Technical Architecture Contracts in the South East

Technical Architecture
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 186 184
Rank change year-on-year +47 -2 +36
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 20 19 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.34% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.40% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 29
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 £255 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £615
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -26.83% +4.68%
75th Percentile £713 £539 £678
90th Percentile £819 £553 -
England median daily rate £615 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.96% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £71.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -13.24% +102.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the South East

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the South East

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the South East

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the South East

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture 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
Hampshire +30 6 £700 +75.00% 19
West Sussex - 6 £625 - 6
Thames Valley +38 5 £575 +9.52% 32
Buckinghamshire +18 3 £575 -17.86% 11
Berkshire +24 2 £450 -14.29% 13
Kent - 2 £725 - 11
Technical Architecture
England

Technical Architecture
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 (30.00%) NetWeaver
1 6 (30.00%) SAP EP
2 2 (10.00%) Camunda
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
1 6 (30.00%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Metadata
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) HBase
3 1 (5.00%) HDInsight
3 1 (5.00%) Impala
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (75.00%) Architect
2 13 (65.00%) Technical Architect
3 7 (35.00%) SAP Architect
3 7 (35.00%) SAP Technical Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) IFS Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Java Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.00%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Security Officer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Basis Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Security Officer
6 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) SAP Fiori
1 6 (30.00%) SAP PI
1 6 (30.00%) SAPUI5
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (10.00%) OpenJDK
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) PySpark
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CRM
1 10 (50.00%) ERP
2 9 (45.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 6 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Customer Insight
7 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Data Management
7 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) Metadata Management
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) ABAP
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.00%) CEH
6 1 (5.00%) CISM
6 1 (5.00%) CISSP
6 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) GIAC
6 1 (5.00%) OSCP
6 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) SAP
2 6 (30.00%) Ariba
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Adobe
4 2 (10.00%) IFS
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) StreamSets