Technical Architecture Contracts in London

Technical Architecture
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 298 328
Rank change year-on-year +30 +30 0
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 85 93 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.52% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.59% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 59 83
10th Percentile £490 £484 £453
25th Percentile £538 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% -1.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £697
90th Percentile £875 £729 £775
England median daily rate £615 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.96% -3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in London

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in London

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +9 12 £694 +2.78% 3
East London +15 2 £613 +3.11%
South London - 2 £650 - 1
West London +12 1 £665 +15.65% 4
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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 5 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.35%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (7.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.18%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.18%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (1.18%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.59%) Azure
2 21 (24.71%) AWS
3 11 (12.94%) Serverless
4 10 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 10 (11.76%) PowerApps
5 9 (10.59%) Power Automate
6 8 (9.41%) Azure Functions
6 8 (9.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (9.41%) GCP
7 7 (8.24%) GitHub
8 6 (7.06%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.71%) SaaS
10 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (3.53%) IaaS
10 3 (3.53%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
1 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) DHCP
2 1 (1.18%) IPsec
2 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.18%) Multicast
2 1 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.53%) Metadata
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.35%) Power BI
5 1 (1.18%) DB2
5 1 (1.18%) KDB
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) MLflow
3 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.35%) Maven
4 1 (1.18%) Ant
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
4 1 (1.18%) Gradle
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Finance
3 17 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.41%) Banking
5 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Retail
7 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Front Office
8 2 (2.35%) Local Government
8 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Back Office
9 1 (1.18%) Billing
9 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.18%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (63.53%) Architect
2 21 (24.71%) Solutions Architect
3 19 (22.35%) Technical Architect
4 12 (14.12%) Lead
5 7 (8.24%) Developer
5 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 5 (5.88%) Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Lead Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Technical Leader
7 4 (4.71%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.71%) CRM Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Designer
7 4 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM Architect
7 4 (4.71%) SAP Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Consultant
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Solutions Designer
8 3 (3.53%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) .NET
1 5 (5.88%) XML
2 4 (4.71%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (4.71%) CSS
2 4 (4.71%) HTML
2 4 (4.71%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (4.71%) JSON
2 4 (4.71%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (4.71%) WCF
3 3 (3.53%) Kafka
3 3 (3.53%) Middleware
3 3 (3.53%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.53%) React
3 3 (3.53%) REST
3 3 (3.53%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.35%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.35%) NumPy
4 2 (2.35%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Operational Technology
1 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.53%) Educational Technology
3 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.35%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Equities
4 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.35%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Windows
1 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Agile
2 20 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (21.18%) Roadmaps
4 16 (18.82%) DevOps
5 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.12%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
7 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 10 (11.76%) Microservices
8 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.59%) CRM
8 9 (10.59%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (10.59%) TOGAF
9 8 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (9.41%) Data Governance
9 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (9.41%) Web Development
10 7 (8.24%) Analytics
10 7 (8.24%) Machine Learning
10 7 (8.24%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.76%) Python
1 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
2 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.24%) Java
3 7 (8.24%) SQL
4 5 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (2.35%) ABAP
5 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.18%) Ada
6 1 (1.18%) C++
6 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) Degree
4 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) RHCSA
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.18%) IIBA
8 1 (1.18%) MCSA
8 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) IFRS
3 2 (2.35%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.18%) RACF
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.12%) Terraform
3 4 (4.71%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.18%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.18%) Packer
5 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) SAP
3 5 (5.88%) Google
3 5 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.53%) VMware
5 2 (2.35%) Adobe
5 2 (2.35%) Databricks
5 2 (2.35%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.35%) DataRobot
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
5 2 (2.35%) Informatica
5 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Citrix
6 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.18%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.18%) IFS
6 1 (1.18%) Murex
6 1 (1.18%) OpenLink