Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £595, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 216 214
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +92
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 174 136 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.03% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.10% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 85 153
10th Percentile £475 £481 £463
25th Percentile £513 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% - -5.11%
75th Percentile £694 £750 £734
90th Percentile £877 £799 £825
England median daily rate £600 £623 £672
% change year-on-year -3.75% -7.23% -0.44%
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 - -

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 14,583 12,403 17,108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.60% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,778 8,134 12,341
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 142 339
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.21 £15.99
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.12 £53.31 £48.03
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £65.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year - +2.31% -15.53%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -6 21 £500 -27.27% 6
South London - 9 £550 - 3
East London +3 1 £675 +3.85% 1
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 March 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 73 (41.95%) Security Cleared
2 62 (35.63%) SC Cleared
3 52 (29.89%) AWS
4 40 (22.99%) Azure
5 37 (21.26%) Roadmaps
6 27 (15.52%) CI/CD
6 27 (15.52%) Technical Architecture
7 26 (14.94%) DevOps
8 24 (13.79%) Microservices
8 24 (13.79%) Microsoft
9 22 (12.64%) AI
9 22 (12.64%) Terraform
10 21 (12.07%) Agile
11 19 (10.92%) Data Modelling
11 19 (10.92%) Migration
11 19 (10.92%) Salesforce
12 18 (10.34%) Kubernetes
13 17 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
14 16 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (9.20%) ServiceNow
14 16 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (8.62%) Serverless
16 14 (8.05%) API Design
16 14 (8.05%) Integration Patterns
16 14 (8.05%) Mentoring
16 14 (8.05%) Python
16 14 (8.05%) TOGAF
17 13 (7.47%) Data Protection
17 13 (7.47%) Firewall
17 13 (7.47%) Java

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 6 (3.45%) Confluence
2 5 (2.87%) nginx
3 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.15%) CMS
4 2 (1.15%) SAS
5 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Endur
1 1 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.57%) Infor LN
1 1 (0.57%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.57%) Magento
1 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.89%) AWS
2 40 (22.99%) Azure
3 15 (8.62%) Serverless
4 11 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.17%) GCP
6 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.60%) PaaS
7 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.45%) Route 53
8 6 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.30%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (2.30%) GitHub
10 4 (2.30%) IaaS
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.47%) Firewall
2 9 (5.17%) VPN
3 7 (4.02%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.87%) DNS
4 5 (2.87%) OpenVPN
5 3 (1.72%) BGP
5 3 (1.72%) NAS
5 3 (1.72%) SAN
5 3 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.72%) WAN
6 2 (1.15%) DMZ
6 2 (1.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.15%) Network Security
6 2 (1.15%) VSAN
6 2 (1.15%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.57%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.57%) LAN
7 1 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.72%) Power BI
4 2 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.15%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Redis
5 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.57%) Metadata
5 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.57%) MySQL
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.17%) JIRA
2 5 (2.87%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.87%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.72%) Git
4 2 (1.15%) GitLab
4 2 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.57%) Maven
5 1 (0.57%) Postman
5 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (22.99%) Public Sector
2 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.05%) Finance
4 8 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.02%) Banking
6 5 (2.87%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.30%) Marketing
7 4 (2.30%) Military
8 3 (1.72%) Law
8 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Police
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.32%) Middleware
2 7 (4.02%) REST
3 6 (3.45%) .NET
4 5 (2.87%) LDAP
4 5 (2.87%) OpenID
5 4 (2.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.30%) SOAP
5 4 (2.30%) Spring
6 3 (1.72%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.72%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.72%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.15%) JSON
7 2 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.15%) PySpark
7 2 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.57%) Playwright
8 1 (0.57%) React
8 1 (0.57%) Swagger
8 1 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.45%) CMDB
3 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.72%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.72%) PKI
5 3 (1.72%) Replication
6 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.57%) BYOD
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.30%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.57%) Solaris
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.26%) Roadmaps
2 27 (15.52%) CI/CD
2 27 (15.52%) Technical Architecture
3 26 (14.94%) DevOps
4 24 (13.79%) Microservices
5 22 (12.64%) AI
6 21 (12.07%) Agile
7 19 (10.92%) Data Modelling
7 19 (10.92%) Migration
8 17 (9.77%) Architectural Patterns
9 16 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (8.05%) API Design
10 14 (8.05%) Integration Patterns
10 14 (8.05%) Mentoring
10 14 (8.05%) TOGAF
11 13 (7.47%) Data Protection
12 12 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (6.32%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.32%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.05%) Python
2 13 (7.47%) Java
3 11 (6.32%) SQL
4 6 (3.45%) Ruby
5 4 (2.30%) Bicep
5 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.72%) C#
7 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.57%) PHP
8 1 (0.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 73 (41.95%) Security Cleared
2 62 (35.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.02%) Degree
3 7 (4.02%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.15%) CCNP
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) CAPM
8 1 (0.57%) CCIE
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.30%) GDPR
1 4 (2.30%) NCSC
2 3 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.15%) NIST
3 2 (1.15%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.17%) Docker
2 5 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.87%) Squid
3 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.57%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (12.64%) Terraform
2 18 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.02%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.45%) Grafana
4 6 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.87%) Ansible
5 5 (2.87%) Consul
6 2 (1.15%) VxRail
7 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 24 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.92%) Salesforce
3 16 (9.20%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.02%) Oracle
5 6 (3.45%) Databricks
5 6 (3.45%) VMware
6 5 (2.87%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.87%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.87%) SAP
7 4 (2.30%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.72%) Dell
8 3 (1.72%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.72%) NetApp
8 3 (1.72%) Splunk
8 3 (1.72%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.15%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.15%) Genesys
9 2 (1.15%) Google
9 2 (1.15%) NVIDIA