Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 230 195
Rank change year-on-year -20 -35 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 112 161 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.99% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.05% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 111 195
10th Percentile £425 £450 £505
25th Percentile £513 £513 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £620 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -11.43% +2.56%
75th Percentile £732 £700 £750
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £663
% change year-on-year -4.17% -9.43% +1.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,462 15,317 20,545
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.03% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,353 10,248 14,977
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 181 229
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £51.13 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £76.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
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 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 0 20 £660 +5.60% 12
East London +15 7 £630 +0.48% 1
West London 0 7 £500 -23.08% 2
South London -8 1 £425 -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 49 (43.75%) Azure
2 40 (35.71%) AWS
3 35 (31.25%) Security Cleared
4 29 (25.89%) SC Cleared
5 28 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 24 (21.43%) Microservices
7 23 (20.54%) Java
8 22 (19.64%) Microsoft
8 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
9 21 (18.75%) CI/CD
9 21 (18.75%) Finance
10 20 (17.86%) Agile
11 19 (16.96%) DevOps
11 19 (16.96%) Terraform
12 18 (16.07%) Data Modelling
12 18 (16.07%) Technical Architecture
13 17 (15.18%) Kubernetes
13 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
14 15 (13.39%) Strategic Roadmap
15 14 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
15 14 (12.50%) IT Strategy
15 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 14 (12.50%) Migration
15 14 (12.50%) Python
16 13 (11.61%) Firewall
16 13 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (11.61%) Architectural Patterns
16 13 (11.61%) Technology Strategy
17 12 (10.71%) 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 3 (2.68%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.79%) Apache Solr
2 2 (1.79%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.89%) Appian
3 1 (0.89%) Camunda
3 1 (0.89%) SAS
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.68%) Endur
3 2 (1.79%) Summit
4 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.89%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.89%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.89%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.75%) Azure
2 40 (35.71%) AWS
3 12 (10.71%) GitHub
4 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.93%) GCP
5 10 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.57%) Serverless
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.68%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.68%) PaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.79%) SaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.61%) Firewall
2 7 (6.25%) LAN
2 7 (6.25%) WAN
3 6 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.57%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.57%) VPN
5 3 (2.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.68%) DHCP
5 3 (2.68%) DNS
5 3 (2.68%) Network Security
5 3 (2.68%) SAN
6 2 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.89%) BGP
7 1 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.89%) Internet
7 1 (0.89%) NAS
7 1 (0.89%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) Power BI
2 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.46%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.57%) Metadata
5 3 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.68%) Electronic Patient Records
5 3 (2.68%) MySQL
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.79%) Pentaho
6 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.89%) JIRA
General
1 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.75%) Finance
3 17 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.71%) Banking
5 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Billing
6 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.68%) Automotive
7 3 (2.68%) Back Office
8 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
8 2 (1.79%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) French Language
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) Kafka
1 7 (6.25%) Middleware
2 6 (5.36%) Lightning Web Components
2 6 (5.36%) REST
3 5 (4.46%) Node.js
3 5 (4.46%) React
3 5 (4.46%) Visualforce
4 3 (2.68%) .NET
4 3 (2.68%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.68%) JSON
4 3 (2.68%) Swagger
5 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.79%) FHIR
5 2 (1.79%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.79%) J2EE
5 2 (1.79%) OAuth
5 2 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.79%) SAML
5 2 (1.79%) SAP Basis
5 2 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.93%) Public Cloud
2 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.68%) Grid Computing
6 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.68%) Replication
6 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.79%) NHS
7 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.79%) PKI
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Windows
2 6 (5.36%) Linux
3 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.89%) Android
5 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 24 (21.43%) Microservices
3 21 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 20 (17.86%) Agile
5 19 (16.96%) DevOps
6 18 (16.07%) Data Modelling
6 18 (16.07%) Technical Architecture
7 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (13.39%) Strategic Roadmap
9 14 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
9 14 (12.50%) IT Strategy
9 14 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 14 (12.50%) Migration
10 13 (11.61%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (11.61%) Technology Strategy
11 12 (10.71%) ERP
11 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.82%) Analytics
13 10 (8.93%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.54%) Java
2 14 (12.50%) Python
3 11 (9.82%) TypeScript
4 9 (8.04%) C#
5 8 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.14%) SQL
6 6 (5.36%) Apex Code
6 6 (5.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.68%) SOQL
7 3 (2.68%) SOSL
8 2 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.79%) Go
8 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.79%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.79%) VB
9 1 (0.89%) Bicep
9 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.79%) CCNA
6 2 (1.79%) CCNP
7 1 (0.89%) CCIE
7 1 (0.89%) CCSE
7 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.89%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.89%) VCDX
7 1 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.68%) GDPR
1 3 (2.68%) QA
2 2 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (1.79%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.79%) HL7
2 2 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (0.89%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.36%) Docker
3 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Terraform
2 17 (15.18%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.93%) Grafana
3 10 (8.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.57%) Ansible
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.79%) SCCM
6 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.89%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) Cisco
3 9 (8.04%) Salesforce
4 8 (7.14%) SAP
5 7 (6.25%) Databricks
5 7 (6.25%) Oracle
6 6 (5.36%) MuleSoft
7 5 (4.46%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.57%) Google
8 4 (3.57%) VMware
9 3 (2.68%) Calypso
9 3 (2.68%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.68%) Hitachi
9 3 (2.68%) Murex
10 2 (1.79%) Adobe
10 2 (1.79%) Cerner
10 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.89%) NetApp
11 1 (0.89%) Zscaler