Senior Technical Architect Contracts

Senior Technical Architect
UK

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £723, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 558 646
Rank change year-on-year +29 +88 +185
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 27 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.055% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.059% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 12
10th Percentile £568 £574 £553
25th Percentile £668 £634 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £723 £763 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +29.24% -15.71%
75th Percentile £743 £800 £625
90th Percentile £775 £844 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £649 £675 £580
% change year-on-year -3.89% +16.48% -10.85%
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 30,093 39,135 52,513
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 93.03% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,141 25,287 36,368
10th Percentile £285 £290 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,425 2,548 1,569
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.72 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £39.58
% change year-on-year -37.63% +1.90% +88.45%

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 19 July 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 9 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 19 July 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 +49 21 £723 -8.25% 13
London +47 12 £724 -8.10% 6
Work from Home +25 12 £723 +7.04% 9
UK excluding London +23 4 £649 -3.89% 7
North of England - 3 £723 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £723 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -
North West - 1 - - 4
West Midlands - 1 £575 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 17 (62.96%) AWS
1 17 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (55.56%) Microservices
4 13 (48.15%) Roadmaps
5 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
6 11 (40.74%) Java
7 10 (37.04%) Software Architecture
7 10 (37.04%) TypeScript
7 10 (37.04%) Event-Driven
7 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
7 10 (37.04%) Kotlin
7 10 (37.04%) Terraform
8 9 (33.33%) Grafana
8 9 (33.33%) Public Cloud
8 9 (33.33%) IT Strategy
8 9 (33.33%) CircleCI
8 9 (33.33%) Prometheus
8 9 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
8 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 9 (33.33%) GitHub
9 8 (29.63%) Azure
9 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (29.63%) Domain-Driven Design
9 8 (29.63%) TDD
9 8 (29.63%) Technology Strategy
9 8 (29.63%) API Development
10 7 (25.93%) Social Skills

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 (3.70%) Apache Solr
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) GitHub
2 9 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 5 (18.52%) GCP
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) Pentaho
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) CircleCI
General
1 12 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Node.js
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (7.41%) FHIR
3 2 (7.41%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Microservices
2 13 (48.15%) Roadmaps
3 10 (37.04%) Event-Driven
3 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (37.04%) Software Architecture
4 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 9 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 9 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 8 (29.63%) API Development
5 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (29.63%) Domain-Driven Design
5 8 (29.63%) TDD
5 8 (29.63%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (18.52%) Technical Architecture
9 4 (14.81%) Architectural Patterns
10 3 (11.11%) Agile
10 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) Kotlin
2 10 (37.04%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
1 2 (7.41%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 9 (33.33%) Grafana
2 9 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Istio
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Google
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Cerner
2 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.70%) Veeam
3 1 (3.70%) VMware