Technical Architecture Contracts in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 107 120 156
Rank change year-on-year +13 +36 +23
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 12 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.32% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.35% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 15
10th Percentile £591 £585 £440
25th Percentile £653 £627 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £675 £595
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +13.45% +8.18%
75th Percentile £803 £753 £669
90th Percentile £1,031 £804 £821
Central London median daily rate £694 £675 £595
% change year-on-year +2.78% +13.45% +8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the City of London

Technical Architecture
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 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