Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 206 218
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 182 152 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.02% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.10% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 102 158
10th Percentile £450 £450 £525
25th Percentile £513 £506 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £589 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -9.42% +4.00%
75th Percentile £689 £688 £678
90th Percentile £722 £780 £745
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £96.88 - -
90th Percentile £101.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - £78.00

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 16,378 13,796 18,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 92.40% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,052 8,232 11,988
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,657 784 1,199
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.48 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.29 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +82.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.93% -25.56% +50.00%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies 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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies 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 20 December 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 57 £555 +11.00% 8
North West -1 39 £559 +11.75% 4
South East -37 35 £627 +11.47% 26
South West -9 25 £710 +13.60% 2
Midlands -24 24 £450 -26.53% 4
West Midlands -16 23 £449 -31.00% 3
East of England -16 21 £553 -1.78% 5
Yorkshire -40 18 £550 -3.00% 2
Scotland 0 12 £723 -3.67%
Wales +9 8 £588 +4.91% 2
East Midlands -20 1 £450 -21.74% 1
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 December 2025, Technical Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 90 (49.45%) Security Cleared
2 52 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 48 (26.37%) AWS
4 42 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 37 (20.33%) Azure
6 35 (19.23%) Agile
7 32 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
8 30 (16.48%) CI/CD
8 30 (16.48%) DV Cleared
9 26 (14.29%) Kubernetes
10 25 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (13.74%) Terraform
11 21 (11.54%) Mentoring
11 21 (11.54%) TOGAF
12 19 (10.44%) Java
13 18 (9.89%) GitHub
13 18 (9.89%) Migration
13 18 (9.89%) Python
14 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (9.34%) Microservices
14 17 (9.34%) Microsoft
15 15 (8.24%) Domain-Driven Design
15 15 (8.24%) TDD
16 13 (7.14%) AI
16 13 (7.14%) Containerisation
16 13 (7.14%) Data Modelling
16 13 (7.14%) Docker
16 13 (7.14%) Git
16 13 (7.14%) Serverless
16 13 (7.14%) SQL Server

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.95%) WebLogic
2 4 (2.20%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.65%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.10%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.10%) SAP EP
5 1 (0.55%) Confluence
5 1 (0.55%) Mule
5 1 (0.55%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Workday HCM
2 4 (2.20%) SAP HR
2 4 (2.20%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.10%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.37%) AWS
2 37 (20.33%) Azure
3 18 (9.89%) GitHub
4 13 (7.14%) Serverless
5 11 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.04%) GCP
5 11 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon EventBridge
8 6 (3.30%) Apigee
8 6 (3.30%) Datadog
9 5 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.75%) Loggly
9 5 (2.75%) Route 53
9 5 (2.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) DNS
1 8 (4.40%) LAN
1 8 (4.40%) SAN
1 8 (4.40%) WAN
2 5 (2.75%) VPN
2 5 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.20%) Firewall
4 3 (1.65%) DHCP
4 3 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.65%) Skype
4 3 (1.65%) VLAN
5 2 (1.10%) Network Security
5 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.55%) BGP
6 1 (0.55%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.40%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.40%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.30%) Redis
6 5 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.75%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.75%) MySQL
6 5 (2.75%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.10%) Metadata
9 2 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Git
2 11 (6.04%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.95%) CircleCI
4 8 (4.40%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (3.30%) JIRA
5 6 (3.30%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.75%) Gradle
6 5 (2.75%) Maven
6 5 (2.75%) SonarLint
7 3 (1.65%) MLflow
8 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.55%) Hudson
General
1 55 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.75%) Finance
6 4 (2.20%) Aviation
6 4 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.20%) Military
7 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Local Government
8 2 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Back Office
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.04%) GraphQL
1 11 (6.04%) RESTful
2 10 (5.49%) .NET
3 9 (4.95%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.85%) Celery
4 7 (3.85%) J2EE
4 7 (3.85%) SAP PI
5 6 (3.30%) Dropwizard
5 6 (3.30%) JWT
5 6 (3.30%) Micronaut
5 6 (3.30%) Middleware
6 5 (2.75%) OAuth
6 5 (2.75%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.75%) REST
7 4 (2.20%) Kafka
7 4 (2.20%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (2.20%) SOAP
7 4 (2.20%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.65%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.49%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.30%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.20%) NHS
7 3 (1.65%) PKI
7 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Clustering
8 2 (1.10%) CMDB
8 2 (1.10%) IVR
8 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.55%) IoT
9 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.49%) Windows
2 7 (3.85%) Linux
3 3 (1.65%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.65%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 35 (19.23%) Agile
3 32 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
4 30 (16.48%) CI/CD
5 25 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 21 (11.54%) TOGAF
7 18 (9.89%) Migration
8 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (9.34%) Microservices
9 15 (8.24%) Domain-Driven Design
9 15 (8.24%) TDD
10 13 (7.14%) AI
10 13 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 13 (7.14%) Data Modelling
10 13 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
10 13 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (7.14%) Technology Roadmap
11 12 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.44%) Java
2 18 (9.89%) Python
3 11 (6.04%) TypeScript
4 10 (5.49%) SQL
5 5 (2.75%) Apex Code
5 5 (2.75%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.20%) Ruby
7 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.65%) VB
7 3 (1.65%) VBScript
8 2 (1.10%) ABAP
8 2 (1.10%) C#
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 90 (49.45%) Security Cleared
2 52 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 30 (16.48%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.40%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.40%) Degree
5 6 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB
8 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.75%) NIST
2 3 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
3 2 (1.10%) GRC
3 2 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.55%) COBIT
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.55%) HL7
4 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 13 (7.14%) Docker
2 6 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.65%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.74%) Terraform
3 9 (4.95%) Grafana
3 9 (4.95%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.65%) SCCM
5 2 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.59%) Oracle
3 11 (6.04%) MuleSoft
3 11 (6.04%) Workday
4 10 (5.49%) SAP
5 9 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.40%) VMware
7 6 (3.30%) Cisco
7 6 (3.30%) Gigya
7 6 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.20%) Ariba
9 3 (1.65%) Capita
9 3 (1.65%) Databricks
9 3 (1.65%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.10%) Citrix
10 2 (1.10%) Meraki
10 2 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.55%) Google
11 1 (0.55%) McAfee
11 1 (0.55%) QAD