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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 260 239
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 223 113 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 0.84% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 0.91% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 75 101
10th Percentile £441 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £785 £760 £775
England median daily rate £615 £575 £595
% change year-on-year +6.96% -3.36% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 18,770 12,424 15,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.67% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,117 8,295 9,975
10th Percentile £363 £332 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 204 179
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.97 £22.69 £24.17
Median hourly rate £40.96 £27.81 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -23.80% -3.31%
75th Percentile £64.63 £50.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.92 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -18 22 £550 -16.67% 13
East London -4 1 £750 +19.05% 1
South London -8 1 £600 +41.18% 2
West London -26 1 - - 3
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 80 (35.87%) SC Cleared
3 59 (26.46%) Azure
4 55 (24.66%) Technical Leadership
5 54 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (23.32%) AWS
7 51 (22.87%) Technical Architecture
8 46 (20.63%) DevOps
9 42 (18.83%) Agile
10 38 (17.04%) Roadmaps
11 35 (15.70%) Microsoft
12 34 (15.25%) CI/CD
13 30 (13.45%) Enterprise Architecture
13 30 (13.45%) Integration Patterns
14 28 (12.56%) Architectural Patterns
14 28 (12.56%) Event-Driven
14 28 (12.56%) Power Platform
15 27 (12.11%) AI
15 27 (12.11%) Migration
16 22 (9.87%) Data Modelling
16 22 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (9.42%) Python
18 20 (8.97%) Microservices
18 20 (8.97%) Translating Business Requirements
19 19 (8.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 19 (8.52%) GitHub
19 19 (8.52%) REST
20 17 (7.62%) Architectural Design
20 17 (7.62%) Decision-Making
20 17 (7.62%) ERP

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 (3.14%) Confluence
1 7 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.69%) CMS
2 6 (2.69%) SAS
3 3 (1.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.45%) Mendix
5 1 (0.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (4.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.45%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.46%) Azure
2 52 (23.32%) AWS
3 28 (12.56%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.52%) GitHub
5 12 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.38%) Serverless
6 11 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.48%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.59%) GCP
8 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (3.59%) Power Automate
8 8 (3.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.24%) SaaS
10 5 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (2.24%) NX-OS
1 5 (2.24%) VXLAN
2 4 (1.79%) BGP
3 3 (1.35%) Network Security
4 2 (0.90%) Firewall
4 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.90%) TACACS
4 2 (0.90%) WAN
4 2 (0.90%) X.21
5 1 (0.45%) MQTT
5 1 (0.45%) SAN
5 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.48%) Power BI
2 7 (3.14%) SAP HANA
3 6 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.24%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.79%) Metadata
5 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.90%) Big Data
6 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.90%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.45%) MySQL
7 1 (0.45%) Redis
7 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Git
2 7 (3.14%) JIRA
3 6 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (0.90%) Maven
5 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 58 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.08%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.31%) Finance
4 15 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (2.69%) Retail
6 4 (1.79%) Banking
6 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.35%) Front Office
8 2 (0.90%) Billing
8 2 (0.90%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.90%) Marketing
8 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Aviation
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.52%) REST
2 14 (6.28%) Terraform
3 12 (5.38%) Middleware
4 11 (4.93%) OAuth
4 11 (4.93%) OpenID
5 10 (4.48%) .NET
6 9 (4.04%) SOAP
7 7 (3.14%) SAP Basis
8 6 (2.69%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (2.69%) Kafka
8 6 (2.69%) Lightning Web Components
8 6 (2.69%) SAP Fiori
8 6 (2.69%) SAP PI
8 6 (2.69%) SAPUI5
9 5 (2.24%) PySpark
9 5 (2.24%) RESTful
10 4 (1.79%) Django
11 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.35%) JSON
11 3 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.66%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.69%) IoT
5 6 (2.69%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.24%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.24%) Life Science
7 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) FMCG
7 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.35%) AS400
8 3 (1.35%) iSeries
8 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.35%) Video on Demand
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.14%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.66%) Technical Leadership
2 54 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (22.87%) Technical Architecture
4 46 (20.63%) DevOps
5 42 (18.83%) Agile
6 38 (17.04%) Roadmaps
7 34 (15.25%) CI/CD
8 30 (13.45%) Enterprise Architecture
8 30 (13.45%) Integration Patterns
9 28 (12.56%) Architectural Patterns
9 28 (12.56%) Event-Driven
10 27 (12.11%) AI
10 27 (12.11%) Migration
11 22 (9.87%) Data Modelling
11 22 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (8.97%) Microservices
12 20 (8.97%) Translating Business Requirements
13 19 (8.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (7.62%) Architectural Design
14 17 (7.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.42%) Python
2 9 (4.04%) Java
3 8 (3.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.14%) ABAP
4 7 (3.14%) C#
5 6 (2.69%) Apex Code
6 5 (2.24%) SQL
6 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.35%) Ruby
9 2 (0.90%) Bash
9 2 (0.90%) Bicep
9 2 (0.90%) C
9 2 (0.90%) C++
9 2 (0.90%) SOQL
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) SOSL
10 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 80 (35.87%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.90%) CISA
8 2 (0.90%) CISSP
8 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.90%) Degree
8 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) OSCP
8 2 (0.90%) SANS
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.69%) QA
2 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.79%) PMO
3 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.35%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.90%) GRC
4 2 (0.90%) GxP
4 2 (0.90%) NCSC
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) PSD2
4 2 (0.90%) SEPA
5 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (2.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.90%) Ansible
2 2 (0.90%) Argo
2 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.17%) Salesforce
2 16 (7.17%) SAP
2 16 (7.17%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.14%) Cisco
4 6 (2.69%) Ariba
4 6 (2.69%) Oracle
5 4 (1.79%) Guidewire
5 4 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.35%) Aprimo
6 3 (1.35%) Databricks
6 3 (1.35%) IBM
6 3 (1.35%) OneTrust
6 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.35%) Optimizely
6 3 (1.35%) Sparx
6 3 (1.35%) VMware
7 2 (0.90%) Google
7 2 (0.90%) Infor
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat