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 £660, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 August 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 109 110
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +61
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 20 19 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.11% 0.92% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.97% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile £568 £503 £548
25th Percentile £606 £544 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -7.41% +5.06%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £730
90th Percentile £746 £736 £827
Central London median daily rate £660 £625 £675
% change year-on-year +5.60% -7.41% +5.06%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,686 1,964 3,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 94.70% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,278 2,075
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 12
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.87 £14.42
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.88 £20.09
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -27.03% -11.90%
75th Percentile £53.50 £89.06 £56.56
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £76.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +4.91% -23.94% -14.46%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies 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 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the City of London

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies 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 27 August 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 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Banking
4 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Java
5 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
7 3 (15.00%) Cisco
7 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) ERP
7 3 (15.00%) GCP
7 3 (15.00%) User Experience
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Summit
2 1 (5.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (5.00%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) Firebase
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
1 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.00%) JWT
3 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) React Native
3 1 (5.00%) Redux
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) CCTV
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
4 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) ERP
4 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (15.00%) User Experience
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (5.00%) Go
3 1 (5.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) CCNA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) MiFID
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Portware
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow