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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 308 323
Rank change year-on-year +69 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 102 88 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.50% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.57% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 57 92
10th Percentile £503 £458 £451
25th Percentile £542 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% -4.96% -3.85%
75th Percentile £695 £699 £763
90th Percentile £855 £775 £833
England median daily rate £625 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +12 11 £675 -3.57% 3
South London - 2 £650 -
East London +19 1 £575 -3.20% 1
West London +12 1 £665 +15.65% 14
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 4 (3.92%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (25.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (10.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.98%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.98%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.98%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.98%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.98%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.98%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (27.45%) Azure
2 24 (23.53%) AWS
3 13 (12.75%) Serverless
4 12 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 10 (9.80%) Azure Functions
5 10 (9.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (9.80%) PowerApps
6 9 (8.82%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.86%) GCP
7 7 (6.86%) GitHub
8 6 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.92%) SaaS
10 3 (2.94%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Firewall
2 2 (1.96%) DNS
2 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) DHCP
3 1 (0.98%) IPsec
3 1 (0.98%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.98%) Multicast
3 1 (0.98%) SAN
3 1 (0.98%) SSL
3 1 (0.98%) VPN
3 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.61%) SAP HANA
2 6 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (3.92%) Metadata
3 4 (3.92%) Power BI
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.96%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.98%) KDB
5 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.98%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.98%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
1 4 (3.92%) MLflow
2 3 (2.94%) Git
3 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.98%) GitLab
4 1 (0.98%) Maven
General
1 50 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.49%) Banking
3 17 (16.67%) Finance
4 11 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Retail
7 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.98%) Back Office
8 1 (0.98%) Billing
8 1 (0.98%) Front Office
8 1 (0.98%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Military
8 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (66.67%) Architect
2 24 (23.53%) SAP Architect
3 21 (20.59%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
3 21 (20.59%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (15.69%) Technical Architect
5 7 (6.86%) Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Senior
6 6 (5.88%) Lead
7 5 (4.90%) Consultant
7 5 (4.90%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 5 (4.90%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (3.92%) Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) CRM Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Designer
8 4 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Architect
9 3 (2.94%) Backend Developer
9 3 (2.94%) CRM Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (20.59%) Web Services
2 5 (4.90%) .NET
2 5 (4.90%) XML
3 4 (3.92%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (3.92%) CSS
3 4 (3.92%) HTML
3 4 (3.92%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (3.92%) JSON
3 4 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.92%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.92%) TensorFlow
3 4 (3.92%) WCF
4 3 (2.94%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.94%) Kafka
4 3 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (2.94%) LangChain
4 3 (2.94%) Pandas
4 3 (2.94%) pytest
4 3 (2.94%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.96%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (1.96%) Educational Technology
3 2 (1.96%) Equities
3 2 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.96%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.98%) NHS
4 1 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.98%) Windows
1 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (20.59%) Agile
2 21 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (20.59%) Project Delivery
3 20 (19.61%) Impact Assessments
4 16 (15.69%) Roadmaps
5 15 (14.71%) DevOps
6 13 (12.75%) CRM
7 12 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (9.80%) Machine Learning
9 10 (9.80%) Microservices
10 9 (8.82%) Decision-Making
10 9 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (8.82%) Mentoring
10 9 (8.82%) Migration
11 8 (7.84%) Analytics
11 8 (7.84%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.84%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.75%) Python
2 10 (9.80%) Java
3 9 (8.82%) SQL
4 8 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.84%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.90%) C#
6 3 (2.94%) C++
7 2 (1.96%) ABAP
7 2 (1.96%) C
7 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.98%) Ada
8 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.78%) Degree
4 6 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.96%) PhD
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) CCNA
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.98%) IIBA
7 1 (0.98%) MCSA
7 1 (0.98%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.98%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.98%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
2 2 (1.96%) IFRS
2 2 (1.96%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) RACF
3 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.78%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Ansible
3 2 (1.96%) Grafana
3 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.98%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.98%) Packer
4 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (30.39%) SAP
2 15 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.90%) Google
5 3 (2.94%) Dataiku
5 3 (2.94%) DataRobot
5 3 (2.94%) Oracle
5 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.96%) Adobe
6 2 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) Informatica
7 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco
7 1 (0.98%) Citrix
7 1 (0.98%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.98%) IBM
7 1 (0.98%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.98%) VMware