Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 32 62
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 1 17 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.31% 4.64% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 4.97% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 8
10th Percentile - £490 £510
25th Percentile £625 £505 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% +4.66%
75th Percentile £675 £560 £567
90th Percentile - £652 £621
South East median daily rate £688 £525 £678
% change year-on-year +30.95% -22.57% +23.27%

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 294 342 699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 93.44% 94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 229 534
10th Percentile £210 £250 £277
25th Percentile £333 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 15
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.89 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £16.04 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.91 £19.35 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +17.99% +5.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.50 £21.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £36.67 £22.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.77% +16.35% +105.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies 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 26 September 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 -11 1 £650 +26.83% 5
Technical Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) JDA
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JDA