Senior Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in the South East

Senior Technical Architect
England > South East

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in the South East is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 164 209
Rank change year-on-year -12 +45 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 5 16 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.40% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.44% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £568 £510 £479
25th Percentile £595 £538 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £594 £514
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% +15.63% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £630 £532
90th Percentile - £630 £534
England median daily rate £700 £628 £578
% change year-on-year +11.45% +8.76% -11.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 3,809 3,678 4,875
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 92.86% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,437 2,257 3,185
10th Percentile £210 £238 £207
25th Percentile £393 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -0.26% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £683 £688
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.05% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 176 244
10th Percentile £13.75 £18.60 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £24.18 £23.91
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +2.46% +37.99%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.74 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.91% -17.22% +38.46%

Senior Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Senior Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Senior Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
West Sussex - 3 £550 -
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £640 +7.74% 3
Thames Valley -9 2 £640 +7.74% 3
Senior Technical Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Senior 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 South East region featuring Senior Technical Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
2 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) MLflow
2 3 (60.00%) MLOps
2 3 (60.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) PySpark
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office

Senior Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
1 3 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) AI
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (60.00%) LLM
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) MLOps
1 3 (60.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (60.00%) Observability
1 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAI