Java Technical Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Technical Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £573, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 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
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 384 427
Rank change year-on-year +26 +43 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Java Technical Architect 11 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.005% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.006% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £530 - £619
25th Percentile £538 £725 £637
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £750 £683
Median % change year-on-year -23.67% +9.89% +16.17%
75th Percentile £584 £775 £737
90th Percentile £588 - £760
UK median daily rate £560 £700 £683
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.56% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,794 16,926 21,010
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 92.03% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,471 10,336 14,218
10th Percentile £217 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,203 1,766 1,146
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.95 £37.93
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% +15.89% +79.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Java Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Java Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Java Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Java Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Java Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Java Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Technical Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
North West - 10 £570 - 5
North of England - 10 £570 - 6
South East +20 1 £575 -23.33% 1
Java Technical Architect
UK

Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 August 2025, Java 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 UK excluding London region featuring Java Technical Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Event-Driven
3 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) Terraform
3 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 9 (81.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 9 (81.82%) TOGAF
4 8 (72.73%) Git
4 8 (72.73%) RESTful
4 8 (72.73%) Azure
4 8 (72.73%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (72.73%) DynamoDB
4 8 (72.73%) GCP
4 8 (72.73%) Spring Boot
4 8 (72.73%) Serverless
4 8 (72.73%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
4 8 (72.73%) Clean Code
4 8 (72.73%) Design Patterns
5 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 7 (63.64%) API Design
5 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (63.64%) Asynchronous Programming
5 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (63.64%) NoSQL

Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (9.09%) Camunda
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) GCP
2 8 (72.73%) Serverless
3 7 (63.64%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon EventBridge
4 6 (54.55%) Apigee
4 6 (54.55%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (54.55%) Datadog
4 6 (54.55%) GitHub
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (45.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (45.45%) Loggly
5 5 (45.45%) PaaS
5 5 (45.45%) Route 53
5 5 (45.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (72.73%) DynamoDB
3 7 (63.64%) NoSQL
3 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
5 5 (45.45%) MySQL
5 5 (45.45%) RDBMS
5 5 (45.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Jenkins
2 8 (72.73%) Git
3 6 (54.55%) SonarQube
4 5 (45.45%) Gradle
4 5 (45.45%) Maven
4 5 (45.45%) SonarLint
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) RESTful
1 8 (72.73%) Spring Boot
2 6 (54.55%) Dropwizard
2 6 (54.55%) J2EE
2 6 (54.55%) JWT
2 6 (54.55%) Micronaut
3 5 (45.45%) Celery
4 4 (36.36%) GraphQL
5 2 (18.18%) Express.js
5 2 (18.18%) Node.js
6 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) Kafka
6 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth
6 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
6 1 (9.09%) OpenJDK
6 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
1 6 (54.55%) N-Tier
2 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Microservices
2 10 (90.91%) Event-Driven
3 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 9 (81.82%) TOGAF
4 8 (72.73%) Clean Code
4 8 (72.73%) Design Patterns
5 7 (63.64%) API Design
5 7 (63.64%) Asynchronous Programming
5 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 7 (63.64%) OOP
5 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (54.55%) Agile
6 6 (54.55%) BDD
6 6 (54.55%) CQRS
6 6 (54.55%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
6 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (54.55%) SOLID
6 6 (54.55%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (81.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Gigya
2 2 (18.18%) Virgin Media
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft