Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 214 222
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 205 136 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.08% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.15% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 92 147
10th Percentile £475 £480 £483
25th Percentile £513 £500 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £625 £645
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -3.10% -7.86%
75th Percentile £700 £741 £740
90th Percentile £863 £800 £825
England median daily rate £604 £613 £675
% change year-on-year -1.34% -9.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £100.19 - -
90th Percentile £105.03 - -
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 15,597 11,820 16,837
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.59% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,451 8,096 12,160
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 150 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.00 £51.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £41.77 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% +6.15% -24.14%

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 31 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Architect in London over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 31 March 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 26 £500 -25.93% 8
South London - 9 £550 -
East London +2 2 £713 +9.62% 2
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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 86 (41.95%) Security Cleared
2 72 (35.12%) SC Cleared
3 64 (31.22%) AWS
4 51 (24.88%) Azure
5 41 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 35 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 33 (16.10%) Microservices
7 33 (16.10%) Microsoft
8 29 (14.15%) DevOps
9 28 (13.66%) Technical Architecture
10 27 (13.17%) Data Modelling
10 27 (13.17%) Migration
11 26 (12.68%) AI
12 25 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (11.22%) Java
13 23 (11.22%) Python
14 22 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (10.24%) Agile
15 21 (10.24%) Integration Patterns
15 21 (10.24%) Salesforce
16 20 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
17 19 (9.27%) API Design
17 19 (9.27%) Terraform
18 17 (8.29%) Kubernetes
18 17 (8.29%) SQL
18 17 (8.29%) TOGAF
19 16 (7.80%) Containerisation
19 16 (7.80%) Data Protection
19 16 (7.80%) Observability
19 16 (7.80%) Serverless

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 7 (3.41%) Confluence
2 5 (2.44%) nginx
2 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.49%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Infor LN
3 1 (0.49%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (31.22%) AWS
2 51 (24.88%) Azure
3 16 (7.80%) Serverless
4 14 (6.83%) GitHub
5 12 (5.85%) GCP
5 12 (5.85%) PaaS
6 11 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.39%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.41%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.93%) Route 53
11 5 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.44%) SaaS
12 4 (1.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.37%) Firewall
2 10 (4.88%) VPN
3 7 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.93%) DNS
5 5 (2.44%) OpenVPN
6 3 (1.46%) NAS
6 3 (1.46%) Network Security
6 3 (1.46%) SAN
6 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.46%) WAN
7 2 (0.98%) BGP
8 1 (0.49%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.49%) DMZ
8 1 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) OSPF
8 1 (0.49%) VSAN
8 1 (0.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.93%) Power BI
3 5 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.46%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.98%) Big Data
5 2 (0.98%) Data Hub
5 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.98%) Redis
5 2 (0.98%) Tableau
6 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.49%) Metadata
6 1 (0.49%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Git
2 9 (4.39%) JIRA
3 5 (2.44%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.49%) GitLab
5 1 (0.49%) Maven
5 1 (0.49%) Postman
5 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 48 (23.41%) Public Sector
2 39 (19.02%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.78%) Finance
4 11 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.39%) Banking
7 6 (2.93%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Law
9 3 (1.46%) Legal
9 3 (1.46%) Marketing
9 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Local Government
10 2 (0.98%) Military
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Police
11 1 (0.49%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.34%) Middleware
2 9 (4.39%) REST
3 7 (3.41%) .NET
4 6 (2.93%) Spring
5 5 (2.44%) LDAP
5 5 (2.44%) OpenID
6 4 (1.95%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.95%) SOAP
7 3 (1.46%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.46%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.46%) Node.js
7 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.98%) Kafka
8 2 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.98%) PySpark
9 1 (0.49%) Memcached
9 1 (0.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.49%) Playwright
9 1 (0.49%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.29%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.93%) CMDB
5 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.46%) FMCG
7 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.46%) Replication
8 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.98%) PKI
8 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.49%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Solaris
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
2 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 35 (17.07%) CI/CD
3 33 (16.10%) Microservices
4 29 (14.15%) DevOps
5 28 (13.66%) Technical Architecture
6 27 (13.17%) Data Modelling
6 27 (13.17%) Migration
7 26 (12.68%) AI
8 25 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (10.24%) Agile
10 21 (10.24%) Integration Patterns
11 20 (9.76%) Architectural Patterns
12 19 (9.27%) API Design
13 17 (8.29%) TOGAF
14 16 (7.80%) Containerisation
14 16 (7.80%) Data Protection
14 16 (7.80%) Observability
15 15 (7.32%) Mentoring
16 14 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.22%) Java
1 23 (11.22%) Python
2 17 (8.29%) SQL
3 13 (6.34%) Ruby
4 6 (2.93%) Bicep
5 4 (1.95%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.98%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.98%) C#
7 2 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.49%) Go
8 1 (0.49%) PHP
8 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 86 (41.95%) Security Cleared
2 72 (35.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.90%) Degree
4 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.98%) CISA
8 2 (0.98%) CISSP
8 2 (0.98%) OSCP
8 2 (0.98%) SANS
9 1 (0.49%) CCIE
9 1 (0.49%) CCNP
9 1 (0.49%) CCSE
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.49%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.41%) GDPR
1 7 (3.41%) NCSC
2 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.46%) QA
3 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.98%) GRC
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
4 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.41%) Docker
3 5 (2.44%) Squid
4 3 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.49%) Varnish
6 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.27%) Terraform
2 17 (8.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.44%) Consul
4 5 (2.44%) FortiGate
4 5 (2.44%) Grafana
4 5 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.98%) Ansible
6 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.49%) Istio
6 1 (0.49%) linkerd
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.24%) Salesforce
3 16 (7.80%) ServiceNow
4 15 (7.32%) Oracle
5 9 (4.39%) SAP
6 8 (3.90%) Databricks
7 5 (2.44%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.44%) VMware
8 4 (1.95%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.46%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.46%) Google
9 3 (1.46%) NetApp
9 3 (1.46%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.98%) Adobe
10 2 (0.98%) Ariba
10 2 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.98%) Splunk