Java Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Java Technical Architect
UK

The median Java Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 552 625
Rank change year-on-year +8 +73 +202
Contract jobs requiring a Java Technical Architect 14 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.018% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.020% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 6
10th Percentile £425 £543 £513
25th Percentile £506 £588 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £625 £608
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +2.88% +5.65%
75th Percentile £580 £654 £643
90th Percentile £583 £683 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 - £683
% change year-on-year - - +18.70%

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 30,022 35,189 44,981
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.96% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,926 21,285 30,746
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,622 1,501 1,508
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.85 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -4.49% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.52 £74.75 £77.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.69% -3.37% +97.78%

Java Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Java Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Technical Architect over the 6 months to 8 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Technical Architect in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Technical Architect job vacancies in the UK

Java Technical Architect
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Technical Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 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 +12 14 £570 -8.80%
UK excluding London - 11 £570 -
North of England - 10 £570 -
North West - 10 £570 -
Work from Home +24 3 £414 -32.57%
London +12 3 £450 -28.00%
South West - 1 £500 -

Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 October 2025, Java 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 featuring Java Technical Architect in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) Microservices
3 9 (64.29%) RESTful
3 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
4 8 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 8 (57.14%) Spring Boot
4 8 (57.14%) Terraform
4 8 (57.14%) Serverless
4 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 8 (57.14%) Event-Driven
4 8 (57.14%) Clean Code
4 8 (57.14%) Azure
4 8 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (57.14%) GCP
4 8 (57.14%) Docker
4 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
4 8 (57.14%) DynamoDB
4 8 (57.14%) Git
4 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
5 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (50.00%) OOP
5 7 (50.00%) Python
5 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
5 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming

Java Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 8 (57.14%) Serverless
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (42.86%) Amazon EventBridge
4 6 (42.86%) Apigee
4 6 (42.86%) Datadog
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (35.71%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (35.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 5 (35.71%) GitHub
5 5 (35.71%) Loggly
5 5 (35.71%) Route 53
6 4 (28.57%) PaaS
6 4 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) DynamoDB
1 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (35.71%) BigQuery
4 5 (35.71%) MySQL
4 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
4 5 (35.71%) Redis
4 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Git
1 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 5 (35.71%) Gradle
3 5 (35.71%) Maven
3 5 (35.71%) SonarLint
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) RESTful
2 8 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (42.86%) Dropwizard
3 6 (42.86%) J2EE
3 6 (42.86%) JWT
3 6 (42.86%) Micronaut
4 5 (35.71%) Celery
5 4 (28.57%) GraphQL
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth
6 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (14.29%) Spring
7 1 (7.14%) Middleware
7 1 (7.14%) SOAP
7 1 (7.14%) Spring Security
7 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 6 (42.86%) N-Tier
2 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Microservices
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) Clean Code
3 8 (57.14%) Design Patterns
3 8 (57.14%) Event-Driven
3 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (57.14%) TOGAF
4 7 (50.00%) API Design
4 7 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 7 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
4 7 (50.00%) OOP
4 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (42.86%) BDD
5 6 (42.86%) CQRS
5 6 (42.86%) Mentoring
5 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (42.86%) SOLID
5 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Gigya
2 2 (14.29%) Calypso
2 2 (14.29%) Murex
2 2 (14.29%) SAP