Technical Architecture Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 135 146
Rank change year-on-year +38 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 5 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.37% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.43% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £473 £505 £443
25th Percentile £506 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +17.30%
75th Percentile £588 £540 -
90th Percentile - £651 -
South East median daily rate £625 £450 £615
% change year-on-year +38.89% -26.83% +4.68%
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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year -14.77% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the Thames Valley

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture 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 +18 3 £575 -17.86% 3
Berkshire +24 2 £450 -14.29% 5
Technical Architecture
South East

Technical Architecture
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 (40.00%) Camunda
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) HBase
2 1 (20.00%) HDInsight
2 1 (20.00%) Impala
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (40.00%) OpenJDK
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) MapReduce
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Flume
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) StreamSets