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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 107 110
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +64
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 20 22 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.12% 1.02% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.11% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 18
10th Percentile £403 £450 £501
25th Percentile £463 £473 £614
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £763
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% -14.75% +17.31%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £869
90th Percentile £648 £724 £884
Central London median daily rate £500 £650 £763
% change year-on-year -23.08% -14.75% +17.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Process and 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 1,654 1,982 2,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.87% 91.51% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,217 1,711
10th Percentile £339 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 29 November 2025.

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 2 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.00%) Firebase
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.00%) OCI
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQLite
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) CouchDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) CocoaPods
3 2 (10.00%) Crashlytics
3 2 (10.00%) fastlane
3 2 (10.00%) Xcode
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) AVFoundation
1 2 (10.00%) Core Animation
1 2 (10.00%) Core Data
1 2 (10.00%) REST
1 2 (10.00%) RxSwift
1 2 (10.00%) UIKit
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.00%) Memcached
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Animation
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
1 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) CRM
4 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (10.00%) Code Coverage
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (10.00%) iOS Development
5 2 (10.00%) MVC
5 2 (10.00%) OO
5 2 (10.00%) OOP
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
1 2 (10.00%) Swift
2 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) PHP
2 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.00%) ProC
2 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) CCSP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) GIAC
3 1 (5.00%) ISACA
3 1 (5.00%) OSCP
3 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Apple
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk