Technical Architect Contracts in England

Technical Architect
UK > England

The median Technical Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 271 328
Rank change year-on-year +24 +57 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 342 509 582
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.01% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.06% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 351 401
10th Percentile £500 £510 £508
25th Percentile £558 £575 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £640
Median % change year-on-year - +5.47% +16.36%
75th Percentile £775 £745 £734
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £664 £631
% change year-on-year -2.07% +5.19% +11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +11.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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 April 2024.

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 April 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
London +48 187 £625 -13.79% 37
North of England +42 68 £800 +14.29% 12
North West +45 60 £825 +33.33% 4
South West -2 35 £706 +13.00% 6
South East 0 21 £750 +10.62% 14
Midlands -17 13 £700 -6.04% 9
East of England -10 10 £613 -9.26% 8
West Midlands -6 9 £600 -19.46% 4
Yorkshire +1 6 £590 -20.81% 6
East Midlands -1 4 £763 +2.35% 5
North East +20 1 £525 - 2
Technical Architect
UK

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

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

1 113 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 95 (27.78%) SC Cleared
2 95 (27.78%) Azure
3 91 (26.61%) Agile
4 76 (22.22%) AWS
5 74 (21.64%) Social Skills
6 73 (21.35%) Public Sector
7 70 (20.47%) Roadmaps
8 64 (18.71%) DevOps
9 62 (18.13%) Windows
10 61 (17.84%) Microsoft
11 60 (17.54%) CI/CD
12 59 (17.25%) Firewall
12 59 (17.25%) Migration
13 53 (15.50%) Finance
14 50 (14.62%) Public Cloud
15 47 (13.74%) Node.js
15 47 (13.74%) Design Patterns
16 46 (13.45%) Security Architecture
16 46 (13.45%) Windows Server
17 45 (13.16%) Apple iOS
17 45 (13.16%) Android
17 45 (13.16%) VPN
18 44 (12.87%) Microservices
19 43 (12.57%) Mobile Device Management
19 43 (12.57%) Zero Trust
20 41 (11.99%) Risk Management
21 39 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
22 37 (10.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
22 37 (10.82%) Threat Intelligence

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 23 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (0.88%) IIS
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) CICS
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.29%) RMDS
3 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 95 (27.78%) Azure
2 76 (22.22%) AWS
3 20 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (4.97%) GCP
5 12 (3.51%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.22%) GitHub
6 11 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.22%) Serverless
7 10 (2.92%) SaaS
8 8 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.75%) PaaS
10 5 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.46%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.46%) IaaS
11 4 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.88%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (17.25%) Firewall
2 45 (13.16%) VPN
3 21 (6.14%) LAN
4 18 (5.26%) WAN
5 8 (2.34%) 3G
5 8 (2.34%) 4G
6 4 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.17%) Network Security
6 4 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.88%) Converged Networks
7 3 (0.88%) DNS
7 3 (0.88%) ISDN
7 3 (0.88%) Skype
7 3 (0.88%) VoIP
8 2 (0.58%) BGP
8 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.58%) DHCP
8 2 (0.58%) OSPF
8 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.22%) RDBMS
4 9 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.46%) DB2
7 4 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.88%) Power BI
9 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.58%) IDMS
9 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.29%) Redis
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.22%) JIRA
2 5 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.17%) GitLab
4 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.88%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.88%) Selenium
4 3 (0.88%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 74 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 73 (21.35%) Public Sector
3 53 (15.50%) Finance
4 16 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.09%) Marketing
6 11 (3.22%) Legal
7 10 (2.92%) Electronics
7 10 (2.92%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.34%) Billing
9 6 (1.75%) Banking
10 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.46%) Police
10 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.88%) Local Government
12 3 (0.88%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Military
14 1 (0.29%) Fire and Rescue
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.74%) Node.js
2 24 (7.02%) .NET
3 12 (3.51%) React
4 10 (2.92%) GraphQL
4 10 (2.92%) REST
5 9 (2.63%) Middleware
6 7 (2.05%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (1.75%) RESTful
7 6 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.46%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.46%) OAuth
9 4 (1.17%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.17%) SAML
10 3 (0.88%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.88%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.88%) Java EE
10 3 (0.88%) OpenID
10 3 (0.88%) Spring
11 2 (0.58%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.62%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.73%) Cloud Native
4 18 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.97%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.34%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.17%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.88%) CMDB
9 3 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.58%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
10 2 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.13%) Windows
2 46 (13.45%) Windows Server
3 45 (13.16%) Android
3 45 (13.16%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.51%) Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (26.61%) Agile
2 70 (20.47%) Roadmaps
3 64 (18.71%) DevOps
4 60 (17.54%) CI/CD
5 59 (17.25%) Migration
6 47 (13.74%) Design Patterns
7 46 (13.45%) Security Architecture
8 44 (12.87%) Microservices
9 43 (12.57%) Mobile Device Management
9 43 (12.57%) Zero Trust
10 41 (11.99%) Risk Management
11 39 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (10.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 37 (10.82%) Threat Intelligence
13 36 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (8.77%) Strategic Roadmap
15 28 (8.19%) Data Migration
16 27 (7.89%) Architectural Patterns
17 26 (7.60%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (6.43%) Python
2 20 (5.85%) Java
3 17 (4.97%) SQL
4 12 (3.51%) C#
5 11 (3.22%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.46%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.58%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.58%) COBOL
8 2 (0.58%) Go
8 2 (0.58%) JCL
8 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.58%) Scala
9 1 (0.29%) C++
9 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 95 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.02%) Degree
4 22 (6.43%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.17%) HND
8 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CEH
10 1 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.29%) CISA
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CITP
10 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.85%) NIST
1 20 (5.85%) QA
2 5 (1.46%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.17%) GDPR
4 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.88%) NCSC
5 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (2.34%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.17%) vCloud
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (5.26%) Terraform
2 15 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.17%) Ansible
4 3 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.88%) Podman
5 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.58%) VxRail
6 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.29%) Nessus
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.26%) NetApp
3 12 (3.51%) SAP
4 11 (3.22%) Google
5 9 (2.63%) Cisco
6 8 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.05%) Oracle
7 7 (2.05%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.75%) Dell
8 6 (1.75%) LogRhythm
9 5 (1.46%) Apple
9 5 (1.46%) Splunk
9 5 (1.46%) VMware
10 4 (1.17%) Databricks
10 4 (1.17%) Genesys
10 4 (1.17%) Virgin Media
11 3 (0.88%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.58%) DocuSign
12 2 (0.58%) Zscaler