Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £660 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 16 16 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,753 2,436 3,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.01% 9.58% 9.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.70% 10.07% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,726 2,459
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £700 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £763
90th Percentile £857 £850 £850
England median daily rate £650 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 0
10th Percentile £52.55 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £53.38 £35.57 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% - -
75th Percentile £60.88 £71.88 -
90th Percentile £61.85 £82.10 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.72
% change year-on-year - +13.42% +4.44%

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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Architect in London

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 Architect within the 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
Central London -1 221 £650 -3.70% 41
West London +12 36 £575 -17.86% 12
East London -19 11 £675 -9.70% 6
South London -9 2 - - 1
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 478 (27.27%) Azure
2 419 (23.90%) Finance
3 359 (20.48%) AWS
4 346 (19.74%) Social Skills
5 302 (17.23%) Security Cleared
6 300 (17.11%) Agile
7 265 (15.12%) Microsoft
8 254 (14.49%) SC Cleared
9 250 (14.26%) Migration
10 225 (12.84%) Public Sector
11 211 (12.04%) Data Modelling
12 206 (11.75%) Roadmaps
13 182 (10.38%) DevOps
14 176 (10.04%) GCP
15 164 (9.36%) Banking
16 157 (8.96%) Python
17 150 (8.56%) Data Architecture
18 141 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
19 139 (7.93%) Analytics
20 137 (7.82%) Microservices
21 136 (7.76%) Security Architecture
22 123 (7.02%) SQL
23 118 (6.73%) Java
23 118 (6.73%) Power Platform
24 116 (6.62%) CI/CD
25 114 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
26 113 (6.45%) Degree
27 112 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
28 111 (6.33%) Data Governance
29 110 (6.27%) Enterprise Architecture

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:

Application Platforms
1 64 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (1.88%) Apache
4 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 18 (1.03%) Confluence
7 11 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (0.34%) SAS
11 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.29%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.23%) IIS
13 1 (0.057%) JBoss
13 1 (0.057%) Mule
13 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
13 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 48 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (2.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
5 8 (0.46%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.40%) SAP BPC
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.17%) Maximo
10 3 (0.17%) Primavera
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 478 (27.27%) Azure
2 359 (20.48%) AWS
3 176 (10.04%) GCP
4 118 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 92 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (5.13%) SaaS
7 72 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
8 60 (3.42%) IaaS
9 57 (3.25%) PaaS
10 53 (3.02%) Entra ID
11 50 (2.85%) Serverless
12 48 (2.74%) Snowflake
13 42 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (2.17%) dbt
15 29 (1.65%) GitHub
16 22 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.25%) PowerApps
17 21 (1.20%) Power Automate
18 20 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 20 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.71%) Firewall
2 36 (2.05%) Network Security
3 19 (1.08%) LAN
4 17 (0.97%) WAN
5 13 (0.74%) DNS
6 12 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 11 (0.63%) SSL
8 10 (0.57%) MPLS
8 10 (0.57%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.51%) VoIP
10 8 (0.46%) Internet
10 8 (0.46%) SAN
10 8 (0.46%) Wireless
11 7 (0.40%) HTTP
12 6 (0.34%) SNMP
12 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
14 4 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.19%) Data Lake
2 88 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.45%) Power BI
4 76 (4.34%) NoSQL
5 59 (3.37%) Big Data
5 59 (3.37%) Metadata
6 42 (2.40%) Data Vault
6 42 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
8 33 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.71%) Tableau
10 29 (1.65%) Apache Arrow
10 29 (1.65%) Dremio
11 28 (1.60%) Apache Ignite
11 28 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 27 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
13 26 (1.48%) BigQuery
14 20 (1.14%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (1.77%) Jenkins
2 26 (1.48%) ERwin
2 26 (1.48%) JIRA
3 16 (0.91%) Git
4 9 (0.51%) ER Studio
5 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) GitLab
7 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.17%) Postman
9 3 (0.17%) Selenium
9 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.17%) Storybook
9 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.11%) TestNG
10 2 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 419 (23.90%) Finance
2 346 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 225 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 164 (9.36%) Banking
5 89 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (3.02%) Retail
7 50 (2.85%) Telecoms
8 49 (2.80%) Marketing
9 42 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 42 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 38 (2.17%) Front Office
10 38 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 31 (1.77%) Financial Institution
14 27 (1.54%) Electronics
14 27 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.31%) Legal
16 20 (1.14%) Publishing
17 14 (0.80%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.25%) .NET
2 50 (2.85%) REST
3 47 (2.68%) SAML
4 34 (1.94%) JSON
5 33 (1.88%) React
6 30 (1.71%) gRPC
7 29 (1.65%) Middleware
7 29 (1.65%) Protocol Buffers
8 28 (1.60%) Kafka
8 28 (1.60%) NumPy
8 28 (1.60%) Pandas
8 28 (1.60%) SciPy
9 27 (1.54%) XML
10 26 (1.48%) OpenID
11 23 (1.31%) OAuth
12 21 (1.20%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.14%) CSS
13 20 (1.14%) HTML
13 20 (1.14%) Web Services
14 17 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (3.08%) Cloud Native
1 54 (3.08%) Data Centre
2 48 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 42 (2.40%) Reference Data
4 40 (2.28%) Data Structures
5 38 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 33 (1.88%) Derivative
7 33 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 30 (1.71%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.65%) Equities
10 29 (1.65%) Hedge funds
11 26 (1.48%) IoT
12 23 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 23 (1.31%) Mainframe
12 23 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 20 (1.14%) Security Posture
15 18 (1.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.19%) Linux
2 40 (2.28%) Windows
3 11 (0.63%) VMS
4 9 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.51%) Unix
4 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.40%) CentOS
6 6 (0.34%) Solaris
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.057%) AIX
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (17.11%) Agile
2 250 (14.26%) Migration
3 211 (12.04%) Data Modelling
4 206 (11.75%) Roadmaps
5 182 (10.38%) DevOps
6 150 (8.56%) Data Architecture
7 141 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (7.93%) Analytics
9 137 (7.82%) Microservices
10 136 (7.76%) Security Architecture
11 116 (6.62%) CI/CD
12 114 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 112 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
14 111 (6.33%) Data Governance
15 110 (6.27%) Enterprise Architecture
16 105 (5.99%) Cloud Security
17 101 (5.76%) Cybersecurity
17 101 (5.76%) Data Integration
18 96 (5.48%) Business Strategy
19 89 (5.08%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 157 (8.96%) Python
2 123 (7.02%) SQL
3 118 (6.73%) Java
4 89 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 52 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 50 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 40 (2.28%) C#
8 22 (1.25%) Scala
9 19 (1.08%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.68%) C++
12 11 (0.63%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.34%) Bash
14 5 (0.29%) Go
15 3 (0.17%) Bicep
15 3 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.17%) R
15 3 (0.17%) Ruby
16 2 (0.11%) C
16 2 (0.11%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 302 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 254 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 113 (6.45%) Degree
4 67 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 61 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (3.14%) CISSP
7 41 (2.34%) CISM
8 29 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.60%) CISA
10 27 (1.54%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 13 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.68%) SANS
16 11 (0.63%) CRISC
17 8 (0.46%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.11%) NIST
2 65 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.37%) GDPR
4 41 (2.34%) QA
5 31 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.14%) NCSC
7 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.63%) SLA
9 10 (0.57%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.40%) COBIT
10 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.40%) GRC
10 7 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.17%) GPG13
14 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.71%) Docker
3 25 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.74%) RACF
6 8 (0.46%) vSphere
7 7 (0.40%) ACF2
7 7 (0.40%) IAG
7 7 (0.40%) KVM
8 4 (0.23%) vCloud
9 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.057%) Firmware
11 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 85 (4.85%) Terraform
2 53 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.40%) Ansible
4 22 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.63%) Puppet
7 9 (0.51%) Grafana
8 8 (0.46%) Kibana
8 8 (0.46%) SCCM
9 7 (0.40%) logstash
9 7 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.34%) zSecure
11 5 (0.29%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.29%) PingFederate
11 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.23%) VxRail
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 265 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.10%) SAP
3 84 (4.79%) Oracle
4 74 (4.22%) Google
5 70 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.71%) ServiceNow
7 54 (3.08%) Databricks
8 53 (3.02%) Sparx
9 39 (2.22%) VMware
10 37 (2.11%) IBM
11 29 (1.65%) Informatica
12 28 (1.60%) Cisco
13 24 (1.37%) CyberArk
14 21 (1.20%) NetApp
15 16 (0.91%) Citrix
15 16 (0.91%) Okta
16 15 (0.86%) Talend
17 14 (0.80%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.80%) Pega
18 13 (0.74%) Dell