Architect Contracts in West End of London

Architect
Central London > West End of London

The median Architect daily rate in West End of London is £583, 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 8 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 9 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 13.04% 11.54% 3.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.00% 12.24% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £556 £546 £610
25th Percentile £570 £589 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% -3.85% +25.73%
75th Percentile £630 £647 £675
90th Percentile £675 £664 £690
Central London median daily rate £659 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West End of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West End of 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 West End of London with a recognized job title 60 49 77
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.96% 94.23% 97.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 28 52
10th Percentile £283 £238 £230
25th Percentile £450 £356 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +1.00% -5.39%
75th Percentile £584 £541 £558
90th Percentile £671 £638 £649
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.10 - -
Median hourly rate £18.19 - -
75th Percentile £18.29 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in West End of London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in West End of London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of 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
Holborn - 5 £580 - 2
Westminster -1 1 £650 -
Architect
Central London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London

For the 6 months to 1 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 West End of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
2 3 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 3 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) SABSA
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) CMDB

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of 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%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Route 53
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) API Design
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (11.11%) SABSA
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Puppet
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
2 1 (11.11%) BMC
2 1 (11.11%) Foundry
2 1 (11.11%) OutSystems
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow