Technical Architecture Contracts in England

Technical Architecture
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 325 384 352
Rank change year-on-year +59 -32 +15
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 163 159 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.43% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.49% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 108 199
10th Percentile £448 £443 £425
25th Percentile £525 £501 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -4.96% -3.20%
75th Percentile £738 £686 £679
90th Percentile £808 £775 £765
UK median daily rate £603 £588 £605
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.89% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £42.44 - -
25th Percentile £60.63 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -13.24% +102.86%
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £68.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -10.07% +95.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Architecture in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
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 Technical Architecture within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +30 85 £650 +9.43% 93
North of England +44 27 £602 -12.19% 41
South East +47 20 £625 +38.89% 46
North West +35 19 £618 -9.85% 23
South West +48 14 £550 -6.38% 27
East of England +28 9 £404 -28.42% 15
Yorkshire +12 5 £550 - 14
Midlands +11 5 £481 -35.87% 31
West Midlands +3 4 £459 -38.77% 17
North East - 2 £590 - 4
East Midlands +10 1 £538 -32.81% 12
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical Architecture
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 9 (5.52%) Confluence
2 7 (4.29%) NetWeaver
2 7 (4.29%) SAP EP
3 6 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.45%) Apache
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.23%) Camunda
6 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.61%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (4.29%) SAP CRM
2 7 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.23%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.61%) Maximo
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.61%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.61%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.61%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.61%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.77%) Azure
2 29 (17.79%) AWS
3 17 (10.43%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.59%) GCP
5 13 (7.98%) Serverless
6 12 (7.36%) GitHub
7 11 (6.75%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (6.13%) PowerApps
9 9 (5.52%) Azure Functions
9 9 (5.52%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (4.91%) SaaS
10 8 (4.91%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.68%) PaaS
12 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.07%) OneDrive
13 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) DNS
2 4 (2.45%) Firewall
2 4 (2.45%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.84%) VoIP
4 2 (1.23%) LAN
4 2 (1.23%) Network Security
4 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.23%) WAN
4 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.61%) 4G
5 1 (0.61%) 5G
5 1 (0.61%) DHCP
5 1 (0.61%) IPsec
5 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.61%) Multicast
5 1 (0.61%) PBX
5 1 (0.61%) SSL
5 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (5.52%) SAP HANA
2 8 (4.91%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.29%) Metadata
3 7 (4.29%) Power BI
4 5 (3.07%) Tableau
5 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.45%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.45%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.45%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.84%) Looker
6 3 (1.84%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 10 (6.13%) JIRA
2 4 (2.45%) Git
2 4 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.84%) Maven
3 3 (1.84%) MLflow
4 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.23%) GitLab
4 2 (1.23%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.61%) Ant
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Ivy
5 1 (0.61%) Gradle
5 1 (0.61%) Hudson
5 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (49.69%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.79%) Public Sector
3 28 (17.18%) Finance
4 16 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.75%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (6.13%) Banking
7 8 (4.91%) Retail
8 6 (3.68%) Military
9 4 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.84%) Legal
10 3 (1.84%) Local Government
11 2 (1.23%) Front Office
11 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.61%) Automotive
12 1 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 96 (58.90%) Architect
2 46 (28.22%) Technical Architect
3 24 (14.72%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (10.43%) Lead
5 16 (9.82%) Senior
6 13 (7.98%) SAP Architect
7 12 (7.36%) Consultant
8 10 (6.13%) Developer
9 9 (5.52%) SAP Technical Architect
10 8 (4.91%) Lead Architect
11 7 (4.29%) Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.68%) Senior Architect
13 5 (3.07%) Azure Architect
13 5 (3.07%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.07%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 5 (3.07%) IFS Consultant
13 5 (3.07%) Technical Consultant
14 4 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.52%) Kafka
2 8 (4.91%) PySpark
2 8 (4.91%) React
2 8 (4.91%) SAP Fiori
2 8 (4.91%) SAP PI
2 8 (4.91%) SAPUI5
3 7 (4.29%) .NET
4 6 (3.68%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.68%) XML
5 5 (3.07%) NumPy
5 5 (3.07%) Pandas
6 4 (2.45%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (2.45%) CSS
6 4 (2.45%) HTML
6 4 (2.45%) HTML5 Canvas
6 4 (2.45%) JSON
6 4 (2.45%) Middleware
6 4 (2.45%) WCF
6 4 (2.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.07%) Operational Technology
3 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.45%) Educational Technology
4 4 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.84%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.84%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Equities
6 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Linux
1 5 (3.07%) Windows
2 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (21.47%) Agile
3 33 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (19.02%) Roadmaps
5 29 (17.79%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (14.11%) Enterprise Architecture
7 22 (13.50%) DevOps
8 21 (12.88%) Data Governance
8 21 (12.88%) ERP
8 21 (12.88%) Microservices
9 20 (12.27%) CRM
10 19 (11.66%) Mentoring
11 18 (11.04%) CI/CD
12 15 (9.20%) Analytics
12 15 (9.20%) Migration
13 13 (7.98%) Data Management
13 13 (7.98%) Decision-Making
13 13 (7.98%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (7.36%) Strategic Thinking
14 12 (7.36%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.50%) SQL
2 21 (12.88%) Java
3 15 (9.20%) Python
4 11 (6.75%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
6 9 (5.52%) ABAP
6 9 (5.52%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.29%) C#
7 7 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.45%) Bash
8 4 (2.45%) Perl
9 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.61%) Ada
10 1 (0.61%) C++
10 1 (0.61%) COBOL
10 1 (0.61%) UniBasic
10 1 (0.61%) X++
Qualifications
1 46 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.66%) Degree
4 7 (4.29%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.68%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.84%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CCNP
10 1 (0.61%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.61%) IIBA
10 1 (0.61%) MCSA
10 1 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.29%) QA
3 6 (3.68%) GDPR
4 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.45%) NCSC
5 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.23%) IFRS
6 2 (1.23%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.75%) Docker
2 6 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.61%) RACF
Systems Management
1 19 (11.66%) Terraform
2 14 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.07%) Ansible
4 3 (1.84%) Grafana
4 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.23%) Packer
6 1 (0.61%) Graylog
6 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
6 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (17.79%) Microsoft
1 29 (17.79%) SAP
2 13 (7.98%) Oracle
3 9 (5.52%) Google
4 8 (4.91%) Ariba
5 6 (3.68%) Cisco
5 6 (3.68%) IFS
6 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.45%) Adobe
7 4 (2.45%) VMware
8 3 (1.84%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.84%) Databricks
8 3 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.23%) Aruba
9 2 (1.23%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.23%) DataRobot
9 2 (1.23%) IBM
9 2 (1.23%) Informatica
9 2 (1.23%) Workday