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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 111 108
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 +48
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 30 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.40% 0.57% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.62% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 10
10th Percentile £425 £475 £564
25th Percentile £463 £477 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £489 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.82% -30.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile - £738 £798
Central London median daily rate £600 £477 £700
% change year-on-year +25.79% -31.86% +12.00%

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 1,878 1,605 2,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.55% 92.19% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,035 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
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 30 March 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 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
3 3 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) MPLS
1 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.33%) SMS
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) CouchDB
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
3 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) CocoaPods
3 1 (3.33%) Crashlytics
3 1 (3.33%) fastlane
3 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Front Office
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Information Assurance Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.33%) CRM Architect
7 1 (3.33%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Middleware
2 3 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.33%) AVFoundation
4 1 (3.33%) Core Animation
4 1 (3.33%) Core Data
4 1 (3.33%) Django
4 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.33%) Memcached
4 1 (3.33%) Next.js
4 1 (3.33%) React
4 1 (3.33%) RxSwift
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Animation
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.33%) IoT
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (20.00%) AI
3 6 (20.00%) Analytics
3 6 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Migration
3 6 (20.00%) Use Case
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) AIOps
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 5 (16.67%) LLM
4 5 (16.67%) Logistics
4 5 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Java
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (3.33%) PHP
3 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.33%) ProC
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.33%) Swift
3 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) GIAC
3 3 (10.00%) ISACA
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.33%) CCSP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) OSCP
5 1 (3.33%) SANS
5 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (3.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (3.33%) NCSC
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Google
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.33%) Apple
2 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Dell
2 1 (3.33%) Informatica
2 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.33%) OpenText
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Planon
2 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.33%) Splunk