Technical Architect Contracts in England

Technical Architect
UK > England

The median Technical Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 248 224
Rank change year-on-year -14 -24 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 236 361 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 0.97% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.04% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 273 378
10th Percentile £450 £488 £510
25th Percentile £500 £560 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £701 £775 £745
90th Percentile £775 £850 £764
UK median daily rate £625 £643 £675
% change year-on-year -2.72% -4.81% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £56.50
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 23,313 34,623 44,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.85% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,283 22,626 31,574
10th Percentile £294 £293 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,069 2,586 1,339
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -29.33% -14.29% +71.57%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
London 0 134 £631 +0.20% 93
North of England -19 40 £550 -31.25% 36
South East +50 25 £625 -10.75% 35
North West -20 23 £550 -35.29% 16
South West +15 17 £638 -3.77% 25
Yorkshire +3 13 £538 -7.33% 17
Midlands -11 6 £575 -8.00% 22
East of England +18 5 £198 -65.04% 17
West Midlands -8 5 £603 -1.63% 12
North East +5 4 £528 +0.48% 3
East Midlands +1 1 £550 -29.03% 8
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, Technical 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 England region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 84 (35.59%) Azure
2 78 (33.05%) Security Cleared
3 69 (29.24%) AWS
3 69 (29.24%) Social Skills
4 66 (27.97%) SC Cleared
5 59 (25.00%) Java
6 53 (22.46%) Roadmaps
7 45 (19.07%) Public Sector
8 42 (17.80%) Finance
8 42 (17.80%) Technical Architecture
9 40 (16.95%) Microsoft
9 40 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
10 39 (16.53%) Microservices
11 35 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (14.83%) CI/CD
12 31 (13.14%) TOGAF
12 31 (13.14%) Kubernetes
12 31 (13.14%) IT Strategy
13 30 (12.71%) Migration
14 28 (11.86%) Agile
14 28 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.44%) DevOps
15 27 (11.44%) Architectural Patterns
16 26 (11.02%) Windows
17 25 (10.59%) Linux
18 24 (10.17%) Event-Driven
19 23 (9.75%) Infrastructure as Code
20 22 (9.32%) Terraform
20 22 (9.32%) Mentoring
20 22 (9.32%) Enterprise Architecture

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (2.97%) NetWeaver
1 7 (2.97%) SAP EP
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Solr
2 2 (0.85%) Camunda
2 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) SAS
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (6.78%) MS Visio
2 11 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.97%) SAP CRM
2 5 (2.12%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.12%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.85%) assyst
3 2 (0.85%) Endur
3 2 (0.85%) Magento
3 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.42%) Summit
4 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (35.59%) Azure
2 69 (29.24%) AWS
3 21 (8.90%) GCP
4 15 (6.36%) GitHub
5 12 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (4.66%) PaaS
6 11 (4.66%) SaaS
7 9 (3.81%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.81%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.81%) Serverless
8 7 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.97%) SuccessFactors
9 5 (2.12%) OCI
10 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.63%) LAN
1 18 (7.63%) WAN
2 12 (5.08%) Firewall
3 7 (2.97%) Network Security
4 5 (2.12%) DNS
4 5 (2.12%) VPN
5 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.27%) DHCP
6 3 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (1.27%) NetScaler
6 3 (1.27%) SAN
6 3 (1.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.85%) HTTP
7 2 (0.85%) SNMP
7 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.42%) IPsec
8 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.97%) Power BI
4 6 (2.54%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.27%) Metadata
6 3 (1.27%) MySQL
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.85%) Pentaho
7 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.08%) CircleCI
2 5 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.27%) Git
3 3 (1.27%) GitLab
3 3 (1.27%) Hudson
3 3 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 69 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.07%) Public Sector
3 42 (17.80%) Finance
4 14 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.81%) Banking
8 7 (2.97%) Military
9 6 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.12%) Marketing
11 3 (1.27%) Billing
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.27%) Law
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Back Office
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.63%) Middleware
2 14 (5.93%) Kafka
3 10 (4.24%) .NET
3 10 (4.24%) Node.js
4 7 (2.97%) React
4 7 (2.97%) REST
4 7 (2.97%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (2.97%) SAP PI
4 7 (2.97%) SAPUI5
5 6 (2.54%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.12%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (2.12%) Visualforce
7 4 (1.69%) Django
7 4 (1.69%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.69%) Flask
7 4 (1.69%) RESTful
7 4 (1.69%) SOAP
8 3 (1.27%) Celery
8 3 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.05%) Public Cloud
2 10 (4.24%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.12%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.69%) NHS
8 3 (1.27%) CMDB
8 3 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.85%) Grid Computing
9 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.85%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.85%) PKI
9 2 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.02%) Windows
2 25 (10.59%) Linux
3 8 (3.39%) Unix
4 4 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (22.46%) Roadmaps
2 42 (17.80%) Technical Architecture
3 40 (16.95%) Technical Leadership
4 39 (16.53%) Microservices
5 35 (14.83%) CI/CD
5 35 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (13.14%) IT Strategy
6 31 (13.14%) TOGAF
7 30 (12.71%) Migration
8 28 (11.86%) Agile
8 28 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (11.44%) Architectural Patterns
9 27 (11.44%) DevOps
10 24 (10.17%) Event-Driven
11 23 (9.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (9.32%) Enterprise Architecture
12 22 (9.32%) Mentoring
13 21 (8.90%) Technology Strategy
14 19 (8.05%) Containerisation
14 19 (8.05%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.00%) Java
2 16 (6.78%) Python
3 14 (5.93%) TypeScript
4 13 (5.51%) C#
4 13 (5.51%) SQL
5 12 (5.08%) Kotlin
6 10 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.24%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.97%) ABAP
8 5 (2.12%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.85%) SOQL
10 2 (0.85%) SOSL
10 2 (0.85%) VB
11 1 (0.42%) Go
11 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) X++
Qualifications
1 78 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 66 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.39%) Degree
5 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.27%) VCAP
9 2 (0.85%) CCNA
9 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.42%) CCNP
10 1 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.12%) Accessibility
1 5 (2.12%) QA
2 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.27%) GDPR
2 3 (1.27%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.27%) NCSC
3 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.85%) HL7
3 2 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 20 (8.47%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.51%) Docker
3 11 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (13.14%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.32%) Terraform
3 12 (5.08%) Grafana
3 12 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.12%) Data Guard
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.85%) Ansible
6 2 (0.85%) SCCM
6 2 (0.85%) SCOM
7 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.78%) Salesforce
2 16 (6.78%) SAP
3 15 (6.36%) MuleSoft
3 15 (6.36%) Oracle
4 10 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.81%) Cisco
6 8 (3.39%) Databricks
6 8 (3.39%) Veritas
6 8 (3.39%) VMware
7 7 (2.97%) Ariba
8 6 (2.54%) Citrix
8 6 (2.54%) Google
8 6 (2.54%) Virgin Media
9 3 (1.27%) Adobe
9 3 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.85%) Cerner
10 2 (0.85%) Commvault
10 2 (0.85%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.85%) HP
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