Technical Architecture Contracts in England

Technical Architecture
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 359 360
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 -43
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 155 340 511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.67% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.75% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 197 345
10th Percentile £433 £425 £463
25th Percentile £501 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £686 £678 £725
90th Percentile £775 £768 £775
UK median daily rate £588 £603 £625
% change year-on-year -2.49% -3.60% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £71.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +102.86% -39.13%
75th Percentile - £71.50 -
90th Percentile - - £39.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £68.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.07% +95.71% -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture 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 +24 93 £594 -1.00% 40
Midlands +23 16 £750 +36.36% 3
South East +3 16 £400 -34.96% 11
West Midlands +34 15 £750 +36.36% 1
South West +17 12 £588 -9.62% 9
East of England +4 11 £565 -13.08% 6
North of England -12 2 £685 +24.55% 24
East Midlands +14 1 £800 +52.38% 2
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 8
North West -15 1 £685 +37.00% 11
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical Architecture
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 10 (6.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.87%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.94%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.94%) RMDS
4 2 (1.29%) HFM
4 2 (1.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.68%) AWS
2 44 (28.39%) Azure
3 14 (9.03%) GCP
4 12 (7.74%) Serverless
5 11 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.16%) GitHub
7 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.23%) SaaS
9 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.94%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.29%) PaaS
11 2 (1.29%) Route 53
11 2 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.03%) Firewall
2 13 (8.39%) WAN
3 11 (7.10%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (7.10%) LAN
4 8 (5.16%) SD-WAN
4 8 (5.16%) VPN
5 7 (4.52%) MPLS
5 7 (4.52%) WLAN
6 6 (3.87%) Internet
6 6 (3.87%) PBX
6 6 (3.87%) VoIP
7 5 (3.23%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (3.23%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (3.23%) DHCP
7 5 (3.23%) DNS
8 4 (2.58%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.94%) Unified Communications
10 2 (1.29%) 4G
10 2 (1.29%) Kerberos
10 2 (1.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (6.45%) Oracle Database
3 9 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.23%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (3.23%) Oracle Database 11g
4 5 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
4 5 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.23%) SAP HANA
5 4 (2.58%) Power BI
5 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.94%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.94%) Tableau
7 2 (1.29%) Essbase
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.65%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.65%) KDB
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (6.45%) JIRA
2 4 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.29%) Gatling
3 2 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) JMeter
4 1 (0.65%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.65%) Selenium
4 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.00%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.52%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Local Government
5 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.23%) Banking
6 5 (3.23%) Billing
7 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Front Office
8 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.65%) Military
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (58.71%) Architect
2 30 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
3 26 (16.77%) Technical Architect
4 18 (11.61%) Developer
5 17 (10.97%) Lead
6 12 (7.74%) Consultant
7 10 (6.45%) Technical Leader
8 9 (5.81%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.81%) Senior
9 8 (5.16%) Enterprise Architect
9 8 (5.16%) SailPoint Architect
10 7 (4.52%) AWS Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Technical Consultant
12 5 (3.23%) Oracle Architect
12 5 (3.23%) SAP Basis Consultant
12 5 (3.23%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (3.23%) SAP Technical Consultant
13 4 (2.58%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.13%) HTML
2 17 (10.97%) CSS
3 15 (9.68%) .NET
4 14 (9.03%) XML
5 12 (7.74%) React
6 11 (7.10%) .NET Framework
6 11 (7.10%) Web Services
7 10 (6.45%) SailPoint
7 10 (6.45%) SOAP
8 9 (5.81%) GraphQL
8 9 (5.81%) LDAP
9 8 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.16%) JSP
9 8 (5.16%) Servlets
9 8 (5.16%) SPML
10 7 (4.52%) JSON
10 7 (4.52%) Node.js
10 7 (4.52%) RESTful
11 6 (3.87%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.23%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.16%) Mainframe
2 8 (5.16%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.16%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.94%) CMDB
5 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.29%) IoT
6 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.65%) Blog
7 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.74%) Linux
2 7 (4.52%) Windows
3 3 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (16.13%) Agile
1 25 (16.13%) Data Modelling
2 22 (14.19%) Analytics
2 22 (14.19%) Mentoring
3 21 (13.55%) Roadmaps
3 21 (13.55%) TOGAF
4 20 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (11.61%) Architectural Design
6 17 (10.97%) DevOps
7 14 (9.03%) Business Analysis
7 14 (9.03%) Data Management
8 13 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (8.39%) Project Delivery
8 13 (8.39%) Project Management
8 13 (8.39%) Security Architecture
8 13 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (7.74%) Computer Science
9 12 (7.74%) Design Patterns
9 12 (7.74%) Microservices
9 12 (7.74%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 29 (18.71%) JavaScript
2 20 (12.90%) Python
3 18 (11.61%) SQL
4 16 (10.32%) C#
5 13 (8.39%) Java
6 6 (3.87%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.65%) Perl
8 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) R
8 1 (0.65%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 25 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.19%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.61%) Degree
4 14 (9.03%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.16%) Master's Degree
8 7 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.87%) CCIE
9 6 (3.87%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (1.29%) CSPO
10 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.29%) PhD
11 1 (0.65%) CCNA
11 1 (0.65%) CCNP
11 1 (0.65%) CISM
11 1 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.65%) MBA
11 1 (0.65%) MCP
11 1 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.16%) NCSC
1 8 (5.16%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) GDPR
2 6 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.23%) COBIT
3 5 (3.23%) ISO 22301
3 5 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.58%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.16%) ACF2
2 8 (5.16%) IAG
2 8 (5.16%) RACF
3 5 (3.23%) Docker
3 5 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (5.16%) Terraform
2 7 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.65%) Consul
4 1 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.65%) Kibana
4 1 (0.65%) logstash
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.65%) SCOM
4 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.32%) Cisco
3 15 (9.68%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.74%) Palo Alto
5 11 (7.10%) Oracle
6 9 (5.81%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.81%) SAP
6 9 (5.81%) VMware
7 8 (5.16%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (4.52%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.87%) Splunk
10 5 (3.23%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.23%) Infoblox
10 5 (3.23%) Informatica
10 5 (3.23%) Sparx
10 5 (3.23%) Symantec
11 2 (1.29%) Apple
11 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.29%) Veeam