Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £597, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
18 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 219 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 199 135 189
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.05% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.12% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 87 153
10th Percentile £475 £481 £465
25th Percentile £513 £500 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £738
90th Percentile £863 £799 £825
England median daily rate £600 £615 £675
% change year-on-year -2.44% -8.89% -
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 15,206 12,012 16,987
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.71% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,176 8,111 12,274
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 143 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.04 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year - +23.89% -19.29%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.22 £64.77
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +4 27 £500 -27.27% 8
South London - 9 £550 -
East London -1 1 £675 +3.85% 2
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 89 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 75 (37.69%) SC Cleared
3 62 (31.16%) AWS
4 51 (25.63%) Azure
5 41 (20.60%) Roadmaps
6 35 (17.59%) CI/CD
7 32 (16.08%) Microservices
8 31 (15.58%) DevOps
8 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
9 30 (15.08%) Technical Architecture
10 26 (13.07%) Agile
11 25 (12.56%) Data Modelling
11 25 (12.56%) Migration
12 24 (12.06%) AI
12 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (12.06%) Terraform
13 21 (10.55%) Kubernetes
14 20 (10.05%) Java
14 20 (10.05%) Salesforce
15 19 (9.55%) Python
15 19 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (9.05%) Architectural Patterns
17 17 (8.54%) API Design
17 17 (8.54%) Integration Patterns
17 17 (8.54%) SQL
18 16 (8.04%) Containerisation
18 16 (8.04%) Mentoring
18 16 (8.04%) Serverless
18 16 (8.04%) ServiceNow
18 16 (8.04%) TOGAF

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 (3.52%) Confluence
2 5 (2.51%) nginx
2 5 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
3 2 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Endur
2 1 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Infor LN
2 1 (0.50%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.50%) Magento
2 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.16%) AWS
2 51 (25.63%) Azure
3 16 (8.04%) Serverless
4 11 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (5.53%) GCP
4 11 (5.53%) PaaS
5 10 (5.03%) GitHub
6 9 (4.52%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.02%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.52%) Azure AKS
8 7 (3.52%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.02%) Route 53
10 5 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.01%) IaaS
11 4 (2.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.03%) Firewall
2 10 (5.03%) VPN
3 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.02%) DNS
5 5 (2.51%) OpenVPN
6 4 (2.01%) Network Security
7 3 (1.51%) BGP
7 3 (1.51%) NAS
7 3 (1.51%) SAN
7 3 (1.51%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.51%) WAN
8 2 (1.01%) DMZ
8 2 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.01%) VSAN
8 2 (1.01%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.50%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.50%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.50%) Internet
9 1 (0.50%) LAN
9 1 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.51%) Power BI
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.51%) Redis
5 2 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.01%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.50%) MySQL
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.52%) JIRA
2 8 (4.02%) Git
3 5 (2.51%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.51%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.51%) GitLab
4 3 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) Postman
5 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 51 (25.63%) Public Sector
2 41 (20.60%) Social Skills
3 16 (8.04%) Finance
4 9 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.02%) Banking
6 7 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.01%) Marketing
8 4 (2.01%) Military
9 3 (1.51%) Law
9 3 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Advertising
11 1 (0.50%) Back Office
11 1 (0.50%) Front Office
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.53%) Middleware
2 8 (4.02%) REST
3 7 (3.52%) .NET
4 6 (3.02%) Spring
5 5 (2.51%) LDAP
5 5 (2.51%) OpenID
6 4 (2.01%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.01%) SOAP
7 3 (1.51%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.51%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.51%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.01%) JSON
8 2 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.01%) Node.js
8 2 (1.01%) PySpark
8 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.50%) Memcached
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.02%) CMDB
5 5 (2.51%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.51%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.51%) PKI
7 3 (1.51%) Replication
8 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.50%) BYOD
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.01%) Linux
2 2 (1.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.01%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Solaris
3 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.60%) Roadmaps
2 35 (17.59%) CI/CD
3 32 (16.08%) Microservices
4 31 (15.58%) DevOps
5 30 (15.08%) Technical Architecture
6 26 (13.07%) Agile
7 25 (12.56%) Data Modelling
7 25 (12.56%) Migration
8 24 (12.06%) AI
8 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (9.05%) Architectural Patterns
11 17 (8.54%) API Design
11 17 (8.54%) Integration Patterns
12 16 (8.04%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.04%) Mentoring
12 16 (8.04%) TOGAF
13 15 (7.54%) Data Protection
14 13 (6.53%) Observability
15 12 (6.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.05%) Java
2 19 (9.55%) Python
3 17 (8.54%) SQL
4 10 (5.03%) Ruby
5 6 (3.02%) Bicep
6 4 (2.01%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.51%) C#
7 3 (1.51%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.01%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.50%) Go
9 1 (0.50%) PHP
9 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 89 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 75 (37.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.52%) Degree
4 8 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.52%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.01%) CCNP
9 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.01%) CISSP
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.50%) CCIE
10 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.50%) PMP
10 1 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) NCSC
2 7 (3.52%) GDPR
3 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.51%) QA
4 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.01%) NIST
4 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.50%) GRC
5 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.03%) Docker
2 8 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.51%) Squid
4 4 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 24 (12.06%) Terraform
2 21 (10.55%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.02%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.02%) Grafana
4 6 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.51%) Ansible
5 5 (2.51%) Consul
6 2 (1.01%) VxRail
7 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.50%) Istio
7 1 (0.50%) linkerd
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.05%) Salesforce
3 16 (8.04%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.53%) Oracle
5 7 (3.52%) Databricks
5 7 (3.52%) SAP
6 6 (3.02%) VMware
7 5 (2.51%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.51%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.01%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.51%) Dell
9 3 (1.51%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.51%) Google
9 3 (1.51%) NetApp
9 3 (1.51%) Splunk
10 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.01%) Genesys
10 2 (1.01%) NVIDIA
37 Technical Architect jobs in London