Technical Architect Contracts in the City of London

Technical Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the City of London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 105 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 21 20 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.16% 0.94% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.98% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 24
10th Percentile £563 £491 £536
25th Percentile £603 £531 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.85% +7.14%
75th Percentile £700 £866 £735
90th Percentile £735 £924 £847
Central London median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,695 2,038 3,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.41% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,401 2,229
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £451 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.36% -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 City of London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
3 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (19.05%) Oracle
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (14.29%) Firewall
6 3 (14.29%) Cisco
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Banking
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Microservices
6 3 (14.29%) Kafka
7 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
7 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (9.52%) Node.js
7 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.76%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.76%) Summit
2 1 (4.76%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) SAN
2 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
3 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) CCTV
2 1 (4.76%) Derivative
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 3 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (14.29%) Microservices
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) ERP
5 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven
5 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Programming
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Product Vision
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.52%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (9.52%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (9.52%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Ruby
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CCNA
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) MiFID
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Portware
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Veritas