.NET Technical Architect Contracts

Microsoft .NET Technical Architect
UK

The median Microsoft .NET Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, 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 513 580 717
Rank change year-on-year +67 +137 +127
Contract jobs requiring a .NET Technical Architect 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.005% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.005% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £556 £526 -
25th Percentile £585 £547 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -18.97% +1.75%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £738
90th Percentile £719 £639 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

.NET Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for .NET Technical Architect in the UK

.NET Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing .NET Technical Architect.

Daily rate trend for .NET Technical Architect in the UK

.NET Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET Technical Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET Technical Architect in the UK

.NET Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing .NET Technical Architect.

Hourly rate trend for .NET Technical Architect in the UK

.NET Technical Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Technical Architect within the UK 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
England +62 7 £600 +2.13% 1
UK excluding London - 5 £600 - 1
North of England - 5 £600 -
North West - 4 £600 -
London +38 2 £725 +23.40%
Work from Home +41 1 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £525 -

.NET Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, .NET 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 featuring .NET Technical Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Virgin Media
2 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (57.14%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Docker
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (14.29%) Equities
5 1 (14.29%) Kafka
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Onboarding

.NET Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Equities
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
2 4 (57.14%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Virgin Media