Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 240 240
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 231 129 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.96% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.03% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 88 120
10th Percentile £431 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -12.74%
75th Percentile £711 £718 £700
90th Percentile £825 £766 £789
England median daily rate £620 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +7.83% -8.00% -7.20%
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 18,695 12,487 15,224
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 92.96% 94.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,154 8,403 10,658
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £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 356 208 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.40
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -13.22% -10.48%
75th Percentile £59.31 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%

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 20 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 20 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 +2 31 £550 -16.03% 5
East London -1 2 £750 +11.11% 4
South London -5 1 £600 +41.18% 3
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 20 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 87 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.20%) SC Cleared
3 65 (28.14%) Azure
4 55 (23.81%) AWS
5 47 (20.35%) Technical Leadership
6 41 (17.75%) DevOps
7 40 (17.32%) CI/CD
8 39 (16.88%) Roadmaps
9 38 (16.45%) Agile
9 38 (16.45%) Microsoft
9 38 (16.45%) Technical Architecture
10 37 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (14.72%) Data Modelling
12 33 (14.29%) Microservices
13 32 (13.85%) Migration
14 31 (13.42%) Integration Patterns
14 31 (13.42%) Python
15 29 (12.55%) AI
15 29 (12.55%) Architectural Patterns
15 29 (12.55%) Power Platform
16 28 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (11.26%) Enterprise Architecture
17 26 (11.26%) Event-Driven
17 26 (11.26%) GitHub
18 24 (10.39%) ERP
18 24 (10.39%) Java
19 20 (8.66%) API Design
19 20 (8.66%) Containerisation
20 19 (8.23%) Salesforce
20 19 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 8 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.60%) Confluence
3 5 (2.16%) SAS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) Mendix
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.87%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.87%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.14%) Azure
2 55 (23.81%) AWS
3 29 (12.55%) Power Platform
4 26 (11.26%) GitHub
5 12 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.76%) Serverless
7 9 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.90%) GCP
7 9 (3.90%) PaaS
7 9 (3.90%) Power Automate
7 9 (3.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 7 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.60%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (2.60%) VXLAN
2 5 (2.16%) Network Security
2 5 (2.16%) NX-OS
3 4 (1.73%) BGP
4 2 (0.87%) TACACS
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) X.21
5 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.43%) DMZ
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
5 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.49%) Power BI
2 9 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.73%) Big Data
4 4 (1.73%) Metadata
5 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.79%) Git
2 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.73%) GitLab
3 4 (1.73%) JIRA
4 2 (0.87%) Maven
4 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 57 (24.68%) Public Sector
1 57 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.26%) Finance
3 15 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.60%) Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.30%) Front Office
8 3 (1.30%) Legal
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Law
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.79%) Terraform
2 14 (6.06%) Middleware
2 14 (6.06%) REST
3 8 (3.46%) .NET
4 7 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
5 6 (2.60%) HTML5 Canvas
5 6 (2.60%) RESTful
5 6 (2.60%) SOAP
6 5 (2.16%) OAuth
6 5 (2.16%) PySpark
7 4 (1.73%) Django
7 4 (1.73%) Kafka
7 4 (1.73%) Node.js
7 4 (1.73%) OpenID
7 4 (1.73%) Spring
8 2 (0.87%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.87%) SAPUI5
8 2 (0.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.60%) IoT
6 6 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.73%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.73%) FMCG
8 3 (1.30%) AS400
8 3 (1.30%) CMDB
8 3 (1.30%) iSeries
8 3 (1.30%) Life Science
8 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) NHS
8 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.03%) Windows
2 3 (1.30%) Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (20.35%) Technical Leadership
2 41 (17.75%) DevOps
3 40 (17.32%) CI/CD
4 39 (16.88%) Roadmaps
5 38 (16.45%) Agile
5 38 (16.45%) Technical Architecture
6 37 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 34 (14.72%) Data Modelling
8 33 (14.29%) Microservices
9 32 (13.85%) Migration
10 31 (13.42%) Integration Patterns
11 29 (12.55%) AI
11 29 (12.55%) Architectural Patterns
12 28 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (11.26%) Enterprise Architecture
13 26 (11.26%) Event-Driven
14 24 (10.39%) ERP
15 20 (8.66%) API Design
15 20 (8.66%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (13.42%) Python
2 24 (10.39%) Java
3 12 (5.19%) SQL
4 10 (4.33%) Ruby
5 9 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.03%) Apex Code
6 7 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.73%) Bicep
7 4 (1.73%) C#
8 2 (0.87%) ABAP
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
8 2 (0.87%) C
8 2 (0.87%) C++
8 2 (0.87%) SOQL
8 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) Go
9 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.43%) SOSL
9 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.46%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.16%) CISA
6 5 (2.16%) CISSP
6 5 (2.16%) OSCP
6 5 (2.16%) SANS
7 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.30%) Degree
8 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.60%) GDPR
1 6 (2.60%) NCSC
1 6 (2.60%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) GRC
3 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) GxP
4 2 (0.87%) PSD2
4 2 (0.87%) SEPA
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) HL7
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.46%) Docker
2 6 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.30%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) Argo
3 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Istio
4 1 (0.43%) linkerd
4 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.43%) SCCM
4 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.23%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.49%) Oracle
4 14 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.76%) SAP
6 6 (2.60%) Cisco
6 6 (2.60%) Databricks
7 5 (2.16%) Ariba
8 4 (1.73%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.73%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.30%) Google
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) Infor
9 3 (1.30%) Sparx
9 3 (1.30%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.87%) Adobe
10 2 (0.87%) Infoblox
10 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.87%) VMware