Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +44
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 12 14 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.69% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.72% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 15
10th Percentile £475 £613 £595
25th Percentile £556 £669 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +11.54% +13.54%
75th Percentile £684 £754 £736
90th Percentile £694 £775 £760
Central London median daily rate £638 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -12.07% +11.54% +9.24%

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 1,625 1,940 2,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.39% 91.55% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,191 1,761
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £414 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £761 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Architecture

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 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the City of London

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (25.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (16.67%) Fastly
4 2 (16.67%) Heroku
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) Flask
2 2 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) SDLC
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
3 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) CRM
3 3 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 3 (25.00%) ITSM
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
4 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Workday
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) DocuSign
4 1 (8.33%) MobileIron
4 1 (8.33%) OpenText