Senior Technical Architect Contracts in England

Senior Technical Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in England is £723, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 545 612
Rank change year-on-year +62 +67 +148
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 21 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.077% 0.033% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.036% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 12
10th Percentile £565 £655 £553
25th Percentile £668 £725 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £788 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +33.47% -18.34%
75th Percentile £738 £816 £625
90th Percentile £790 £866 £679
UK median daily rate £723 £763 £590
% change year-on-year -5.25% +29.24% -17.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,013 33,557 44,673
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.97% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,276 22,044 31,607
10th Percentile £290 £300 £312
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £752
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,236 2,309 1,397
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.00 £19.49
Median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%
75th Percentile £57.31 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.81% -5.88% +65.50%

Senior Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Architect in England

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in England

Senior Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Architect in England

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in England

Senior Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +33 12 £724 -8.10% 6
North of England - 3 £723 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £723 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -
North West - 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
Senior Technical Architect
UK

Senior Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Technical Architect in the job title.

1 14 (66.67%) AWS
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (61.90%) SC Cleared
3 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 12 (57.14%) Microservices
4 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 9 (42.86%) Kotlin
4 9 (42.86%) Terraform
4 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
4 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 9 (42.86%) Java
5 8 (38.10%) GitHub
5 8 (38.10%) Software Architecture
5 8 (38.10%) Strategic Roadmap
5 8 (38.10%) Event-Driven
5 8 (38.10%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (38.10%) Prometheus
5 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
5 8 (38.10%) Grafana
5 8 (38.10%) CircleCI
5 8 (38.10%) IT Strategy
6 7 (33.33%) Public Cloud
6 7 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (33.33%) Azure
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (33.33%) TDD
7 6 (28.57%) Military
7 6 (28.57%) API Development

Senior Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.76%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) GitHub
2 8 (38.10%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 6 (28.57%) Military
3 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (9.52%) FHIR
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Microservices
1 12 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Event-Driven
3 8 (38.10%) IT Strategy
3 8 (38.10%) Software Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Strategic Roadmap
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
4 7 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) API Development
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (23.81%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
8 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 3 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
1 9 (42.86%) Kotlin
1 9 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (61.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
1 2 (9.52%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 8 (38.10%) Grafana
2 8 (38.10%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Google
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Cerner
2 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet