Technical Architect Contracts in the City of London

Technical Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the City of London is £711 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 128 169
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 21 50 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.95% 1.37% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.44% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 17
10th Percentile £329 £548 £520
25th Percentile £492 £603 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £711 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £831 £784 £695
90th Percentile £896 £874 £760
Central London median daily rate £700 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,100 3,471 3,999
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.25% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,364 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 52
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +110.01%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
3 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
3 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
3 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) NIST
4 3 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 3 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) Use Case
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.52%) Investment Management
5 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Middleware
5 2 (9.52%) Charles River
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (9.52%) Azure

Technical Architect Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.76%) LAN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.76%) DB2
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Billing
2 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) GraphQL
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) ADO
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) CMDB
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
1 4 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
1 4 (19.05%) IT Strategy
1 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
1 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
2 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (14.29%) Use Case
2 3 (14.29%) Validation
3 2 (9.52%) Agile
3 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
3 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
3 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Management
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Charles River
1 2 (9.52%) eFront
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.76%) Genesys
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) WALLIX