Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 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 1,786 2,437 3,751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.12% 9.64% 9.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.81% 10.14% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 1,729 2,483
10th Percentile £489 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £663
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £763
90th Percentile £853 £850 £850
England median daily rate £650 £668 £650
% change year-on-year -2.69% +2.77% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 0
10th Percentile £52.55 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £53.38 £35.90 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% - -
75th Percentile £60.88 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £61.85 £81.80 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.93
% change year-on-year - +14.89% +1.55%

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 16,524 24,032 37,170
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.09% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,907 17,532 27,346
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £471
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 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 413
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.68 £63.75 £49.84
90th Percentile £67.40 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -14.44% +88.21% +12.12%

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 7 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 7 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 -1 225 £650 -3.70% 38
West London +16 37 £575 -17.86% 11
East London -17 10 £653 -13.00% 3
South London -7 2 - - 1
North London +1 1 £800 +33.33%
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 (26.76%) Azure
2 436 (24.41%) Finance
3 366 (20.49%) AWS
4 353 (19.76%) Social Skills
5 309 (17.30%) Security Cleared
6 307 (17.19%) Agile
7 272 (15.23%) Microsoft
8 262 (14.67%) SC Cleared
9 256 (14.33%) Migration
10 221 (12.37%) Public Sector
11 213 (11.93%) Roadmaps
12 211 (11.81%) Data Modelling
13 182 (10.19%) DevOps
14 179 (10.02%) GCP
15 169 (9.46%) Banking
16 159 (8.90%) Python
17 150 (8.40%) Data Architecture
18 143 (8.01%) Microservices
18 143 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
19 139 (7.78%) Security Architecture
20 138 (7.73%) Analytics
21 127 (7.11%) SQL
22 124 (6.94%) Java
23 118 (6.61%) CI/CD
24 117 (6.55%) Power Platform
25 115 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
26 114 (6.38%) Degree
27 110 (6.16%) Data Governance
28 109 (6.10%) Enterprise Architecture
28 109 (6.10%) SAP

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 67 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.07%) Apache
4 25 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.34%) Confluence
6 20 (1.12%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.62%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (0.34%) SAS
11 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.22%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.056%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.056%) Mule
14 1 (0.056%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 48 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 29 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
5 8 (0.45%) SAP BPC
5 8 (0.45%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.39%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.39%) Primavera
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.22%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
10 3 (0.17%) Maximo
10 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
11 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 478 (26.76%) Azure
2 366 (20.49%) AWS
3 179 (10.02%) GCP
4 117 (6.55%) Power Platform
5 94 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 88 (4.93%) SaaS
7 72 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
8 59 (3.30%) IaaS
9 56 (3.14%) PaaS
10 53 (2.97%) Entra ID
11 51 (2.86%) Snowflake
12 48 (2.69%) Serverless
13 42 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
13 42 (2.35%) dbt
14 29 (1.62%) GitHub
15 22 (1.23%) PowerApps
16 21 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (1.18%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.58%) Firewall
2 34 (1.90%) Network Security
3 18 (1.01%) LAN
4 16 (0.90%) WAN
5 13 (0.73%) DNS
6 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 11 (0.62%) SSL
7 10 (0.56%) NetScaler
8 9 (0.50%) Internet
8 9 (0.50%) MPLS
8 9 (0.50%) VoIP
9 8 (0.45%) Wireless
10 7 (0.39%) HTTP
11 6 (0.34%) SAN
11 6 (0.34%) SNMP
11 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.22%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.32%) Data Lake
2 85 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.26%) Power BI
4 60 (3.36%) Big Data
5 58 (3.25%) Metadata
6 42 (2.35%) Data Vault
6 42 (2.35%) SQL Server
7 40 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
8 34 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
9 33 (1.85%) Apache Arrow
9 33 (1.85%) Dremio
10 32 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
11 29 (1.62%) Tableau
12 28 (1.57%) Relational Database
13 27 (1.51%) Metadata Repository
14 24 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 20 (1.12%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 14 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (1.79%) JIRA
2 31 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.40%) ERwin
4 16 (0.90%) Git
5 8 (0.45%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.34%) GitLab
8 5 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.22%) Postman
10 3 (0.17%) Selenium
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.17%) Storybook
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.11%) Maven
11 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 436 (24.41%) Finance
2 353 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 221 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 169 (9.46%) Banking
5 90 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (3.02%) Retail
7 52 (2.91%) Marketing
8 50 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 46 (2.58%) Investment Banking
10 42 (2.35%) Front Office
11 41 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 40 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
14 33 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
15 31 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (1.51%) Electronics
18 24 (1.34%) Legal
19 21 (1.18%) Publishing
20 14 (0.78%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.19%) .NET
2 56 (3.14%) REST
3 45 (2.52%) SAML
4 35 (1.96%) JSON
5 34 (1.90%) gRPC
5 34 (1.90%) React
6 33 (1.85%) Protocol Buffers
7 32 (1.79%) NumPy
7 32 (1.79%) Pandas
7 32 (1.79%) SciPy
8 31 (1.74%) Middleware
9 30 (1.68%) Kafka
10 28 (1.57%) XML
11 24 (1.34%) OpenID
12 23 (1.29%) CSS
12 23 (1.29%) OAuth
13 22 (1.23%) HTML
14 21 (1.18%) Spring Boot
15 20 (1.12%) Web Services
16 18 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (3.08%) Data Centre
2 53 (2.97%) Cloud Native
3 47 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 42 (2.35%) Reference Data
5 41 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 37 (2.07%) Derivative
6 37 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 36 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 34 (1.90%) Fixed Income
9 33 (1.85%) Equities
9 33 (1.85%) Hedge funds
9 33 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 27 (1.51%) IoT
11 23 (1.29%) Mainframe
11 23 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 19 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.19%) Linux
2 41 (2.30%) Windows
3 11 (0.62%) VMS
4 9 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.50%) Unix
4 9 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.39%) CentOS
6 6 (0.34%) Solaris
7 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (0.28%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.056%) AIX
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (17.19%) Agile
2 256 (14.33%) Migration
3 213 (11.93%) Roadmaps
4 211 (11.81%) Data Modelling
5 182 (10.19%) DevOps
6 150 (8.40%) Data Architecture
7 143 (8.01%) Microservices
7 143 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (7.78%) Security Architecture
9 138 (7.73%) Analytics
10 118 (6.61%) CI/CD
11 115 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 110 (6.16%) Data Governance
13 109 (6.10%) Business Intelligence
13 109 (6.10%) Enterprise Architecture
14 105 (5.88%) Cloud Security
15 101 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
16 99 (5.54%) Data Integration
17 94 (5.26%) Business Strategy
18 92 (5.15%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 159 (8.90%) Python
2 127 (7.11%) SQL
3 124 (6.94%) Java
4 94 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 55 (3.08%) TypeScript
6 54 (3.02%) PowerShell
7 40 (2.24%) C#
8 22 (1.23%) Scala
9 20 (1.12%) T-SQL
10 13 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 12 (0.67%) C++
12 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.34%) Bash
14 4 (0.22%) Go
14 4 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.17%) Bicep
15 3 (0.17%) R
15 3 (0.17%) Ruby
16 2 (0.11%) C
16 2 (0.11%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 309 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 262 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.38%) Degree
4 68 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 61 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (3.08%) CISSP
7 41 (2.30%) CISM
8 29 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.57%) Azure Certification
9 28 (1.57%) CISA
10 22 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.67%) SANS
16 11 (0.62%) CRISC
17 8 (0.45%) CREST Certified
17 8 (0.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.98%) NIST
2 64 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.30%) GDPR
4 41 (2.30%) QA
5 31 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.18%) NCSC
7 18 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.62%) SLA
9 10 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.39%) COBIT
10 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.39%) GRC
10 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.22%) 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 55 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.68%) Docker
3 25 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.73%) RACF
6 9 (0.50%) vSphere
7 7 (0.39%) ACF2
7 7 (0.39%) IAG
7 7 (0.39%) KVM
8 5 (0.28%) Firmware
9 4 (0.22%) vCloud
10 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (4.59%) Terraform
2 51 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.35%) Ansible
4 22 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.62%) Puppet
7 9 (0.50%) Grafana
8 8 (0.45%) Kibana
8 8 (0.45%) SCCM
9 7 (0.39%) logstash
9 7 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.34%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.34%) zSecure
11 5 (0.28%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.22%) VxRail
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 272 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.10%) SAP
3 87 (4.87%) Oracle
4 73 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 71 (3.98%) Google
6 70 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.97%) Sparx
8 52 (2.91%) Databricks
9 40 (2.24%) VMware
10 37 (2.07%) IBM
11 29 (1.62%) Informatica
12 27 (1.51%) Cisco
13 25 (1.40%) CyberArk
14 22 (1.23%) NetApp
15 16 (0.90%) Citrix
15 16 (0.90%) Okta
16 15 (0.84%) Talend
17 14 (0.78%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.78%) Pega
18 13 (0.73%) BeyondTrust