Technical Architect Contracts in Milton Keynes

Technical Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 42 72
Rank change year-on-year +25 +30 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 14 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.09% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.70% 0.55% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 3
10th Percentile £562 £680 £570
25th Percentile £563 £688 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +11.54% +23.69%
75th Percentile £630 £763 -
90th Percentile £645 £770 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £618 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -14.83% +11.54% +23.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 161 364 699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 93.33% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 275 570
10th Percentile £286 £263 £310
25th Percentile £400 £403 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £590 £586 £570
90th Percentile £643 £695 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 2
10th Percentile £13.90 £15.85 £9.87
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.00 £10.42
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.58 £11.58
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +94.99% +7.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £30.00 £12.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £48.75 £12.89
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.42 £23.75 £13.16
% change year-on-year -39.28% +80.47% +11.20%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Milton Keynes

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 13 (92.86%) TOGAF
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) DevSecOps
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (78.57%) VMware
3 11 (78.57%) Cisco
3 11 (78.57%) NCSC
3 11 (78.57%) Palo Alto
3 11 (78.57%) VMware NSX
4 10 (71.43%) VSAN
4 10 (71.43%) Microservices
4 10 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (64.29%) SaaS
5 9 (64.29%) PaaS
5 9 (64.29%) ITIL
5 9 (64.29%) MCSE
5 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (64.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (64.29%) PKI
5 9 (64.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (64.29%) NIST
5 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
6 8 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (57.14%) Zachman Framework
6 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (50.00%) Use Case
7 7 (50.00%) IaaS

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (14.29%) Camunda
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) PaaS
1 9 (64.29%) SaaS
2 7 (50.00%) IaaS
3 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) VSAN
2 3 (21.43%) BGP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (21.43%) MPLS
2 3 (21.43%) NGFW
2 3 (21.43%) OSPF
2 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 3 (21.43%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
1 2 (14.29%) OpenJDK
1 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (64.29%) PKI
3 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) DevSecOps
1 13 (92.86%) TOGAF
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (71.43%) Microservices
4 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (64.29%) ITIL
5 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
5 8 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (57.14%) Zachman Framework
6 7 (50.00%) Use Case
7 6 (42.86%) IT Strategy
7 6 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
8 5 (35.71%) Requirements Management
9 4 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
9 4 (28.57%) Virtual Environments
10 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (14.29%) Open Source
10 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
11 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (64.29%) MCSE
3 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (64.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Certification
4 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 1 (7.14%) CCNP
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (78.57%) NCSC
2 9 (64.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (64.29%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (78.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Cisco
1 11 (78.57%) Palo Alto
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft