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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 242 232
Rank change year-on-year +23 -10 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 233 139 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.02% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.10% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 96 123
10th Percentile £431 £425 £463
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -13.79%
75th Percentile £700 £718 £713
90th Percentile £825 £769 £798
England median daily rate £615 £585 £630
% change year-on-year +5.13% -7.14% -6.67%
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 18,742 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,243 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £774 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

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 5 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 5 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 33 £550 -16.03% 6
South London -11 5 £661 +55.59% 2
East London -1 2 £750 +11.11% 4
West London -26 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 91 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.76%) SC Cleared
3 66 (28.33%) Azure
4 60 (25.75%) AWS
5 43 (18.45%) DevOps
6 42 (18.03%) CI/CD
7 40 (17.17%) Roadmaps
8 39 (16.74%) Microsoft
8 39 (16.74%) Technical Architecture
8 39 (16.74%) Technical Leadership
9 38 (16.31%) Agile
10 36 (15.45%) Data Modelling
11 34 (14.59%) Microservices
12 32 (13.73%) Integration Patterns
13 31 (13.30%) Python
14 30 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (12.02%) AI
15 28 (12.02%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (11.59%) Migration
16 27 (11.59%) Power Platform
17 26 (11.16%) GitHub
18 25 (10.73%) Java
19 24 (10.30%) Event-Driven
19 24 (10.30%) Salesforce
20 22 (9.44%) ERP
21 20 (8.58%) API Design
21 20 (8.58%) Containerisation
21 20 (8.58%) Enterprise Architecture
21 20 (8.58%) Observability

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 10 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.00%) Confluence
3 5 (2.15%) SAS
4 3 (1.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Mendix
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.86%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.86%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.33%) Azure
2 60 (25.75%) AWS
3 27 (11.59%) Power Platform
4 26 (11.16%) GitHub
5 13 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.72%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.72%) Serverless
7 10 (4.29%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.29%) GCP
7 10 (4.29%) PaaS
8 9 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.86%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (3.43%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.58%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) Network Security
2 3 (1.29%) VPN
3 2 (0.86%) DNS
3 2 (0.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.86%) X.21
4 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.43%) BGP
4 1 (0.43%) DMZ
4 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.43%) Internet
4 1 (0.43%) MQTT
4 1 (0.43%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) VSAN
4 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.44%) Power BI
2 8 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.15%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.72%) Big Data
5 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.86%) Metadata
7 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.86%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Git
2 6 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.15%) JIRA
4 3 (1.29%) Maven
4 3 (1.29%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.86%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) MSI
6 1 (0.43%) Postman
6 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 57 (24.46%) Public Sector
2 56 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.45%) Finance
4 13 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Banking
7 6 (2.58%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.29%) Front Office
8 3 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Marketing
9 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.30%) Middleware
2 11 (4.72%) REST
3 8 (3.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 7 (3.00%) .NET
5 6 (2.58%) HTML5 Canvas
5 6 (2.58%) RESTful
5 6 (2.58%) SOAP
6 5 (2.15%) PySpark
7 4 (1.72%) Django
7 4 (1.72%) OAuth
7 4 (1.72%) OpenID
7 4 (1.72%) Spring
8 3 (1.29%) Kafka
8 3 (1.29%) Node.js
9 2 (0.86%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.86%) IDoc
9 2 (0.86%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.86%) SAML
9 2 (0.86%) SAP ALE
10 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.30%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.15%) FMCG
7 5 (2.15%) IoT
7 5 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.29%) AS400
8 3 (1.29%) CMDB
8 3 (1.29%) iSeries
8 3 (1.29%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.29%) NHS
8 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.15%) Windows
2 3 (1.29%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (18.45%) DevOps
2 42 (18.03%) CI/CD
3 40 (17.17%) Roadmaps
4 39 (16.74%) Technical Architecture
4 39 (16.74%) Technical Leadership
5 38 (16.31%) Agile
6 36 (15.45%) Data Modelling
7 34 (14.59%) Microservices
8 32 (13.73%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (12.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (12.02%) AI
10 28 (12.02%) Architectural Patterns
11 27 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (11.59%) Migration
12 24 (10.30%) Event-Driven
13 22 (9.44%) ERP
14 20 (8.58%) API Design
14 20 (8.58%) Containerisation
14 20 (8.58%) Enterprise Architecture
14 20 (8.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 31 (13.30%) Python
2 25 (10.73%) Java
3 13 (5.58%) SQL
4 10 (4.29%) Ruby
5 9 (3.86%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.43%) Apex Code
7 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.29%) Bicep
8 3 (1.29%) C#
8 3 (1.29%) SOQL
9 2 (0.86%) Bash
9 2 (0.86%) C
9 2 (0.86%) C++
9 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) ABAP
10 1 (0.43%) Go
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) SOSL
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.43%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.15%) CISA
5 5 (2.15%) CISSP
5 5 (2.15%) Degree
5 5 (2.15%) OSCP
5 5 (2.15%) SANS
5 5 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) CAPM
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) GDPR
2 7 (3.00%) QA
3 6 (2.58%) NCSC
4 5 (2.15%) GRC
5 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.86%) GxP
6 2 (0.86%) PSD2
6 2 (0.86%) 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
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (3.86%) Docker
2 5 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.43%) Squid
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (7.73%) Terraform
2 16 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.86%) Argo
4 2 (0.86%) Grafana
4 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Consul
5 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.43%) Istio
5 1 (0.43%) linkerd
5 1 (0.43%) SCCM
5 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.30%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.44%) Oracle
4 12 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.29%) SAP
6 7 (3.00%) Databricks
7 4 (1.72%) Ariba
7 4 (1.72%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.72%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.29%) Google
8 3 (1.29%) IBM
8 3 (1.29%) Infor
8 3 (1.29%) Sparx
9 2 (0.86%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.43%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.43%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.43%) Qualtrics