Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Architect
England > London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 254 240
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 230 116 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.93% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 77 101
10th Percentile £422 £425 £450
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £692 £725 £700
90th Percentile £810 £768 £775
England median daily rate £615 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.17% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 18,962 12,491 15,139
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.75% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,257 8,339 9,944
10th Percentile £360 £330 £340
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 £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 201 175
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.35
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.22% -19.64% -6.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -0.46%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -28 22 £550 -16.03% 12
East London -2 1 £750 +19.05% 1
South London -6 1 £600 +41.18% 4
West London -27 1 - - 2
North London - 1 - -
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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 81 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 64 (27.83%) Azure
4 60 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
5 56 (24.35%) AWS
6 55 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (22.17%) Technical Architecture
8 50 (21.74%) DevOps
9 46 (20.00%) Agile
10 39 (16.96%) Roadmaps
11 38 (16.52%) Microsoft
12 37 (16.09%) CI/CD
13 31 (13.48%) Integration Patterns
14 30 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
14 30 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
15 29 (12.61%) Event-Driven
15 29 (12.61%) Power Platform
16 28 (12.17%) AI
16 28 (12.17%) Migration
17 25 (10.87%) Microservices
18 24 (10.43%) Data Modelling
19 22 (9.57%) Python
19 22 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 21 (9.13%) Decision-Making
20 21 (9.13%) REST
21 20 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
21 20 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
22 19 (8.26%) Architectural Design
22 19 (8.26%) GitHub
22 19 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (3.48%) Confluence
1 8 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.61%) CMS
2 6 (2.61%) SAS
3 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.43%) Mendix
5 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.43%) Gliffy
1 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 64 (27.83%) Azure
2 56 (24.35%) AWS
3 29 (12.61%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.26%) GitHub
5 14 (6.09%) Serverless
6 12 (5.22%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (4.35%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (3.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 8 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.48%) GCP
10 8 (3.48%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.61%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (2.17%) NX-OS
1 5 (2.17%) VXLAN
2 4 (1.74%) BGP
3 3 (1.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.87%) TACACS
4 2 (0.87%) WAN
4 2 (0.87%) X.21
5 1 (0.43%) MQTT
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.78%) Power BI
2 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.04%) SAP HANA
3 6 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.74%) Metadata
4 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.87%) Big Data
5 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.87%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.43%) Redis
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.78%) Git
2 7 (3.04%) JIRA
3 6 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.30%) GitLab
5 2 (0.87%) Maven
5 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) MSI
General
1 61 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.43%) Finance
4 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (2.61%) Retail
6 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.30%) Banking
7 3 (1.30%) Front Office
8 2 (0.87%) Billing
8 2 (0.87%) Digital Health
8 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.87%) Marketing
8 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Aviation
9 1 (0.43%) Back Office
9 1 (0.43%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.13%) REST
2 16 (6.96%) Terraform
3 12 (5.22%) Middleware
4 11 (4.78%) OAuth
4 11 (4.78%) OpenID
5 10 (4.35%) .NET
5 10 (4.35%) SOAP
6 7 (3.04%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (3.04%) SAP Basis
7 6 (2.61%) HTML5 Canvas
7 6 (2.61%) Kafka
7 6 (2.61%) RESTful
7 6 (2.61%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (2.61%) SAP PI
7 6 (2.61%) SAPUI5
8 5 (2.17%) PySpark
9 4 (1.74%) Django
10 3 (1.30%) JSON
10 3 (1.30%) SAML
10 3 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.61%) IoT
5 6 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.17%) Life Science
7 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.74%) FMCG
7 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.74%) NHS
8 3 (1.30%) AS400
8 3 (1.30%) CMDB
8 3 (1.30%) iSeries
8 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.30%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.04%) Windows
2 2 (0.87%) Linux
2 2 (0.87%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
2 55 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (22.17%) Technical Architecture
4 50 (21.74%) DevOps
5 46 (20.00%) Agile
6 39 (16.96%) Roadmaps
7 37 (16.09%) CI/CD
8 31 (13.48%) Integration Patterns
9 30 (13.04%) Architectural Patterns
9 30 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
10 29 (12.61%) Event-Driven
11 28 (12.17%) AI
11 28 (12.17%) Migration
12 25 (10.87%) Microservices
13 24 (10.43%) Data Modelling
14 22 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (9.13%) Decision-Making
16 20 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 20 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
17 19 (8.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.57%) Python
2 12 (5.22%) Java
3 9 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.04%) ABAP
4 7 (3.04%) Apex Code
4 7 (3.04%) C#
5 5 (2.17%) SQL
5 5 (2.17%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.30%) Ruby
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
8 2 (0.87%) Bicep
8 2 (0.87%) C
8 2 (0.87%) C++
8 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.87%) SOQL
9 1 (0.43%) R
9 1 (0.43%) SOSL
9 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 87 (37.83%) Security Cleared
2 81 (35.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.04%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.30%) CISA
7 3 (1.30%) CISSP
7 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.30%) OSCP
7 3 (1.30%) SANS
8 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.87%) Degree
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.04%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.74%) PMO
3 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
3 3 (1.30%) GRC
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) GxP
4 2 (0.87%) HL7
4 2 (0.87%) NCSC
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) PSD2
4 2 (0.87%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (3.04%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.87%) Ansible
2 2 (0.87%) Argo
2 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.43%) Grafana
3 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.39%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.96%) Salesforce
4 15 (6.52%) SAP
5 7 (3.04%) Cisco
6 6 (2.61%) Oracle
7 5 (2.17%) Ariba
8 4 (1.74%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.74%) Sparx
9 3 (1.30%) Aprimo
9 3 (1.30%) Databricks
9 3 (1.30%) IBM
9 3 (1.30%) OneTrust
9 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.30%) Optimizely
9 3 (1.30%) VMware
10 2 (0.87%) Google
10 2 (0.87%) Infor
10 2 (0.87%) Red Hat