Technical Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 298 316
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 -49
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 75 147 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.70% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 110 151
10th Percentile £400 £424 £463
25th Percentile £513 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £688
90th Percentile £795 £702 £756
UK median daily rate £588 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -4.16% -1.92% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £68.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.07% +95.71% -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +8 22 £513 -20.54% 11
Midlands +28 16 £750 +39.53% 4
West Midlands +20 15 £750 +36.36% 1
Scotland +40 12 £638 +3.66% 6
South West +5 12 £588 -9.62% 11
East of England +8 11 £565 -13.08% 5
North of England -12 2 £685 +24.55% 23
East Midlands +15 1 £800 +52.38% 3
Yorkshire +4 1 - - 3
North West -15 1 £685 +24.55% 13
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical Architecture
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 (9.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (2.67%) RMDS
3 1 (1.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.00%) AWS
2 15 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (8.00%) GCP
3 6 (8.00%) GitHub
4 5 (6.67%) IaaS
5 4 (5.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (5.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 4 (5.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (5.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.33%) Serverless
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.67%) Route 53
7 2 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.67%) WAN
2 13 (17.33%) Firewall
2 13 (17.33%) LAN
3 11 (14.67%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (10.67%) VPN
5 7 (9.33%) MPLS
5 7 (9.33%) SD-WAN
5 7 (9.33%) WLAN
6 6 (8.00%) Internet
6 6 (8.00%) PBX
6 6 (8.00%) VoIP
7 5 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (6.67%) DHCP
7 5 (6.67%) DNS
8 4 (5.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (4.00%) 4G
9 3 (4.00%) 5G
9 3 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (2.67%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (8.00%) SAP HANA
3 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Finance
2 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.67%) Back Office
4 5 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Billing
5 2 (2.67%) Local Government
6 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (62.67%) Architect
2 17 (22.67%) Technical Architect
3 8 (10.67%) Cloud Architect
3 8 (10.67%) Consultant
4 7 (9.33%) Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 7 (9.33%) Technical Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) Network Architect
5 6 (8.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) SAP Technical Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) Web Services
2 8 (10.67%) HTML
3 7 (9.33%) CSS
4 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.00%) Node.js
4 6 (8.00%) REST
4 6 (8.00%) SAP Basis
4 6 (8.00%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (8.00%) SOAP
5 5 (6.67%) React
5 5 (6.67%) XML
6 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.33%) JSON
7 3 (4.00%) .NET
7 3 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.00%) RESTful
8 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.67%) Blazor
8 2 (2.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.67%) IoT
3 5 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) NB-IoT
4 3 (4.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.67%) CMDB
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Windows
1 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.67%) Roadmaps
2 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (17.33%) Mentoring
4 11 (14.67%) Agile
4 11 (14.67%) Storage Management
5 9 (12.00%) Analytics
5 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.00%) High Availability
6 8 (10.67%) Data Architecture
6 8 (10.67%) Design Patterns
6 8 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (10.67%) ITIL
6 8 (10.67%) Programme Management
6 8 (10.67%) Security Architecture
6 8 (10.67%) Service Management
6 8 (10.67%) TOGAF
7 7 (9.33%) ArchiMate
7 7 (9.33%) Performance Management
7 7 (9.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
1 10 (13.33%) Python
2 6 (8.00%) Java
3 4 (5.33%) SQL
4 3 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) Perl
6 1 (1.33%) R
6 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.33%) Degree
4 6 (8.00%) CCIE
4 6 (8.00%) CCIE Data Center
4 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.00%) ACCA
6 3 (4.00%) CCNA
6 3 (4.00%) CCNP
6 3 (4.00%) CIMA
6 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) GDPR
2 4 (5.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 4 (5.33%) NCSC
2 4 (5.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) COBIT
3 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) ACF2
3 1 (1.33%) IAG
3 1 (1.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.00%) SCCM
4 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Cisco
2 12 (16.00%) Oracle
3 11 (14.67%) Palo Alto
4 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.33%) ServiceNow
5 7 (9.33%) Zscaler
6 6 (8.00%) SAP
7 5 (6.67%) CheckPoint
7 5 (6.67%) Infoblox
7 5 (6.67%) Symantec
8 4 (5.33%) F5
8 4 (5.33%) Splunk
8 4 (5.33%) VMware
9 2 (2.67%) Bloomberg
9 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.33%) Juniper
10 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.33%) Sparx