Chief Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Chief Architect
England > London

The median Chief Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 385 445
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Chief Architect 9 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.067% 0.087% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.092% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 5
10th Percentile £578 £826 -
25th Percentile £581 £838 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £900 £800
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £1,300 £925 £850
90th Percentile - - £895
England median daily rate £675 £875 £813
% change year-on-year -22.86% +7.69% -4.41%

All DemandTrendContract 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 12,424 15,192 21,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.08% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,326 10,369 15,591
10th Percentile £325 £349 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £684 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 186 232
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.69 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.28 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £34.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% -8.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.38 £55.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Chief Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Chief Architect job vacancies in London

Chief Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Chief Architect in London

Chief Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (44.44%) Architectural Design
3 4 (44.44%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Business Transformation
4 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 1 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Billing
6 1 (11.11%) Google
6 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (11.11%) GCP
6 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (11.11%) FinOps
6 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving

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 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Architectural Design
3 4 (44.44%) Business Transformation
3 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Technology Transformation
4 3 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 1 (11.11%) FinOps
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 Chief Architect jobs in England