Architect Contracts in West London

Architect
London > West London

The median Architect daily rate in West London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 21 33
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 36 46 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 9.76% 7.97% 4.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.23% 8.21% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 21
10th Percentile £513 £611 £600
25th Percentile £551 £650 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £675
90th Percentile £698 £850 £700
London median daily rate £660 £700 £663
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.66% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.00 £92.50 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.16% - -
75th Percentile £56.00 £97.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £57.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -12.31% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West 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 London with a recognized job title 352 560 576
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.39% 97.05% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 430 403
10th Percentile £200 £269 £186
25th Percentile £288 £450 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £649 £623
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 48 41
10th Percentile £16.25 £25.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £34.44 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.16 £64.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.88% +220.00% -24.53%
75th Percentile £56.75 £75.00 £37.06
90th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in West London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in West London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in West London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in West London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in West London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in West 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Hillingdon +15 13 £555 -32.73% 2
Richmond upon Thames - 11 £575 - 1
Hounslow 0 7 £700 -3.45%
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 10 (27.78%) .NET
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
1 10 (27.78%) Machine Learning
2 9 (25.00%) Analytics
2 9 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 9 (25.00%) C#
2 9 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 8 (22.22%) React
3 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 8 (22.22%) CSS
3 8 (22.22%) Migration
3 8 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (19.44%) Terraform
4 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
4 7 (19.44%) LLM
5 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
5 6 (16.67%) Firewall
6 5 (13.89%) Azure
6 5 (13.89%) FortiGate
6 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
6 5 (13.89%) Cisco
6 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (13.89%) Python
6 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
6 5 (13.89%) Operational Technology

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 3 (8.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
2 1 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) GitHub
3 4 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.56%) Collibra
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) HTTP
2 4 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 4 (11.11%) IPsec
3 2 (5.56%) LAN
3 2 (5.56%) WAN
4 1 (2.78%) MPLS
4 1 (2.78%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.78%) SSL
4 1 (2.78%) Wireless
4 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Aviation
4 1 (2.78%) Advertising
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) .NET
2 9 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 8 (22.22%) CSS
3 8 (22.22%) React
4 3 (8.33%) SAML
5 1 (2.78%) FHIR
5 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.89%) Operational Technology
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (8.33%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Life Science
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Machine Learning
2 9 (25.00%) Analytics
2 9 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 8 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (22.22%) Migration
3 8 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 7 (19.44%) LLM
4 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.11%) ETL
6 4 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (8.33%) RBAC
7 3 (8.33%) Runbook
7 3 (8.33%) Security Architecture
7 3 (8.33%) Security Operations
7 3 (8.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) C#
2 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) T-SQL
2 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 5 (13.89%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) Java
5 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) CCIE
2 4 (11.11%) CCNP
2 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) JNCIE
4 1 (2.78%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) DICOM
2 1 (2.78%) HL7
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (8.33%) New Relic
4 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (5.56%) DocuSign
5 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.78%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.78%) Computacenter
6 1 (2.78%) Confluent
6 1 (2.78%) Databricks
6 1 (2.78%) Dell
6 1 (2.78%) Informatica
6 1 (2.78%) Juniper
6 1 (2.78%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.78%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.78%) Snow
6 1 (2.78%) Talend