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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 235 209
Rank change year-on-year +2 -26 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 140 131 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.95% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.02% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 75 160
10th Percentile £475 £485 £460
25th Percentile £512 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £697 £750 £738
90th Percentile £863 £800 £775
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 - £78.00

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 13,448 12,904 17,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.56% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,933 8,274 12,424
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £778
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 140 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.68 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £19.05
Median hourly rate £33.73 £35.00 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +18.20% -8.89%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.50 £50.63
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.98
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -9 12 £500 -25.93% 4
South London - 5 £550 - 2
East London +1 2 £630 -3.08% 2
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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 62 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 52 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 46 (32.86%) AWS
4 40 (28.57%) Azure
5 25 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 24 (17.14%) Technical Architecture
6 24 (17.14%) Terraform
7 23 (16.43%) CI/CD
7 23 (16.43%) Microservices
8 22 (15.71%) DevOps
9 19 (13.57%) Agile
9 19 (13.57%) AI
9 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
10 17 (12.14%) Data Modelling
10 17 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (12.14%) Python
10 17 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (11.43%) Serverless
12 14 (10.00%) Kubernetes
12 14 (10.00%) Migration
12 14 (10.00%) ServiceNow
13 13 (9.29%) Java
13 13 (9.29%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (8.57%) Data Protection
14 12 (8.57%) Firewall
14 12 (8.57%) Integration Patterns
15 11 (7.86%) API Design
15 11 (7.86%) Salesforce

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 5 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) nginx
3 2 (1.43%) CMS
3 2 (1.43%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.43%) SAS
4 1 (0.71%) Camunda
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Endur
1 1 (0.71%) Magento
1 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
1 1 (0.71%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 46 (32.86%) AWS
2 40 (28.57%) Azure
3 16 (11.43%) Serverless
4 12 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (5.71%) GCP
5 8 (5.71%) PaaS
5 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.57%) Route 53
7 5 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.86%) GitHub
8 4 (2.86%) IaaS
8 4 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.57%) Firewall
2 9 (6.43%) VPN
3 6 (4.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.86%) DNS
4 4 (2.86%) OpenVPN
5 3 (2.14%) NAS
5 3 (2.14%) Network Security
5 3 (2.14%) SAN
5 3 (2.14%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.14%) WAN
6 2 (1.43%) BGP
7 1 (0.71%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.71%) DMZ
7 1 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.71%) Internet
7 1 (0.71%) LAN
7 1 (0.71%) OSPF
7 1 (0.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.57%) Power BI
3 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.14%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.43%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.43%) Redis
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Metadata
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) MySQL
5 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) JIRA
2 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.86%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.43%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 29 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 13 (9.29%) Finance
4 8 (5.71%) Banking
5 7 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Marketing
7 5 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.86%) Military
9 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Law
10 2 (1.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Back Office
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) Front Office
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Police
11 1 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.29%) .NET
1 6 (4.29%) Middleware
2 5 (3.57%) REST
3 4 (2.86%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.86%) LDAP
3 4 (2.86%) OpenID
4 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.14%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.14%) SOAP
4 3 (2.14%) Spring
4 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.43%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.43%) JSON
5 2 (1.43%) Node.js
5 2 (1.43%) PySpark
5 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.71%) React
6 1 (0.71%) Swagger
6 1 (0.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.29%) CMDB
3 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.14%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.14%) Replication
6 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.43%) PKI
6 2 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.71%) BYOD
7 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.71%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.71%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
1 3 (2.14%) Windows
1 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.71%) Solaris
3 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.86%) Roadmaps
2 24 (17.14%) Technical Architecture
3 23 (16.43%) CI/CD
3 23 (16.43%) Microservices
4 22 (15.71%) DevOps
5 19 (13.57%) Agile
5 19 (13.57%) AI
6 17 (12.14%) Data Modelling
6 17 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (12.14%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (10.00%) Migration
8 13 (9.29%) Mentoring
8 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (8.57%) Data Protection
9 12 (8.57%) Integration Patterns
10 11 (7.86%) API Design
11 10 (7.14%) Containerisation
11 10 (7.14%) Data Governance
11 10 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (6.43%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.14%) Python
2 13 (9.29%) Java
3 10 (7.14%) SQL
4 6 (4.29%) Ruby
5 4 (2.86%) Bicep
5 4 (2.86%) C#
5 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.71%) Go
7 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (44.29%) Security Cleared
2 52 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) Degree
5 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.43%) CCNP
7 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CCIE
8 1 (0.71%) CCSE
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.71%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.14%) NCSC
2 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.43%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.71%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.86%) Squid
2 4 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.71%) Varnish
4 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (17.14%) Terraform
2 14 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 5 (3.57%) Grafana
4 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.86%) Ansible
5 4 (2.86%) Consul
6 1 (0.71%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.71%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.86%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.29%) Oracle
4 6 (4.29%) SAP
5 5 (3.57%) VMware
6 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.86%) Databricks
6 4 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.86%) Google
6 4 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.14%) Adobe
7 3 (2.14%) ForgeRock
7 3 (2.14%) NetApp
7 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.14%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.14%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.43%) Calypso
8 2 (1.43%) Dell
8 2 (1.43%) Murex