Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £592, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 234 234
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 230 133 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.98% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.06% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 91 120
10th Percentile £431 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% -2.00% -13.19%
75th Percentile £705 £708 £704
90th Percentile £825 £763 £800
England median daily rate £620 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +7.83% -8.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £93.53 - -
25th Percentile £95.06 - -
Median hourly rate £100.25 - -
75th Percentile £105.56 - -
90th Percentile £107.18 - -
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 18,713 12,606 15,208
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 92.95% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,486 10,681
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 208 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -11.24%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.81 £54.69
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 31 £550 -16.03% 5
East London -5 2 £750 +11.11% 3
South London -8 1 £600 +41.18% 4
West London -24 1 - - 1
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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 87 (37.83%) Security Cleared
2 78 (33.91%) SC Cleared
3 66 (28.70%) Azure
4 53 (23.04%) AWS
5 45 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
6 41 (17.83%) Microsoft
7 40 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 40 (17.39%) DevOps
8 38 (16.52%) Roadmaps
9 37 (16.09%) Technical Architecture
10 36 (15.65%) Agile
11 34 (14.78%) Data Modelling
11 34 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (13.91%) Microservices
13 31 (13.48%) Integration Patterns
13 31 (13.48%) Python
14 30 (13.04%) Migration
15 29 (12.61%) AI
15 29 (12.61%) Power Platform
16 28 (12.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 28 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (11.30%) Enterprise Architecture
17 26 (11.30%) GitHub
18 24 (10.43%) Event-Driven
18 24 (10.43%) Java
19 23 (10.00%) ERP
20 22 (9.57%) Salesforce
21 20 (8.70%) API Design
21 20 (8.70%) Containerisation
22 19 (8.26%) 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 9 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.61%) Confluence
3 5 (2.17%) SAS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) Mendix
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.87%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.87%) Infor LN
3 2 (0.87%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.70%) Azure
2 53 (23.04%) AWS
3 29 (12.61%) Power Platform
4 26 (11.30%) GitHub
5 13 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.78%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.78%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.78%) Serverless
7 10 (4.35%) PaaS
8 9 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.91%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (3.48%) GCP
10 7 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.61%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (2.17%) Network Security
1 5 (2.17%) VXLAN
2 4 (1.74%) NX-OS
3 3 (1.30%) BGP
4 2 (0.87%) TACACS
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) X.21
5 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.43%) DMZ
5 1 (0.43%) DNS
5 1 (0.43%) Firewall
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.52%) Power BI
2 9 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.74%) Big Data
4 4 (1.74%) Metadata
5 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.83%) Git
2 5 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.74%) GitLab
3 4 (1.74%) JIRA
4 2 (0.87%) Maven
4 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 56 (24.35%) Public Sector
2 55 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 28 (12.17%) Finance
4 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.61%) Banking
7 6 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.30%) Front Office
8 3 (1.30%) Legal
9 2 (0.87%) Billing
9 2 (0.87%) Law
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
9 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.96%) Middleware
2 12 (5.22%) REST
3 8 (3.48%) .NET
4 7 (3.04%) Lightning Web Components
5 6 (2.61%) HTML5 Canvas
5 6 (2.61%) RESTful
6 5 (2.17%) OAuth
6 5 (2.17%) PySpark
6 5 (2.17%) SOAP
7 4 (1.74%) Django
7 4 (1.74%) OpenID
8 3 (1.30%) Kafka
8 3 (1.30%) Node.js
8 3 (1.30%) Spring
9 2 (0.87%) IDoc
9 2 (0.87%) JSON
9 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.87%) SAML
9 2 (0.87%) SAP ALE
9 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (8.26%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.17%) IoT
8 4 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.74%) FMCG
8 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.30%) AS400
9 3 (1.30%) CMDB
9 3 (1.30%) iSeries
9 3 (1.30%) Life Science
9 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.30%) NHS
9 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.04%) Windows
2 3 (1.30%) Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
2 40 (17.39%) CI/CD
2 40 (17.39%) DevOps
3 38 (16.52%) Roadmaps
4 37 (16.09%) Technical Architecture
5 36 (15.65%) Agile
6 34 (14.78%) Data Modelling
6 34 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (13.91%) Microservices
8 31 (13.48%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (13.04%) Migration
10 29 (12.61%) AI
11 28 (12.17%) Architectural Patterns
11 28 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (11.30%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (10.43%) Event-Driven
14 23 (10.00%) ERP
15 20 (8.70%) API Design
15 20 (8.70%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.26%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (13.48%) Python
2 24 (10.43%) Java
3 12 (5.22%) SQL
4 10 (4.35%) Ruby
5 9 (3.91%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.04%) Apex Code
6 7 (3.04%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.74%) Bicep
7 4 (1.74%) C#
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
8 2 (0.87%) C
8 2 (0.87%) C++
8 2 (0.87%) SOQL
8 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) ABAP
9 1 (0.43%) Go
9 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.43%) SOSL
9 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (37.83%) Security Cleared
2 78 (33.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.48%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.17%) CISA
6 5 (2.17%) CISSP
6 5 (2.17%) OSCP
6 5 (2.17%) SANS
7 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) Degree
7 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) GDPR
2 7 (3.04%) QA
3 6 (2.61%) NCSC
4 5 (2.17%) GRC
5 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) GxP
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PSD2
6 2 (0.87%) SEPA
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (3.48%) Docker
2 6 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (7.83%) Terraform
2 12 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.30%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Argo
4 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) linkerd
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) SCCM
5 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.57%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.52%) Oracle
4 14 (6.09%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.35%) SAP
6 8 (3.48%) Databricks
7 5 (2.17%) Ariba
8 4 (1.74%) Cisco
8 4 (1.74%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.74%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.30%) Google
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) Infor
9 3 (1.30%) Sparx
10 2 (0.87%) Adobe
10 2 (0.87%) Infoblox
10 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.87%) VMware
10 2 (0.87%) Zscaler