Architectural Design Contracts in the City of London

Architectural Design
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Architectural Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architectural Design over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 106 149
Rank change year-on-year -2 +43 +28
Contract jobs citing Architectural Design 8 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 1.04% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.14% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 14
10th Percentile £479 £580 £264
25th Percentile £483 £625 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year - +9.80% +6.25%
75th Percentile £794 £775 £775
90th Percentile £813 £830 £814
Central London median daily rate £489 £700 £638
% change year-on-year -30.21% +9.80% +10.87%

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 1,644 2,011 3,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.93% 90.50% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 1,422 2,249
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -42.20% +5.49%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £48.57 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Architectural Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

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 26 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architectural Design in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Architectural Design in the City of London

Architectural Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Lead
4 2 (25.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
1 2 (25.00%) iSeries
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) LLM
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft