IT Architect Contracts in London

IT Architect
England > London

The median IT Architect daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 457 565
Rank change year-on-year +90 +108 -120
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 27 32 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 32
10th Percentile £400 £667 £551
25th Percentile £581 £675 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £631
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +18.81% +23.77%
75th Percentile £706 - £738
90th Percentile £800 £787 £786
England median daily rate £650 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +12.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in London

IT Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Architect in London

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in London

IT 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 IT Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +42 1 £725 -3.33% 1
West London - 1 £325 -
IT Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, IT 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 IT Architect in the job title.

1 10 (37.04%) ITIL
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) Service Management
2 9 (33.33%) ITSM
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
4 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.81%) CISSP
4 4 (14.81%) LAN
4 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
4 4 (14.81%) Firewall
4 4 (14.81%) TOGAF
4 4 (14.81%) CMDB
4 4 (14.81%) SaaS
4 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (14.81%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Azure
6 2 (7.41%) AWS
6 2 (7.41%) Security Architecture
6 2 (7.41%) CRISC
6 2 (7.41%) SABSA
6 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.41%) GIAC
6 2 (7.41%) Information Security
6 2 (7.41%) CISA
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.41%) ERP
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle

IT 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) SaaS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
1 4 (14.81%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.70%) Legal
2 1 (3.70%) Marketing
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) CMDB
2 2 (7.41%) Blockchain
2 2 (7.41%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) ITIL
2 9 (33.33%) ITSM
2 9 (33.33%) Service Management
3 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
4 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
4 4 (14.81%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.81%) TOGAF
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.41%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (7.41%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.41%) ERP
6 2 (7.41%) Information Security
6 2 (7.41%) SABSA
6 2 (7.41%) Security Architecture
7 1 (3.70%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (3.70%) Event-Driven
7 1 (3.70%) IT Strategy
7 1 (3.70%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Java
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) CISSP
4 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (7.41%) CCSK
4 2 (7.41%) CISA
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CRISC
4 2 (7.41%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) CISM
5 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) COBIT
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) Citrix
3 1 (3.70%) Sparx