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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 116 100
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +32
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 25 9 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.04% 0.52% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.56% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 12
10th Percentile £488 £708 £524
25th Percentile £550 £719 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -10.19%
75th Percentile £688 £794 £753
90th Percentile £745 £813 £834
Central London median daily rate £625 £390 £650
% change year-on-year +60.26% -40.00% -10.19%
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 2,067 1,608 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.70% 93.76% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,023 1,365
10th Percentile £361 £355 £358
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 13
10th Percentile £17.53 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £76.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +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 16 June 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%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) NGFW
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.00%) SMS
1 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
1 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
4 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Architect
2 9 (36.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (20.00%) AWS Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Architect
6 1 (4.00%) CRM Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Middleware
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) Django
3 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.00%) J2EE
3 1 (4.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (4.00%) JDBC
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) OpenID
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Migration
1 8 (32.00%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) AI
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) Use Case
5 4 (16.00%) AIOps
5 4 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (16.00%) Generative AI
5 4 (16.00%) LLM
5 4 (16.00%) Logistics
5 4 (16.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (12.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CCNP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CISM
2 1 (4.00%) CISSP
2 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) Workday
3 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) OpenText
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) Planon