Technical Architect Contracts

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 263 325
Rank change year-on-year 0 +62 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 403 602 751
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.01% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.06% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 412 518
10th Percentile £501 £500 £507
25th Percentile £556 £561 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £664 £631
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +5.19% +11.48%
75th Percentile £769 £743 £725
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £650 £618
% change year-on-year +7.69% +5.26% +12.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.97% +11.39%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +24 342 £675 - 90
London +48 187 £625 -13.79% 38
Work from Home +18 176 £675 - 64
UK excluding London +8 168 £700 +7.69% 64
North of England +42 68 £800 +14.29% 12
North West +45 60 £825 +33.33% 4
South West -2 35 £706 +13.00% 6
Scotland +34 21 £675 +3.85% 12
South East 0 21 £750 +10.62% 14
Midlands -17 13 £700 -6.04% 9
East of England -10 10 £613 -9.26% 9
West Midlands -6 9 £600 -19.46% 4
Yorkshire +1 6 £590 -20.81% 6
East Midlands -1 4 £763 +2.35% 5
Northern Ireland +9 2 £513 -
North East +20 1 £525 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 127 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 125 (31.02%) Azure
3 106 (26.30%) Agile
4 103 (25.56%) SC Cleared
5 94 (23.33%) Social Skills
6 92 (22.83%) Public Sector
7 84 (20.84%) AWS
8 79 (19.60%) Roadmaps
9 76 (18.86%) DevOps
10 70 (17.37%) Microsoft
11 66 (16.38%) Migration
12 65 (16.13%) Windows
12 65 (16.13%) Finance
12 65 (16.13%) CI/CD
13 60 (14.89%) Firewall
14 54 (13.40%) Public Cloud
15 52 (12.90%) Security Architecture
16 49 (12.16%) Design Patterns
17 48 (11.91%) Node.js
18 47 (11.66%) Apple iOS
18 47 (11.66%) Android
18 47 (11.66%) Microservices
19 46 (11.41%) Windows Server
19 46 (11.41%) VPN
20 45 (11.17%) Risk Management
21 44 (10.92%) Mobile Device Management
22 43 (10.67%) Zero Trust
23 42 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
23 42 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
24 40 (9.93%) Technical Leadership

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 28 (6.95%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.99%) Confluence
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.74%) IIS
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.50%) CICS
5 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (4.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.74%) Shopify
2 3 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.25%) RMDS
3 1 (0.25%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 125 (31.02%) Azure
2 84 (20.84%) AWS
3 25 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.96%) GCP
5 19 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (4.47%) SaaS
7 15 (3.72%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.47%) Entra ID
9 13 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.23%) Serverless
10 11 (2.73%) GitHub
10 11 (2.73%) PaaS
11 9 (2.23%) IaaS
12 6 (1.49%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.24%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 60 (14.89%) Firewall
2 46 (11.41%) VPN
3 27 (6.70%) LAN
4 24 (5.96%) WAN
5 8 (1.99%) 3G
5 8 (1.99%) 4G
6 4 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (0.99%) Network Security
6 4 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.74%) Converged Networks
7 3 (0.74%) DNS
7 3 (0.74%) ISDN
7 3 (0.74%) Skype
7 3 (0.74%) VoIP
8 2 (0.50%) BGP
8 2 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.50%) DHCP
8 2 (0.50%) OSPF
8 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 12 (2.98%) RDBMS
4 9 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.49%) Big Data
5 6 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.24%) DB2
6 5 (1.24%) Power BI
7 3 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.50%) IDMS
8 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.73%) JIRA
2 5 (1.24%) Git
2 5 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.99%) GitLab
4 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.74%) Selenium
4 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) LSMW
General
1 94 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 92 (22.83%) Public Sector
3 65 (16.13%) Finance
4 16 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (3.97%) Marketing
5 12 (2.98%) Legal
6 11 (2.73%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.48%) Electronics
7 10 (2.48%) Retail
7 10 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.23%) Banking
9 8 (1.99%) Billing
10 7 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.24%) Police
13 3 (0.74%) Local Government
13 3 (0.74%) Military
14 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.91%) Node.js
2 30 (7.44%) .NET
3 16 (3.97%) REST
4 14 (3.47%) Middleware
5 12 (2.98%) GraphQL
5 12 (2.98%) React
6 9 (2.23%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.23%) Web Services
7 8 (1.99%) J2EE
8 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.49%) OAuth
8 6 (1.49%) RESTful
8 6 (1.49%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.24%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.24%) SAML
10 4 (0.99%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.99%) JSON
10 4 (0.99%) OpenID
11 3 (0.74%) Kafka
11 3 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 54 (13.40%) Public Cloud
2 25 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 18 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.99%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.24%) Genomics
9 4 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.99%) N-Tier
9 4 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.99%) Private Cloud
9 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.74%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.74%) Clustering
10 3 (0.74%) CMDB
10 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (16.13%) Windows
2 47 (11.66%) Android
2 47 (11.66%) Apple iOS
3 46 (11.41%) Windows Server
4 16 (3.97%) Linux
5 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.30%) Agile
2 79 (19.60%) Roadmaps
3 76 (18.86%) DevOps
4 66 (16.38%) Migration
5 65 (16.13%) CI/CD
6 52 (12.90%) Security Architecture
7 49 (12.16%) Design Patterns
8 47 (11.66%) Microservices
9 45 (11.17%) Risk Management
10 44 (10.92%) Mobile Device Management
11 43 (10.67%) Zero Trust
12 42 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (9.93%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (9.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 37 (9.18%) Technical Architecture
14 37 (9.18%) Threat Intelligence
15 34 (8.44%) Architectural Patterns
16 33 (8.19%) Data Migration
17 30 (7.44%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.45%) Java
2 23 (5.71%) Python
3 20 (4.96%) SQL
4 14 (3.47%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.23%) C#
6 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.50%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.50%) COBOL
8 2 (0.50%) Go
8 2 (0.50%) JCL
8 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.50%) Scala
9 1 (0.25%) ABAP
9 1 (0.25%) Bicep
9 1 (0.25%) C++
9 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 127 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 103 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.95%) Degree
4 22 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 17 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.99%) HND
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CEH
10 1 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.25%) CISA
10 1 (0.25%) CISM
10 1 (0.25%) CISSP
10 1 (0.25%) CITP
10 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.71%) NIST
1 23 (5.71%) QA
2 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
3 4 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (0.99%) GDPR
3 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (3.72%) Docker
2 11 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.99%) vCloud
5 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (5.46%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.71%) Terraform
3 5 (1.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.74%) Podman
6 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.50%) VxRail
7 1 (0.25%) Control-M
7 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.25%) Nagios
7 1 (0.25%) Nessus
7 1 (0.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.25%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.96%) NetApp
2 20 (4.96%) SAP
3 11 (2.73%) Google
4 10 (2.48%) Oracle
4 10 (2.48%) VMware
5 9 (2.23%) Cisco
5 9 (2.23%) Databricks
5 9 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.74%) Palo Alto
6 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.49%) Dell
7 6 (1.49%) LogRhythm
7 6 (1.49%) Splunk
8 5 (1.24%) Apple
8 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.99%) Genesys
9 4 (0.99%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.74%) IBM
10 3 (0.74%) Sparx