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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 256 244
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 231 114 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.85% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.91% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 78 106
10th Percentile £422 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £619 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -1.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £698 £725 £700
90th Percentile £810 £766 £775
England median daily rate £612 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +6.43% -4.17% -10.45%
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 18,955 12,495 15,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 92.75% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,258 8,366 10,136
10th Percentile £360 £331 £342
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £670 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 205 181
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.35% -18.57% -3.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%

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 25 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
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 25 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 -22 22 £550 -16.67% 15
East London -4 1 £750 +19.05% 1
South London -9 1 £600 +41.18% 3
West London -29 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 25 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 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 80 (34.63%) SC Cleared
3 65 (28.14%) Azure
4 62 (26.84%) Technical Leadership
5 55 (23.81%) AWS
6 53 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (21.21%) Technical Architecture
8 47 (20.35%) DevOps
9 43 (18.61%) Agile
10 40 (17.32%) Roadmaps
11 38 (16.45%) Microsoft
12 34 (14.72%) CI/CD
13 32 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (12.99%) Architectural Patterns
14 30 (12.99%) Power Platform
15 29 (12.55%) Enterprise Architecture
15 29 (12.55%) Event-Driven
15 29 (12.55%) Migration
16 28 (12.12%) AI
17 25 (10.82%) Microservices
18 24 (10.39%) Data Modelling
18 24 (10.39%) Python
19 21 (9.09%) Decision-Making
19 21 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 20 (8.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 20 (8.66%) GitHub
20 20 (8.66%) Translating Business Requirements
21 19 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
21 19 (8.23%) REST
22 18 (7.79%) Architectural 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 8 (3.46%) Confluence
1 8 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.60%) CMS
2 6 (2.60%) SAS
3 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.43%) Mendix
5 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.14%) Azure
2 55 (23.81%) AWS
3 30 (12.99%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.66%) GitHub
5 13 (5.63%) Serverless
6 12 (5.19%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.33%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (3.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 8 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.46%) GCP
10 8 (3.46%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.60%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.16%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (2.16%) NX-OS
1 5 (2.16%) VXLAN
2 4 (1.73%) BGP
3 3 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.87%) TACACS
4 2 (0.87%) WAN
4 2 (0.87%) X.21
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.19%) Power BI
2 8 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.60%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.60%) SAP HANA
4 4 (1.73%) Metadata
4 4 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.30%) Big Data
5 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.76%) Git
2 7 (3.03%) JIRA
3 6 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.30%) GitLab
5 2 (0.87%) Maven
5 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 59 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 25 (10.82%) Finance
4 15 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.60%) Retail
6 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.30%) Banking
8 3 (1.30%) Front Office
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.23%) REST
2 16 (6.93%) Terraform
3 11 (4.76%) Middleware
3 11 (4.76%) OAuth
3 11 (4.76%) OpenID
4 10 (4.33%) .NET
5 9 (3.90%) SOAP
6 7 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (2.60%) HTML5 Canvas
7 6 (2.60%) Kafka
7 6 (2.60%) RESTful
7 6 (2.60%) SAP Basis
8 5 (2.16%) PySpark
8 5 (2.16%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (2.16%) SAPUI5
9 4 (1.73%) Django
9 4 (1.73%) Node.js
9 4 (1.73%) SAP PI
10 3 (1.30%) JSON
10 3 (1.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.23%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.46%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.60%) IoT
5 6 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.16%) FMCG
6 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.16%) Life Science
7 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.73%) NHS
8 3 (1.30%) AS400
8 3 (1.30%) CMDB
8 3 (1.30%) iSeries
8 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (0.87%) Linux
2 2 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.84%) Technical Leadership
2 53 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (21.21%) Technical Architecture
4 47 (20.35%) DevOps
5 43 (18.61%) Agile
6 40 (17.32%) Roadmaps
7 34 (14.72%) CI/CD
8 32 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (12.99%) Architectural Patterns
10 29 (12.55%) Enterprise Architecture
10 29 (12.55%) Event-Driven
10 29 (12.55%) Migration
11 28 (12.12%) AI
12 25 (10.82%) Microservices
13 24 (10.39%) Data Modelling
14 21 (9.09%) Decision-Making
14 21 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (8.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 20 (8.66%) Translating Business Requirements
16 19 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.39%) Python
2 13 (5.63%) Java
3 11 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.03%) Apex Code
4 7 (3.03%) C#
5 6 (2.60%) ABAP
5 6 (2.60%) SQL
6 5 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.73%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.30%) Ruby
9 2 (0.87%) Bash
9 2 (0.87%) Bicep
9 2 (0.87%) C
9 2 (0.87%) C++
9 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.87%) SOQL
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) SOSL
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (36.80%) Security Cleared
2 80 (34.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.33%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.73%) CISA
8 4 (1.73%) CISSP
8 4 (1.73%) OSCP
8 4 (1.73%) SANS
9 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) CCNP
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.60%) QA
2 4 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.73%) GRC
2 4 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.73%) PMO
3 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) GxP
4 2 (0.87%) HL7
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) PSD2
4 2 (0.87%) SEPA
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (2.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.87%) Ansible
2 2 (0.87%) Argo
2 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.43%) Grafana
3 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.36%) Salesforce
2 17 (7.36%) ServiceNow
3 15 (6.49%) SAP
4 7 (3.03%) Cisco
4 7 (3.03%) Oracle
5 6 (2.60%) Ariba
6 4 (1.73%) Databricks
6 4 (1.73%) Guidewire
6 4 (1.73%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.73%) Sparx
7 3 (1.30%) Aprimo
7 3 (1.30%) IBM
7 3 (1.30%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.30%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.30%) VMware
8 2 (0.87%) Infoblox
8 2 (0.87%) Infor
8 2 (0.87%) Red Hat