Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 229 235
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 235 141 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.03% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.11% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 97 122
10th Percentile £429 £425 £459
25th Percentile £513 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £700 £715 £705
90th Percentile £825 £768 £788
England median daily rate £615 £585 £630
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £93.53 - -
25th Percentile £95.06 - -
Median hourly rate £100.25 - -
75th Percentile £105.56 - -
90th Percentile £107.18 - -
England median hourly rate £93.75 - -

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 18,752 12,672 15,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 92.93% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,269 8,586 10,953
10th Percentile £363 £326 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 201 213
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.25% -14.48%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £43.90
% change year-on-year +71.23% -40.14% +2.09%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +7 35 £550 -16.03% 2
South London -10 5 £661 +55.59% 3
East London -2 2 £750 +11.11% 4
West London -22 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 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 90 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 80 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 66 (28.09%) Azure
4 60 (25.53%) AWS
5 42 (17.87%) DevOps
5 42 (17.87%) Roadmaps
6 41 (17.45%) CI/CD
7 40 (17.02%) Microsoft
7 40 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
8 38 (16.17%) Technical Architecture
9 37 (15.74%) Agile
10 36 (15.32%) Data Modelling
11 33 (14.04%) Integration Patterns
11 33 (14.04%) Microservices
12 30 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
12 30 (12.77%) Python
12 30 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (11.49%) AI
13 27 (11.49%) Migration
13 27 (11.49%) Power Platform
14 26 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (10.64%) GitHub
15 25 (10.64%) Java
15 25 (10.64%) Salesforce
16 23 (9.79%) Event-Driven
17 22 (9.36%) ERP
18 20 (8.51%) API Design
18 20 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
18 20 (8.51%) Containerisation
18 20 (8.51%) Observability

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 10 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.55%) Confluence
3 5 (2.13%) SAS
4 3 (1.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Mendix
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.85%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.85%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.09%) Azure
2 60 (25.53%) AWS
3 27 (11.49%) Power Platform
4 25 (10.64%) GitHub
5 13 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.68%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.68%) Serverless
7 10 (4.26%) PaaS
8 9 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.83%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.83%) GCP
8 9 (3.83%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.55%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.13%) Network Security
2 3 (1.28%) VPN
3 2 (0.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) Firewall
3 2 (0.85%) X.21
4 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.43%) BGP
4 1 (0.43%) DMZ
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.43%) MQTT
4 1 (0.43%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) VSAN
4 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.38%) Power BI
2 8 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.70%) Big Data
5 4 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.85%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.23%) Git
2 6 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.70%) JIRA
4 3 (1.28%) Maven
4 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) MSI
6 1 (0.43%) Postman
6 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 57 (24.26%) Public Sector
2 55 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.91%) Finance
4 12 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.55%) Banking
7 6 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.28%) Front Office
8 3 (1.28%) Legal
9 2 (0.85%) Billing
9 2 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
9 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.85%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.09%) Middleware
2 11 (4.68%) REST
3 8 (3.40%) Lightning Web Components
4 7 (2.98%) .NET
5 6 (2.55%) HTML5 Canvas
5 6 (2.55%) SOAP
6 5 (2.13%) PySpark
6 5 (2.13%) RESTful
7 4 (1.70%) Django
7 4 (1.70%) OAuth
7 4 (1.70%) OpenID
7 4 (1.70%) Spring
8 3 (1.28%) Kafka
8 3 (1.28%) Node.js
9 2 (0.85%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.85%) IDoc
9 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.85%) SAML
9 2 (0.85%) SAP ALE
10 1 (0.43%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.13%) FMCG
7 5 (2.13%) IoT
7 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.28%) AS400
8 3 (1.28%) CMDB
8 3 (1.28%) iSeries
8 3 (1.28%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.28%) NHS
8 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.13%) Windows
2 3 (1.28%) Linux
3 2 (0.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (17.87%) DevOps
1 42 (17.87%) Roadmaps
2 41 (17.45%) CI/CD
3 40 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
4 38 (16.17%) Technical Architecture
5 37 (15.74%) Agile
6 36 (15.32%) Data Modelling
7 33 (14.04%) Integration Patterns
7 33 (14.04%) Microservices
8 30 (12.77%) Architectural Patterns
8 30 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (11.49%) AI
9 27 (11.49%) Migration
10 26 (11.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (9.79%) Event-Driven
12 22 (9.36%) ERP
13 20 (8.51%) API Design
13 20 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (8.51%) Containerisation
13 20 (8.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.77%) Python
2 25 (10.64%) Java
3 13 (5.53%) SQL
4 10 (4.26%) Ruby
5 9 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.40%) Apex Code
7 7 (2.98%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.28%) Bicep
8 3 (1.28%) C#
8 3 (1.28%) SOQL
9 2 (0.85%) Bash
9 2 (0.85%) C
9 2 (0.85%) C++
9 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) ABAP
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 90 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 80 (34.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.40%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.40%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.13%) CISA
5 5 (2.13%) CISSP
5 5 (2.13%) Degree
5 5 (2.13%) OSCP
5 5 (2.13%) SANS
5 5 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) CAPM
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.26%) GDPR
2 6 (2.55%) NCSC
2 6 (2.55%) QA
3 5 (2.13%) GRC
4 4 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.85%) GxP
5 2 (0.85%) PSD2
5 2 (0.85%) SEPA
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (3.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.43%) Squid
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (7.23%) Terraform
2 16 (6.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Argo
3 2 (0.85%) Grafana
3 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.43%) Consul
4 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.43%) Istio
4 1 (0.43%) linkerd
4 1 (0.43%) SCCM
4 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.64%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.38%) Oracle
4 12 (5.11%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.26%) SAP
6 9 (3.83%) Databricks
7 4 (1.70%) Ariba
7 4 (1.70%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.70%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.70%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.28%) IBM
8 3 (1.28%) Infor
9 2 (0.85%) Google
9 2 (0.85%) Sparx
9 2 (0.85%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.43%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.43%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.43%) Qualtrics