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 £600, 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 133 118 161
Rank change year-on-year -15 +43 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 33 68 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.00% 1.43% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.53% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 49
10th Percentile £450 £535 £508
25th Percentile £513 £585 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +18.49%
75th Percentile £638 £850 £745
90th Percentile £788 - £840
England median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.46% - +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
North West -22 21 £600 -27.27% 4
Yorkshire +9 7 £488 -17.37% 3
North East +3 4 £624 +18.91% 5
Technical Architect
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
1 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 11 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
5 9 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (27.27%) Microservices
6 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.21%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
7 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
7 6 (18.18%) Serverless
7 6 (18.18%) Virgin Media
7 6 (18.18%) Docker
7 6 (18.18%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
7 6 (18.18%) Azure
7 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (18.18%) Agile
7 6 (18.18%) Java
8 5 (15.15%) .NET
8 5 (15.15%) Due Diligence
8 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
9 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.12%) Finance
9 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
9 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
9 4 (12.12%) AWS

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 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Azure
1 6 (18.18%) Serverless
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.03%) Metadata
2 1 (3.03%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) Node.js
3 2 (6.06%) Express.js
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.03%) PySpark
4 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) BYOD
2 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.06%) NHS
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Unix
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 9 (27.27%) Microservices
2 9 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (21.21%) Architectural Patterns
3 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
4 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 6 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
4 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.15%) Customer Service
5 5 (15.15%) Due Diligence
6 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.12%) Data Integration
6 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.12%) User Experience
7 3 (9.09%) Architectural Design
7 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) C#
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) VB
2 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) MCP
2 1 (3.03%) MCSA
2 1 (3.03%) MCSE
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (6.06%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Virgin Media
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Veritas
4 2 (6.06%) Commvault
5 1 (3.03%) Ariba
5 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) McAfee
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) Symantec
5 1 (3.03%) VMware