Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 244 201
Rank change year-on-year -1 -43 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 134 138 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.88% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.93% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 85 173
10th Percentile £425 £473 £500
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £700 £720 £743
90th Percentile £756 £775 £750
England median daily rate £575 £600 £670
% change year-on-year -4.17% -10.38% +3.00%

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 12,975 14,769 18,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.91% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 9,567 13,754
10th Percentile £334 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.82% -1.57%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £789 £794
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 156 226
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -2.48% +21.11%
75th Percentile £49.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +12 16 £660 +5.60% 13
East London - 6 £585 -
West London -10 4 £463 -38.33% 6
South London -5 2 £538 - 1
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, 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 52 (38.81%) Azure
1 52 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 50 (37.31%) AWS
3 43 (32.09%) SC Cleared
4 31 (23.13%) Agile
4 31 (23.13%) CI/CD
4 31 (23.13%) Microservices
4 31 (23.13%) Roadmaps
5 28 (20.90%) Technical Architecture
6 27 (20.15%) Terraform
7 22 (16.42%) Microsoft
8 21 (15.67%) DevOps
8 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (15.67%) Integration Patterns
8 21 (15.67%) Java
8 21 (15.67%) Kubernetes
9 20 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (14.18%) Data Modelling
11 18 (13.43%) Migration
12 17 (12.69%) Strategic Roadmap
13 16 (11.94%) API Design
13 16 (11.94%) Architectural Patterns
13 16 (11.94%) Salesforce
14 15 (11.19%) AI
14 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
15 14 (10.45%) Firewall
15 14 (10.45%) Power Platform
16 13 (9.70%) Data Governance
16 13 (9.70%) Event-Driven
16 13 (9.70%) IT Strategy

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 3 (2.24%) SAS
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.49%) CMS
2 2 (1.49%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.49%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.75%) Appian
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Endur
1 4 (2.99%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) Summit
4 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.75%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.75%) Magento
4 1 (0.75%) Shopify
4 1 (0.75%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.81%) Azure
2 50 (37.31%) AWS
3 14 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 11 (8.21%) GCP
4 11 (8.21%) GitHub
5 10 (7.46%) Serverless
6 9 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.24%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.24%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.45%) Firewall
2 8 (5.97%) WAN
3 6 (4.48%) LAN
3 6 (4.48%) SD-WAN
3 6 (4.48%) VPN
3 6 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.99%) Network Security
5 3 (2.24%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.24%) SAN
6 2 (1.49%) BGP
6 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.49%) VSAN
7 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.75%) DHCP
7 1 (0.75%) DMZ
7 1 (0.75%) DNS
7 1 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) NAS
7 1 (0.75%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.97%) Power BI
2 5 (3.73%) Metadata
2 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.99%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.99%) MySQL
4 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.24%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.49%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.49%) Pentaho
5 2 (1.49%) Redis
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) CircleCI
2 5 (3.73%) JIRA
3 2 (1.49%) GitLab
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.75%) Git
4 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (24.63%) Public Sector
2 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.91%) Finance
4 13 (9.70%) Banking
5 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Marketing
6 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.99%) Back Office
7 4 (2.99%) Billing
8 3 (2.24%) Automotive
8 3 (2.24%) Military
9 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Front Office
10 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.96%) Middleware
2 9 (6.72%) REST
3 7 (5.22%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (3.73%) JSON
4 5 (3.73%) Visualforce
5 4 (2.99%) Kafka
5 4 (2.99%) Node.js
5 4 (2.99%) React
5 4 (2.99%) Spring
5 4 (2.99%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.99%) Swagger
6 3 (2.24%) .NET
6 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.24%) SOAP
7 2 (1.49%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.49%) OAuth
7 2 (1.49%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.49%) SAML
7 2 (1.49%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.22%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.99%) CMDB
5 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.99%) Grid Computing
6 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.24%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.49%) NHS
7 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.75%) Replication
8 1 (0.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Windows
2 4 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.75%) Android
4 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.13%) Agile
1 31 (23.13%) CI/CD
1 31 (23.13%) Microservices
1 31 (23.13%) Roadmaps
2 28 (20.90%) Technical Architecture
3 21 (15.67%) DevOps
3 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (15.67%) Integration Patterns
4 20 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (14.18%) Data Modelling
6 18 (13.43%) Migration
7 17 (12.69%) Strategic Roadmap
8 16 (11.94%) API Design
8 16 (11.94%) Architectural Patterns
9 15 (11.19%) AI
9 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
10 13 (9.70%) Data Governance
10 13 (9.70%) Event-Driven
10 13 (9.70%) IT Strategy
11 12 (8.96%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.67%) Java
2 13 (9.70%) Python
2 13 (9.70%) TypeScript
3 8 (5.97%) C#
3 8 (5.97%) SQL
4 7 (5.22%) Apex Code
4 7 (5.22%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.24%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.24%) SOQL
5 3 (2.24%) SOSL
6 1 (0.75%) Bicep
6 1 (0.75%) Go
6 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.75%) PHP
6 1 (0.75%) Ruby
6 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 43 (32.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.22%) Degree
5 5 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.24%) CCNP
7 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.49%) CCNA
9 1 (0.75%) CCIE
9 1 (0.75%) CCSE
9 1 (0.75%) CISSP
9 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.75%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.75%) VCDX
9 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.24%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.24%) GDPR
2 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.49%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.49%) HL7
2 2 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) MiFID
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
3 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (8.96%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.75%) Varnish
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (20.15%) Terraform
2 21 (15.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.72%) Grafana
3 9 (6.72%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.22%) Ansible
5 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.75%) SCOM
7 1 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.94%) Salesforce
3 9 (6.72%) SAP
4 7 (5.22%) Cisco
4 7 (5.22%) Oracle
4 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.48%) Databricks
5 6 (4.48%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.73%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.73%) Google
7 4 (2.99%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.99%) VMware
8 3 (2.24%) Adobe
8 3 (2.24%) Calypso
8 3 (2.24%) Hitachi
8 3 (2.24%) Murex
8 3 (2.24%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.49%) Cerner
9 2 (1.49%) Dell
9 2 (1.49%) Genesys