Digital Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Digital Architect
England > London

The median Digital Architect daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 371 402
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Architect 8 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.057% 0.051% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.055% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £474 £488 £563
25th Percentile £491 £568 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £653 £784 -
90th Percentile £681 £801 -
England median daily rate £625 £625 £600
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -5.88%

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 13,052 14,572 18,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 93.66% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,666 9,460 13,218
10th Percentile £338 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.77%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 212
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.65 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +0.95% +3.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.32 £80.75 £73.54
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +38.46%

Digital Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Digital Architect job vacancy trend in London

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Digital Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Architect in London over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Architect in London

Digital 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 Digital Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 2 December 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 +3 1 £500 -
Digital Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, Digital 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 Digital Architect in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) CMS
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Android
3 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) MACH
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (12.50%) Adobe
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis

Digital 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 3 (37.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Drupal
2 1 (12.50%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) MACH
2 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe