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 £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 207 232
Rank change year-on-year -41 +25 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 106 186 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.87% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.94% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 133 164
10th Percentile £374 £513 £466
25th Percentile £500 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £694 £788 £732
90th Percentile £788 £850 £759
UK median daily rate £626 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.69% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £56.50
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
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 12,296 19,717 21,485
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.47% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,714 11,713 14,887
10th Percentile £218 £213 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 941 2,535 1,097
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.57
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 of England -19 38 £550 -31.25% 217
South East +48 26 £625 -10.75% 204
North West -17 25 £575 -32.35% 105
South West +8 20 £675 +1.89% 117
Yorkshire +13 9 £525 -11.02% 92
East of England +25 7 £300 -51.02% 129
Midlands -9 7 £603 -3.60% 157
West Midlands -8 6 £630 +2.86% 86
Scotland -13 6 £625 -7.41% 35
Wales +10 5 £257 -57.18% 34
North East +3 4 £528 +0.48% 20
East Midlands +9 1 £550 -29.03% 69
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 42 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 40 (37.74%) Social Skills
3 33 (31.13%) Azure
4 32 (30.19%) SC Cleared
5 25 (23.58%) Microsoft
6 24 (22.64%) Public Sector
6 24 (22.64%) Technical Leadership
7 23 (21.70%) Technical Architecture
8 21 (19.81%) Finance
8 21 (19.81%) Architectural Patterns
9 20 (18.87%) Java
10 18 (16.98%) Windows
10 18 (16.98%) Roadmaps
11 16 (15.09%) AWS
12 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
13 14 (13.21%) Active Directory
14 13 (12.26%) Linux
14 13 (12.26%) LAN
14 13 (12.26%) WAN
14 13 (12.26%) Migration
14 13 (12.26%) DevOps
14 13 (12.26%) Microservices
15 12 (11.32%) IT Strategy
16 11 (10.38%) Collaborative Working
16 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (10.38%) Agile
16 11 (10.38%) Enterprise Architecture
16 11 (10.38%) SAP
17 10 (9.43%) Analytics

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 (6.60%) NetWeaver
1 7 (6.60%) SAP EP
2 2 (1.89%) Camunda
2 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.60%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.89%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.13%) Azure
2 16 (15.09%) AWS
3 7 (6.60%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (5.66%) GCP
5 5 (4.72%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.72%) Serverless
6 4 (3.77%) Azure AI
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 4 (3.77%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.83%) GitHub
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.83%) SaaS
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.89%) PaaS
9 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.26%) LAN
1 13 (12.26%) WAN
2 8 (7.55%) Network Security
3 7 (6.60%) Firewall
4 2 (1.89%) DNS
4 2 (1.89%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.94%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) Metadata
2 4 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.89%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.94%) MySQL
4 1 (0.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Hudson
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
General
1 40 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.64%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.81%) Finance
4 9 (8.49%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Banking
5 4 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.83%) Electronics
6 3 (2.83%) Legal
6 3 (2.83%) Marketing
6 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Aviation
7 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.89%) Military
7 2 (1.89%) Publishing
8 1 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) .NET
1 9 (8.49%) Middleware
2 7 (6.60%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (6.60%) SAP PI
2 7 (6.60%) SAPUI5
3 5 (4.72%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.77%) React
4 4 (3.77%) RESTful
5 3 (2.83%) Node.js
6 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.89%) Express.js
6 2 (1.89%) Kafka
6 2 (1.89%) Keycloak
6 2 (1.89%) OpenJDK
7 1 (0.94%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.94%) LDAP
7 1 (0.94%) OAuth
7 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.94%) PySpark
7 1 (0.94%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Data Centre
1 7 (6.60%) Public Cloud
1 7 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.77%) NHS
4 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.94%) BYOD
6 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.98%) Windows
2 13 (12.26%) Linux
3 4 (3.77%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.83%) Android
4 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.83%) Unix
5 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.64%) Technical Leadership
2 23 (21.70%) Technical Architecture
3 21 (19.81%) Architectural Patterns
4 18 (16.98%) Roadmaps
5 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
6 13 (12.26%) DevOps
6 13 (12.26%) Microservices
6 13 (12.26%) Migration
7 12 (11.32%) IT Strategy
8 11 (10.38%) Agile
8 11 (10.38%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (10.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (9.43%) Analytics
9 10 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (9.43%) Strategic Thinking
10 9 (8.49%) CRM
10 9 (8.49%) TOGAF
11 8 (7.55%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.87%) Java
2 7 (6.60%) ABAP
3 6 (5.66%) C#
4 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.77%) Python
6 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.89%) VB
6 2 (1.89%) VBScript
7 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) Degree
4 7 (6.60%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.77%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.83%) VCAP
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.89%) MCP
8 2 (1.89%) MCSA
8 2 (1.89%) MCSE
8 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.72%) NCSC
2 2 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 14 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.66%) Docker
4 2 (1.89%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.60%) Terraform
3 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.94%) Grafana
5 1 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.38%) SAP
3 8 (7.55%) MuleSoft
4 7 (6.60%) Ariba
4 7 (6.60%) VMware
5 6 (5.66%) Virgin Media
6 5 (4.72%) Citrix
6 5 (4.72%) Google
7 4 (3.77%) Cisco
7 4 (3.77%) Databricks
7 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.83%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.83%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.83%) Veritas
9 2 (1.89%) Adobe
9 2 (1.89%) Commvault
9 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.89%) MobileIron
9 2 (1.89%) Symantec
9 2 (1.89%) Workday