Technical Architecture Contracts in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 150 181
Rank change year-on-year +28 +31 -49
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 7 22 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.60% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.66% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 7
10th Percentile £585 £430 £500
25th Percentile £627 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% +8.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £753 £653 £639
90th Percentile £804 £811 £649
Central London median daily rate £650 £595 £588
% change year-on-year +9.24% +1.28% -4.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 25 April 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Quant Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior User Researcher
3 1 (14.29%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (14.29%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (14.29%) Consul
2 1 (14.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware