Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 259 255
Rank change year-on-year +78 -4 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 748 311 414
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.03% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.12% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 200 309
10th Percentile £450 £450 £490
25th Percentile £513 £525 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £645
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £725 £751 £775
90th Percentile £790 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £35.00 - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
75th Percentile £102.88 - -
90th Percentile £103.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 47,008 27,876 40,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.16% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,552 17,889 25,942
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £415 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,155 1,223 2,887
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.08 £17.31 £16.58
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.86% -29.47% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Top 17 Contract Job 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 26 June 2026. 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 +62 574 £600 -0.54% 111
UK excluding London +58 331 £620 +3.33% 97
London +31 248 £563 -11.76% 33
Work from Home -19 188 £600 -7.69% 66
South East +23 110 £650 +4.04% 20
North of England -27 80 £598 +8.64% 39
South West +6 57 £600 -5.88% 11
North West -20 46 £608 +10.55% 15
Midlands -30 39 £620 +7.83% 12
West Midlands -25 38 £620 +2.90% 11
Yorkshire -30 30 £545 +1.40% 6
East of England -14 21 £625 +108.33% 2
Wales -4 14 £600 +133.53% 6
Scotland -4 12 £635 +1.60% 3
North East -26 9 £800 +51.66% 18
Northern Ireland - 2 £475 - 5
East Midlands -9 1 £495 -10.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 2026, 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 Technical Architect in the job title.

1 371 (49.60%) Security Cleared
2 288 (38.50%) SC Cleared
3 241 (32.22%) AWS
4 191 (25.53%) Azure
5 144 (19.25%) Roadmaps
6 136 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 127 (16.98%) Agile
8 126 (16.84%) Microservices
9 122 (16.31%) CI/CD
10 116 (15.51%) Technical Architecture
11 112 (14.97%) DevOps
12 101 (13.50%) Microsoft
13 100 (13.37%) Architectural Patterns
14 90 (12.03%) Migration
15 79 (10.56%) DV Cleared
16 78 (10.43%) Integration Patterns
17 75 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 75 (10.03%) TOGAF
18 73 (9.76%) Enterprise Architecture
19 72 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
20 70 (9.36%) Java
21 67 (8.96%) Decision-Making
22 66 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 63 (8.42%) AI
24 59 (7.89%) ServiceNow
25 58 (7.75%) Data Modelling
25 58 (7.75%) Python
26 55 (7.35%) Middleware
27 53 (7.09%) Containerisation
28 52 (6.95%) Event-Driven

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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.54%) Confluence
3 13 (1.74%) SAS
4 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.94%) CMS
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.67%) NetWeaver
7 5 (0.67%) nginx
7 5 (0.67%) SAP EP
8 4 (0.53%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.53%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.13%) ArchiCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
4 4 (0.53%) Infor LN
4 4 (0.53%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.53%) Magento
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.40%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 241 (32.22%) AWS
2 191 (25.53%) Azure
3 51 (6.82%) Serverless
4 39 (5.21%) GCP
4 39 (5.21%) GitHub
5 31 (4.14%) Power Platform
6 29 (3.88%) PaaS
7 27 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (3.07%) Entra ID
9 23 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.54%) SaaS
11 18 (2.41%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.41%) IaaS
11 18 (2.41%) Route 53
12 14 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (1.74%) Azure AKS
14 12 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 52 (6.95%) Firewall
2 38 (5.08%) VPN
3 27 (3.61%) DNS
4 23 (3.07%) WAN
5 19 (2.54%) LAN
6 16 (2.14%) VLAN
7 14 (1.87%) Network Security
8 13 (1.74%) DHCP
9 12 (1.60%) Structured Cabling
10 11 (1.47%) Wireless
11 9 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (1.20%) NAS
11 9 (1.20%) NX-OS
11 9 (1.20%) SAN
11 9 (1.20%) TCP/IP
12 8 (1.07%) IPsec
13 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.80%) BGP
14 6 (0.80%) BIG-IP
14 6 (0.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.41%) Power BI
2 16 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.47%) Data Lake
4 11 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (0.80%) Redis
8 6 (0.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 6 (0.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 5 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.67%) Big Data
9 5 (0.67%) MySQL
10 4 (0.53%) Metadata
10 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.53%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 19 (2.54%) Git
2 13 (1.74%) JIRA
3 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.13%) Maven
7 1 (0.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) Postman
7 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 167 (22.33%) Public Sector
2 157 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 43 (5.75%) Finance
4 31 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
6 24 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.47%) Legal
7 11 (1.47%) Military
7 11 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.20%) Banking
10 6 (0.80%) Police
11 5 (0.67%) Retail
12 4 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.53%) Marketing
12 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.35%) Middleware
2 37 (4.95%) REST
3 28 (3.74%) OpenID
4 27 (3.61%) .NET
4 27 (3.61%) OAuth
5 25 (3.34%) SOAP
6 21 (2.81%) SAML
7 18 (2.41%) Node.js
8 15 (2.01%) OAuth2
8 15 (2.01%) RESTful
9 13 (1.74%) Kafka
10 12 (1.60%) SAP PI
11 11 (1.47%) LDAP
11 11 (1.47%) Web Services
12 10 (1.34%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.20%) PySpark
13 9 (1.20%) React
14 8 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
14 8 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
14 8 (1.07%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.50%) Cloud Native
2 50 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 33 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.60%) CMDB
10 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.07%) IoT
13 7 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.80%) FMCG
15 5 (0.67%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.48%) Windows
2 23 (3.07%) Linux
3 12 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.53%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CatOS
6 1 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Solaris
6 1 (0.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (19.25%) Roadmaps
2 136 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 127 (16.98%) Agile
4 126 (16.84%) Microservices
5 122 (16.31%) CI/CD
6 116 (15.51%) Technical Architecture
7 112 (14.97%) DevOps
8 100 (13.37%) Architectural Patterns
9 90 (12.03%) Migration
10 78 (10.43%) Integration Patterns
11 75 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 75 (10.03%) TOGAF
12 73 (9.76%) Enterprise Architecture
13 72 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 67 (8.96%) Decision-Making
15 66 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (8.42%) AI
17 58 (7.75%) Data Modelling
18 53 (7.09%) Containerisation
19 52 (6.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 70 (9.36%) Java
2 58 (7.75%) Python
3 32 (4.28%) SQL
4 28 (3.74%) JavaScript
5 20 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.41%) Ruby
7 16 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.47%) Bicep
9 9 (1.20%) C#
10 8 (1.07%) ABAP
10 8 (1.07%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.67%) Bash
12 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.53%) PHP
12 4 (0.53%) VB
12 4 (0.53%) VBScript
13 2 (0.27%) SOQL
14 1 (0.13%) Go
14 1 (0.13%) R
14 1 (0.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 371 (49.60%) Security Cleared
2 288 (38.50%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.56%) DV Cleared
4 27 (3.61%) AWS Certification
4 27 (3.61%) Degree
5 23 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.54%) CCNP
6 19 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.07%) CCNA
11 8 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (1.07%) Server+ Certification
12 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.67%) CISA
12 5 (0.67%) OSCP
12 5 (0.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.41%) NCSC
2 26 (3.48%) NIST
3 21 (2.81%) GDPR
4 11 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.94%) GRC
7 7 (0.94%) QA
8 5 (0.67%) WCAG
9 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) COBIT
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
System Software
1 29 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.14%) Docker
5 6 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
6 5 (0.67%) Squid
6 5 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.53%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.53%) RACF
7 4 (0.53%) Varnish
7 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (6.55%) Terraform
2 42 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.01%) Grafana
4 14 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.74%) Ansible
6 8 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.67%) Consul
7 5 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.67%) SCCM
8 2 (0.27%) Argo
8 2 (0.27%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
9 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.13%) linkerd
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 101 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 40 (5.35%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.55%) VMware
5 33 (4.41%) Oracle
6 28 (3.74%) SAP
7 19 (2.54%) Cisco
8 17 (2.27%) Databricks
9 11 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.34%) Ariba
10 10 (1.34%) Google
10 10 (1.34%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.94%) Zscaler
12 6 (0.80%) Adobe
12 6 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.80%) F5
12 6 (0.80%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.67%) Infor