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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 114 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +47
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 25 8 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 0.46% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.49% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 12
10th Percentile £438 £479 £576
25th Percentile £518 £483 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £713
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.75% +1.79%
75th Percentile £688 £794 £781
90th Percentile £741 £813 £834
Central London median daily rate £625 £489 £713
% change year-on-year +27.94% -31.44% +1.79%

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 1,948 1,639 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.07% 93.28% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,037 1,395
10th Percentile £363 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 4 May 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 (4.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.00%) SMS
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
1 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Front Office
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Architect
2 6 (24.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Information Assurance Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Migration Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Project Assurance Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (4.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Middleware
2 3 (12.00%) REST
3 2 (8.00%) SOAP
3 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) Django
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) J2EE
4 1 (4.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (4.00%) JDBC
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) LDAP
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth
4 1 (4.00%) OpenID
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) SAML
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (28.00%) AI
3 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
3 6 (24.00%) Use Case
4 5 (20.00%) AIOps
4 5 (20.00%) Analytics
4 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 5 (20.00%) LLM
4 5 (20.00%) Logistics
4 5 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) ProC
4 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) GIAC
2 3 (12.00%) ISACA
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CISM
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) OSCP
4 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.00%) GRC
4 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (4.00%) NCSC
4 1 (4.00%) NIST
4 1 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) OpenText
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Planon
3 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.00%) Workday