Technical Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £672 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 190 290
Rank change year-on-year +15 +100 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 174 321 388
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.28% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.34% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 209 281
10th Percentile £509 £500 £513
25th Percentile £552 £550 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 £678 £631
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +7.45% +12.68%
75th Percentile £753 £743 £725
90th Percentile £825 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £633
% change year-on-year -3.70% +6.72% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architect.

Technical Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Technical Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architect.

Technical Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 59 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 58 (33.33%) Azure
3 55 (31.61%) SC Cleared
4 50 (28.74%) Agile
5 45 (25.86%) AWS
6 41 (23.56%) Public Sector
7 40 (22.99%) Migration
8 36 (20.69%) Social Skills
9 31 (17.82%) Finance
10 27 (15.52%) Microsoft
11 26 (14.94%) Data Migration
12 25 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (14.37%) DevOps
13 22 (12.64%) Cloud Native
14 21 (12.07%) Data Structures
14 21 (12.07%) Roadmaps
14 21 (12.07%) Change Management
14 21 (12.07%) .NET
15 20 (11.49%) CI/CD
16 19 (10.92%) Design Patterns
16 19 (10.92%) Public Cloud
16 19 (10.92%) SharePoint
17 18 (10.34%) Windows
17 18 (10.34%) NetApp
17 18 (10.34%) Firewall
17 18 (10.34%) Data Security
17 18 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (9.20%) Security Architecture
20 15 (8.62%) Python

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (10.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Confluence
3 3 (1.72%) CMS
4 2 (1.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (33.33%) Azure
2 45 (25.86%) AWS
3 18 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.32%) GCP
5 8 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (4.02%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.02%) GitHub
7 6 (3.45%) IaaS
7 6 (3.45%) PaaS
8 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.87%) SaaS
8 5 (2.87%) Serverless
9 4 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.34%) Firewall
2 13 (7.47%) LAN
2 13 (7.47%) WAN
3 11 (6.32%) VPN
4 7 (4.02%) 3G
4 7 (4.02%) 4G
5 4 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.72%) Network Security
6 3 (1.72%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.15%) BGP
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.15%) Converged Networks
7 2 (1.15%) ISDN
7 2 (1.15%) OSPF
7 2 (1.15%) Skype
7 2 (1.15%) VoIP
7 2 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.02%) RDBMS
1 7 (4.02%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.57%) Big Data
5 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.30%) JIRA
2 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) LSMW
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (23.56%) Public Sector
2 36 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 31 (17.82%) Finance
4 10 (5.75%) Marketing
5 8 (4.60%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.02%) Electronics
6 7 (4.02%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.30%) Banking
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.72%) Local Government
10 2 (1.15%) Legal
10 2 (1.15%) Military
10 2 (1.15%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Aviation
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.07%) .NET
2 13 (7.47%) REST
3 11 (6.32%) Node.js
4 8 (4.60%) GraphQL
5 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.45%) Middleware
5 6 (3.45%) React
6 5 (2.87%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.30%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (2.30%) OAuth
7 4 (2.30%) OpenID
7 4 (2.30%) RESTful
7 4 (2.30%) SAML
7 4 (2.30%) Web Services
8 3 (1.72%) Kafka
8 3 (1.72%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (1.15%) J2EE
9 2 (1.15%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.07%) Data Structures
3 19 (10.92%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.30%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.15%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.15%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.57%) Genomics
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.34%) Windows
2 11 (6.32%) Android
2 11 (6.32%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.74%) Agile
2 40 (22.99%) Migration
3 26 (14.94%) Data Migration
4 25 (14.37%) DevOps
4 25 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (12.07%) Change Management
5 21 (12.07%) Roadmaps
6 20 (11.49%) CI/CD
7 19 (10.92%) Design Patterns
8 18 (10.34%) Data Security
9 17 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.20%) Security Architecture
11 15 (8.62%) Microservices
12 14 (8.05%) Technical Architecture
12 14 (8.05%) Waterfall
13 13 (7.47%) Analytics
14 12 (6.90%) Architectural Patterns
15 10 (5.75%) Architectural Design
15 10 (5.75%) IT Strategy
15 10 (5.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.62%) Python
2 12 (6.90%) SQL
3 8 (4.60%) C#
3 8 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (1.15%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.57%) ABAP
6 1 (0.57%) Bicep
6 1 (0.57%) C++
6 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 55 (31.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.32%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) Degree
5 5 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CISM
7 1 (0.57%) CISSP
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.47%) NIST
2 9 (5.17%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.30%) GDPR
5 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (3.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (6.32%) Terraform
2 9 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.15%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.15%) VxRail
4 1 (0.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.34%) NetApp
3 10 (5.75%) SAP
4 8 (4.60%) Databricks
5 6 (3.45%) Cisco
5 6 (3.45%) LogRhythm
5 6 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.45%) Oracle
5 6 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.87%) Splunk
7 2 (1.15%) Dell
7 2 (1.15%) F5
7 2 (1.15%) VMware
7 2 (1.15%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.57%) Adobe
8 1 (0.57%) BMC
8 1 (0.57%) HP
8 1 (0.57%) IBM
8 1 (0.57%) OpenText