Technical Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £618, 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 216 237 234
Rank change year-on-year +21 -3 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 120 165 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 0.79% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.86% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 121 179
10th Percentile £440 £550 £473
25th Percentile £538 £581 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +7.69% +6.56%
75th Percentile £694 £800 £745
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £630 £650 £670
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.99% +6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - £69.40
UK median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.97%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Technical Architect within the UK excluding London 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
South East +66 41 £625 -16.67% 15
North of England -15 33 £600 -25.00% 12
South West +37 25 £600 -15.79% 4
North West -22 21 £600 -27.27% 4
Midlands +16 7 £603 -13.93% 17
Yorkshire +9 7 £488 -17.37% 3
East of England +26 6 £775 +26.53% 1
West Midlands +11 6 £630 +5.00% 13
Scotland 0 6 £631 -2.88% 2
Wales - 5 £257 - 3
North East +3 4 £624 +18.91% 5
East Midlands +7 1 £550 -27.87% 4
Technical Architect
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 61 (50.83%) Security Cleared
2 49 (40.83%) SC Cleared
3 44 (36.67%) Social Skills
4 36 (30.00%) Azure
5 26 (21.67%) Technical Architecture
5 26 (21.67%) Public Sector
6 25 (20.83%) Microsoft
7 22 (18.33%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (17.50%) WAN
8 21 (17.50%) TOGAF
8 21 (17.50%) VMware
8 21 (17.50%) Microservices
9 20 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 20 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 19 (15.83%) Cisco
11 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (14.17%) Finance
12 17 (14.17%) AWS
12 17 (14.17%) DevSecOps
13 16 (13.33%) NCSC
13 16 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
13 16 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
13 16 (13.33%) LAN
13 16 (13.33%) Windows
14 15 (12.50%) Java
14 15 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
15 14 (11.67%) Palo Alto
15 14 (11.67%) IT Strategy
15 14 (11.67%) ITIL

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 7 (5.83%) NetWeaver
1 7 (5.83%) SAP EP
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) Camunda
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.83%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) SAP CRM
2 3 (2.50%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.00%) Azure
2 17 (14.17%) AWS
3 10 (8.33%) PaaS
3 10 (8.33%) SaaS
4 8 (6.67%) IaaS
5 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.83%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (5.00%) GCP
6 6 (5.00%) Serverless
7 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.67%) GitHub
9 2 (1.67%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) WAN
2 16 (13.33%) LAN
3 13 (10.83%) Firewall
4 12 (10.00%) Network Security
4 12 (10.00%) VSAN
5 7 (5.83%) VPN
6 6 (5.00%) DNS
7 5 (4.17%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.33%) BGP
8 4 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (3.33%) MPLS
8 4 (3.33%) NGFW
8 4 (3.33%) OSPF
8 4 (3.33%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.50%) VLAN
10 2 (1.67%) 3G
10 2 (1.67%) 3GPP
10 2 (1.67%) 4G
10 2 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (1.67%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.50%) Metadata
2 3 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 44 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.67%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.17%) Finance
4 10 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Aviation
6 3 (2.50%) Retail
6 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.67%) Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Military
7 2 (1.67%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.83%) SAP Fiori
1 7 (5.83%) SAP PI
1 7 (5.83%) SAPUI5
2 6 (5.00%) Middleware
3 5 (4.17%) .NET
4 3 (2.50%) Kafka
4 3 (2.50%) Node.js
5 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.67%) Express.js
5 2 (1.67%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.67%) OpenJDK
5 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.83%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth
6 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.83%) PySpark
6 1 (0.83%) SAML
6 1 (0.83%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (10.00%) PKI
2 12 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 10 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.33%) NHS
6 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.67%) BYOD
7 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) SCADA
8 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Windows
2 13 (10.83%) Linux
3 5 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.50%) Android
4 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.67%) Technical Architecture
2 22 (18.33%) Technical Leadership
3 21 (17.50%) Microservices
3 21 (17.50%) TOGAF
4 20 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 20 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 17 (14.17%) DevSecOps
6 16 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
7 14 (11.67%) IT Strategy
7 14 (11.67%) ITIL
8 13 (10.83%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (10.83%) Enterprise Architecture
8 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (10.00%) Analytics
9 12 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 12 (10.00%) Migration
9 12 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.50%) Java
2 7 (5.83%) ABAP
3 3 (2.50%) SQL
4 2 (1.67%) C#
4 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.67%) VB
4 2 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (50.83%) Security Cleared
2 49 (40.83%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (11.67%) MCSE
5 11 (9.17%) Degree
5 11 (9.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
7 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.50%) MCSA
10 2 (1.67%) CCNP
10 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.67%) MCP
10 2 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.83%) CCDA
11 1 (0.83%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) NCSC
2 11 (9.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (9.17%) NIST
3 3 (2.50%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.83%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.83%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.00%) Docker
4 3 (2.50%) vSphere
5 2 (1.67%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.50%) SCCM
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.67%) Terraform
4 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.83%) OPNET
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.50%) VMware
3 19 (15.83%) Cisco
4 14 (11.67%) Palo Alto
5 10 (8.33%) SAP
6 8 (6.67%) Ariba
7 6 (5.00%) Databricks
7 6 (5.00%) Virgin Media
8 5 (4.17%) Google
9 4 (3.33%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.50%) Apple
10 3 (2.50%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.50%) Symantec
10 3 (2.50%) Veritas
10 3 (2.50%) Workday
11 2 (1.67%) Aruba
11 2 (1.67%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.67%) Juniper