Architect Contracts in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect daily rate in London is £663 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Architect 1,777 2,455 3,694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.18% 9.49% 9.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.90% 9.96% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 1,731 2,440
10th Percentile £500 £513 £513
25th Percentile £550 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £654
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +6.99% +9.04%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £844
England median daily rate £650 £672 £650
% change year-on-year -3.27% +3.38% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - £34.58 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £35.39 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £77.19 -
90th Percentile - £84.45 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +16.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Architect in London

Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 237 £650 -3.70% 54
West London +11 31 £575 -20.69% 18
East London -15 14 £653 -13.00% 6
South London -3 7 £672 -0.99% 1
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 474 (26.67%) Azure
2 428 (24.09%) Finance
3 373 (20.99%) AWS
4 345 (19.41%) Social Skills
5 324 (18.23%) Security Cleared
6 300 (16.88%) Agile
7 281 (15.81%) SC Cleared
8 267 (15.03%) Microsoft
9 244 (13.73%) Public Sector
10 243 (13.67%) Migration
11 228 (12.83%) Data Modelling
12 215 (12.10%) Roadmaps
13 185 (10.41%) DevOps
14 176 (9.90%) GCP
15 161 (9.06%) Python
16 158 (8.89%) Data Architecture
17 152 (8.55%) Banking
18 143 (8.05%) Security Architecture
19 139 (7.82%) Analytics
20 137 (7.71%) Microservices
21 136 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
22 126 (7.09%) SQL
23 124 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
24 121 (6.81%) Data Governance
25 120 (6.75%) Power Platform
26 119 (6.70%) Enterprise Architecture
27 116 (6.53%) Java
28 115 (6.47%) Degree
29 114 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
30 110 (6.19%) CI/CD

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 63 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.03%) Apache
3 28 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (1.29%) Confluence
6 19 (1.07%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.62%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.39%) CMS
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.34%) SAS
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.056%) Drupal
12 1 (0.056%) Mule
12 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.056%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 49 (2.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 48 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.79%) Distributed Ledger
5 7 (0.39%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.17%) Maximo
9 3 (0.17%) Primavera
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 474 (26.67%) Azure
2 373 (20.99%) AWS
3 176 (9.90%) GCP
4 120 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 94 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (5.29%) SaaS
6 72 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
7 61 (3.43%) IaaS
8 58 (3.26%) PaaS
9 54 (3.04%) Serverless
10 51 (2.87%) Entra ID
11 47 (2.64%) Snowflake
12 40 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
13 34 (1.91%) dbt
14 28 (1.58%) GitHub
15 25 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 24 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (1.07%) Amazon S3
18 19 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.05%) Firewall
2 39 (2.19%) Network Security
3 19 (1.07%) LAN
4 18 (1.01%) WAN
5 13 (0.73%) DNS
6 12 (0.68%) SSL
7 10 (0.56%) MPLS
7 10 (0.56%) NetScaler
7 10 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.51%) SAN
8 9 (0.51%) VoIP
9 8 (0.45%) Internet
10 7 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.39%) Wireless
11 6 (0.34%) HTTP
11 6 (0.34%) SNMP
12 5 (0.28%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.28%) VPN
12 5 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (4.84%) Data Lake
3 80 (4.50%) Power BI
4 77 (4.33%) NoSQL
5 63 (3.55%) Big Data
6 61 (3.43%) Metadata
7 45 (2.53%) SQL Server
8 43 (2.42%) Data Vault
9 33 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
11 30 (1.69%) Tableau
12 29 (1.63%) Relational Database
13 27 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
14 26 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.41%) Apache Arrow
15 25 (1.41%) Dremio
16 24 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
17 20 (1.13%) RDBMS
18 17 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 15 (0.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 31 (1.74%) ERwin
3 30 (1.69%) JIRA
4 15 (0.84%) Git
5 11 (0.62%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.34%) GitLab
8 5 (0.28%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.23%) Selenium
10 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.11%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.11%) Postman
11 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.11%) TestNG
11 2 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 428 (24.09%) Finance
2 345 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 244 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 152 (8.55%) Banking
5 92 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (3.15%) Retail
7 54 (3.04%) Marketing
8 49 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 46 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (2.19%) Investment Banking
11 39 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.97%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 32 (1.80%) Front Office
15 31 (1.74%) Electronics
16 27 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (1.41%) Legal
18 22 (1.24%) Publishing
19 18 (1.01%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.21%) .NET
2 46 (2.59%) REST
2 46 (2.59%) SAML
3 34 (1.91%) JSON
4 33 (1.86%) Kafka
5 32 (1.80%) React
6 30 (1.69%) Middleware
7 27 (1.52%) XML
8 26 (1.46%) gRPC
9 25 (1.41%) OpenID
9 25 (1.41%) Protocol Buffers
10 24 (1.35%) NumPy
10 24 (1.35%) Pandas
10 24 (1.35%) SciPy
11 22 (1.24%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.18%) Web Services
13 20 (1.13%) OAuth
14 18 (1.01%) HTML
14 18 (1.01%) LDAP
14 18 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 52 (2.93%) Cloud Native
2 51 (2.87%) Data Centre
3 43 (2.42%) Product Ownership
3 43 (2.42%) Reference Data
4 41 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 40 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 29 (1.63%) Derivative
7 29 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 26 (1.46%) Equities
8 26 (1.46%) Fixed Income
8 26 (1.46%) Hedge funds
8 26 (1.46%) IoT
9 24 (1.35%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.29%) Mainframe
11 21 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 19 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.26%) Linux
2 40 (2.25%) Windows
3 12 (0.68%) Unix
4 11 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.56%) VMS
6 9 (0.51%) CentOS
7 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.34%) Solaris
9 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Android
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) tvOS
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (16.88%) Agile
2 243 (13.67%) Migration
3 228 (12.83%) Data Modelling
4 215 (12.10%) Roadmaps
5 185 (10.41%) DevOps
6 158 (8.89%) Data Architecture
7 143 (8.05%) Security Architecture
8 139 (7.82%) Analytics
9 137 (7.71%) Microservices
10 136 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
11 124 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
12 121 (6.81%) Data Governance
13 119 (6.70%) Enterprise Architecture
14 114 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 110 (6.19%) CI/CD
16 108 (6.08%) Data Integration
17 106 (5.97%) Cloud Security
18 105 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
19 101 (5.68%) TOGAF
20 91 (5.12%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 161 (9.06%) Python
2 126 (7.09%) SQL
3 116 (6.53%) Java
4 86 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.04%) PowerShell
6 45 (2.53%) TypeScript
7 39 (2.19%) C#
8 22 (1.24%) Scala
9 17 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 16 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 11 (0.62%) C++
12 8 (0.45%) Go
13 7 (0.39%) Bash
14 5 (0.28%) Ruby
15 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.17%) Bicep
16 3 (0.17%) R
17 2 (0.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.11%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 324 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 281 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 115 (6.47%) Degree
4 64 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 63 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (3.26%) CISSP
7 40 (2.25%) CISM
8 31 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.58%) CISA
10 25 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 21 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 16 (0.90%) SANS
14 15 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.68%) CRISC
16 10 (0.56%) CCSK
17 8 (0.45%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (4.56%) NIST
2 66 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.43%) GDPR
4 42 (2.36%) QA
5 35 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.29%) NCSC
7 17 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.62%) SLA
9 8 (0.45%) GRC
10 7 (0.39%) COBIT
10 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.17%) GPG13
13 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.17%) PMO
13 3 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 52 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.69%) Docker
3 23 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.73%) RACF
6 7 (0.39%) ACF2
6 7 (0.39%) IAG
6 7 (0.39%) KVM
7 6 (0.34%) vSphere
8 4 (0.23%) vCloud
9 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.056%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.056%) Firmware
11 1 (0.056%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (5.12%) Terraform
2 57 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 46 (2.59%) Ansible
4 21 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (0.84%) Puppet
7 12 (0.68%) Grafana
8 10 (0.56%) Kibana
9 9 (0.51%) logstash
9 9 (0.51%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.45%) SCCM
11 6 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.34%) zSecure
12 5 (0.28%) Packer
12 5 (0.28%) PingFederate
12 5 (0.28%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.23%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.23%) VxRail
14 2 (0.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 267 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 101 (5.68%) SAP
3 96 (5.40%) Oracle
4 75 (4.22%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.11%) Google
6 68 (3.83%) Salesforce
7 61 (3.43%) Sparx
8 53 (2.98%) Databricks
9 36 (2.03%) IBM
9 36 (2.03%) VMware
10 32 (1.80%) Informatica
11 27 (1.52%) Cisco
12 26 (1.46%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.07%) NetApp
14 18 (1.01%) Citrix
14 18 (1.01%) Okta
15 16 (0.90%) Talend
16 13 (0.73%) Dell
16 13 (0.73%) Genesys
16 13 (0.73%) Pega