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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,751 1,336 1,758
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.72% 10.30% 9.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.58% 10.99% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 837 1,272
10th Percentile £475 £487 £500
25th Percentile £525 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.10%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £750
90th Percentile £838 £825 £825
England median daily rate £625 £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £36.75 £44.47
25th Percentile £65.50 £39.38 £46.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -10.42% +51.51%
75th Percentile £94.38 £59.38 £59.15
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.25 £61.16
England median hourly rate £71.27 £72.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year -1.70% -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 15,118 12,160 16,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 93.71% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,134 8,208 12,275
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 143 335
10th Percentile £18.20 £21.04 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.26 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.22 £64.81
England median hourly rate £37.20 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.29% +7.69% -23.53%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +1 235 £650 -2.44% 89
South London +6 26 £600 -18.37% 4
West London 0 25 £633 +8.58% 16
East London -4 8 £543 -13.20% 13
North London 0 2 £663 -4.57%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 March 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.

1 540 (30.84%) Azure
2 506 (28.90%) Security Cleared
3 441 (25.19%) AWS
4 431 (24.61%) SC Cleared
5 256 (14.62%) Roadmaps
6 252 (14.39%) Microsoft
7 249 (14.22%) DevOps
8 245 (13.99%) Migration
9 215 (12.28%) CI/CD
10 207 (11.82%) AI
11 206 (11.76%) Agile
12 202 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 187 (10.68%) GCP
14 185 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
15 183 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 181 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
17 180 (10.28%) Data Modelling
18 176 (10.05%) Analytics
18 176 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
19 172 (9.82%) Data Architecture
20 163 (9.31%) Python
21 160 (9.14%) Enterprise Architecture
22 144 (8.22%) TOGAF
23 131 (7.48%) SQL
23 131 (7.48%) Terraform
24 130 (7.42%) Architectural Patterns
25 127 (7.25%) REST
26 126 (7.20%) Microservices
27 125 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
28 122 (6.97%) Kubernetes

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 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.37%) Confluence
3 17 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.63%) CMS
5 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.57%) nginx
7 7 (0.40%) Apache
8 5 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.29%) Camunda
8 5 (0.29%) Mule
9 4 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.11%) Appian
11 2 (0.11%) JBoss
11 2 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.057%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.057%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 46 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.40%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.34%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FSCM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.17%) SAP QM
9 3 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 540 (30.84%) Azure
2 441 (25.19%) AWS
3 187 (10.68%) GCP
4 90 (5.14%) Power Platform
5 75 (4.28%) Serverless
6 71 (4.05%) SaaS
7 61 (3.48%) Entra ID
8 53 (3.03%) IaaS
9 51 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (2.91%) GitHub
10 48 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
12 43 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
13 40 (2.28%) PaaS
13 40 (2.28%) Snowflake
14 39 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
14 39 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 36 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.28%) Network Security
2 73 (4.17%) Firewall
3 53 (3.03%) WAN
4 42 (2.40%) VPN
5 40 (2.28%) DNS
6 30 (1.71%) SD-WAN
7 27 (1.54%) LAN
8 16 (0.91%) BGP
8 16 (0.91%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.80%) OSPF
10 12 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.57%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.46%) 5G
12 8 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.46%) MPLS
12 8 (0.46%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.40%) VSAN
14 6 (0.34%) Internet
15 5 (0.29%) 3GPP
15 5 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.48%) Power BI
2 55 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 47 (2.68%) Metadata
5 35 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 33 (1.88%) SQL Server
7 30 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (0.97%) Tableau
11 15 (0.86%) Big Data
11 15 (0.86%) Data Vault
11 15 (0.86%) DB2
11 15 (0.86%) Delta Lake
12 14 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (0.69%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.63%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (2.40%) Jenkins
2 28 (1.60%) JIRA
3 25 (1.43%) GitLab
4 24 (1.37%) Git
5 10 (0.57%) ERwin
6 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.29%) MLflow
8 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.23%) Snyk
8 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.11%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.11%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.057%) ER Studio
General
1 412 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 368 (21.02%) Finance
3 210 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 127 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (6.74%) Banking
6 70 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 53 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (2.57%) Retail
9 39 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.17%) Legal
11 37 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.88%) Law
13 28 (1.60%) Marketing
14 25 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.37%) Billing
16 18 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.74%) Military
18 10 (0.57%) Electronics
18 10 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (7.25%) REST
2 92 (5.25%) Middleware
3 66 (3.77%) SOAP
4 61 (3.48%) LDAP
5 44 (2.51%) .NET
5 44 (2.51%) OpenID
6 37 (2.11%) JSON
7 36 (2.06%) Kafka
8 33 (1.88%) SAML
9 29 (1.66%) OAuth
10 26 (1.48%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.09%) React
12 16 (0.91%) PySpark
13 15 (0.86%) Spring
14 14 (0.80%) OAuth2
14 14 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
15 13 (0.74%) RESTful
16 12 (0.69%) Vue
17 11 (0.63%) gRPC
17 11 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.42%) Cloud Native
2 69 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 60 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (2.80%) Security Posture
5 47 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 39 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.17%) PKI
10 37 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
11 36 (2.06%) Product Ownership
12 30 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.31%) CMDB
13 23 (1.31%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.31%) Management Information System
14 20 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.09%) Replication
16 18 (1.03%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.91%) Private Cloud
18 15 (0.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.83%) Windows
2 23 (1.31%) Linux
3 10 (0.57%) zOS
4 5 (0.29%) Android
4 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.17%) Unix
5 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.057%) CentOS
7 1 (0.057%) Solaris
7 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.057%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (14.62%) Roadmaps
2 249 (14.22%) DevOps
3 245 (13.99%) Migration
4 215 (12.28%) CI/CD
5 207 (11.82%) AI
6 206 (11.76%) Agile
7 202 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 185 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
9 183 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 181 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
11 180 (10.28%) Data Modelling
12 176 (10.05%) Analytics
12 176 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
13 172 (9.82%) Data Architecture
14 160 (9.14%) Enterprise Architecture
15 144 (8.22%) TOGAF
16 130 (7.42%) Architectural Patterns
17 126 (7.20%) Microservices
18 125 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
19 113 (6.45%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 163 (9.31%) Python
2 131 (7.48%) SQL
3 88 (5.03%) PowerShell
4 67 (3.83%) Java
5 28 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.48%) C#
7 23 (1.31%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.09%) Bicep
9 13 (0.74%) Bash
10 9 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.51%) Ruby
11 8 (0.46%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.40%) Scala
12 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.23%) C++
13 4 (0.23%) Go
13 4 (0.23%) Korn
13 4 (0.23%) R
14 3 (0.17%) C
14 3 (0.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 506 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 431 (24.61%) SC Cleared
3 76 (4.34%) Degree
4 70 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 50 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 47 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.06%) CISSP
8 36 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 30 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 20 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (1.09%) CISM
14 17 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.91%) CCNP
16 13 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.74%) CCIE
17 11 (0.63%) CCSP
18 5 (0.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.05%) GDPR
2 56 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (2.51%) NIST
5 42 (2.40%) NCSC
6 35 (2.00%) QA
7 26 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.51%) GRC
10 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.46%) PSD2
12 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.40%) SEPA
13 6 (0.34%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.34%) SLA
14 5 (0.29%) HL7
14 5 (0.29%) PERC
15 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (4.40%) Docker
2 74 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.46%) Squid
7 6 (0.34%) vSphere
8 5 (0.29%) Varnish
9 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.17%) Postfix
9 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) Ceph
10 2 (0.11%) Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) Lustre
10 2 (0.11%) NFS
10 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.057%) HDFS
11 1 (0.057%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 131 (7.48%) Terraform
2 122 (6.97%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.23%) Ansible
4 24 (1.37%) Grafana
5 20 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.40%) Consul
10 4 (0.23%) Istio
10 4 (0.23%) Kibana
11 3 (0.17%) Argo
11 3 (0.17%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.17%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.17%) VxRail
12 2 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 252 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.48%) SAP
3 92 (5.25%) Salesforce
4 91 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 89 (5.08%) Databricks
6 72 (4.11%) Oracle
7 60 (3.43%) CyberArk
8 42 (2.40%) Cisco
9 41 (2.34%) Google
10 34 (1.94%) BeyondTrust
10 34 (1.94%) Centrify
11 33 (1.88%) Splunk
11 33 (1.88%) VMware
12 26 (1.48%) IBM
13 25 (1.43%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.31%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.26%) OpenAI
15 22 (1.26%) Workday
16 19 (1.09%) Zscaler
17 17 (0.97%) Ariba