Technical Architecture Contracts in Berkshire

Technical Architecture
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 115 113
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 2 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.17% 0.45% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.51% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £504 -
25th Percentile - £509 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -25.44%
75th Percentile - £538 £425
90th Percentile - £539 -
South East median daily rate £625 £450 £615
% change year-on-year +38.89% -26.83% +4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -14.77% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Berkshire

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Berkshire

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in Berkshire

Technical Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +25 1 - - 7
Windsor - 1 £450 -
Technical Architecture
South East

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) HBase
1 1 (50.00%) HDInsight
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) StreamSets