Technical Architect Contracts in the South East

Technical Architect
England > South East

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the South East is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 165 235
Rank change year-on-year -17 +70 -97
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 24 55 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.93% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.98% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 41 29
10th Percentile £660 £450 £510
25th Percentile £675 £563 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% +26.83%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £705
England median daily rate £675 £678 £636
% change year-on-year -0.44% +6.56% +15.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,585 7,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.29% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 3,889 5,104
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 334
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £59.71
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +5 9 £688 +27.91% 4
Berkshire -10 7 £675 +50.00% 2
Hampshire +2 6 £760 -5.00% 2
West Sussex -12 6 £750 +10.62%
Kent - 3 £825 -
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £725 +11.54% 2
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 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 South East region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Finance
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 6 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.83%) Coaching
6 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
6 5 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (20.83%) SOLID
6 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
6 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (20.83%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (20.83%) C#
6 5 (20.83%) SOA
6 5 (20.83%) .NET
6 5 (20.83%) TDD
7 4 (16.67%) Java
7 4 (16.67%) AWS
7 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 4 (16.67%) Terraform
7 4 (16.67%) GitLab
7 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 4 (16.67%) Ansible
8 3 (12.50%) Docker
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Jenkins

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DHCP
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (12.50%) Java EE
2 3 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
2 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) Microservices
2 6 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (20.83%) Coaching
3 5 (20.83%) Domain-Driven Design
3 5 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (20.83%) SOA
3 5 (20.83%) SOLID
3 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C#
2 4 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (12.50%) Podman
3 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce