Technical Architect Contracts in England

Technical Architect
UK > England

The median Technical Architect daily rate in England is £672 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 256 329
Rank change year-on-year +8 +73 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 345 503 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.03% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 1.09% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 350 383
10th Percentile £500 £507 £500
25th Percentile £558 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £672 £677 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £775 £745 £738
90th Percentile £850 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £632
% change year-on-year -3.70% +6.85% +11.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in England

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in England

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 Technical Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +46 195 £626 -13.66% 40
North of England +41 65 £800 +8.84% 7
North West +47 57 £850 +36.00% 5
South West -6 35 £694 +11.00% 9
South East -7 20 £750 +10.62% 14
Midlands -10 13 £700 -6.04% 8
West Midlands -19 10 £613 -17.79% 3
East of England -20 10 £613 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire -8 6 £590 -20.81% 1
East Midlands -3 3 £775 +4.03% 5
North East - 1 £525 - 1
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 115 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.99%) Azure
3 97 (28.12%) SC Cleared
4 91 (26.38%) Agile
5 76 (22.03%) Social Skills
6 73 (21.16%) Public Sector
7 72 (20.87%) AWS
8 68 (19.71%) Roadmaps
9 63 (18.26%) Firewall
10 62 (17.97%) Microsoft
10 62 (17.97%) DevOps
11 61 (17.68%) Windows
12 58 (16.81%) CI/CD
13 56 (16.23%) Migration
14 54 (15.65%) Finance
15 48 (13.91%) Public Cloud
16 47 (13.62%) Security Architecture
16 47 (13.62%) Node.js
17 46 (13.33%) Microservices
17 46 (13.33%) Windows Server
17 46 (13.33%) Design Patterns
18 45 (13.04%) Android
18 45 (13.04%) VPN
18 45 (13.04%) Apple iOS
19 43 (12.46%) Mobile Device Management
19 43 (12.46%) Zero Trust
20 41 (11.88%) Risk Management
21 40 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
22 39 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
23 37 (10.72%) Technical Leadership

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 24 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.32%) Confluence
3 3 (0.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (0.87%) CMS
3 3 (0.87%) IIS
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.29%) RMDS
3 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (28.99%) Azure
2 72 (20.87%) AWS
3 21 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (5.51%) GCP
5 17 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (4.06%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.06%) GitHub
7 12 (3.48%) Serverless
8 11 (3.19%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.19%) SaaS
9 8 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.32%) PaaS
10 7 (2.03%) IaaS
11 6 (1.74%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (18.26%) Firewall
2 45 (13.04%) VPN
3 20 (5.80%) LAN
4 15 (4.35%) WAN
5 8 (2.32%) 3G
5 8 (2.32%) 4G
6 4 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.58%) BGP
7 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.58%) DNS
7 2 (0.58%) Network Security
7 2 (0.58%) OSPF
7 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.58%) WLAN
8 1 (0.29%) DHCP
8 1 (0.29%) ISDN
8 1 (0.29%) Multicast
8 1 (0.29%) SSL
8 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.90%) RDBMS
1 10 (2.90%) Relational Database
1 10 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.87%) DB2
5 3 (0.87%) Power BI
6 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (3.19%) JIRA
2 5 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.16%) GitLab
4 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.87%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.87%) Selenium
4 3 (0.87%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 76 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 73 (21.16%) Public Sector
3 54 (15.65%) Finance
4 18 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.77%) Marketing
6 11 (3.19%) Legal
7 9 (2.61%) Electronics
7 9 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.32%) Banking
9 7 (2.03%) Billing
9 7 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.16%) Police
12 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Local Government
12 3 (0.87%) Retail
13 2 (0.58%) Aviation
13 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.62%) Node.js
2 28 (8.12%) .NET
3 14 (4.06%) REST
4 12 (3.48%) React
5 10 (2.90%) GraphQL
6 9 (2.61%) Middleware
7 8 (2.32%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (2.03%) OAuth
9 6 (1.74%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.74%) RESTful
9 6 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.45%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.45%) SAML
11 4 (1.16%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.16%) OpenID
11 4 (1.16%) Spring
12 3 (0.87%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.87%) Java EE
13 2 (0.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.91%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.96%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.51%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.64%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.45%) CMDB
8 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
11 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (17.68%) Windows
2 46 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 45 (13.04%) Android
3 45 (13.04%) Apple iOS
4 11 (3.19%) Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (26.38%) Agile
2 68 (19.71%) Roadmaps
3 62 (17.97%) DevOps
4 58 (16.81%) CI/CD
5 56 (16.23%) Migration
6 47 (13.62%) Security Architecture
7 46 (13.33%) Design Patterns
7 46 (13.33%) Microservices
8 43 (12.46%) Mobile Device Management
8 43 (12.46%) Zero Trust
9 41 (11.88%) Risk Management
10 40 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (10.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 37 (10.72%) Technical Leadership
12 37 (10.72%) Threat Intelligence
13 31 (8.99%) Strategic Roadmap
14 29 (8.41%) Data Migration
15 27 (7.83%) Technical Architecture
16 24 (6.96%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.25%) Python
2 21 (6.09%) Java
3 17 (4.93%) SQL
4 12 (3.48%) C#
4 12 (3.48%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.58%) Go
7 2 (0.58%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.58%) Scala
8 1 (0.29%) C++
8 1 (0.29%) Ruby
8 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 97 (28.12%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.67%) Degree
4 22 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.16%) HND
8 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.58%) CISM
9 2 (0.58%) CISSP
9 2 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CEH
10 1 (0.29%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.29%) CISA
10 1 (0.29%) CITP
10 1 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.80%) NIST
2 19 (5.51%) QA
3 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.16%) GDPR
5 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.87%) NCSC
6 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (3.19%) Docker
2 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) vCloud
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (5.51%) Terraform
2 18 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.16%) Ansible
4 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.87%) Podman
5 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.58%) VxRail
6 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.29%) Nessus
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (17.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.51%) NetApp
3 11 (3.19%) Google
3 11 (3.19%) SAP
4 10 (2.90%) Cisco
5 8 (2.32%) Oracle
5 8 (2.32%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.32%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.03%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.74%) Dell
7 6 (1.74%) LogRhythm
8 5 (1.45%) Apple
8 5 (1.45%) Splunk
8 5 (1.45%) VMware
9 4 (1.16%) Databricks
9 4 (1.16%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.16%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.58%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.58%) Zscaler