Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Technical Architect
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Hertfordshire is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.98% - 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £613 - £510
25th Percentile £713 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £650
75th Percentile £738 - £788
90th Percentile - - £840
East of England median daily rate £625 £198 £565
% change year-on-year +216.46% -65.04% -24.16%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 752 298 767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.27% 84.66% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 146 308
10th Percentile £200 £225 £240
25th Percentile £413 £416 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £519 £429
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +20.93% -14.25%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £488 £442
% change year-on-year +2.56% +10.29% -6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 76 298
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.99 £28.80
25th Percentile £20.35 £31.54 £43.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £81.35 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% +2.87%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Hertfordshire

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. 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
Hemel Hempstead - 5 £725 -
Watford - 2 £525 - 1
Stevenage - 1 - -
Technical Architect
East of England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 27 June 2026, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) GDPR
4 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) RBAC
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) SailPoint
4 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) API Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Forcepoint
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp