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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 221 220
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 208 135 182
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.07% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.14% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 90 148
10th Percentile £475 £478 £471
25th Percentile £513 £500 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £625 £646
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -3.29% -7.68%
75th Percentile £700 £747 £738
90th Percentile £863 £800 £825
England median daily rate £600 £613 £675
% change year-on-year -2.04% -9.26% -
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 15,598 11,822 16,811
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.60% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,433 8,095 12,128
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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 244 150 337
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £61.69 £51.80 £46.86
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £64.06
England median hourly rate £41.06 £34.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.74% +6.38% -23.69%

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 28 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Architect in London over the 6 months to 28 March 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 28 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 -2 27 £500 -27.27% 8
South London - 9 £550 -
East London -1 2 £713 +9.62% 2
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 89 (42.79%) Security Cleared
2 74 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 67 (32.21%) AWS
4 52 (25.00%) Azure
5 41 (19.71%) Roadmaps
6 38 (18.27%) CI/CD
7 35 (16.83%) Microservices
8 33 (15.87%) Microsoft
9 31 (14.90%) DevOps
10 28 (13.46%) Data Modelling
10 28 (13.46%) Migration
10 28 (13.46%) Technical Architecture
11 27 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (12.50%) AI
13 24 (11.54%) Agile
13 24 (11.54%) Java
14 23 (11.06%) Python
14 23 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (11.06%) Terraform
15 22 (10.58%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (10.58%) Integration Patterns
16 21 (10.10%) Salesforce
17 20 (9.62%) API Design
17 20 (9.62%) Kubernetes
18 19 (9.13%) Containerisation
19 18 (8.65%) TOGAF
20 17 (8.17%) Observability
20 17 (8.17%) Serverless
20 17 (8.17%) SQL
21 16 (7.69%) Data Protection

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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) nginx
2 5 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Endur
3 1 (0.48%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.48%) Infor LN
3 1 (0.48%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.48%) Magento
3 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (32.21%) AWS
2 52 (25.00%) Azure
3 17 (8.17%) Serverless
4 15 (7.21%) GitHub
5 13 (6.25%) GCP
6 12 (5.77%) PaaS
7 11 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.85%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.37%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.88%) Route 53
12 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.40%) SaaS
13 4 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.77%) Firewall
2 10 (4.81%) VPN
3 7 (3.37%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.88%) DNS
5 5 (2.40%) OpenVPN
6 4 (1.92%) Network Security
7 3 (1.44%) BGP
7 3 (1.44%) NAS
7 3 (1.44%) SAN
7 3 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.44%) WAN
8 2 (0.96%) DMZ
8 2 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.96%) VSAN
8 2 (0.96%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.48%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.48%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.48%) Internet
9 1 (0.48%) LAN
9 1 (0.48%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.40%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.40%) Power BI
4 3 (1.44%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.44%) Redis
5 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.96%) Big Data
5 2 (0.96%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.48%) Metadata
6 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.81%) Git
2 9 (4.33%) JIRA
3 5 (2.40%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.40%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.48%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) Postman
5 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (24.04%) Public Sector
2 42 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.65%) Finance
4 12 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.33%) Banking
7 6 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.92%) Marketing
10 3 (1.44%) Law
10 3 (1.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.44%) Military
10 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Advertising
12 1 (0.48%) Back Office
12 1 (0.48%) Front Office
12 1 (0.48%) Retail
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.73%) Middleware
2 9 (4.33%) REST
3 7 (3.37%) .NET
4 6 (2.88%) Spring
5 5 (2.40%) LDAP
5 5 (2.40%) OpenID
6 4 (1.92%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.92%) SOAP
7 3 (1.44%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.44%) Node.js
7 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.96%) JSON
8 2 (0.96%) Kafka
8 2 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.96%) PySpark
8 2 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.48%) Playwright
9 1 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.88%) CMDB
5 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.44%) FMCG
7 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.44%) PKI
7 3 (1.44%) Replication
8 2 (0.96%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.96%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.48%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.92%) Linux
2 2 (0.96%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.48%) Solaris
3 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.71%) Roadmaps
2 38 (18.27%) CI/CD
3 35 (16.83%) Microservices
4 31 (14.90%) DevOps
5 28 (13.46%) Data Modelling
5 28 (13.46%) Migration
5 28 (13.46%) Technical Architecture
6 27 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
7 26 (12.50%) AI
8 24 (11.54%) Agile
9 23 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (10.58%) Architectural Patterns
10 22 (10.58%) Integration Patterns
11 20 (9.62%) API Design
12 19 (9.13%) Containerisation
13 18 (8.65%) TOGAF
14 17 (8.17%) Observability
15 16 (7.69%) Data Protection
16 15 (7.21%) Mentoring
17 14 (6.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.54%) Java
2 23 (11.06%) Python
3 17 (8.17%) SQL
4 13 (6.25%) Ruby
5 6 (2.88%) Bicep
6 4 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.44%) C#
7 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.96%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.48%) Go
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) PHP
9 1 (0.48%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 89 (42.79%) Security Cleared
2 74 (35.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.33%) Degree
4 7 (3.37%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.37%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) CISSP
7 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.96%) CCNP
8 2 (0.96%) CISA
8 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.96%) OSCP
8 2 (0.96%) SANS
9 1 (0.48%) CAPM
9 1 (0.48%) CCIE
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.85%) NCSC
2 7 (3.37%) GDPR
3 3 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) QA
4 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) GRC
4 2 (0.96%) NIST
4 2 (0.96%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.81%) Docker
2 9 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.40%) Squid
4 4 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 23 (11.06%) Terraform
2 20 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (2.88%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.88%) Grafana
4 6 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.40%) Ansible
5 5 (2.40%) Consul
6 2 (0.96%) VxRail
7 1 (0.48%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) linkerd
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 33 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.10%) Salesforce
3 16 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 15 (7.21%) Oracle
5 9 (4.33%) Databricks
6 8 (3.85%) SAP
7 6 (2.88%) VMware
8 5 (2.40%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.92%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.92%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.44%) Dell
10 3 (1.44%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.44%) Google
10 3 (1.44%) NetApp
10 3 (1.44%) Splunk
11 2 (0.96%) Ariba
11 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.96%) NVIDIA