Technical Architect Contracts in the North of England

Technical Architect
England > North of England

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the North of England is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 152 177
Rank change year-on-year +35 +25 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 68 60 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.45% 1.04% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.09% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 49 64
10th Percentile £535 £499 £500
25th Percentile £585 £575 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £850 £745 £700
90th Percentile - £840 £750
England median daily rate £675 £675 £638
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +13.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 4,371 5,522 6,965
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.31% 97.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,902 5,114
10th Percentile £263 £282 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 162 289
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.03 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.64 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +69.27% +4.39%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.06 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the North of England

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the North of England

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the North of England

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the North of England

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
North West +48 60 £825 +32.00% 6
Yorkshire -2 6 £590 -20.81% 4
North East +19 1 £525 - 1
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 43 (63.24%) Windows
2 41 (60.29%) Android
2 41 (60.29%) Apple iOS
3 40 (58.82%) Firewall
3 40 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 40 (58.82%) CI/CD
4 39 (57.35%) Node.js
5 38 (55.88%) Security Architecture
5 38 (55.88%) Mobile Device Management
5 38 (55.88%) Risk Management
5 38 (55.88%) VPN
5 38 (55.88%) Zero Trust
6 36 (52.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 36 (52.94%) Threat Intelligence
6 36 (52.94%) Agile
7 35 (51.47%) DevOps
8 32 (47.06%) Public Cloud
9 30 (44.12%) Design Patterns
10 24 (35.29%) Security Cleared
11 22 (32.35%) SC Cleared
12 16 (23.53%) Roadmaps
12 16 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (22.06%) Microservices
14 12 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
14 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
14 12 (17.65%) Product Strategy
15 9 (13.24%) Product Roadmap
15 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
16 8 (11.76%) Mobile App
17 7 (10.29%) User Experience

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 5 (7.35%) AWS
3 3 (4.41%) GCP
4 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.47%) Azure App Service
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.47%) Kong
4 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (58.82%) Firewall
2 38 (55.88%) VPN
3 5 (7.35%) LAN
4 4 (5.88%) WAN
5 3 (4.41%) Converged Networks
5 3 (4.41%) ISDN
5 3 (4.41%) Network Security
5 3 (4.41%) Skype
5 3 (4.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
1 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Legal
4 3 (4.41%) Local Government
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (57.35%) Node.js
2 2 (2.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 32 (47.06%) Public Cloud
2 9 (13.24%) Product Ownership
3 8 (11.76%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.41%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (63.24%) Windows
2 41 (60.29%) Android
2 41 (60.29%) Apple iOS
3 40 (58.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 38 (55.88%) Mobile Device Management
2 38 (55.88%) Risk Management
2 38 (55.88%) Security Architecture
2 38 (55.88%) Zero Trust
3 36 (52.94%) Agile
3 36 (52.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 36 (52.94%) Threat Intelligence
4 35 (51.47%) DevOps
5 30 (44.12%) Design Patterns
6 16 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 16 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (22.06%) Microservices
8 12 (17.65%) Product Strategy
8 12 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
9 9 (13.24%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (10.29%) Migration
10 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (10.29%) User Experience
11 5 (7.35%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.94%) Kotlin
2 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 22 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.47%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Google
2 5 (7.35%) Apple
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Brio
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Dell
5 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.47%) Sophos
5 1 (1.47%) VMware