Technical Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Technical Architect
England > Midlands

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 109 112
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 10 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.93% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.02% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 35
10th Percentile £425 £446 £559
25th Percentile £469 £455 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £745
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -17.79% +35.45%
75th Percentile £631 £775 -
90th Percentile £710 - £808
England median daily rate £600 £649 £678
% change year-on-year -7.51% -4.31% +4.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,146 2,659 3,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 92.07% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 1,793 2,156
10th Percentile £210 £228 £230
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 196 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £15.57
Median hourly rate £23.41 £18.99 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.31% -9.60% +9.09%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £32.54
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the Midlands

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the Midlands

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the Midlands

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the Midlands

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands -13 8 £603 +0.42% 22
East Midlands +4 2 £500 -35.48% 11
Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 Midlands region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (40.00%) SAP PI
3 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (40.00%) SAP
3 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (30.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (30.00%) SAP PM
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 3 (30.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) SAP HR
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Use Case
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Visualforce
4 3 (30.00%) Apex Code
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) NetWeaver
1 1 (10.00%) SAP EP
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP HR
1 3 (30.00%) SAP PM
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) SAP PI
2 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (30.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (30.00%) Visualforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (10.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Sequence Diagram
2 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (30.00%) Use Case
2 3 (30.00%) User Stories
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (10.00%) ABAP
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft