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 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 102 106 128
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 17 21 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.97% 0.96% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.01% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 18
10th Percentile £531 £329 £548
25th Percentile £613 £492 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £711 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +9.35% +8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £831 £784
90th Percentile £710 £896 £874
Central London median daily rate £675 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% +4.00%
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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

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 1 May 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 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 City of London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
5 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
6 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (17.65%) Kafka
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) C#
7 2 (11.76%) Node.js
7 2 (11.76%) SIEM
7 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
7 2 (11.76%) SQL
7 2 (11.76%) Python

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 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Macie
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (11.76%) AWS KMS
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
3 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
3 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Programming
3 2 (11.76%) Microservices
3 2 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Product Vision
3 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) SIEM
3 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Veritas