IT Architect Contracts in London

IT Architect
England > London

The median IT Architect daily rate in London is £750, 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 340 367 463
Rank change year-on-year +27 +96 +96
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 13 24 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 18
10th Percentile £563 £477 £666
25th Percentile £569 £622 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £800 £696 -
90th Percentile - £739 £775
England median daily rate £720 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.57% +12.90%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +5 2 £588 -18.97%
IT Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) SIEM
3 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
5 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
5 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (15.38%) SLA
6 2 (15.38%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Firewall
6 2 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) ITSM
6 2 (15.38%) Blog
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Security Management
6 2 (15.38%) Zachman Framework

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 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) MACH
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blog
1 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
1 5 (38.46%) SIEM
1 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (30.77%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Design
3 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Security Management
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CISSP
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) HIPAA
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality