Senior Technical Architect Contracts

Senior Technical Architect
UK

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £630, 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 487 565 682
Rank change year-on-year +78 +117 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 33 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.039% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.042% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 23
10th Percentile £561 £558 £575
25th Percentile £584 £606 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £710 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +5.19% +1.12%
75th Percentile £745 £844 £753
90th Percentile £799 £875 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -7.83% +12.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £35.00

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%

Senior Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 +71 23 £622 -25.72% 3
Work from Home +51 16 £629 -1.33% 2
UK excluding London +69 15 £622 -7.83% 3
South East +57 12 £624 -24.36%
London +36 4 £723 -15.00%
North of England +19 2 £624 - 1
North West +16 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -
North East - 1 £624 -

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

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

1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (60.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (51.52%) Microservices
4 16 (48.48%) Public Sector
5 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
6 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (39.39%) Continuous Delivery
6 13 (39.39%) AWS
6 13 (39.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (39.39%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (39.39%) VMware
7 12 (36.36%) Cisco
7 12 (36.36%) TOGAF
8 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (33.33%) Palo Alto
8 11 (33.33%) DevSecOps
8 11 (33.33%) VMware NSX
9 10 (30.30%) NCSC
9 10 (30.30%) NIST
9 10 (30.30%) VSAN
9 10 (30.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (30.30%) Public Cloud
9 10 (30.30%) ITIL
9 10 (30.30%) MCSE
9 10 (30.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (30.30%) PKI
9 10 (30.30%) Technology Strategy
9 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
10 9 (27.27%) Containerisation

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) IaaS
3 8 (24.24%) PaaS
3 8 (24.24%) SaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.06%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) VSAN
2 3 (9.09%) BGP
2 3 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (9.09%) MPLS
2 3 (9.09%) NGFW
2 3 (9.09%) OSPF
2 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.09%) VPN
2 3 (9.09%) WAN
3 2 (6.06%) DNS
3 2 (6.06%) VLAN
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Metadata
1 2 (6.06%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) CircleCI
General
1 16 (48.48%) Public Sector
2 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Law
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (30.30%) PKI
2 10 (30.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Microservices
2 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 13 (39.39%) Continuous Delivery
3 13 (39.39%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (36.36%) TOGAF
5 11 (33.33%) DevSecOps
6 10 (30.30%) ITIL
6 10 (30.30%) Technology Strategy
7 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 9 (27.27%) IT Strategy
7 9 (27.27%) Zachman Framework
8 8 (24.24%) Use Case
9 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (18.18%) API Development
10 6 (18.18%) Event-Driven
10 6 (18.18%) Requirements Management
10 6 (18.18%) Software Architecture
11 5 (15.15%) Matrix Organization
11 5 (15.15%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) Kotlin
2 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (60.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (30.30%) MCSE
4 10 (30.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CCNP
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (30.30%) NCSC
1 10 (30.30%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Grafana
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 3 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Istio
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) VMware
2 12 (36.36%) Cisco
3 11 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 2 (6.06%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.03%) Veeam