GPP
13 8 (0.39%) 5G
13 8 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.29%) VSAN
15 5 (0.24%) NAS
15 5 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (3.88%) Power BI
2 71 (3.44%) Data Lake
3 49 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (1.99%) Metadata
5 34 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 34 (1.65%) SQL Server
6 28 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 26 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 23 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 19 (0.92%) Big Data
11 18 (0.87%) Delta Lake
12 17 (0.82%) Tableau
13 16 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.68%) DB2
15 13 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.58%) Data Vault
16 12 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.41%) Git
3 27 (1.31%) JIRA
4 22 (1.07%) GitLab
5 9 (0.44%) ERwin
6 8 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.39%) MLflow
6 8 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.19%) Snyk
8 4 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.15%) Maven
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.15%) Postman
10 2 (0.097%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.097%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.097%) MSI
10 2 (0.097%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.097%) Robot Framework
General
1 405 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 398 (19.29%) Finance
3 224 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 136 (6.59%) Banking
5 116 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (3.30%) Retail
8 61 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.67%) Law
10 53 (2.57%) Legal
11 50 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 35 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.60%) Billing
14 28 (1.36%) Marketing
15 25 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (0.58%) Military
19 10 (0.48%) Electronics
19 10 (0.48%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (6.40%) REST
2 91 (4.41%) Middleware
3 78 (3.78%) SOAP
4 66 (3.20%) LDAP
5 62 (3.01%) .NET
6 43 (2.08%) Kafka
7 42 (2.04%) OpenID
8 30 (1.45%) SAML
9 27 (1.31%) JSON
9 27 (1.31%) OAuth
10 25 (1.21%) React
11 22 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 21 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
13 18 (0.87%) Spring
14 17 (0.82%) RESTful
15 15 (0.73%) .NET Framework
15 15 (0.73%) Vue
16 14 (0.68%) J2EE
16 14 (0.68%) Web Services
17 13 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 202 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 70 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
3 61 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 53 (2.57%) Security Posture
6 51 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 51 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 47 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 38 (1.84%) Management Information System
10 32 (1.55%) CMDB
11 31 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.07%) PKI
16 21 (1.02%) Mainframe
17 19 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (0.87%) FMCG
18 18 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.65%) Windows
2 31 (1.50%) Linux
3 10 (0.48%) zOS
4 8 (0.39%) Android
4 8 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.39%) Unix
5 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Solaris
7 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.097%) AIX
8 2 (0.097%) CentOS
8 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (16.00%) Migration
2 283 (13.72%) Roadmaps
3 270 (13.09%) DevOps
4 263 (12.75%) AI
5 252 (12.22%) CI/CD
6 229 (11.10%) Integration Patterns
7 225 (10.91%) Agile
8 216 (10.47%) Analytics
9 215 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 210 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 206 (9.99%) Data Modelling
12 192 (9.31%) Data Architecture
13 189 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
14 184 (8.92%) Problem-Solving
15 183 (8.87%) Enterprise Architecture
16 171 (8.29%) Architectural Patterns
17 163 (7.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 150 (7.27%) TOGAF
19 149 (7.22%) Architectural Design
20 137 (6.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 178 (8.63%) Python
2 138 (6.69%) SQL
3 102 (4.94%) Java
4 86 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.41%) C#
6 25 (1.21%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.02%) Bicep
8 18 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.73%) Ruby
10 13 (0.63%) Bash
11 11 (0.53%) Scala
12 9 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.24%) R
16 4 (0.19%) C++
16 4 (0.19%) Go
16 4 (0.19%) Korn
16 4 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.19%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 568 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 480 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 77 (3.73%) Degree
4 69 (3.34%) Azure Certification
5 51 (2.47%) AWS Certification
6 45 (2.18%) CISSP
7 41 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.16%) CISM
10 24 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.82%) CCNP
14 15 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (0.63%) CCIE
16 11 (0.53%) CCSP
17 9 (0.44%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (3.64%) GDPR
2 57 (2.76%) Data Quality
2 57 (2.76%) NIST
3 55 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.08%) NCSC
5 37 (1.79%) QA
6 22 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.78%) ISO 20022
8 14 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.53%) SEPA
10 9 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.44%) GRC
11 8 (0.39%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.39%) PSD2
11 8 (0.39%) SLA
12 7 (0.34%) HL7
12 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.24%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.24%) PERC
14 4 (0.19%) IFRS
System Software
1 82 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 65 (3.15%) Docker
3 27 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.34%) Varnish
7 6 (0.29%) vSphere
8 5 (0.24%) Postfix
8 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.19%) NFS
10 3 (0.15%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.097%) Ceph
11 2 (0.097%) Firmware
11 2 (0.097%) Lustre
11 2 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 136 (6.59%) Terraform
2 124 (6.01%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.65%) Ansible
4 27 (1.31%) Grafana
5 21 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 17 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.34%) Consul
10 5 (0.24%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.19%) Argo
11 4 (0.19%) Istio
11 4 (0.19%) Kibana
11 4 (0.19%) SCCM
12 3 (0.15%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.15%) Puppet
12 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.097%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.097%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.097%) QRadar
Vendors
1 299 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 134 (6.50%) ServiceNow
3 112 (5.43%) SAP
4 109 (5.28%) Databricks
5 100 (4.85%) Oracle
6 98 (4.75%) Salesforce
7 67 (3.25%) CyberArk
8 41 (1.99%) Google
9 39 (1.89%) Cisco
10 35 (1.70%) BeyondTrust
11 34 (1.65%) Centrify
11 34 (1.65%) Splunk
12 33 (1.60%) VMware
13 31 (1.50%) Workday
14 27 (1.31%) IBM
15 26 (1.26%) OpenAI
16 23 (1.11%) MuleSoft
17 21 (1.02%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.97%) Ariba
19 19 (0.92%) Foundry