Technical Architect Contracts in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £626 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 269 316
Rank change year-on-year +54 +47 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 188 251 322
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.06% 0.92% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 0.97% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 162 204
10th Percentile £494 £525 £513
25th Percentile £530 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £725 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.66% +7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £738 £750 £743
90th Percentile £825 £800 £820
England median daily rate £675 £675 £638
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +14 22 £700 +7.69% 10
East London - 5 £627 - 3
West London +24 4 £713 +14.00%
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 58 (30.85%) Azure
2 53 (28.19%) Security Cleared
3 50 (26.60%) AWS
4 47 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 42 (22.34%) Migration
5 42 (22.34%) Public Sector
6 41 (21.81%) Microsoft
7 40 (21.28%) Social Skills
8 35 (18.62%) Roadmaps
9 28 (14.89%) Agile
10 26 (13.83%) Data Migration
11 23 (12.23%) DevOps
11 23 (12.23%) Microservices
12 20 (10.64%) Cloud Native
12 20 (10.64%) NIST
12 20 (10.64%) Finance
12 20 (10.64%) SharePoint
13 19 (10.11%) .NET
13 19 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (9.57%) NetApp
14 18 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (9.04%) Data Structures
15 17 (9.04%) CRM
15 17 (9.04%) Python
16 16 (8.51%) Change Management
16 16 (8.51%) Use Case
17 15 (7.98%) Dynamics CRM
17 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (7.98%) Data Security
17 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management

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 20 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.13%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) CICS
3 2 (1.06%) IIS
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (7.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.85%) Azure
2 50 (26.60%) AWS
3 19 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.98%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (5.85%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.79%) GCP
6 9 (4.79%) Serverless
7 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.72%) SaaS
8 5 (2.66%) GitHub
8 5 (2.66%) PaaS
8 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.13%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.13%) IaaS
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.26%) Firewall
2 5 (2.66%) LAN
3 3 (1.60%) WAN
4 2 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.79%) RDBMS
1 9 (4.79%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.66%) DB2
5 4 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.60%) Power BI
7 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.06%) IDMS
7 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (2.13%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (22.34%) Public Sector
2 40 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.64%) Finance
4 8 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.26%) Billing
5 4 (2.13%) Banking
5 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.13%) Police
5 4 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.60%) Marketing
7 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Legal
7 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Advertising
8 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.53%) Front Office
8 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Military
8 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.11%) .NET
2 10 (5.32%) GraphQL
2 10 (5.32%) React
3 7 (3.72%) REST
4 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (3.19%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.66%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.66%) OAuth
6 4 (2.13%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.13%) Node.js
6 4 (2.13%) RESTful
6 4 (2.13%) SAML
7 3 (1.60%) OpenID
7 3 (1.60%) Spring
8 2 (1.06%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.06%) HATEOAS
8 2 (1.06%) J2EE
8 2 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (1.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.04%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.85%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.60%) CMDB
7 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.06%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.06%) VSAM
9 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.53%) Genomics
9 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.66%) Windows
2 4 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.34%) Migration
2 35 (18.62%) Roadmaps
3 28 (14.89%) Agile
4 26 (13.83%) Data Migration
5 23 (12.23%) DevOps
5 23 (12.23%) Microservices
6 18 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (9.04%) CRM
8 16 (8.51%) Change Management
8 16 (8.51%) Use Case
9 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (7.98%) Data Security
9 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (7.45%) Business Strategy
10 14 (7.45%) Design Patterns
10 14 (7.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (7.45%) Strategic Roadmap
11 12 (6.38%) Architectural Design
11 12 (6.38%) CI/CD
11 12 (6.38%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.04%) Python
2 14 (7.45%) Java
2 14 (7.45%) SQL
3 9 (4.79%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.26%) C#
5 4 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.06%) Assembly Language
7 2 (1.06%) COBOL
7 2 (1.06%) Go
7 2 (1.06%) JCL
7 2 (1.06%) Scala
8 1 (0.53%) C++
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (28.19%) Security Cleared
2 47 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.91%) Degree
4 10 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.53%) CEH
6 1 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.53%) CISA
6 1 (0.53%) CISM
6 1 (0.53%) CISSP
6 1 (0.53%) CITP
6 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.64%) NIST
2 8 (4.26%) QA
3 5 (2.66%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.13%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.06%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.13%) vCloud
3 2 (1.06%) Docker
4 1 (0.53%) Firmware
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (4.26%) Terraform
2 6 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.53%) SCCM
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.57%) NetApp
3 6 (3.19%) LogRhythm
3 6 (3.19%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.66%) Oracle
4 5 (2.66%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.13%) Dell
5 4 (2.13%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.60%) Genesys
6 3 (1.60%) Google
6 3 (1.60%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.06%) Charles River
7 2 (1.06%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.06%) eFront
7 2 (1.06%) IBM
7 2 (1.06%) Sparx
8 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) WALLIX