Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 254 217
Rank change year-on-year -9 -37 +72
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 345 357 549
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.97% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.05% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 234 410
10th Percentile £450 £458 £500
25th Percentile £513 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £700 £745 £737
90th Percentile £750 £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £566 £580 £650
% change year-on-year -2.37% -10.77% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 32,306 34,076 43,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 92.86% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,507 20,574 29,610
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,870 1,280 1,541
10th Percentile £14.19 £15.19 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +55.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +83.51%

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 14 November 2025.

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
Top 16 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 14 November 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 -31 278 £575 -4.17% 164
UK excluding London -38 152 £566 -2.37% 115
London +17 136 £615 -1.60% 57
Work from Home -19 108 £600 -8.95% 104
North of England -10 64 £550 +9.95% 10
North West +1 40 £550 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire -22 23 £550 -3.00% 4
South West -13 19 £710 +12.48% 14
East of England -12 18 £553 -0.45% 12
Scotland -13 15 £723 -5.25%
Midlands -42 15 £520 -8.93% 7
West Midlands -43 14 £523 -7.85% 4
South East -32 13 £600 +14.29% 72
Wales +6 8 £588 -2.08% 2
North East -11 1 - - 2
East Midlands -14 1 £450 -21.74% 3

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, 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.

1 133 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 114 (33.04%) AWS
3 106 (30.72%) Azure
4 96 (27.83%) SC Cleared
5 83 (24.06%) CI/CD
6 82 (23.77%) Roadmaps
7 70 (20.29%) Technical Leadership
8 69 (20.00%) Terraform
9 66 (19.13%) Agile
10 61 (17.68%) Microservices
11 60 (17.39%) Kubernetes
12 53 (15.36%) Technical Architecture
13 50 (14.49%) Migration
14 49 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 48 (13.91%) Java
16 47 (13.62%) Microsoft
17 45 (13.04%) DevOps
17 45 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
18 42 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (11.88%) Containerisation
19 41 (11.88%) Mentoring
20 38 (11.01%) Integration Patterns
21 37 (10.72%) Docker
21 37 (10.72%) Python
22 36 (10.43%) Strategic Roadmap
23 35 (10.14%) Data Modelling
24 33 (9.57%) AI
24 33 (9.57%) GitHub
25 31 (8.99%) IT Strategy
26 30 (8.70%) TOGAF

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 11 (3.19%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.87%) SAS
3 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.87%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.58%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.29%) Appian
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Mule
5 1 (0.29%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EP
Applications
1 7 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.16%) Endur
2 4 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.16%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.16%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.58%) Summit
4 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.29%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 114 (33.04%) AWS
2 106 (30.72%) Azure
3 33 (9.57%) GitHub
4 29 (8.41%) GCP
5 28 (8.12%) Serverless
6 24 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.22%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (2.61%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (2.03%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.03%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (2.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.09%) Firewall
2 16 (4.64%) WAN
3 12 (3.48%) VPN
4 11 (3.19%) LAN
4 11 (3.19%) SAN
5 9 (2.61%) SD-WAN
5 9 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.74%) DNS
6 6 (1.74%) Network Security
7 4 (1.16%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) BGP
8 3 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.87%) Skype
8 3 (0.87%) VLAN
9 2 (0.58%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.58%) VSAN
10 1 (0.29%) DMZ
10 1 (0.29%) Internet
10 1 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.48%) Metadata
5 10 (2.90%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.90%) Power BI
6 9 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.61%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.61%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.61%) MySQL
7 8 (2.32%) Redis
8 7 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (6.09%) CircleCI
2 17 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.64%) Git
4 10 (2.90%) JIRA
4 10 (2.90%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.45%) Gradle
6 5 (1.45%) Maven
6 5 (1.45%) SonarLint
7 4 (1.16%) GitLab
8 2 (0.58%) Hudson
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 102 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.22%) Public Sector
3 41 (11.88%) Finance
4 21 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.35%) Banking
6 10 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.90%) Marketing
7 8 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.32%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.03%) Legal
8 7 (2.03%) Military
9 5 (1.45%) Back Office
9 5 (1.45%) Billing
10 4 (1.16%) Aviation
11 3 (0.87%) Automotive
11 3 (0.87%) Electronics
11 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Law
11 3 (0.87%) Local Government
11 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.38%) Middleware
2 21 (6.09%) RESTful
3 18 (5.22%) REST
4 16 (4.64%) Spring Boot
5 15 (4.35%) .NET
6 14 (4.06%) GraphQL
7 13 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
8 11 (3.19%) Node.js
8 11 (3.19%) SOAP
9 10 (2.90%) Kafka
10 9 (2.61%) Celery
10 9 (2.61%) Visualforce
11 8 (2.32%) J2EE
11 8 (2.32%) React
11 8 (2.32%) Spring
12 7 (2.03%) JWT
12 7 (2.03%) OAuth
12 7 (2.03%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.74%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.54%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.64%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.61%) NHS
5 9 (2.61%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) CMDB
6 6 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.74%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.16%) Grid Computing
8 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) PKI
9 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.87%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.80%) Windows
2 11 (3.19%) Linux
3 7 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.87%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.87%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (24.06%) CI/CD
2 82 (23.77%) Roadmaps
3 70 (20.29%) Technical Leadership
4 66 (19.13%) Agile
5 61 (17.68%) Microservices
6 53 (15.36%) Technical Architecture
7 50 (14.49%) Migration
8 49 (14.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (13.04%) DevOps
9 45 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (11.88%) Containerisation
11 41 (11.88%) Mentoring
12 38 (11.01%) Integration Patterns
13 36 (10.43%) Strategic Roadmap
14 35 (10.14%) Data Modelling
15 33 (9.57%) AI
16 31 (8.99%) IT Strategy
17 30 (8.70%) TOGAF
18 29 (8.41%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.91%) Java
2 37 (10.72%) Python
3 30 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 17 (4.93%) SQL
5 16 (4.64%) C#
6 14 (4.06%) Apex Code
7 12 (3.48%) Kotlin
7 12 (3.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.45%) Bicep
9 4 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.16%) Ruby
10 3 (0.87%) SOQL
10 3 (0.87%) SOSL
10 3 (0.87%) VB
10 3 (0.87%) VBScript
11 1 (0.29%) ABAP
11 1 (0.29%) Bash
11 1 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 133 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 96 (27.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.77%) Degree
5 7 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.87%) CCNP
8 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.87%) VCAP
9 2 (0.58%) CCNA
9 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CCSE
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) ISEB
10 1 (0.29%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.29%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.32%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.45%) GDPR
4 4 (1.16%) HL7
4 4 (1.16%) NCSC
5 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.58%) QA
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) COBIT
7 1 (0.29%) MiFID
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (10.72%) Docker
2 15 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.87%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.29%) Varnish
8 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (20.00%) Terraform
2 60 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.96%) Grafana
3 24 (6.96%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.32%) Ansible
5 6 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.87%) SCCM
8 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.58%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.58%) SCOM
9 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.83%) Salesforce
3 24 (6.96%) SAP
4 23 (6.67%) Oracle
5 15 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.19%) MuleSoft
6 11 (3.19%) VMware
6 11 (3.19%) Workday
7 9 (2.61%) Databricks
8 8 (2.32%) Cisco
9 7 (2.03%) Google
10 6 (1.74%) Citrix
10 6 (1.74%) Gigya
10 6 (1.74%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.45%) ForgeRock
11 5 (1.45%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.16%) Ariba
12 4 (1.16%) Dell
13 3 (0.87%) Adobe