Senior Technical Architect Contracts in London

Senior Technical Architect
England > London

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in London is £723, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 385 485
Rank change year-on-year +36 +100 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 4 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.034% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.036% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £575 £666
25th Percentile £711 £669 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £850 £693
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +22.74% -4.15%
75th Percentile £734 £875 £791
90th Percentile - - £909
England median daily rate £622 £838 £680
% change year-on-year -25.72% +23.16% +0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Architect in London

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Senior Technical Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (75.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) API Development
2 3 (75.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared

Senior Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) CircleCI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) API Development
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Software Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (25.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware