Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in the North East

Technical Architect
England > North East

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the North East is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 39 35
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 7 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.41% 1.19% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.29% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £575 £467 -
25th Percentile - £521 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £624 £570
Median % change year-on-year +28.15% +9.52% -12.31%
75th Percentile - £631 £580
90th Percentile - £635 -
England median daily rate £600 £624 £672
% change year-on-year -3.89% -7.10% -0.44%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 475 310 290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 92.26% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 201 143
10th Percentile £163 £263 £163
25th Percentile £344 £350 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.18%
75th Percentile £532 £585 £559
90th Percentile £600 £650 £635
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 57
10th Percentile £17.88 £11.69 £11.08
25th Percentile £36.71 £14.14 £12.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.88 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +176.73% +24.22% -67.35%
75th Percentile £71.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £34.52
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.30% -13.71%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the North East

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the North East

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the North East over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the North East

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -14 7 £800 +28.15% 4
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 27 February 2026, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) ArchiMate
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) BPEL
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Document Management
5 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Firebird
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) IPsec

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) IPsec
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Firebird
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) BPEL
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Document Management
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) SOA
5 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft