Technology Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Technology Architect
UK > England

The median Technology Architect daily rate in England is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 526 600
Rank change year-on-year +13 +74 +179
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Architect 7 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.027% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.029% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £456 £590 -
25th Percentile £520 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £481
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +35.28% -14.73%
75th Percentile £788 £737 £486
90th Percentile £818 £797 -
UK median daily rate £675 £650 £486
% change year-on-year +3.85% +33.74% -12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 25,187 30,511 40,033
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 92.98% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,216 19,002 27,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £401 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,457 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.56 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.99 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Technology Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Architect in England

Technology Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in England

Technology Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Architect in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Architect in England

Technology Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in England

Technology 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 Technology Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
South East - 3 £775 -
London +20 2 £414 -36.31% 1
North of England -24 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 £520 -
Technology Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Technology 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 Technology Architect in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) ADSL
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
1 3 (42.86%) 4G
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) ThingWorx
1 3 (42.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) PMO
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree

Technology 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 3 (42.86%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) 4G
1 3 (42.86%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle