Technical Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 135 154
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 8 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.50% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile £645 - £482
25th Percentile £663 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £591 £615
Median % change year-on-year +18.39% -3.86% +24.56%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £700
90th Percentile £745 £664 -
South East median daily rate £750 £677 £650
% change year-on-year +10.86% +4.08% +26.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,541 2,785 3,352
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 94.06% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 1,929 2,285
10th Percentile £205 £313 £190
25th Percentile £363 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 78 101
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.70 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £83.94 £79.19 £57.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Berkshire -14 6 £675 +50.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +28 2 £725 +11.54% 2
Technical Architect
South East

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Java EE
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Selenium
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Software Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Docker
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
3 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) REST Assured
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
1 3 (37.50%) Java EE
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
1 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (37.50%) Software Architecture
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Podman
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce