Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Technical Architect
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Milton Keynes is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 26 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +30 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 1 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 0.40% 5.92% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 6.27% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 7
10th Percentile - £490 £540
25th Percentile £625 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% +4.66%
75th Percentile £675 £560 £574
90th Percentile - £652 £633
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £650 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% +4.66%

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 235 271 620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.43% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 197 493
10th Percentile £223 £253 £284
25th Percentile £335 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £635 £610 £699
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £435 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 9
10th Percentile £14.39 £17.52 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.65 £13.16
Median hourly rate £17.94 £26.25 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -31.68% +93.44% +8.56%
75th Percentile £26.71 £36.19 £18.75
90th Percentile £29.61 £37.12 £21.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.91 £19.35 £16.40
% change year-on-year -17.78% +17.99% +5.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) JDA
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JDA