Chief Architect Contracts in London

Chief Architect
England > London

The median Chief Architect daily rate in London is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 364 479
Rank change year-on-year +18 +115 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Chief Architect 7 27 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.15% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.16% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 11
10th Percentile £646 £838 £650
25th Percentile £713 £875 £769
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £900 £850
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £950 £950 £1,019
90th Percentile £975 £975 £1,075
England median daily rate £750 £900 £913
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.37% +14.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Chief Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Chief Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Chief Architect in London

Chief Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chief Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Chief Architect in London

Chief Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Chief Architect in London

Chief Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Chief Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Chief Architect in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) DB2
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Blog
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance

Chief Architect Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Public Speaking
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Billing
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blog
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Master Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Presales
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) GRC
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
2 1 (14.29%) PSD2
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
8 Chief Architect jobs in England