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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 106 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +43
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 28 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.26% 0.46% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 0.49% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 12
10th Percentile £442 £479 £575
25th Percentile £502 £483 £623
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +9.80%
75th Percentile £688 £794 £747
90th Percentile £739 £813 £798
Central London median daily rate £600 £489 £700
% change year-on-year +22.82% -30.21% +9.80%

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 1,916 1,619 2,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.38% 92.57% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,032 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -20.54%

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 16 April 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 (3.57%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.57%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) SaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) Firebase
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) MPLS
1 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.57%) SMS
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
1 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (3.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) CocoaPods
2 1 (3.57%) Crashlytics
2 1 (3.57%) fastlane
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Xcode
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Front Office
2 2 (7.14%) Retail
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Legal
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Consultant
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Information Assurance Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Project Assurance Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) AVFoundation
4 1 (3.57%) Core Animation
4 1 (3.57%) Core Data
4 1 (3.57%) Django
4 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.57%) JAX-RS
4 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) RxSwift
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) UIKit
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Animation
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (21.43%) AI
3 6 (21.43%) Analytics
3 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
3 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 6 (21.43%) Use Case
4 5 (17.86%) AIOps
4 5 (17.86%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (17.86%) Generative AI
4 5 (17.86%) LLM
4 5 (17.86%) Logistics
4 5 (17.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Objective-C
3 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.57%) ProC
3 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Swift
3 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) GIAC
3 3 (10.71%) ISACA
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.57%) CCSP
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CISSP
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) OSCP
5 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GRC
3 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Google
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Apple
2 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
2 1 (3.57%) OpenText
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (3.57%) Planon
2 1 (3.57%) Rapid7
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk