Technical Architecture Contracts in Central London

Technical Architecture
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 117 126 149
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 12 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.29% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.32% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 16
10th Percentile £591 £585 £425
25th Percentile £653 £627 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £675 £595
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +13.45% +8.18%
75th Percentile £803 £753 £653
90th Percentile £1,031 £804 £811
London median daily rate £650 £594 £600
% change year-on-year +9.43% -1.00% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in Central London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in Central London

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Central London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in Central London

Technical Architecture
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +13 12 £694 +2.78% 2
Technical Architecture
London

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Solution Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modeller
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 2 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (8.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Ada
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (8.33%) IFS
3 1 (8.33%) Murex
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow