IT Architect Contract Job Trends 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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 356 378
Rank change year-on-year -6 +22 +130
Contract jobs requiring an IT Architect 10 7 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.069% 0.051% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.054% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 24
10th Percentile £648 £586 £628
25th Percentile £675 £611 £648
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £658
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.66% -2.59%
75th Percentile £808 £725 £668
90th Percentile £827 £770 £733
England median daily rate £630 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -1.18% -1.92% -4.41%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 13,448 12,904 17,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.56% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,933 8,274 12,424
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £778
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 140 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £19.05
Median hourly rate £33.73 £35.00 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +18.20% -8.89%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.50 £50.63
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.98
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IT Architect job vacancy trend in London

IT Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

IT Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in London over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Architect in London

IT Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Architect job vacancies 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 26 January 2026. 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
West London - 2 - - 3
East London - 1 £630 -
IT Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 2026, IT 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 IT Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) OSINT
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Accounts Receivable
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (10.00%) BPMN
4 1 (10.00%) Camunda
4 1 (10.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Twin

IT 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 1 (10.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) IoT
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) OSINT
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) AI
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) SAP