Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £591, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 254 238
Rank change year-on-year +26 -16 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 231 110 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.83% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.89% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 75 109
10th Percentile £422 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £650 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.08% +4.84% -11.43%
75th Percentile £692 £729 £700
90th Percentile £810 £770 £775
England median daily rate £612 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +6.48% -4.17% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,862 12,305 15,150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.69% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,191 8,227 10,096
10th Percentile £361 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 203 179
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.95 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.46 £75.25
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in London over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Central London -18 22 £550 -16.67% 15
East London -2 1 £750 +19.05% 2
South London -8 1 £600 +41.18% 2
West London -28 1 - - 3
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 86 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.20%) SC Cleared
3 62 (26.84%) Azure
3 62 (26.84%) Technical Leadership
4 55 (23.81%) AWS
5 50 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (19.91%) DevOps
7 45 (19.48%) Technical Architecture
8 42 (18.18%) Agile
9 40 (17.32%) Microsoft
9 40 (17.32%) Roadmaps
10 35 (15.15%) CI/CD
11 32 (13.85%) Architectural Patterns
11 32 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
12 30 (12.99%) Enterprise Architecture
12 30 (12.99%) Migration
12 30 (12.99%) Power Platform
13 29 (12.55%) AI
14 28 (12.12%) Event-Driven
15 27 (11.69%) Microservices
16 26 (11.26%) Data Modelling
16 26 (11.26%) Python
17 23 (9.96%) Decision-Making
17 23 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 22 (9.52%) GitHub
19 20 (8.66%) Translating Business Requirements
20 19 (8.23%) ERP
20 19 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
21 18 (7.79%) Architectural Design
21 18 (7.79%) Event-Driven Architecture

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.03%) Confluence
3 6 (2.60%) CMS
3 6 (2.60%) SAS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.43%) Mendix
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.84%) Azure
2 55 (23.81%) AWS
3 30 (12.99%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.52%) GitHub
5 13 (5.63%) Serverless
6 12 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.33%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (3.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 8 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.46%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.03%) GCP
11 7 (3.03%) PaaS
12 6 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.60%) SaaS
12 6 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.16%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (2.16%) NX-OS
1 5 (2.16%) VXLAN
2 4 (1.73%) BGP
3 3 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.87%) TACACS
4 2 (0.87%) WAN
4 2 (0.87%) X.21
5 1 (0.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.19%) Power BI
2 8 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.73%) Big Data
4 4 (1.73%) Metadata
5 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.30%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.63%) Git
2 6 (2.60%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.30%) GitLab
4 2 (0.87%) Maven
4 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 59 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.65%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.82%) Finance
4 15 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.60%) Retail
7 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.30%) Banking
8 3 (1.30%) Front Office
8 3 (1.30%) Legal
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.36%) REST
2 15 (6.49%) Terraform
3 11 (4.76%) Middleware
3 11 (4.76%) OAuth
4 10 (4.33%) .NET
4 10 (4.33%) OpenID
5 8 (3.46%) SOAP
6 7 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (2.60%) HTML5 Canvas
7 6 (2.60%) Kafka
7 6 (2.60%) RESTful
8 5 (2.16%) PySpark
9 4 (1.73%) Django
9 4 (1.73%) Node.js
9 4 (1.73%) SAP Basis
9 4 (1.73%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (1.73%) SAPUI5
10 3 (1.30%) JSON
10 3 (1.30%) SAP PI
10 3 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.46%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.60%) FMCG
5 6 (2.60%) IoT
5 6 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.16%) Life Science
7 4 (1.73%) NHS
8 3 (1.30%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.30%) AS400
8 3 (1.30%) CMDB
8 3 (1.30%) iSeries
8 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (0.87%) Linux
2 2 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.84%) Technical Leadership
2 50 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (19.91%) DevOps
4 45 (19.48%) Technical Architecture
5 42 (18.18%) Agile
6 40 (17.32%) Roadmaps
7 35 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.85%) Architectural Patterns
8 32 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (12.99%) Enterprise Architecture
9 30 (12.99%) Migration
10 29 (12.55%) AI
11 28 (12.12%) Event-Driven
12 27 (11.69%) Microservices
13 26 (11.26%) Data Modelling
14 23 (9.96%) Decision-Making
14 23 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (8.66%) Translating Business Requirements
16 19 (8.23%) ERP
16 19 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.26%) Python
2 15 (6.49%) Java
3 11 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.03%) Apex Code
4 7 (3.03%) C#
5 6 (2.60%) SQL
6 5 (2.16%) ABAP
6 5 (2.16%) Ruby
6 5 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
8 2 (0.87%) Bicep
8 2 (0.87%) C
8 2 (0.87%) C++
8 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.87%) SOQL
9 1 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.43%) SOSL
9 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (37.23%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.33%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.73%) CISA
7 4 (1.73%) CISSP
7 4 (1.73%) OSCP
7 4 (1.73%) SANS
8 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.60%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.73%) GRC
2 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.73%) PMO
3 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) GxP
4 2 (0.87%) HL7
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) PSD2
4 2 (0.87%) SEPA
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (2.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.87%) Ansible
2 2 (0.87%) Argo
2 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.43%) Grafana
3 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.36%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.93%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.19%) SAP
5 10 (4.33%) Oracle
6 7 (3.03%) Cisco
7 5 (2.16%) Databricks
8 4 (1.73%) Ariba
8 4 (1.73%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.30%) Aprimo
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) OneTrust
9 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.30%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.30%) Sparx
10 2 (0.87%) Infoblox
10 2 (0.87%) Infor
10 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 2 (0.87%) Zscaler