Technical Architect Contracts in London

The median contractor rate for a Technical Architect was £550 per day in advertised job vacancies in London during the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Technical Architect England / London
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	249	192	188
Rank change year-on-year	-57	-4
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect	181	279	283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	0.87%	1.29%	1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.92%	1.35%	1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	120	196	181
Median daily rate	£550	£539	£550
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.08%	-2.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£424	£425	£425
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£675	£670	£675
UK excluding London median daily rate	£525	£500	£495
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	+1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
Median hourly rate	£35.00	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£65.00	£60.00	-
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	-

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles London
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	19705	20681	21805
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	94.90%	95.27%	94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted	49190	54031	56877
Median daily rate	£500	£465	£438
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.52%	+6.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£306	£284	£263
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£641	£631
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£399	£365
% change year-on-year	+0.25%	+9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted	788	774	1398
Median hourly rate	£21.00	£17.50	£19.61
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+20.00%	-10.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.35	£10.75	£10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.83	£44.28	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.50	£16.00
% change year-on-year	-	+9.37%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Technical Architect in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Technical Architect in London over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-17	14	£551	+7.94%	8
Croydon	-6	3	£550	-2.22%
Westminster	+3	2	£550	+22.22%
Heathrow	+5	1	£538	-4.44%
Brentford	-1	1	£575	-
Docklands, London	-2	1	£550	-
Technical Architect England

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, Technical Architect contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1	156 (36.03%)	Agile Software Development
2	94 (21.71%)	Java
3	91 (21.02%)	Security Cleared
4	76 (17.55%)	SC Cleared
5	72 (16.63%)	Windows
6	68 (15.70%)	Amazon AWS
7	66 (15.24%)	Microsoft
8	63 (14.55%)	Oracle
8	63 (14.55%)	Finance
9	62 (14.32%)	Microsoft Azure
10	61 (14.09%)	TOGAF
11	60 (13.86%)	Open Source
11	60 (13.86%)	Migration
12	55 (12.70%)	Scrum
13	53 (12.24%)	Active Directory

14	52 (12.01%)	Office 365
14	52 (12.01%)	DevOps
14	52 (12.01%)	Microservices
15	48 (11.09%)	SQL Server
16	45 (10.39%)	Technical Architecture
17	44 (10.16%)	TDD
18	43 (9.93%)	SQL
19	42 (9.70%)	Banking
20	37 (8.55%)	.NET
21	36 (8.31%)	VMware
22	35 (8.08%)	Linux
23	34 (7.85%)	JavaScript
23	34 (7.85%)	Analytical Skills
24	33 (7.62%)	PaaS
24	33 (7.62%)	SCCM

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	20 (4.62%)	SharePoint
2	19 (4.39%)	Cloud Foundry
3	17 (3.93%)	WebSphere
4	15 (3.46%)	CMS
4	15 (3.46%)	Oracle SOA Suite
5	13 (3.00%)	BizTalk Server
6	12 (2.77%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	10 (2.31%)	Mule
8	8 (1.85%)	Skype for Business
9	7 (1.62%)	MS Exchange
10	6 (1.39%)	Apache
10	6 (1.39%)	JBoss
10	6 (1.39%)	NServiceBus
11	5 (1.15%)	WildFly
12	4 (0.92%)	Apache Solr
12	4 (0.92%)	Confluence
12	4 (0.92%)	IIS
12	4 (0.92%)	nginx
12	4 (0.92%)	Tomcat
13	2 (0.46%)	Exchange Server 2010

Applications
1	4 (0.92%)	Microsoft Office
1	4 (0.92%)	MS Visio
2	3 (0.69%)	Microsoft Project
3	2 (0.46%)	Microsoft Excel
3	2 (0.46%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	2 (0.46%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	8 (1.85%)	Dynamics CRM
1	8 (1.85%)	Oracle iRecruitment
2	4 (0.92%)	Fredhopper
2	4 (0.92%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	3 (0.69%)	Dynamics AX
3	3 (0.69%)	Oracle EBS
3	3 (0.69%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	3 (0.69%)	ResourceLink
4	2 (0.46%)	SAP CRM
4	2 (0.46%)	Temenos T24
5	1 (0.23%)	Dynamics NAV
5	1 (0.23%)	Magento
5	1 (0.23%)	Oracle ERP
5	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Financials
5	1 (0.23%)	PeopleSoft HCM
5	1 (0.23%)	Relativity
5	1 (0.23%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	1 (0.23%)	SAP Travel Management
5	1 (0.23%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	68 (15.70%)	Amazon AWS
2	62 (14.32%)	Microsoft Azure
3	52 (12.01%)	Office 365
4	33 (7.62%)	PaaS
5	25 (5.77%)	IaaS
6	16 (3.70%)	SaaS
7	10 (2.31%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	7 (1.62%)	Oracle CX
8	7 (1.62%)	Oracle Service Cloud
9	6 (1.39%)	Azure Active Directory
9	6 (1.39%)	Yammer
10	5 (1.15%)	Cloud Computing
10	5 (1.15%)	OneDrive
11	4 (0.92%)	OpenShift
12	3 (0.69%)	Google Cloud Platform
13	2 (0.46%)	Akamai
13	2 (0.46%)	Amazon EC2
13	2 (0.46%)	Force.com
13	2 (0.46%)	GitHub
14	1 (0.23%)	CloudFront

Communications & Networking
1	27 (6.24%)	DNS
2	25 (5.77%)	Firewall
3	24 (5.54%)	VPN
4	21 (4.85%)	WAN
5	17 (3.93%)	DHCP
6	16 (3.70%)	LAN
7	15 (3.46%)	IPsec
8	14 (3.23%)	Internet
8	14 (3.23%)	SAN
9	9 (2.08%)	SSL
9	9 (2.08%)	Wireless
10	8 (1.85%)	Network Security
11	5 (1.15%)	Cisco ASA
11	5 (1.15%)	NAS
12	4 (0.92%)	BGP
12	4 (0.92%)	DMZ
12	4 (0.92%)	F5 BIG-IP GTM
12	4 (0.92%)	LDAP
12	4 (0.92%)	Remote Desktop
12	4 (0.92%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	48 (11.09%)	SQL Server
2	17 (3.93%)	PostgreSQL
3	15 (3.46%)	MongoDB
4	14 (3.23%)	Big Data
5	10 (2.31%)	NoSQL
6	9 (2.08%)	Hadoop
6	9 (2.08%)	MySQL
7	8 (1.85%)	Endeca
8	7 (1.62%)	Oracle ODI
8	7 (1.62%)	Relational Database
9	6 (1.39%)	SQL Server 2012
9	6 (1.39%)	SQL Server 2016
10	5 (1.15%)	RDBMS
10	5 (1.15%)	SQL Server 2005
11	4 (0.92%)	Oracle Reports
11	4 (0.92%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
12	3 (0.69%)	Couchbase
12	3 (0.69%)	DocumentDB
12	3 (0.69%)	MariaDB
12	3 (0.69%)	RavenDB

Development Applications
1	15 (3.46%)	Jenkins
2	7 (1.62%)	Maven
2	7 (1.62%)	SonarQube
3	6 (1.39%)	Selenium
3	6 (1.39%)	Visual Studio Team System
4	5 (1.15%)	Atlassian Bamboo
4	5 (1.15%)	Git (software)
4	5 (1.15%)	JIRA
4	5 (1.15%)	SoapUI
5	4 (0.92%)	Oracle Forms
5	4 (0.92%)	Visual Studio
6	3 (0.69%)	JUnit
7	1 (0.23%)	Bitbucket
7	1 (0.23%)	Capybara
7	1 (0.23%)	Cucumber
7	1 (0.23%)	DbUnit
7	1 (0.23%)	Gradle
7	1 (0.23%)	jMock
7	1 (0.23%)	Mockito
7	1 (0.23%)	Talend Open Studio

General
1	63 (14.55%)	Finance
2	42 (9.70%)	Banking
3	20 (4.62%)	Retail
4	14 (3.23%)	Telecoms
5	10 (2.31%)	Investment Banking
6	8 (1.85%)	Pharmaceutical
7	7 (1.62%)	Law
7	7 (1.62%)	Marketing
8	5 (1.15%)	Electronics
8	5 (1.15%)	Financial Institution
9	4 (0.92%)	Advertising
9	4 (0.92%)	Legal
9	4 (0.92%)	Manufacturing
10	2 (0.46%)	Automotive
10	2 (0.46%)	Front Office
10	2 (0.46%)	Local Government
10	2 (0.46%)	Private Banking
11	1 (0.23%)	Billing
11	1 (0.23%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.23%)	Retail Banking

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	37 (8.55%)	.NET
2	29 (6.70%)	Node.js
3	25 (5.77%)	Spring
4	21 (4.85%)	AngularJS
4	21 (4.85%)	Web Services
5	17 (3.93%)	HTML
6	16 (3.70%)	REST
7	14 (3.23%)	CSS
8	12 (2.77%)	Hibernate
8	12 (2.77%)	SOAP
9	11 (2.54%)	J2EE
10	10 (2.31%)	boto
10	10 (2.31%)	Middleware
11	9 (2.08%)	React
11	9 (2.08%)	SAML
12	8 (1.85%)	HTML5
13	7 (1.62%)	JSON
13	7 (1.62%)	RESTful
13	7 (1.62%)	Swagger
14	6 (1.39%)	Django

Miscellaneous
1	34 (7.85%)	Analytical Skills
2	28 (6.47%)	Data Centre
3	26 (6.00%)	User Experience
4	14 (3.23%)	Enterprise Software
4	14 (3.23%)	Greenfield Project
4	14 (3.23%)	PKI
5	13 (3.00%)	Virtual Team
6	10 (2.31%)	Computer Science
6	10 (2.31%)	Mobile App
7	8 (1.85%)	Replication
8	7 (1.62%)	CESG
8	7 (1.62%)	Cloud Native
9	6 (1.39%)	Clustering
9	6 (1.39%)	Management Information System
9	6 (1.39%)	Pharmacovigilance
9	6 (1.39%)	SWIFT
10	5 (1.15%)	iPad
10	5 (1.15%)	IPTV
10	5 (1.15%)	IVR
10	5 (1.15%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	72 (16.63%)	Windows
2	35 (8.08%)	Linux
3	28 (6.47%)	Windows 10
4	16 (3.70%)	Windows Server
5	12 (2.77%)	Unix
6	7 (1.62%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	6 (1.39%)	Windows Server 2008
8	5 (1.15%)	Apple iOS
8	5 (1.15%)	Solaris
8	5 (1.15%)	Windows Vista
9	4 (0.92%)	Android
10	3 (0.69%)	Windows Server 2003
10	3 (0.69%)	Windows Server 2012
11	2 (0.46%)	AIX
11	2 (0.46%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	156 (36.03%)	Agile Software Development
2	61 (14.09%)	TOGAF
3	60 (13.86%)	Migration
3	60 (13.86%)	Open Source
4	55 (12.70%)	Scrum
5	52 (12.01%)	DevOps
5	52 (12.01%)	Microservices
6	45 (10.39%)	Technical Architecture
7	44 (10.16%)	TDD
8	32 (7.39%)	Kanban
8	32 (7.39%)	Waterfall
9	31 (7.16%)	SOA
10	29 (6.70%)	E-Commerce
10	29 (6.70%)	Software Architecture
11	28 (6.47%)	Stakeholder Management
12	25 (5.77%)	ITIL
13	23 (5.31%)	Enterprise Architecture
14	22 (5.08%)	Continuous Integration
14	22 (5.08%)	SDLC
15	20 (4.62%)	OO

Programming Languages
1	94 (21.71%)	Java
2	43 (9.93%)	SQL
3	34 (7.85%)	JavaScript
4	21 (4.85%)	Python
5	18 (4.16%)	C#
6	15 (3.46%)	C
7	8 (1.85%)	Scala
8	7 (1.62%)	C++
8	7 (1.62%)	PHP
8	7 (1.62%)	Ruby
9	6 (1.39%)	Bash Shell
10	5 (1.15%)	Groovy
10	5 (1.15%)	PowerShell
11	3 (0.69%)	Apple Swift
11	3 (0.69%)	Objective-C
11	3 (0.69%)	PL/SQL
12	2 (0.46%)	Apex Code
12	2 (0.46%)	Go
12	2 (0.46%)	T-SQL
12	2 (0.46%)	TypeScript

Qualifications
1	91 (21.02%)	Security Cleared
2	76 (17.55%)	SC Cleared
3	15 (3.46%)	Degree
4	13 (3.00%)	Cisco Certification
5	11 (2.54%)	MCSE
5	11 (2.54%)	Microsoft Certification
6	9 (2.08%)	DV Cleared
7	8 (1.85%)	BPSS Clearance
7	8 (1.85%)	CCNA
8	6 (1.39%)	CCIE
8	6 (1.39%)	MCITP
9	5 (1.15%)	CCSP
9	5 (1.15%)	ITIL Certification
9	5 (1.15%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10	4 (0.92%)	CCNP
10	4 (0.92%)	Computer Science Degree
11	3 (0.69%)	EMC Certification
11	3 (0.69%)	MCP
12	2 (0.46%)	MCSA
12	2 (0.46%)	MCSD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	18 (4.16%)	QA
2	7 (1.62%)	SEPA
3	6 (1.39%)	GxP
4	4 (0.92%)	COBIT
4	4 (0.92%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	3 (0.69%)	Data Quality
5	3 (0.69%)	PMO
5	3 (0.69%)	SLA
6	2 (0.46%)	MiFID
6	2 (0.46%)	PCI DSS
7	1 (0.23%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.23%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	1 (0.23%)	RMADS
7	1 (0.23%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	53 (12.24%)	Active Directory
2	27 (6.24%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	17 (3.93%)	Hyper-V
4	7 (1.62%)	Docker
5	4 (0.92%)	NFS
5	4 (0.92%)	Virtual Machines
5	4 (0.92%)	XenApp
6	3 (0.69%)	BitLocker
6	3 (0.69%)	Microsoft App-V
6	3 (0.69%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (0.46%)	vSphere
8	1 (0.23%)	Shibboleth
8	1 (0.23%)	Snort
8	1 (0.23%)	SRDF
8	1 (0.23%)	Terminal Services
8	1 (0.23%)	vCloud
8	1 (0.23%)	Virtual Desktop
8	1 (0.23%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.23%)	Xen
8	1 (0.23%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	33 (7.62%)	SCCM
2	24 (5.54%)	SCOM
3	15 (3.46%)	Microsoft Intune
4	10 (2.31%)	Puppet
4	10 (2.31%)	Terraform
5	6 (1.39%)	Opscode Chef
6	5 (1.15%)	Microsoft Clustering
7	4 (0.92%)	AirWatch
7	4 (0.92%)	FortiGate
8	3 (0.69%)	Ansible
9	2 (0.46%)	EMC VPLEX
9	2 (0.46%)	HAProxy
9	2 (0.46%)	Kubernetes
9	2 (0.46%)	MOM
10	1 (0.23%)	Capistrano
10	1 (0.23%)	EMC TimeFinder
10	1 (0.23%)	Nagios
10	1 (0.23%)	Oracle RMAN
10	1 (0.23%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
10	1 (0.23%)	WSUS

Vendors
1	66 (15.24%)	Microsoft
2	63 (14.55%)	Oracle
3	36 (8.31%)	VMware
4	24 (5.54%)	Citrix
5	22 (5.08%)	Cisco
6	18 (4.16%)	IBM
6	18 (4.16%)	Salesforce.com
7	16 (3.70%)	SAP
8	14 (3.23%)	HP
9	11 (2.54%)	CheckPoint
10	10 (2.31%)	Red Hat
11	9 (2.08%)	Adobe
12	8 (1.85%)	ATG
12	8 (1.85%)	EMC
12	8 (1.85%)	hybris
12	8 (1.85%)	Splunk
13	7 (1.62%)	Demandware
13	7 (1.62%)	F5
13	7 (1.62%)	Kronos
13	7 (1.62%)	Palo Alto