Technical Architect Contracts in the South East

Technical Architect
England > South East

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the South East is £625, 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 118 184 174
Rank change year-on-year +66 -10 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 41 21 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.36% 0.38% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.41% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 38
10th Percentile £525 £655 £450
25th Percentile £563 £675 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £678
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.62% +13.00%
75th Percentile £691 £775 £743
90th Percentile £754 £815 £791
England median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.46% - +6.30%

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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the South East

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 Technical Architect within the South East 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
Thames Valley +55 20 £615 -12.14% 4
Buckinghamshire +30 16 £618 -14.83%
Hampshire +28 8 £688 -9.54% 2
West Sussex +14 6 £625 -16.70% 1
Surrey - 6 £628 -
Berkshire +29 4 £300 -55.56% 4
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 23 (56.10%) SC Cleared
3 18 (43.90%) TOGAF
3 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
4 15 (36.59%) DevSecOps
4 15 (36.59%) VMware
5 14 (34.15%) ITIL
5 14 (34.15%) Cisco
5 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
6 13 (31.71%) NCSC
6 13 (31.71%) Palo Alto
6 13 (31.71%) VMware NSX
6 13 (31.71%) Technical Architecture
6 13 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (29.27%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (29.27%) Microservices
7 12 (29.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (29.27%) IT Strategy
7 12 (29.27%) VSAN
8 11 (26.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (26.83%) NIST
8 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (26.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (26.83%) PKI
8 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (26.83%) MCSE
8 11 (26.83%) Azure
9 10 (24.39%) SaaS
9 10 (24.39%) PaaS
9 10 (24.39%) Continuous Delivery

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (14.63%) NetWeaver
1 6 (14.63%) SAP EP
2 2 (4.88%) Camunda
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (14.63%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) PaaS
2 10 (24.39%) SaaS
3 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 8 (19.51%) IaaS
4 6 (14.63%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.88%) GitHub
6 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) VSAN
2 10 (24.39%) WAN
3 6 (14.63%) LAN
4 4 (9.76%) BGP
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (9.76%) MPLS
4 4 (9.76%) NGFW
4 4 (9.76%) OSPF
4 4 (9.76%) SD-WAN
4 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (9.76%) VPN
5 3 (7.32%) DNS
5 3 (7.32%) VLAN
6 2 (4.88%) 3G
6 2 (4.88%) 3GPP
6 2 (4.88%) 4G
6 2 (4.88%) 5G
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (4.88%) Firewall
6 2 (4.88%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
1 2 (4.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.07%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) SAP Fiori
1 6 (14.63%) SAP PI
1 6 (14.63%) SAPUI5
2 5 (12.20%) Middleware
3 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) Keycloak
3 2 (4.88%) OpenJDK
3 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.44%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (26.83%) PKI
3 8 (19.51%) Public Cloud
4 6 (14.63%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) TOGAF
2 15 (36.59%) DevSecOps
3 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
3 14 (34.15%) ITIL
4 13 (31.71%) Technical Architecture
5 12 (29.27%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (29.27%) IT Strategy
5 12 (29.27%) Microservices
6 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
7 10 (24.39%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (24.39%) Technology Strategy
7 10 (24.39%) Zachman Framework
8 8 (19.51%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (19.51%) ERP
8 8 (19.51%) Strategic Thinking
8 8 (19.51%) Use Case
9 7 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (17.07%) CRM
9 7 (17.07%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) Java
2 6 (14.63%) ABAP
3 2 (4.88%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 23 (56.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.83%) MCSE
3 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (26.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (12.20%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) CCNP
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.44%) CCDA
7 1 (2.44%) CCDP
7 1 (2.44%) CCNA
7 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) NCSC
2 11 (26.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (26.83%) NIST
3 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (31.71%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) VMware
2 14 (34.15%) Cisco
3 13 (31.71%) Palo Alto
4 7 (17.07%) SAP
5 6 (14.63%) Ariba
5 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
6 4 (9.76%) MuleSoft
7 2 (4.88%) Adobe
7 2 (4.88%) IFS
7 2 (4.88%) Oracle
8 1 (2.44%) Databricks