Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,765 2,468 3,744
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.10% 9.49% 9.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.81% 9.97% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,743 2,467
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £660
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £850
England median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - £34.58 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £35.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £77.19 -
90th Percentile - £84.45 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +16.24%

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 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
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% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

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 20 May 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 20 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 0 231 £650 -3.70% 49
West London +10 31 £575 -20.69% 14
East London -14 12 £653 -13.00% 75
South London -4 7 £672 -0.99%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 469 (26.57%) Azure
2 428 (24.25%) Finance
3 373 (21.13%) AWS
4 340 (19.26%) Social Skills
5 317 (17.96%) Security Cleared
6 303 (17.17%) Agile
7 273 (15.47%) SC Cleared
8 264 (14.96%) Microsoft
9 242 (13.71%) Migration
10 238 (13.48%) Public Sector
11 225 (12.75%) Data Modelling
12 211 (11.95%) Roadmaps
13 184 (10.42%) DevOps
14 178 (10.08%) GCP
15 162 (9.18%) Python
16 160 (9.07%) Banking
17 154 (8.73%) Data Architecture
18 141 (7.99%) Security Architecture
19 137 (7.76%) Microservices
19 137 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
20 136 (7.71%) Analytics
21 125 (7.08%) SQL
22 120 (6.80%) Data Governance
23 119 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
23 119 (6.74%) Power Platform
24 117 (6.63%) Java
25 116 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
25 116 (6.57%) Enterprise Architecture
26 115 (6.52%) Degree
27 111 (6.29%) CI/CD

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 62 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.15%) Apache
3 30 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.30%) Confluence
6 19 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.34%) SAS
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.057%) JBoss
12 1 (0.057%) Mule
12 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 25 (1.42%) 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 1 (0.057%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 49 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 48 (2.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 27 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.79%) Distributed Ledger
5 7 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.17%) Maximo
9 3 (0.17%) Primavera
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 469 (26.57%) Azure
2 373 (21.13%) AWS
3 178 (10.08%) GCP
4 119 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 94 (5.33%) SaaS
6 91 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
7 72 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 59 (3.34%) IaaS
9 56 (3.17%) PaaS
10 54 (3.06%) Serverless
11 50 (2.83%) Entra ID
12 49 (2.78%) Snowflake
13 41 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (2.04%) dbt
15 28 (1.59%) GitHub
16 24 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 20 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.08%) Amazon S3
18 19 (1.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.02%) Firewall
2 39 (2.21%) Network Security
3 19 (1.08%) LAN
4 18 (1.02%) WAN
5 13 (0.74%) DNS
6 12 (0.68%) SSL
7 10 (0.57%) MPLS
7 10 (0.57%) NetScaler
7 10 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.51%) Internet
8 9 (0.51%) VoIP
9 8 (0.45%) SAN
10 7 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.40%) Wireless
11 6 (0.34%) HTTP
11 6 (0.34%) SNMP
12 5 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.28%) VPN
12 5 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (4.93%) Data Lake
3 79 (4.48%) Power BI
4 77 (4.36%) NoSQL
5 63 (3.57%) Big Data
6 59 (3.34%) Metadata
7 45 (2.55%) SQL Server
8 42 (2.38%) Data Vault
9 34 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
10 33 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (1.70%) Tableau
12 29 (1.64%) Relational Database
13 27 (1.53%) Apache Arrow
13 27 (1.53%) Dremio
13 27 (1.53%) Metadata Repository
14 26 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
14 26 (1.47%) BigQuery
15 20 (1.13%) RDBMS
16 17 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (0.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (1.98%) Jenkins
2 30 (1.70%) ERwin
2 30 (1.70%) JIRA
3 15 (0.85%) Git
4 11 (0.62%) ER Studio
5 7 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.34%) GitLab
7 5 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.23%) Selenium
9 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.11%) Maven
10 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.11%) Subversion
10 2 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 428 (24.25%) Finance
2 340 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 238 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 160 (9.07%) Banking
5 92 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.95%) Retail
7 51 (2.89%) Marketing
8 47 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.32%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.04%) Front Office
14 35 (1.98%) Financial Institution
15 33 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
16 29 (1.64%) Electronics
17 28 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (1.42%) Legal
19 21 (1.19%) Publishing
20 15 (0.85%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.23%) .NET
2 47 (2.66%) REST
2 47 (2.66%) SAML
3 34 (1.93%) JSON
4 33 (1.87%) Kafka
5 32 (1.81%) React
6 30 (1.70%) Middleware
7 28 (1.59%) gRPC
8 27 (1.53%) Protocol Buffers
8 27 (1.53%) XML
9 26 (1.47%) NumPy
9 26 (1.47%) Pandas
9 26 (1.47%) SciPy
10 25 (1.42%) OpenID
11 22 (1.25%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.19%) OAuth
12 21 (1.19%) Web Services
13 18 (1.02%) HTML
13 18 (1.02%) LDAP
13 18 (1.02%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 52 (2.95%) Cloud Native
2 50 (2.83%) Data Centre
3 44 (2.49%) Product Ownership
4 42 (2.38%) Reference Data
5 40 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 40 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 32 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 31 (1.76%) Derivative
7 31 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (1.59%) Equities
8 28 (1.59%) Fixed Income
8 28 (1.59%) Hedge funds
9 26 (1.47%) IoT
10 24 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.30%) Mainframe
12 21 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.13%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.29%) Linux
2 38 (2.15%) Windows
3 12 (0.68%) Unix
4 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.57%) VMS
6 9 (0.51%) CentOS
7 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.34%) Solaris
9 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.057%) AIX
11 1 (0.057%) tvOS
11 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (17.17%) Agile
2 242 (13.71%) Migration
3 225 (12.75%) Data Modelling
4 211 (11.95%) Roadmaps
5 184 (10.42%) DevOps
6 154 (8.73%) Data Architecture
7 141 (7.99%) Security Architecture
8 137 (7.76%) Microservices
8 137 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (7.71%) Analytics
10 120 (6.80%) Data Governance
11 119 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
12 116 (6.57%) Enterprise Architecture
12 116 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 111 (6.29%) CI/CD
14 107 (6.06%) Cloud Security
14 107 (6.06%) Data Integration
15 104 (5.89%) Cybersecurity
16 97 (5.50%) TOGAF
17 93 (5.27%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 162 (9.18%) Python
2 125 (7.08%) SQL
3 117 (6.63%) Java
4 88 (4.99%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.06%) PowerShell
6 47 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 39 (2.21%) C#
8 22 (1.25%) Scala
9 17 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 11 (0.62%) C++
12 8 (0.45%) Go
13 7 (0.40%) Bash
14 5 (0.28%) Ruby
15 3 (0.17%) Bicep
15 3 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.17%) R
16 2 (0.11%) Swift
16 2 (0.11%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 317 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 273 (15.47%) SC Cleared
3 115 (6.52%) Degree
4 65 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 63 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (3.29%) CISSP
7 42 (2.38%) CISM
8 30 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.64%) CISA
10 24 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.08%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.85%) SANS
16 14 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.68%) CRISC
18 9 (0.51%) CCSK
19 8 (0.45%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.48%) NIST
2 66 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.40%) GDPR
4 44 (2.49%) QA
5 35 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.19%) NCSC
7 17 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.62%) SLA
9 8 (0.45%) GRC
10 7 (0.40%) COBIT
10 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.17%) GPG13
13 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.17%) PMO
13 3 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.76%) Docker
3 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.74%) RACF
5 7 (0.40%) ACF2
5 7 (0.40%) IAG
5 7 (0.40%) KVM
6 6 (0.34%) vSphere
7 4 (0.23%) vCloud
8 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) HDFS
9 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.057%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 89 (5.04%) Terraform
2 57 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 46 (2.61%) Ansible
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.85%) Puppet
7 12 (0.68%) Grafana
8 10 (0.57%) Kibana
9 9 (0.51%) logstash
9 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.45%) SCCM
11 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.34%) zSecure
12 5 (0.28%) Packer
12 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.23%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.23%) VxRail
14 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 264 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.67%) SAP
3 95 (5.38%) Oracle
4 74 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 72 (4.08%) Google
6 70 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 58 (3.29%) Sparx
8 52 (2.95%) Databricks
9 36 (2.04%) IBM
9 36 (2.04%) VMware
10 31 (1.76%) Informatica
11 27 (1.53%) Cisco
12 26 (1.47%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.08%) NetApp
14 18 (1.02%) Okta
15 16 (0.91%) Citrix
15 16 (0.91%) Talend
16 13 (0.74%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.74%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.74%) Pega