Digital Technical Architect Contracts

Digital Technical Architect
UK

As of 16 June 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Digital Technical Architect daily rate in the UK.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 583 661
Rank change year-on-year +67 +78 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Technical Architect 2 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.015% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £579
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.09%
75th Percentile - - £688
90th Percentile - - £744
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £579
% change year-on-year - - -3.50%

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 27,380 40,472 52,439
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 92.90% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,580 25,942 36,562
10th Percentile £288 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 2,956 1,487
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.01 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £41.05
% change year-on-year -37.13% -2.55% +105.23%

Digital Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Technical Architect in the UK

Digital Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Technical Architect in the UK

Digital Technical Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Technical Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +52 2 - -
London - 2 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -

Digital Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 June 2025, Digital 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 Digital Technical Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) TDD

Digital 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform