Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £596, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 246 226
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 240 128 161
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 0.95% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.02% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 88 123
10th Percentile £441 £425 £451
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £619 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -1.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £700 £718 £700
90th Percentile £825 £766 £788
England median daily rate £615 £580 £625
% change year-on-year +6.03% -7.20% -7.41%
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 18,806 12,525 15,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 92.97% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,209 8,427 10,627
10th Percentile £363 £325 £347
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £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 359 209 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +34.16% -12.66% -11.24%
75th Percentile £60.50 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.85% -43.73% +2.63%

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 23 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 23 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 -5 31 £550 -16.67% 2
East London -3 2 £750 +19.05% 3
South London -4 1 £600 +41.18%
West London -27 1 - -
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 91 (37.92%) Security Cleared
2 83 (34.58%) SC Cleared
3 67 (27.92%) Azure
4 59 (24.58%) AWS
5 49 (20.42%) Technical Leadership
6 44 (18.33%) DevOps
7 42 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 41 (17.08%) Agile
8 41 (17.08%) Technical Architecture
9 40 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 40 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 40 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (14.17%) Data Modelling
11 33 (13.75%) Microservices
11 33 (13.75%) Migration
12 32 (13.33%) Python
13 31 (12.92%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
15 29 (12.08%) AI
15 29 (12.08%) Power Platform
16 28 (11.67%) Event-Driven
16 28 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (11.25%) Enterprise Architecture
18 26 (10.83%) GitHub
19 25 (10.42%) ERP
20 24 (10.00%) Java
21 20 (8.33%) API Design
21 20 (8.33%) Containerisation
21 20 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 19 (7.92%) Architectural Design

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 9 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.92%) Confluence
3 6 (2.50%) SAS
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 3 (1.25%) Apache
6 2 (0.83%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.42%) Mendix
7 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.83%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.83%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.42%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.92%) Azure
2 59 (24.58%) AWS
3 29 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.83%) GitHub
5 15 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.42%) Serverless
7 12 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.58%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (3.75%) GCP
10 9 (3.75%) PaaS
10 9 (3.75%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (2.50%) OpenShift
14 5 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (2.50%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.08%) BGP
2 5 (2.08%) Network Security
2 5 (2.08%) NX-OS
3 2 (0.83%) Firewall
3 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.83%) TACACS
3 2 (0.83%) VPN
3 2 (0.83%) WAN
3 2 (0.83%) X.21
4 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.42%) DMZ
4 1 (0.42%) DNS
4 1 (0.42%) Internet
4 1 (0.42%) MQTT
4 1 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.25%) Power BI
2 9 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.67%) Big Data
4 4 (1.67%) Metadata
4 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.25%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.83%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.50%) Git
2 5 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.08%) JIRA
3 4 (1.67%) GitLab
4 2 (0.83%) Maven
4 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.42%) MSI
General
1 60 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 59 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.83%) Finance
4 16 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.50%) Banking
8 5 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.25%) Front Office
9 3 (1.25%) Legal
9 3 (1.25%) Retail
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Marketing
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.50%) Terraform
2 15 (6.25%) REST
3 14 (5.83%) Middleware
4 9 (3.75%) .NET
5 7 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
6 6 (2.50%) OAuth
6 6 (2.50%) RESTful
6 6 (2.50%) SOAP
7 5 (2.08%) OpenID
7 5 (2.08%) PySpark
8 4 (1.67%) Django
8 4 (1.67%) Kafka
8 4 (1.67%) Node.js
8 4 (1.67%) Spring
9 3 (1.25%) SAML
10 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.83%) JSON
10 2 (0.83%) SAP ALE
10 2 (0.83%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.92%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.50%) IoT
6 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.67%) FMCG
7 4 (1.67%) Life Science
8 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.25%) AS400
8 3 (1.25%) CMDB
8 3 (1.25%) iSeries
8 3 (1.25%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.25%) NHS
8 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.92%) Windows
2 3 (1.25%) Linux
3 2 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (20.42%) Technical Leadership
2 44 (18.33%) DevOps
3 42 (17.50%) CI/CD
4 41 (17.08%) Agile
4 41 (17.08%) Technical Architecture
5 40 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 40 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (14.17%) Data Modelling
7 33 (13.75%) Microservices
7 33 (13.75%) Migration
8 31 (12.92%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
10 29 (12.08%) AI
11 28 (11.67%) Event-Driven
11 28 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (11.25%) Enterprise Architecture
13 25 (10.42%) ERP
14 20 (8.33%) API Design
14 20 (8.33%) Containerisation
14 20 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.33%) Python
2 24 (10.00%) Java
3 12 (5.00%) SQL
4 10 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.17%) Ruby
5 7 (2.92%) Apex Code
5 7 (2.92%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.08%) C#
7 4 (1.67%) Bicep
8 3 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.83%) ABAP
9 2 (0.83%) Bash
9 2 (0.83%) C
9 2 (0.83%) C++
9 2 (0.83%) SOQL
10 1 (0.42%) Go
10 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.42%) R
10 1 (0.42%) SOSL
10 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (37.92%) Security Cleared
2 83 (34.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.08%) CISA
6 5 (2.08%) CISSP
6 5 (2.08%) OSCP
6 5 (2.08%) SANS
7 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.25%) Degree
8 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) CCNP
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.50%) GDPR
1 6 (2.50%) NCSC
1 6 (2.50%) QA
2 5 (2.08%) GRC
3 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.25%) NIST
4 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.83%) GxP
4 2 (0.83%) PSD2
4 2 (0.83%) SEPA
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.42%) HL7
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.33%) Docker
2 7 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.25%) Ansible
3 2 (0.83%) Argo
3 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.42%) Istio
4 1 (0.42%) linkerd
4 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.42%) SCCM
4 1 (0.42%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.92%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.25%) Oracle
4 14 (5.83%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.58%) SAP
6 7 (2.92%) Cisco
7 6 (2.50%) Databricks
8 5 (2.08%) Ariba
9 4 (1.67%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.67%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.25%) Google
10 3 (1.25%) IBM
10 3 (1.25%) Infor
10 3 (1.25%) Sparx
10 3 (1.25%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.83%) Adobe
11 2 (0.83%) Aprimo
11 2 (0.83%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.83%) Red Hat