Architect Contracts in London

The median contractor rate for an Architect was £575 per day in advertised job vacancies in London during the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Architect England / London
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	24	14	22
Rank change year-on-year	-10	+8
Contract jobs requiring an Architect	1405	1958	1690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	6.79%	9.05%	7.21%
As % of the Job Titles category	7.16%	9.50%	7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted	947	1326	1111
Median daily rate	£575	£550	£550
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.54%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£447	£438
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£700	£700	£675
UK excluding London median daily rate	£525	£500	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	2	10
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£100.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-65.00%	+185.71%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£57.50	£47.50	£37.80
% change year-on-year	+21.05%	+25.66%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles London
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	19622	20610	22172
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	94.89%	95.28%	94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted	14013	14955	15445
Median daily rate	£500	£463	£445
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.10%	+3.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£295	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£603
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	248	227	383
Median hourly rate	£19.82	£17.89	£18.70
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+10.81%	-4.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.83	£42.50	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.14
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+8.11%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London that featured Architect in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Architect in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Architect in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-5	188	£583	+6.00%	53
Canary Wharf	+7	13	£575	-4.16%
Westminster	+4	11	£550	-4.34%
Croydon	-8	9	£580	+27.75%
Heathrow	-2	7	£370	-37.68%
Kingston Upon Thames	-	7	£825	-
Hayes	+4	6	-	-
Brentford	0	3	£385	-
Uxbridge	-4	3	£425	-	1
Docklands, London	-10	3	£535	+8.51%
Hounslow	+4	2	-	-
Wimbledon	+3	1	-	-
West End of London	-2	1	£538	-8.51%	8
Bromley	-7	1	£650	-7.14%
Northwood	-	1	£650	-
Architect England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, Architect contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1	658 (22.38%)	Finance
2	648 (22.04%)	Agile Software Development
3	468 (15.92%)	Java
4	426 (14.49%)	Banking
5	409 (13.91%)	Amazon AWS
6	365 (12.41%)	TOGAF
6	365 (12.41%)	Microsoft
7	354 (12.04%)	Microsoft Azure
8	326 (11.09%)	Oracle
9	291 (9.90%)	Security Cleared
10	282 (9.59%)	Migration
11	279 (9.49%)	Data Modelling
12	271 (9.22%)	Windows
13	264 (8.98%)	SQL
14	250 (8.50%)	SC Cleared

15	249 (8.47%)	Stakeholder Management
16	233 (7.93%)	Enterprise Architecture
17	231 (7.86%)	SOA
18	229 (7.79%)	DevOps
19	213 (7.24%)	Office 365
20	210 (7.14%)	SQL Server
21	206 (7.01%)	Big Data
22	202 (6.87%)	Linux
23	198 (6.73%)	Web Services
24	194 (6.60%)	Business Intelligence
25	186 (6.33%)	Analytical Skills
26	185 (6.29%)	Open Source
27	179 (6.09%)	Active Directory
28	178 (6.05%)	VMware
28	178 (6.05%)	Data Centre

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	109 (3.71%)	SharePoint
2	75 (2.55%)	WebSphere
3	72 (2.45%)	Apache
4	60 (2.04%)	JBoss
4	60 (2.04%)	Skype for Business
5	59 (2.01%)	CMS
6	55 (1.87%)	Confluence
7	50 (1.70%)	Apache Spark
8	46 (1.56%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	44 (1.50%)	Cloud Foundry
10	36 (1.22%)	MS Exchange
11	33 (1.12%)	Adobe Experience Manager
11	33 (1.12%)	Tomcat
12	27 (0.92%)	BizTalk Server
12	27 (0.92%)	WebLogic
13	25 (0.85%)	IIS
13	25 (0.85%)	Mule
14	23 (0.78%)	Elasticsearch
15	22 (0.75%)	Exchange Server 2013
16	19 (0.65%)	Oracle Workflow

Applications
1	38 (1.29%)	Microsoft Office
2	31 (1.05%)	MS Visio
3	22 (0.75%)	Microsoft Excel
4	8 (0.27%)	OmniGraffle
5	7 (0.24%)	SPSS
6	6 (0.20%)	Microsoft Project
7	4 (0.14%)	HipChat
7	4 (0.14%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
8	3 (0.10%)	GNU Octave
9	2 (0.068%)	Photoshop
9	2 (0.068%)	Spreadsheet
10	1 (0.034%)	Adobe Creative Suite
10	1 (0.034%)	GIMP

Business Applications
1	50 (1.70%)	Dynamics CRM
2	15 (0.51%)	SAP HR
3	12 (0.41%)	Dynamics AX
3	12 (0.41%)	Oracle iRecruitment
4	11 (0.37%)	NetSuite
4	11 (0.37%)	SAP Hybris
4	11 (0.37%)	Temenos T24
5	9 (0.31%)	Oracle EBS
5	9 (0.31%)	SAP Oil and Gas
6	8 (0.27%)	Oracle BPM
6	8 (0.27%)	Salesforce.com CRM
7	7 (0.24%)	Magento
7	7 (0.24%)	Pega PRPC
8	6 (0.20%)	Fredhopper
8	6 (0.20%)	Oracle Financials
9	5 (0.17%)	Eloqua
9	5 (0.17%)	Oracle ERP
9	5 (0.17%)	SAP CO
9	5 (0.17%)	SAP FI
9	5 (0.17%)	SAP S/4HANA

Cloud Services
1	409 (13.91%)	Amazon AWS
2	354 (12.04%)	Microsoft Azure
3	213 (7.24%)	Office 365
4	155 (5.27%)	PaaS
5	102 (3.47%)	IaaS
5	102 (3.47%)	SaaS
6	47 (1.60%)	Cloud Computing
7	31 (1.05%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	27 (0.92%)	OpenShift
9	21 (0.71%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	20 (0.68%)	Azure Active Directory
11	19 (0.65%)	Amazon EC2
12	18 (0.61%)	Amazon S3
12	18 (0.61%)	GitHub
13	16 (0.54%)	IBM Cloud
14	15 (0.51%)	OneDrive
14	15 (0.51%)	SuccessFactors
15	14 (0.48%)	Bluemix
16	13 (0.44%)	Dynamics 365
16	13 (0.44%)	Force.com

Communications & Networking
1	141 (4.80%)	Firewall
2	107 (3.64%)	VPN
3	97 (3.30%)	WAN
4	78 (2.65%)	Network Security
5	77 (2.62%)	Internet
6	72 (2.45%)	DNS
7	67 (2.28%)	LAN
8	51 (1.73%)	MPLS
9	46 (1.56%)	Skype
10	43 (1.46%)	LDAP
11	35 (1.19%)	BGP
12	34 (1.16%)	SAN
12	34 (1.16%)	SSL
13	33 (1.12%)	IPsec
14	32 (1.09%)	Wireless
15	30 (1.02%)	OSPF
16	27 (0.92%)	DHCP
16	27 (0.92%)	Unified Communications
17	26 (0.88%)	TCP/IP
18	25 (0.85%)	Kerberos

Database & Business Intelligence
1	210 (7.14%)	SQL Server
2	206 (7.01%)	Big Data
3	141 (4.80%)	Hadoop
4	126 (4.29%)	Data Warehouse
5	81 (2.76%)	NoSQL
6	73 (2.48%)	MongoDB
7	65 (2.21%)	Relational Database
8	56 (1.90%)	PostgreSQL
9	46 (1.56%)	SQL Server Integration Services
10	45 (1.53%)	Apache Cassandra
11	42 (1.43%)	RDBMS
12	40 (1.36%)	HBase
13	37 (1.26%)	Apache Hive
14	36 (1.22%)	MySQL
14	36 (1.22%)	Oracle Database
14	36 (1.22%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
15	35 (1.19%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
16	29 (0.99%)	BusinessObjects
17	25 (0.85%)	Power BI
18	23 (0.78%)	DB2

Development Applications
1	84 (2.86%)	Jenkins
2	75 (2.55%)	JIRA
3	33 (1.12%)	Maven
4	32 (1.09%)	Git (software)
4	32 (1.09%)	Talend Open Studio
5	29 (0.99%)	Bitbucket
6	23 (0.78%)	Axure RP
7	20 (0.68%)	ERwin
8	16 (0.54%)	Selenium
9	15 (0.51%)	Atlassian Bamboo
9	15 (0.51%)	JUnit
10	13 (0.44%)	PowerDesigner
11	11 (0.37%)	Balsamiq Mockups
11	11 (0.37%)	Hudson
11	11 (0.37%)	Sonatype Nexus
11	11 (0.37%)	Subversion
11	11 (0.37%)	Visual Studio
12	10 (0.34%)	Ant
12	10 (0.34%)	Oracle Forms
12	10 (0.34%)	SonarQube

General
1	658 (22.38%)	Finance
2	426 (14.49%)	Banking
3	162 (5.51%)	Retail
4	90 (3.06%)	Investment Banking
5	85 (2.89%)	Telecoms
6	78 (2.65%)	Legal
7	62 (2.11%)	Law
8	61 (2.07%)	Marketing
9	32 (1.09%)	Back Office
10	29 (0.99%)	Front Office
10	29 (0.99%)	Pharmaceutical
11	28 (0.95%)	Financial Institution
12	26 (0.88%)	Advertising
13	25 (0.85%)	Billing
13	25 (0.85%)	Manufacturing
14	16 (0.54%)	Publishing
15	13 (0.44%)	Military
16	10 (0.34%)	Electronics
16	10 (0.34%)	Games
17	9 (0.31%)	Retail Banking

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	198 (6.73%)	Web Services
2	156 (5.31%)	.NET
3	147 (5.00%)	REST
4	121 (4.12%)	Spring
5	109 (3.71%)	SOAP
6	107 (3.64%)	HTML
7	96 (3.27%)	XML
8	87 (2.96%)	Node.js
9	85 (2.89%)	CSS
10	82 (2.79%)	J2EE
11	81 (2.76%)	Middleware
12	69 (2.35%)	AngularJS
13	66 (2.24%)	JSON
14	65 (2.21%)	HTML5
15	62 (2.11%)	Hibernate
16	61 (2.07%)	SAML
17	42 (1.43%)	Kafka
18	38 (1.29%)	JMS
18	38 (1.29%)	RESTful
19	36 (1.22%)	CSS3

Miscellaneous
1	186 (6.33%)	Analytical Skills
2	178 (6.05%)	Data Centre
3	99 (3.37%)	User Experience
4	89 (3.03%)	Management Information System
5	71 (2.41%)	Enterprise Software
6	69 (2.35%)	Greenfield Project
7	60 (2.04%)	Computer Science
8	55 (1.87%)	PKI
9	50 (1.70%)	Mobile App
10	43 (1.46%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	40 (1.36%)	Public Cloud
12	35 (1.19%)	Virtual Team
13	34 (1.16%)	Market Risk
13	34 (1.16%)	Private Cloud
14	30 (1.02%)	Cloud Native
14	30 (1.02%)	Data Structures
15	29 (0.99%)	SWIFT
16	27 (0.92%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
17	25 (0.85%)	Replication
18	24 (0.82%)	Fintech

Operating Systems
1	271 (9.22%)	Windows
2	202 (6.87%)	Linux
3	95 (3.23%)	Unix
4	62 (2.11%)	Windows 10
4	62 (2.11%)	Windows Server
5	30 (1.02%)	Android
6	28 (0.95%)	Windows Server 2012
7	24 (0.82%)	Apple iOS
8	22 (0.75%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	17 (0.58%)	Solaris
9	17 (0.58%)	Windows Server 2008
10	15 (0.51%)	Windows 7
11	8 (0.27%)	Windows Vista
12	6 (0.20%)	AIX
12	6 (0.20%)	Windows Server 2003
13	5 (0.17%)	Windows Phone
14	4 (0.14%)	Ubuntu
15	3 (0.10%)	CoreOS
16	2 (0.068%)	Mac OS X
16	2 (0.068%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	648 (22.04%)	Agile Software Development
2	365 (12.41%)	TOGAF
3	282 (9.59%)	Migration
4	279 (9.49%)	Data Modelling
5	249 (8.47%)	Stakeholder Management
6	233 (7.93%)	Enterprise Architecture
7	231 (7.86%)	SOA
8	229 (7.79%)	DevOps
9	194 (6.60%)	Business Intelligence
10	185 (6.29%)	Open Source
11	174 (5.92%)	Microservices
12	172 (5.85%)	ITIL
13	166 (5.65%)	Data Architecture
14	165 (5.61%)	Analytics
15	147 (5.00%)	E-Commerce
16	146 (4.97%)	Scrum
17	142 (4.83%)	ETL
18	135 (4.59%)	SDLC
19	122 (4.15%)	CRM
20	118 (4.01%)	IT Strategy

Programming Languages
1	468 (15.92%)	Java
2	264 (8.98%)	SQL
3	133 (4.52%)	JavaScript
4	105 (3.57%)	Python
5	77 (2.62%)	C
6	71 (2.41%)	C#
7	52 (1.77%)	PowerShell
8	45 (1.53%)	Perl
8	45 (1.53%)	Ruby
9	43 (1.46%)	C++
10	28 (0.95%)	Scala
11	25 (0.85%)	Apex Code
12	24 (0.82%)	Bash Shell
13	22 (0.75%)	PL/SQL
14	21 (0.71%)	R
15	17 (0.58%)	PHP
15	17 (0.58%)	T-SQL
16	15 (0.51%)	Shell Script
17	13 (0.44%)	Go
18	12 (0.41%)	VB

Qualifications
1	291 (9.90%)	Security Cleared
2	250 (8.50%)	SC Cleared
3	110 (3.74%)	Degree
4	85 (2.89%)	Cisco Certification
5	65 (2.21%)	CCIE
6	42 (1.43%)	CISSP
7	31 (1.05%)	DV Cleared
7	31 (1.05%)	Microsoft Certification
8	26 (0.88%)	JNCIE
9	24 (0.82%)	MCSE
10	23 (0.78%)	CISM
10	23 (0.78%)	ITIL Certification
11	22 (0.75%)	Computer Science Degree
11	22 (0.75%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12	21 (0.71%)	CCNP
13	18 (0.61%)	BPSS Clearance
14	16 (0.54%)	CCNA
14	16 (0.54%)	CESG Certified Professional
15	13 (0.44%)	CISA
16	12 (0.41%)	Master's Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	67 (2.28%)	QA
2	58 (1.97%)	Data Quality
3	47 (1.60%)	PCI DSS
4	30 (1.02%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	28 (0.95%)	MiFID
6	23 (0.78%)	SEPA
7	18 (0.61%)	COBIT
8	13 (0.44%)	ISO 20022
9	12 (0.41%)	GDPR
10	11 (0.37%)	Disclosure Scotland
10	11 (0.37%)	SLA
11	9 (0.31%)	FedRAMP
12	8 (0.27%)	GxP
12	8 (0.27%)	IFRS
13	6 (0.20%)	PMO
14	5 (0.17%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14	5 (0.17%)	Solvency II
15	4 (0.14%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
15	4 (0.14%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
16	3 (0.10%)	JSP 440

System Software
1	179 (6.09%)	Active Directory
2	100 (3.40%)	Docker
3	95 (3.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	46 (1.56%)	Hyper-V
5	20 (0.68%)	vSphere
5	20 (0.68%)	XenApp
6	17 (0.58%)	vCloud
7	15 (0.51%)	Apache Flume
8	14 (0.48%)	Virtual Machines
8	14 (0.48%)	XenDesktop
9	10 (0.34%)	BitLocker
9	10 (0.34%)	HDFS
10	9 (0.31%)	VMware ESXi
11	8 (0.27%)	Microsoft App-V
12	7 (0.24%)	NFS
12	7 (0.24%)	Xen
13	6 (0.20%)	KVM
14	5 (0.17%)	Oracle RAC
15	3 (0.10%)	Apache ZooKeeper
15	3 (0.10%)	SRDF

Systems Management
1	89 (3.03%)	SCCM
2	75 (2.55%)	Puppet
3	66 (2.24%)	Ansible
4	64 (2.18%)	Kubernetes
5	53 (1.80%)	Terraform
6	46 (1.56%)	Opscode Chef
7	29 (0.99%)	SCOM
8	24 (0.82%)	Microsoft Intune
9	16 (0.54%)	ZABBIX
10	15 (0.51%)	FortiGate
11	12 (0.41%)	logstash
11	12 (0.41%)	Rsyslog
12	11 (0.37%)	Cisco CUCM
12	11 (0.37%)	MOM
13	10 (0.34%)	Kibana
13	10 (0.34%)	Nagios
13	10 (0.34%)	Packer
14	9 (0.31%)	OpenAM
14	9 (0.31%)	OpenIDM
15	8 (0.27%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault

Vendors
1	365 (12.41%)	Microsoft
2	326 (11.09%)	Oracle
3	178 (6.05%)	VMware
4	173 (5.88%)	Cisco
5	140 (4.76%)	SAP
6	104 (3.54%)	Salesforce.com
7	100 (3.40%)	Citrix
8	99 (3.37%)	IBM
9	92 (3.13%)	ServiceNow
10	51 (1.73%)	Adobe
11	49 (1.67%)	Google
12	43 (1.46%)	Splunk
13	42 (1.43%)	Atlassian
13	42 (1.43%)	Informatica
14	41 (1.39%)	Cloudera
15	36 (1.22%)	Juniper
16	35 (1.19%)	CheckPoint
16	35 (1.19%)	Pega
16	35 (1.19%)	Tableau
17	34 (1.16%)	Red Hat