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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 103 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 24 15 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.12% 0.88% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.93% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 21
10th Percentile £454 £378 £450
25th Percentile £566 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +43.42% -26.92% -16.93%
75th Percentile £774 £563 £675
90th Percentile £775 £608 £780
Central London median daily rate £681 £371 £650
% change year-on-year +83.50% -42.88% -16.93%
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 1,951 1,613 1,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.74% 94.33% 92.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,356 1,097 1,209
10th Percentile £368 £325 £367
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%

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 13 October 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Serverless
3 6 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.50%) Bloomreach
5 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) SMS
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) NGFW
3 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.17%) Metadata
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) AWS Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (20.83%) Senior
5 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Architect
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (12.50%) Lead
7 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
7 2 (8.33%) Platform Architect
8 1 (4.17%) CRM Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 1 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (4.17%) JDBC
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) OpenID
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SAML
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (20.83%) Digital Strategy
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
6 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 4 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Java
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) Bicep
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CISM
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.83%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Puppet
2 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Workday
3 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) VMware