Architect Contracts in South London

Architect
London > South London

The median Architect daily rate in South London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 33 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -9
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 9 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 4.89% 4.15% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.29% 4.26% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile £630 £680 -
25th Percentile £638 £692 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £676
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +7.33% +7.65%
75th Percentile £743 £738 £747
90th Percentile £798 - £796
London median daily rate £640 £660 £700
% change year-on-year -3.03% -5.71% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 170 235 362
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 97.51% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 157 285
10th Percentile £231 £209 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £750 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £20.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £77.19 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in South London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in South London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in South London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Croydon +2 4 £650 -10.34%
Merton - 3 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - -
Sutton - 1 - -
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 South London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 2 (22.22%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) SAP FI
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) SAP CO
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP CO
1 2 (22.22%) SAP FI
1 2 (22.22%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (11.11%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Route 53
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (22.22%) Microservices
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
1 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
1 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (11.11%) GIAC
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft