Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 249 233
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 233 122 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 0.91% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.98% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 83 117
10th Percentile £431 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% - -10.71%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £773 £788
England median daily rate £610 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +6.09% -8.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £88.50 - -
25th Percentile £90.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £106.10 - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 - -

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 18,744 12,443 15,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,120 8,377 10,481
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 208 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% -12.16% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62.44 £50.88 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.63 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -10 28 £550 -16.67% 4
East London -3 2 £750 +19.05% 1
South London -15 1 £600 +41.18% 2
West London -23 1 - - 2
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 85 (36.48%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 64 (27.47%) Azure
4 58 (24.89%) AWS
5 54 (23.18%) Technical Leadership
6 45 (19.31%) DevOps
7 44 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (18.45%) Agile
9 41 (17.60%) Microsoft
9 41 (17.60%) Technical Architecture
10 40 (17.17%) Roadmaps
11 39 (16.74%) CI/CD
12 35 (15.02%) Migration
13 33 (14.16%) Data Modelling
14 32 (13.73%) Python
15 31 (13.30%) Integration Patterns
16 30 (12.88%) Architectural Patterns
16 30 (12.88%) Microservices
17 29 (12.45%) AI
17 29 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
18 28 (12.02%) Event-Driven
18 28 (12.02%) Power Platform
19 26 (11.16%) GitHub
20 25 (10.73%) ERP
21 24 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
21 24 (10.30%) Java
22 22 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 19 (8.15%) Architectural Design
23 19 (8.15%) Decision-Making
24 18 (7.73%) API Design

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 9 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.43%) Confluence
3 6 (2.58%) SAS
4 5 (2.15%) CMS
5 3 (1.29%) Apache
6 2 (0.86%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.43%) Mendix
7 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.43%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.47%) Azure
2 58 (24.89%) AWS
3 28 (12.02%) Power Platform
4 26 (11.16%) GitHub
5 14 (6.01%) Serverless
6 13 (5.58%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (4.72%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.86%) PaaS
10 9 (3.86%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.00%) GCP
11 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.15%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (2.15%) NX-OS
1 5 (2.15%) VXLAN
2 4 (1.72%) BGP
3 3 (1.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.86%) TACACS
4 2 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.86%) WAN
4 2 (0.86%) X.21
5 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.58%) Power BI
2 9 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.58%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.72%) Big Data
4 4 (1.72%) Metadata
4 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.29%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.86%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.86%) Redis
6 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.73%) Git
2 6 (2.58%) JIRA
3 5 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.72%) GitLab
5 2 (0.86%) Maven
5 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 62 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.61%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.73%) Finance
4 17 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.15%) Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.29%) Front Office
8 3 (1.29%) Legal
8 3 (1.29%) Retail
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.86%) Marketing
9 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.87%) REST
1 16 (6.87%) Terraform
2 14 (6.01%) Middleware
3 11 (4.72%) .NET
4 8 (3.43%) OAuth
5 7 (3.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 7 (3.00%) OpenID
6 6 (2.58%) HTML5 Canvas
6 6 (2.58%) RESTful
6 6 (2.58%) SOAP
7 5 (2.15%) PySpark
7 5 (2.15%) Spring
8 4 (1.72%) Django
8 4 (1.72%) Kafka
8 4 (1.72%) Node.js
9 3 (1.29%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.29%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.29%) JSON
9 3 (1.29%) SAML
10 2 (0.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.44%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.58%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.86%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.58%) IoT
7 5 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.15%) Life Science
8 4 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.72%) FMCG
8 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.29%) AS400
9 3 (1.29%) CMDB
9 3 (1.29%) iSeries
9 3 (1.29%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.29%) NHS
9 3 (1.29%) Video on Demand
10 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.00%) Windows
2 2 (0.86%) Linux
2 2 (0.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.18%) Technical Leadership
2 45 (19.31%) DevOps
3 44 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 43 (18.45%) Agile
5 41 (17.60%) Technical Architecture
6 40 (17.17%) Roadmaps
7 39 (16.74%) CI/CD
8 35 (15.02%) Migration
9 33 (14.16%) Data Modelling
10 31 (13.30%) Integration Patterns
11 30 (12.88%) Architectural Patterns
11 30 (12.88%) Microservices
12 29 (12.45%) AI
12 29 (12.45%) Enterprise Architecture
13 28 (12.02%) Event-Driven
14 25 (10.73%) ERP
15 24 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 19 (8.15%) Architectural Design
17 19 (8.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.73%) Python
2 24 (10.30%) Java
3 11 (4.72%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.29%) Ruby
5 9 (3.86%) SQL
6 7 (3.00%) Apex Code
6 7 (3.00%) C#
7 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.29%) ABAP
8 3 (1.29%) Bicep
9 2 (0.86%) Bash
9 2 (0.86%) C
9 2 (0.86%) C++
9 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.86%) SOQL
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) SOSL
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (36.48%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.00%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.58%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.15%) CISA
5 5 (2.15%) CISSP
5 5 (2.15%) OSCP
5 5 (2.15%) SANS
6 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.29%) Degree
6 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.43%) CCNP
7 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.58%) QA
2 5 (2.15%) GRC
3 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) GxP
4 2 (0.86%) NIST
4 2 (0.86%) PSD2
4 2 (0.86%) SEPA
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) HL7
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.00%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.86%) Ansible
2 2 (0.86%) Argo
2 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.43%) Grafana
3 1 (0.43%) Istio
3 1 (0.43%) linkerd
3 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.73%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.44%) Oracle
4 14 (6.01%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.15%) SAP
6 7 (3.00%) Cisco
7 6 (2.58%) Databricks
8 5 (2.15%) Ariba
9 4 (1.72%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.29%) Aprimo
10 3 (1.29%) IBM
10 3 (1.29%) OneTrust
10 3 (1.29%) Optimizely
10 3 (1.29%) Sparx
10 3 (1.29%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.86%) Google
11 2 (0.86%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.86%) Infor