Technical Architect Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 52 77
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 16 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.78% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.14% 0.45% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £562 £680 £570
25th Percentile £563 £688 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +11.54% +23.69%
75th Percentile £630 £763 -
90th Percentile £637 £770 -
South East median daily rate £625 £750 £678
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.62% +13.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 224 447 820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 93.91% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 315 662
10th Percentile £266 £225 £252
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £665 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 3
10th Percentile - £15.85 £10.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £17.64 £11.33
Median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.38 £28.46
90th Percentile £65.50 £48.75 £37.63
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +25 14 £620 -14.48%
Bletchley - 1 - -
Technical Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) TOGAF
1 15 (93.75%) DevSecOps
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
3 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 13 (81.25%) VMware
3 13 (81.25%) Cisco
3 13 (81.25%) NCSC
3 13 (81.25%) Palo Alto
3 13 (81.25%) VMware NSX
4 12 (75.00%) VSAN
4 12 (75.00%) Microservices
4 12 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (68.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (68.75%) PKI
5 11 (68.75%) ITIL
5 11 (68.75%) MCSE
5 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (68.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (68.75%) NIST
5 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
6 10 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (62.50%) Zachman Framework
6 10 (62.50%) SaaS
6 10 (62.50%) PaaS
6 10 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (50.00%) Use Case
7 8 (50.00%) IaaS

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (12.50%) Camunda
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) PaaS
1 10 (62.50%) SaaS
2 8 (50.00%) IaaS
3 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 7 (43.75%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) VSAN
2 4 (25.00%) BGP
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (25.00%) MPLS
2 4 (25.00%) NGFW
2 4 (25.00%) OSPF
2 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (25.00%) VPN
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (18.75%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) VLAN
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
1 2 (12.50%) OpenJDK
1 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (68.75%) PKI
3 5 (31.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) DevSecOps
1 15 (93.75%) TOGAF
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (75.00%) Microservices
4 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (68.75%) ITIL
5 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
5 10 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (62.50%) Zachman Framework
6 8 (50.00%) IT Strategy
6 8 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
6 8 (50.00%) Use Case
7 7 (43.75%) Requirements Management
8 6 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (31.25%) Virtual Environments
10 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
11 2 (12.50%) Adaptive Security
11 2 (12.50%) Open Source
11 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (68.75%) MCSE
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (68.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (6.25%) CCNP
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (81.25%) NCSC
2 11 (68.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (68.75%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (81.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco
1 13 (81.25%) Palo Alto
1 13 (81.25%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft