Technical Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £615, 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 82 137 140
Rank change year-on-year +55 +3 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 20 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £558 £645 £450
25th Percentile £563 £663 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £725 £650
90th Percentile - £745 £691
South East median daily rate £625 £750 £678
% change year-on-year -16.67% +10.62% +13.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
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 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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
Buckinghamshire +30 16 £618 -14.83%
Berkshire +29 4 £300 -55.56% 4
Technical Architect
South East

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

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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 16 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (75.00%) VMware
2 15 (75.00%) DevSecOps
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Cisco
3 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (65.00%) NCSC
4 13 (65.00%) Palo Alto
4 13 (65.00%) VMware NSX
5 12 (60.00%) VSAN
5 12 (60.00%) Microservices
5 12 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (60.00%) ITIL
6 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (55.00%) MCSE
6 11 (55.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (55.00%) PKI
6 11 (55.00%) NIST
6 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (55.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 10 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
7 10 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (50.00%) SaaS
7 10 (50.00%) PaaS
8 8 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
8 8 (40.00%) IT Strategy

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Camunda
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) PaaS
1 10 (50.00%) SaaS
2 8 (40.00%) IaaS
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) VSAN
2 5 (25.00%) WAN
3 4 (20.00%) BGP
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (20.00%) MPLS
3 4 (20.00%) NGFW
3 4 (20.00%) OSPF
3 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) DNS
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
5 2 (10.00%) 3G
5 2 (10.00%) 3GPP
5 2 (10.00%) 4G
5 2 (10.00%) 5G
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.00%) Firewall
5 2 (10.00%) LTE
6 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
1 2 (10.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (10.00%) OpenJDK
1 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (55.00%) PKI
3 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 15 (75.00%) DevSecOps
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (60.00%) ITIL
4 12 (60.00%) Microservices
5 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
7 8 (40.00%) IT Strategy
7 8 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (40.00%) Use Case
8 7 (35.00%) Requirements Management
9 6 (30.00%) Matrix Organization
10 5 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
11 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (15.00%) Presales
11 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
12 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) MCSE
3 11 (55.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (55.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) CCNP
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.00%) CCDA
6 1 (5.00%) CCDP
6 1 (5.00%) CCNA
6 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) NCSC
2 11 (55.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (55.00%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (65.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) VMware
2 14 (70.00%) Cisco
3 13 (65.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft