Systems Architect Contracts in London

System Architect
England > London

The median System Architect daily rate in London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 481 584
Rank change year-on-year +96 +103 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 12 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.015% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.016% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £560 £427 £500
25th Percentile £625 £449 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £493 £665
Median % change year-on-year +52.28% -25.94% +26.67%
75th Percentile £775 £529 £750
90th Percentile £778 £548 £788
England median daily rate £620 £530 £620
% change year-on-year +16.98% -14.52% +18.10%

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 16,380 25,121 37,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,833 18,239 27,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £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 324 285 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +1.43% +7.89%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in London

Systems Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Architect in London

Systems Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Architect in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Architect in London

Systems Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Architect in London

Systems 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 Systems Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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 +49 4 £750 +33.93%
Systems Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Systems 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 Systems Architect in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) XML
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
1 6 (50.00%) JSON
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) Power BI
1 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) PowerApps
2 5 (41.67%) Power Automate
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (41.67%) XML Parsing
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Financial Institution
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (41.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Workflow
3 1 (8.33%) Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning

Systems 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Power Automate
2 5 (41.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Boomi
3 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) JSON
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) XML
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (8.33%) J2EE
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 5 (41.67%) XML Parsing
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (8.33%) Communications Security
2 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (8.33%) Data Management
2 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (8.33%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) Workflow
2 1 (8.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) C
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) IFS
2 1 (8.33%) Pega
2 1 (8.33%) SAP