Technical Architect Contracts in Surrey

Technical Architect
South East > Surrey

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Surrey is £628, 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 33 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 2.01% - 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.11% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £517 - £346
25th Percentile £541 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 - £400
75th Percentile £797 - £588
90th Percentile £881 - £685
South East median daily rate £625 £750 £678
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.62% +13.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 285 545 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 92.84% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 404 473
10th Percentile £188 £200 £199
25th Percentile £269 £367 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in Surrey

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in Surrey

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in Surrey

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in Surrey

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Guildford - 3 £600 -
Reigate - 1 £875 -
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

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 Surrey region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) API Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
3 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Databricks

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) API Management
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Line Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks