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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 237 313
Rank change year-on-year -20 +76 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 334 516 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 1.09% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 1.15% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 358 404
10th Percentile £500 £510 £499
25th Percentile £563 £576 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +15.30%
75th Percentile £775 £745 £738
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £678 £638
% change year-on-year -4.13% +6.35% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £56.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +14.78%

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 34,105 44,948 67,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,534 31,954 48,043
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,319 1,809
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +91.49% +9.30%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

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 29 May 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 29 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
London +17 186 £629 -13.61% 41
North of England +30 61 £800 +8.84% 14
North West +49 54 £850 +38.78% 9
South West -7 41 £656 +5.00% 15
South East -14 21 £750 +10.62% 9
Midlands -21 10 £663 -11.07% 14
East of England -24 10 £613 -12.50% 6
West Midlands -20 9 £625 -16.11% 9
Yorkshire -15 5 £590 -20.81% 2
East Midlands -14 1 £775 +4.03% 5
North East - 1 £525 - 3
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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.

1 114 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 102 (30.54%) Azure
3 97 (29.04%) SC Cleared
4 94 (28.14%) Agile
5 76 (22.75%) Social Skills
6 72 (21.56%) Public Sector
7 69 (20.66%) AWS
8 64 (19.16%) Roadmaps
9 63 (18.86%) Firewall
9 63 (18.86%) Windows
10 60 (17.96%) DevOps
11 59 (17.66%) Microsoft
12 55 (16.47%) CI/CD
13 54 (16.17%) Migration
14 53 (15.87%) Finance
15 49 (14.67%) Public Cloud
16 47 (14.07%) Security Architecture
16 47 (14.07%) Node.js
17 46 (13.77%) Microservices
17 46 (13.77%) VPN
18 45 (13.47%) Android
18 45 (13.47%) Apple iOS
18 45 (13.47%) Windows Server
18 45 (13.47%) Design Patterns
19 43 (12.87%) Zero Trust
19 43 (12.87%) Mobile Device Management
20 42 (12.57%) Risk Management
21 39 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
22 38 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
23 37 (11.08%) 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 24 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.40%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 3 (0.90%) IIS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (30.54%) Azure
2 69 (20.66%) AWS
3 21 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.39%) GCP
5 17 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
6 15 (4.49%) Entra ID
7 14 (4.19%) GitHub
8 12 (3.59%) Serverless
9 10 (2.99%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.69%) PaaS
11 8 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.40%) IaaS
11 8 (2.40%) SaaS
12 6 (1.80%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.20%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.86%) Firewall
2 46 (13.77%) VPN
3 22 (6.59%) LAN
4 17 (5.09%) WAN
5 8 (2.40%) 3G
5 8 (2.40%) 4G
6 5 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.50%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.90%) BGP
7 3 (0.90%) OSPF
7 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.60%) Network Security
8 2 (0.60%) WLAN
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.30%) DNS
9 1 (0.30%) IPsec
9 1 (0.30%) SSL
9 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.69%) RDBMS
2 9 (2.69%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.90%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.90%) DB2
5 3 (0.90%) Power BI
6 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (3.29%) JIRA
2 5 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.20%) GitLab
4 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.90%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.90%) Selenium
4 3 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 76 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 72 (21.56%) Public Sector
3 53 (15.87%) Finance
4 17 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.89%) Marketing
6 11 (3.29%) Legal
7 9 (2.69%) Electronics
7 9 (2.69%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.40%) Banking
9 7 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.80%) Billing
10 6 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.90%) Local Government
12 3 (0.90%) Retail
13 2 (0.60%) Aviation
13 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.60%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.07%) Node.js
2 29 (8.68%) .NET
3 15 (4.49%) REST
4 12 (3.59%) Middleware
4 12 (3.59%) React
5 10 (2.99%) GraphQL
6 9 (2.69%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (2.40%) OAuth
8 6 (1.80%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.80%) RESTful
8 6 (1.80%) SAML
8 6 (1.80%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.50%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.50%) OpenID
10 4 (1.20%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.20%) Spring
11 3 (0.90%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.90%) Java EE
12 2 (0.60%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.67%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.49%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.99%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.89%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.40%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.50%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.20%) CMDB
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.60%) Clustering
10 2 (0.60%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 63 (18.86%) Windows
2 45 (13.47%) Android
2 45 (13.47%) Apple iOS
2 45 (13.47%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.89%) Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.14%) Agile
2 64 (19.16%) Roadmaps
3 60 (17.96%) DevOps
4 55 (16.47%) CI/CD
5 54 (16.17%) Migration
6 47 (14.07%) Security Architecture
7 46 (13.77%) Microservices
8 45 (13.47%) Design Patterns
9 43 (12.87%) Mobile Device Management
9 43 (12.87%) Zero Trust
10 42 (12.57%) Risk Management
11 39 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (11.08%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 37 (11.08%) Threat Intelligence
14 33 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (9.28%) Data Migration
15 31 (9.28%) Strategic Roadmap
16 25 (7.49%) Architectural Patterns
17 24 (7.19%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.49%) Python
2 21 (6.29%) Java
3 16 (4.79%) SQL
4 13 (3.89%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.59%) C#
6 5 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.60%) Go
8 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.60%) Scala
9 1 (0.30%) C++
9 1 (0.30%) Ruby
9 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 114 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 97 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.89%) Degree
4 21 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.20%) HND
8 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CCIE
10 1 (0.30%) CCNP
10 1 (0.30%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.29%) QA
2 18 (5.39%) NIST
3 4 (1.20%) GDPR
3 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.90%) NCSC
5 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 10 (2.99%) Docker
2 7 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.20%) vCloud
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (5.09%) Terraform
2 16 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.20%) Ansible
4 3 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.90%) Podman
5 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.60%) VxRail
6 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.30%) Nessus
6 1 (0.30%) SCCM
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.99%) NetApp
3 11 (3.29%) Google
3 11 (3.29%) SAP
4 10 (2.99%) Cisco
5 8 (2.40%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.10%) Databricks
7 6 (1.80%) Dell
7 6 (1.80%) Oracle
7 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.50%) Apple
8 5 (1.50%) LogRhythm
8 5 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.20%) Splunk
9 4 (1.20%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.20%) VMware
10 2 (0.60%) Charles River
10 2 (0.60%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.60%) Pegasus