Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 225 219
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 220 125 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 0.99% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 1.06% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 84 158
10th Percentile £453 £481 £480
25th Percentile £504 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -13.79%
75th Percentile £711 £741 £738
90th Percentile £856 £788 £825
England median daily rate £600 £621 £675
% change year-on-year -3.42% -7.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £100.19 - -
90th Percentile £105.03 - -
England median hourly rate £93.75 - -

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 16,456 11,754 16,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 93.43% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,957 8,048 12,009
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 142 338
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.05 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +24.82% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.67
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.79 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.63% -14.52% -19.53%

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 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -5 27 £500 -25.93% 7
South London - 9 £550 -
East London -5 1 £750 +11.11% 4
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 88 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 61 (27.73%) AWS
4 59 (26.82%) Azure
5 42 (19.09%) Microsoft
6 40 (18.18%) Roadmaps
7 36 (16.36%) CI/CD
8 35 (15.91%) Microservices
9 33 (15.00%) DevOps
10 29 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (12.73%) Data Modelling
11 28 (12.73%) Java
11 28 (12.73%) Migration
12 27 (12.27%) Python
13 26 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (10.91%) AI
14 24 (10.91%) Architectural Patterns
14 24 (10.91%) Integration Patterns
15 23 (10.45%) Technical Architecture
16 22 (10.00%) Terraform
17 21 (9.55%) Agile
18 20 (9.09%) SQL
19 19 (8.64%) Kubernetes
19 19 (8.64%) Observability
19 19 (8.64%) ServiceNow
20 18 (8.18%) Containerisation
20 18 (8.18%) Oracle
20 18 (8.18%) TOGAF
21 17 (7.73%) Mentoring
21 17 (7.73%) Salesforce

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 8 (3.64%) Confluence
1 8 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.27%) nginx
3 3 (1.36%) Apache
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.45%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.45%) Magento
4 1 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.73%) AWS
2 59 (26.82%) Azure
3 16 (7.27%) GitHub
4 14 (6.36%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.36%) Serverless
5 12 (5.45%) PaaS
6 10 (4.55%) GCP
6 10 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.09%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.09%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.64%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.18%) SaaS
10 6 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.73%) Route 53
11 5 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.00%) Firewall
2 9 (4.09%) VPN
3 6 (2.73%) DNS
4 5 (2.27%) OpenVPN
4 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.82%) Network Security
6 3 (1.36%) NAS
6 3 (1.36%) SAN
7 2 (0.91%) BGP
8 1 (0.45%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.45%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.45%) DMZ
8 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.45%) Internet
8 1 (0.45%) LAN
8 1 (0.45%) MQTT
8 1 (0.45%) OSPF
8 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (3.64%) Power BI
3 7 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.82%) Big Data
6 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.36%) Redis
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.91%) MySQL
7 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (5.45%) Git
2 6 (2.73%) JIRA
3 5 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.27%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.45%) GitLab
5 1 (0.45%) Maven
5 1 (0.45%) MSI
5 1 (0.45%) Postman
5 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (22.27%) Public Sector
2 40 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.73%) Finance
4 11 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.09%) Banking
7 6 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Legal
9 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Local Government
10 2 (0.91%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.00%) REST
2 9 (4.09%) .NET
3 8 (3.64%) Middleware
4 7 (3.18%) SOAP
4 7 (3.18%) Spring
5 5 (2.27%) LDAP
5 5 (2.27%) OpenID
6 4 (1.82%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.82%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.36%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.36%) Node.js
7 3 (1.36%) PySpark
7 3 (1.36%) RESTful
8 2 (0.91%) Kafka
8 2 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.45%) Memcached
9 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.55%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.73%) CMDB
4 6 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.27%) FMCG
5 5 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.36%) Replication
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
8 2 (0.91%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.91%) PKI
8 2 (0.91%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.45%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.45%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Solaris
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 36 (16.36%) CI/CD
3 35 (15.91%) Microservices
4 33 (15.00%) DevOps
5 29 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (12.73%) Data Modelling
6 28 (12.73%) Migration
7 26 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (10.91%) AI
8 24 (10.91%) Architectural Patterns
8 24 (10.91%) Integration Patterns
9 23 (10.45%) Technical Architecture
10 21 (9.55%) Agile
11 19 (8.64%) Observability
12 18 (8.18%) Containerisation
12 18 (8.18%) TOGAF
13 17 (7.73%) Mentoring
14 16 (7.27%) API Design
15 15 (6.82%) Decision-Making
15 15 (6.82%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.73%) Java
2 27 (12.27%) Python
3 20 (9.09%) SQL
4 13 (5.91%) Ruby
5 7 (3.18%) Bicep
6 5 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.91%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.91%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) Go
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) PHP
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.73%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.73%) Degree
5 6 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.36%) CISA
7 3 (1.36%) CISSP
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.36%) OSCP
7 3 (1.36%) SANS
8 1 (0.45%) CAPM
8 1 (0.45%) CCIE
8 1 (0.45%) CCNP
8 1 (0.45%) CCSE
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.45%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.45%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.64%) GDPR
1 8 (3.64%) NCSC
2 5 (2.27%) QA
3 4 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (4.09%) Docker
2 8 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.27%) Squid
4 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.45%) Varnish
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (10.00%) Terraform
2 19 (8.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.27%) Consul
3 5 (2.27%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.27%) Grafana
3 5 (2.27%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.91%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.45%) Istio
5 1 (0.45%) linkerd
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.45%) SCCM
5 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.64%) ServiceNow
3 18 (8.18%) Oracle
4 17 (7.73%) Salesforce
5 9 (4.09%) Databricks
6 8 (3.64%) SAP
7 5 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.27%) VMware
7 5 (2.27%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.36%) Ariba
8 3 (1.36%) ForgeRock
8 3 (1.36%) Google
8 3 (1.36%) NetApp
9 2 (0.91%) Adobe
9 2 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.45%) Kepware
10 1 (0.45%) Qualtrics