Architectural Design Contracts in London

Architectural Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 230 313
Rank change year-on-year -39 +83 +2
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 84 164 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.92% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.04% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 115 118
10th Percentile £452 £411 £471
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year +23.96% -3.23% -2.75%
75th Percentile £789 £741 £738
90th Percentile £834 £825 £800
England median daily rate £614 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +2.29% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £49.75
25th Percentile - - £67.13
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £79.00
England median hourly rate - £67.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -4.93% -19.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
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 Architectural Design within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -8 10 £489 -30.21% 7
North London - 1 £413 -
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.76%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Appian
4 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.48%) AWS
1 34 (40.48%) Azure
2 18 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.52%) GCP
4 6 (7.14%) SaaS
5 5 (5.95%) GitHub
5 5 (5.95%) Serverless
6 4 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 4 (4.76%) IaaS
6 4 (4.76%) PaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.38%) Boomi
8 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Firewall
1 2 (2.38%) WAN
1 2 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.19%) IGMP
2 1 (1.19%) LAN
2 1 (1.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (15.48%) Redis
2 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Power BI
4 2 (2.38%) Metadata
4 2 (2.38%) OLTP
4 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.19%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.19%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) JUnit
2 3 (3.57%) Mockito
3 2 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.38%) Git
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) Maven
3 2 (2.38%) Postman
3 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
3 2 (2.38%) SoapUI
3 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.38%) Subversion
3 2 (2.38%) Xcode
3 2 (2.38%) XCTest
4 1 (1.19%) GitLab
4 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.52%) Finance
3 28 (33.33%) Banking
4 21 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.19%) Electronics
9 1 (1.19%) Front Office
9 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (58.33%) Architect
2 19 (22.62%) Lead
3 17 (20.24%) Developer
4 16 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (16.67%) Senior
6 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Lead Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Senior Architect
7 10 (11.90%) Lead Java Developer
7 10 (11.90%) ServiceNow Architect
8 7 (8.33%) Security Architect
9 6 (7.14%) Lead Architect
10 5 (5.95%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Security Architect
11 4 (4.76%) C# Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Consultant
11 4 (4.76%) Domain Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Platform Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) CSS
2 12 (14.29%) Kafka
3 10 (11.90%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (11.90%) HTML
4 9 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.33%) .NET
6 5 (5.95%) REST
6 5 (5.95%) Spring
6 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.76%) SOAP
7 4 (4.76%) WPF
8 3 (3.57%) Java Concurrency
8 3 (3.57%) React
8 3 (3.57%) SailPoint
9 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.38%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.38%) gRPC
9 2 (2.38%) Pyramid
9 2 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (2.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Derivative
2 7 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.33%) Market Risk
3 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.57%) CMDB
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.57%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.38%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.38%) iSeries
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
1 8 (9.52%) Windows
1 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.57%) Unix
3 2 (2.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.19%) Agile
2 29 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (30.95%) DevOps
4 19 (22.62%) Computer Science
5 18 (21.43%) TDD
6 16 (19.05%) BDD
7 14 (16.67%) Economics
7 14 (16.67%) Mathematics
8 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
9 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 12 (14.29%) Microservices
9 12 (14.29%) Risk Management
10 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
11 10 (11.90%) Migration
12 8 (9.52%) Event-Driven
12 8 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (9.52%) ITSM
12 8 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.14%) Java
2 13 (15.48%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.29%) Python
4 8 (9.52%) C#
5 7 (8.33%) SQL
6 4 (4.76%) Haskell
6 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.57%) Go
7 3 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.57%) Scala
8 2 (2.38%) Bash
8 2 (2.38%) Groovy
8 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) COBOL
9 1 (1.19%) JCL
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Degree
2 14 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) CISSP
5 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.38%) CISM
6 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.38%) SAFe Agilist
6 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.57%) GDPR
1 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.57%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.38%) NIST
2 2 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.19%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.19%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 10 (11.90%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.33%) Terraform
3 3 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) CASB
4 2 (2.38%) SCCM
4 2 (2.38%) SCOrch
4 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.19%) Grafana
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.14%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.57%) Okta
4 3 (3.57%) SAP
5 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Dell
5 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.38%) Oracle
5 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.19%) F5
6 1 (1.19%) Informatica
6 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.19%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.19%) Sparx