Technical Architect Contracts in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £625, 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 228 211 266
Rank change year-on-year -17 +55 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 125 188 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.13% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 155 161
10th Percentile £481 £493 £525
25th Percentile £500 £528 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +7.41%
75th Percentile £741 £738 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.46% - +6.30%
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%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect 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 May 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 -1 18 £675 -3.57% 2
East London +13 3 £675 +7.66%
West London +10 2 £750 +5.26% 1
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 49 (39.20%) Azure
2 42 (33.60%) AWS
3 35 (28.00%) Java
4 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
5 30 (24.00%) SC Cleared
5 30 (24.00%) Public Sector
5 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
6 28 (22.40%) Roadmaps
7 24 (19.20%) Microsoft
8 21 (16.80%) DevOps
9 20 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (16.00%) Oracle
10 19 (15.20%) TOGAF
10 19 (15.20%) Technical Architecture
11 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.80%) GCP
13 15 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (12.00%) Agile
14 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
14 14 (11.20%) SQL
14 14 (11.20%) Microservices
15 13 (10.40%) Kubernetes
15 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
15 13 (10.40%) MS Visio
15 13 (10.40%) Finance
15 13 (10.40%) ServiceNow
16 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (8.80%) Enterprise Architecture
16 11 (8.80%) PaaS
16 11 (8.80%) C#

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.80%) ArcGIS
1 1 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (10.40%) MS Visio
2 8 (6.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.60%) assyst
2 2 (1.60%) Magento
2 2 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (39.20%) Azure
2 42 (33.60%) AWS
3 16 (12.80%) GCP
4 11 (8.80%) PaaS
5 9 (7.20%) SaaS
6 8 (6.40%) OCI
6 8 (6.40%) Serverless
7 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.00%) GitHub
7 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.40%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) DNS
1 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (4.00%) VPN
2 4 (3.20%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) DHCP
3 3 (2.40%) Network Security
4 2 (1.60%) HTTP
4 2 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.60%) IPsec
4 2 (1.60%) LAN
4 2 (1.60%) SNMP
4 2 (1.60%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.80%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Power BI
1 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.40%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.80%) GIS
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) CircleCI
1 4 (3.20%) GitLab
2 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.80%) Maven
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 30 (24.00%) Public Sector
1 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.40%) Finance
3 11 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Retail
6 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Local Government
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) .NET
2 5 (4.00%) Kafka
2 5 (4.00%) Node.js
2 5 (4.00%) React
3 4 (3.20%) Spring
4 3 (2.40%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.40%) CSS
4 3 (2.40%) J2EE
4 3 (2.40%) REST
5 2 (1.60%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.60%) HTML
5 2 (1.60%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.60%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.60%) SOAP
5 2 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.80%) EDI
6 1 (0.80%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.80%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Management Information System
1 8 (6.40%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.80%) Operational Technology
3 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.40%) CMDB
5 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.60%) PKI
5 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.60%) Replication
5 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.80%) BYOD
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Linux
1 10 (8.00%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Unix
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (22.40%) Roadmaps
2 21 (16.80%) DevOps
3 20 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (15.20%) Technical Architecture
4 19 (15.20%) TOGAF
5 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.00%) Agile
6 15 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (11.20%) Microservices
8 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
9 11 (8.80%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (8.00%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.00%) Event-Driven
10 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (8.00%) Migration
10 10 (8.00%) Software Architecture
11 9 (7.20%) Architecture Roadmap
11 9 (7.20%) CI/CD
11 9 (7.20%) MODAF
11 9 (7.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.00%) Java
2 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
2 14 (11.20%) SQL
3 11 (8.80%) C#
4 10 (8.00%) Python
5 6 (4.80%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.60%) Ruby
8 2 (1.60%) VB
9 1 (0.80%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.00%) Degree
4 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.40%) PMP
5 3 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.80%) CCNP
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (2.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.60%) QA
3 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (8.80%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.80%) Docker
4 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) RACF
Systems Management
1 13 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.60%) Terraform
3 5 (4.00%) Data Guard
4 4 (3.20%) Grafana
4 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.40%) SCCM
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.80%) Ansible
7 1 (0.80%) Packer
7 1 (0.80%) QRadar
7 1 (0.80%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.00%) Oracle
3 13 (10.40%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.00%) Veritas
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco
6 3 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) VMware
7 2 (1.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.80%) Adobe
8 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.80%) Foundry
8 1 (0.80%) Genesys
8 1 (0.80%) IBM
8 1 (0.80%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.80%) Palantir
8 1 (0.80%) SAP
8 1 (0.80%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.80%) Splunk
8 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media