Technology Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technology Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technology Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 359 416
Rank change year-on-year -16 +57 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Architect 5 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.034% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.037% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £563 £625 -
25th Percentile £627 £644 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £681 £548
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +24.27% +17.60%
75th Percentile £800 £712 £615
90th Percentile £823 £727 -
UK median daily rate £675 £650 £486
% change year-on-year +3.85% +33.74% -12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 13,712 16,275 20,396
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 92.25% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,420 9,402 13,621
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £663 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,267 1,386 1,212
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.52 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +0.34% +98.86%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Technology Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Architect in the UK excluding London

Technology Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Technology Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Architect in the UK excluding London

Technology Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Technology 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 Technology Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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 - 3 £775 -
North of England -25 1 - - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 £520 -
Technology Architect
UK

Technology Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Technology 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 Technology Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) ADSL
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) ThingWorx
1 3 (60.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (60.00%) 4G
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning

Technology 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 3 (60.00%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) 4G
1 3 (60.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (60.00%) IoT
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (20.00%) Business Case
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle