Technical Architect Contracts in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 249 321
Rank change year-on-year +26 +72 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 189 273 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.08% 1.06% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.12% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 185 205
10th Percentile £400 £527 £513
25th Percentile £530 £625 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £690
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.07% +19.48%
75th Percentile £716 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £800 £825
England median daily rate £650 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,302 24,476 36,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,802 17,837 27,083
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.97% +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 279 422
10th Percentile £16.02 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £45.62 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.23 £82.50 £65.68
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 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
Central London +4 22 £700 +3.70% 7
West London +27 5 £650 +4.00% 4
East London 0 5 £627 -13.81% 3
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 62 (32.80%) Azure
2 56 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 49 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 46 (24.34%) AWS
5 43 (22.75%) Public Sector
6 42 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 41 (21.69%) Migration
8 40 (21.16%) Social Skills
9 34 (17.99%) Roadmaps
10 28 (14.81%) Agile
10 28 (14.81%) Data Migration
11 26 (13.76%) Microservices
12 23 (12.17%) .NET
13 22 (11.64%) Finance
13 22 (11.64%) Cloud Native
14 21 (11.11%) SharePoint
15 20 (10.58%) Python
15 20 (10.58%) NetApp
15 20 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (10.58%) DevOps
15 20 (10.58%) Data Structures
16 19 (10.05%) NIST
16 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (9.52%) Change Management
18 17 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
18 17 (8.99%) Data Security
18 17 (8.99%) CRM
19 16 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
20 15 (7.94%) Dynamics CRM
20 15 (7.94%) Use Case

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.12%) Confluence
3 3 (1.59%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (1.59%) CMS
4 2 (1.06%) IIS
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (7.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.80%) Azure
2 46 (24.34%) AWS
3 20 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (6.88%) Entra ID
6 11 (5.82%) GCP
7 10 (5.29%) Serverless
8 9 (4.76%) SaaS
9 8 (4.23%) GitHub
10 7 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.70%) PaaS
11 6 (3.17%) IaaS
12 5 (2.65%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.65%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.35%) Firewall
2 6 (3.17%) LAN
3 2 (1.06%) VPN
3 2 (1.06%) WAN
4 1 (0.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) RDBMS
1 9 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.59%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.59%) DB2
5 3 (1.59%) Power BI
6 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (22.75%) Public Sector
2 40 (21.16%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.64%) Finance
4 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.70%) Billing
6 6 (3.17%) Banking
6 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.59%) Marketing
9 2 (1.06%) Aviation
9 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Legal
9 2 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Front Office
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.17%) .NET
2 11 (5.82%) REST
3 10 (5.29%) GraphQL
3 10 (5.29%) React
4 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (3.70%) OAuth
5 6 (3.17%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.65%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.65%) .NET Framework
6 5 (2.65%) RESTful
6 5 (2.65%) SAML
7 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.12%) Node.js
7 4 (2.12%) OpenID
7 4 (2.12%) Spring
8 2 (1.06%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.06%) HATEOAS
8 2 (1.06%) J2EE
8 2 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.58%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.82%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.12%) CMDB
6 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.53%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.53%) Genomics
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.12%) Windows
2 3 (1.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (21.69%) Migration
2 34 (17.99%) Roadmaps
3 28 (14.81%) Agile
3 28 (14.81%) Data Migration
4 26 (13.76%) Microservices
5 20 (10.58%) DevOps
6 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (9.52%) Change Management
8 17 (8.99%) CRM
8 17 (8.99%) Data Security
8 17 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (7.94%) Use Case
11 14 (7.41%) Design Patterns
11 14 (7.41%) Strategic Roadmap
12 13 (6.88%) Data Protection
13 12 (6.35%) IT Strategy
13 12 (6.35%) Technical Architecture
14 11 (5.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.58%) Python
2 15 (7.94%) Java
2 15 (7.94%) SQL
3 10 (5.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.23%) C#
5 4 (2.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.06%) Go
7 2 (1.06%) Scala
8 1 (0.53%) C++
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
8 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) Degree
4 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.06%) CISM
6 2 (1.06%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CEH
7 1 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.53%) CISA
7 1 (0.53%) CITP
7 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.05%) NIST
2 6 (3.17%) QA
3 4 (2.12%) GDPR
3 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.06%) NCSC
5 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.65%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.65%) Docker
2 4 (2.12%) vCloud
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.76%) Terraform
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.53%) SCCM
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.58%) NetApp
3 6 (3.17%) Oracle
4 5 (2.65%) LogRhythm
4 5 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.12%) Dell
5 4 (2.12%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.12%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.59%) Google
7 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.06%) Charles River
7 2 (1.06%) Cisco
7 2 (1.06%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.06%) eFront
7 2 (1.06%) Genesys
7 2 (1.06%) Sparx
8 1 (0.53%) Confluent
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto