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 11 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 232 211
Rank change year-on-year +38 -21 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 232 126 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.30% 1.00% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.07% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 85 160
10th Percentile £453 £481 £445
25th Percentile £504 £500 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £626
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -0.16% -13.66%
75th Percentile £732 £734 £738
90th Percentile £860 £788 £825
England median daily rate £600 £623 £672
% change year-on-year -3.61% -7.37% -0.67%
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 16,526 11,742 16,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 93.37% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,960 8,045 11,903
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £686
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 148 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £23.95 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.26 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.32% -19.31% -16.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +3 27 £500 -25.93% 4
South London - 8 £550 -
East London -8 1 £750 +11.11% 2
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 90 (38.79%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.19%) SC Cleared
3 62 (26.72%) Azure
4 59 (25.43%) AWS
5 43 (18.53%) Microsoft
6 42 (18.10%) Roadmaps
7 40 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 37 (15.95%) DevOps
8 37 (15.95%) Microservices
9 32 (13.79%) Data Modelling
10 29 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (12.50%) Migration
10 29 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (12.07%) Java
12 27 (11.64%) Architectural Patterns
12 27 (11.64%) Python
12 27 (11.64%) Technical Architecture
13 25 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
14 24 (10.34%) AI
15 22 (9.48%) Agile
15 22 (9.48%) Terraform
16 20 (8.62%) Containerisation
16 20 (8.62%) Observability
16 20 (8.62%) ServiceNow
17 19 (8.19%) Mentoring
17 19 (8.19%) Salesforce
17 19 (8.19%) SQL
18 18 (7.76%) Kubernetes
18 18 (7.76%) TOGAF
19 17 (7.33%) 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 8 (3.45%) Confluence
1 8 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.16%) nginx
3 3 (1.29%) Apache
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) ArchiCAD
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.43%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.72%) Azure
2 59 (25.43%) AWS
3 16 (6.90%) GitHub
3 16 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.60%) Serverless
5 12 (5.17%) PaaS
6 10 (4.31%) GCP
6 10 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 9 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.02%) SaaS
10 6 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.59%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.74%) Firewall
2 9 (3.88%) VPN
3 6 (2.59%) DNS
4 5 (2.16%) OpenVPN
4 5 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.72%) Network Security
6 3 (1.29%) NAS
6 3 (1.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.86%) BGP
8 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.43%) DMZ
8 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.43%) Internet
8 1 (0.43%) LAN
8 1 (0.43%) MQTT
8 1 (0.43%) OSPF
8 1 (0.43%) VSAN
8 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.02%) Power BI
3 4 (1.72%) Big Data
3 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.29%) Redis
5 2 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.86%) MySQL
5 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.86%) Tableau
6 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.43%) Metadata
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.74%) Git
2 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.16%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Maven
4 1 (0.43%) MSI
4 1 (0.43%) Postman
4 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 52 (22.41%) Public Sector
2 45 (19.40%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.62%) Finance
4 11 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.45%) Banking
7 6 (2.59%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Law
9 3 (1.29%) Legal
9 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Billing
10 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 2 (0.86%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.31%) .NET
1 10 (4.31%) REST
2 8 (3.45%) Middleware
3 7 (3.02%) Spring
4 6 (2.59%) SOAP
5 5 (2.16%) LDAP
5 5 (2.16%) OpenID
6 4 (1.72%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.72%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.29%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.29%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.29%) Node.js
7 3 (1.29%) PySpark
8 2 (0.86%) Kafka
8 2 (0.86%) RESTful
9 1 (0.43%) Memcached
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.02%) CMDB
4 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.16%) FMCG
6 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.29%) Replication
9 2 (0.86%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.86%) NHS
9 2 (0.86%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.86%) PKI
9 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.43%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.43%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.43%) Solaris
2 1 (0.43%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (18.10%) Roadmaps
2 40 (17.24%) CI/CD
3 37 (15.95%) DevOps
3 37 (15.95%) Microservices
4 32 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 29 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (12.50%) Migration
5 29 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 27 (11.64%) Architectural Patterns
6 27 (11.64%) Technical Architecture
7 25 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
8 24 (10.34%) AI
9 22 (9.48%) Agile
10 20 (8.62%) Containerisation
10 20 (8.62%) Observability
11 19 (8.19%) Mentoring
12 18 (7.76%) TOGAF
13 17 (7.33%) API Design
14 15 (6.47%) Decision-Making
15 14 (6.03%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.07%) Java
2 27 (11.64%) Python
3 19 (8.19%) SQL
4 13 (5.60%) Ruby
5 7 (3.02%) Bicep
6 6 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.72%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) C#
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 90 (38.79%) Security Cleared
2 77 (33.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.02%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.59%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.16%) Degree
7 4 (1.72%) CISA
7 4 (1.72%) CISSP
7 4 (1.72%) OSCP
7 4 (1.72%) SANS
8 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CCIE
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) CCSE
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.45%) GDPR
1 8 (3.45%) NCSC
2 5 (2.16%) QA
3 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) HL7
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (3.88%) Docker
2 8 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.16%) Squid
4 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.43%) Varnish
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (9.48%) Terraform
2 18 (7.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.16%) Consul
3 5 (2.16%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.16%) Grafana
3 5 (2.16%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.86%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) linkerd
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.43%) SCCM
5 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.62%) ServiceNow
3 19 (8.19%) Salesforce
4 17 (7.33%) Oracle
5 9 (3.88%) Databricks
6 8 (3.45%) SAP
7 5 (2.16%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.16%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.72%) VMware
9 3 (1.29%) Ariba
9 3 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.29%) Google
9 3 (1.29%) NetApp
10 2 (0.86%) Adobe
10 2 (0.86%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco
11 1 (0.43%) Dell
26 Technical Architect jobs in London