Technical Architect Contracts in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 227 224
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 139 177 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.05% 1.01% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.07% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 143 206
10th Percentile £457 £458 £525
25th Percentile £500 £550 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £723
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -11.76% +3.21%
75th Percentile £727 £738 £745
90th Percentile £774 £825 £793
England median daily rate £600 £650 £678
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.13% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £56.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,405 16,530 24,369
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 93.95% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 11,825 17,806
10th Percentile £331 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 305 278
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £20.22 £22.79
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -27.29% +9.29%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.86 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £68.45 £82.33
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 +6 21 £675 -3.57% 14
East London +16 5 £675 +7.14% 4
West London +12 5 £625 -3.85% 4
South London -1 1 £425 - 2
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 57 (41.01%) Azure
2 49 (35.25%) AWS
3 37 (26.62%) Security Cleared
3 37 (26.62%) Java
4 35 (25.18%) SC Cleared
5 34 (24.46%) Roadmaps
6 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
7 26 (18.71%) Microsoft
8 24 (17.27%) Public Sector
9 23 (16.55%) Microservices
10 20 (14.39%) Finance
10 20 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (14.39%) DevOps
11 19 (13.67%) Kubernetes
11 19 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (13.67%) CI/CD
11 19 (13.67%) Agile
12 18 (12.95%) Data Modelling
13 17 (12.23%) TOGAF
13 17 (12.23%) Technical Architecture
13 17 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (11.51%) Event-Driven
14 16 (11.51%) IT Strategy
15 15 (10.79%) GCP
15 15 (10.79%) Migration
16 14 (10.07%) Oracle
16 14 (10.07%) Terraform
17 13 (9.35%) Public Cloud
17 13 (9.35%) Strategic Roadmap

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.44%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.72%) Appian
2 1 (0.72%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.72%) SAS
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.72%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (9.35%) MS Visio
2 9 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (2.88%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.44%) assyst
4 2 (1.44%) Endur
4 2 (1.44%) Magento
5 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.72%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.72%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.72%) Shopify
5 1 (0.72%) Summit
5 1 (0.72%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 57 (41.01%) Azure
2 49 (35.25%) AWS
3 15 (10.79%) GCP
4 11 (7.91%) GitHub
5 10 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.47%) PaaS
6 9 (6.47%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.76%) SaaS
8 5 (3.60%) OCI
8 5 (3.60%) Serverless
9 4 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) Firewall
1 7 (5.04%) LAN
2 6 (4.32%) WAN
3 5 (3.60%) DNS
4 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.88%) VPN
4 4 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.16%) DHCP
5 3 (2.16%) SAN
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.44%) HTTP
6 2 (1.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.44%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.44%) SNMP
7 1 (0.72%) IPsec
7 1 (0.72%) NAS
7 1 (0.72%) Network Security
7 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.04%) Power BI
2 5 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.16%) Metadata
4 3 (2.16%) MySQL
4 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.44%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.44%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.72%) GIS
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.19%) CircleCI
2 3 (2.16%) GitLab
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
General
1 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.39%) Finance
4 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.32%) Banking
7 3 (2.16%) Billing
7 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Military
7 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.44%) Automotive
8 2 (1.44%) Back Office
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.47%) Kafka
2 8 (5.76%) Middleware
3 7 (5.04%) React
3 7 (5.04%) REST
4 6 (4.32%) .NET
4 6 (4.32%) Node.js
5 5 (3.60%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (3.60%) Visualforce
6 4 (2.88%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.16%) J2EE
7 3 (2.16%) SOAP
8 2 (1.44%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.44%) CSS
8 2 (1.44%) FHIR
8 2 (1.44%) HTML
8 2 (1.44%) JSON
8 2 (1.44%) SAP Basis
8 2 (1.44%) Swagger
9 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.72%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.35%) Public Cloud
2 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.16%) CMDB
4 3 (2.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.16%) Replication
4 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.44%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.44%) NHS
5 2 (1.44%) PKI
5 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.63%) Linux
1 12 (8.63%) Windows
2 5 (3.60%) Unix
3 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.46%) Roadmaps
2 23 (16.55%) Microservices
3 20 (14.39%) DevOps
3 20 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (13.67%) Agile
4 19 (13.67%) CI/CD
4 19 (13.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (12.95%) Data Modelling
6 17 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (12.23%) Technical Architecture
6 17 (12.23%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (12.23%) TOGAF
7 16 (11.51%) Event-Driven
7 16 (11.51%) IT Strategy
8 15 (10.79%) Migration
9 13 (9.35%) Enterprise Architecture
9 13 (9.35%) Strategic Roadmap
9 13 (9.35%) Technology Strategy
10 12 (8.63%) Decision-Making
10 12 (8.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.62%) Java
2 12 (8.63%) C#
3 11 (7.91%) Python
3 11 (7.91%) SQL
3 11 (7.91%) TypeScript
4 10 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.47%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.60%) Apex Code
6 5 (3.60%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.16%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.44%) SOQL
8 2 (1.44%) SOSL
8 2 (1.44%) VB
9 1 (0.72%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
9 1 (0.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 37 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 35 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.32%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.44%) CCNA
7 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.44%) PMP
7 2 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.88%) QA
2 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.16%) GDPR
3 2 (1.44%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.44%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.44%) HL7
3 2 (1.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (6.47%) Active Directory
1 9 (6.47%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.88%) Docker
3 3 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.07%) Terraform
3 10 (7.19%) Grafana
3 10 (7.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.60%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.44%) Ansible
5 2 (1.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.72%) SCOM
6 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.07%) Oracle
3 12 (8.63%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.19%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.76%) Cisco
6 6 (4.32%) SAP
7 5 (3.60%) Databricks
7 5 (3.60%) Google
7 5 (3.60%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.60%) Veritas
8 3 (2.16%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.16%) VMware
9 2 (1.44%) Cerner
9 2 (1.44%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.72%) Adobe
10 1 (0.72%) Foundry
10 1 (0.72%) Pega
10 1 (0.72%) Portware
10 1 (0.72%) Qualys
10 1 (0.72%) Sitecore