Technical Architecture Contract Job Trends in Reading

Technical Architecture
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Technical Architecture skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 6 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.81% 0.80% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.87% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £488 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £564 £675 -
90th Percentile £613 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -26.92% -3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 807 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.35% 92.33% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 440 602
10th Percentile £325 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £620 £650 £615
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 18
10th Percentile £15.70 £28.18 £47.53
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £57.46
Median hourly rate £81.00 £59.63 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +35.84% -3.50% -12.04%
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.26 £64.57
90th Percentile £105.80 £75.56 £66.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £61.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year -5.68% +2.25% +0.23%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Architecture relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Technical Architecture job vacancy trend in Reading

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in Reading over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in Reading

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Architecture.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Technical Architecture

Technical Architecture
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Appian
2 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) JBoss
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (16.67%) CMS
3 1 (16.67%) Drupal
3 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Appian Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Process Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow