Architectural Design Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Architectural Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 113 108
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 23 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 0.56% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.59% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 16
10th Percentile £435 £449 £476
25th Percentile £524 £503 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -5.77% -16.13%
75th Percentile £703 £728 £681
90th Percentile £773 £786 £790
Central London median daily rate £613 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +64.98% -42.88% -16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 1,697 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.08% 94.28% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,122 1,245
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -13.60%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in the City of London

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Bloomreach
3 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) SMS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) NGFW
2 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) Django
3 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (4.35%) JAX-RS
3 1 (4.35%) JDBC
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth
3 1 (4.35%) OpenID
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) SAML
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Migration
1 8 (34.78%) Roadmaps
1 8 (34.78%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Event-Driven
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
5 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
5 4 (17.39%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) CRM
6 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) Data Privacy
6 3 (13.04%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Java
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Bicep
3 1 (4.35%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CISM
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
2 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Workday
4 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) OpenText
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) VMware