Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 251 210
Rank change year-on-year -33 -41 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 338 358 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.97% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.05% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 238 425
10th Percentile £447 £456 £500
25th Percentile £509 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £700 £745 £740
90th Percentile £756 £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £580 £625
% change year-on-year -3.02% -7.20% -
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 31,779 34,114 43,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.88% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,168 20,586 29,825
10th Percentile £278 £300 £298
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 1,814 1,278 1,528
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.09 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.20 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -17.32% +54.84%
75th Percentile £51.19 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +85.42%

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 7 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 7 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 -27 274 £575 -4.17% 174
UK excluding London -45 151 £563 -3.02% 131
London -10 129 £638 +2.00% 80
Work from Home -19 107 £626 -3.65% 95
North of England +2 66 £550 +9.95% 19
North West -2 42 £545 +9.00% 10
Yorkshire -14 23 £550 -3.00% 5
East of England -8 18 £553 -0.45% 11
South West -11 17 £710 +13.60% 16
Scotland +3 15 £723 -5.25% 12
South East -25 15 £650 +23.81% 59
Midlands -36 15 £520 -9.57% 10
West Midlands -44 14 £523 -14.13% 9
Wales +8 5 £588 -2.08% 5
North East -10 1 - - 4
East Midlands -19 1 £450 -21.74% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 124 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 111 (32.84%) AWS
3 106 (31.36%) Azure
4 88 (26.04%) SC Cleared
5 80 (23.67%) CI/CD
6 79 (23.37%) Roadmaps
7 67 (19.82%) Technical Leadership
8 66 (19.53%) Agile
9 64 (18.93%) Terraform
10 56 (16.57%) Kubernetes
10 56 (16.57%) Microservices
11 51 (15.09%) Technical Architecture
12 49 (14.50%) Migration
13 46 (13.61%) Java
14 45 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
14 45 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
15 43 (12.72%) Microsoft
16 42 (12.43%) DevOps
16 42 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (12.13%) Mentoring
18 37 (10.95%) Containerisation
19 35 (10.36%) Data Modelling
19 35 (10.36%) Strategic Roadmap
20 34 (10.06%) GitHub
20 34 (10.06%) IT Strategy
21 33 (9.76%) Docker
21 33 (9.76%) Integration Patterns
21 33 (9.76%) Python
22 32 (9.47%) AI
23 31 (9.17%) Architectural Patterns

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 (3.25%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.89%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.30%) Appian
5 1 (0.30%) Camunda
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Mule
5 1 (0.30%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.30%) SAP EP
Applications
1 9 (2.66%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.48%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.18%) Endur
2 4 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.18%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.18%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.59%) Summit
4 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.30%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 111 (32.84%) AWS
2 106 (31.36%) Azure
3 34 (10.06%) GitHub
4 28 (8.28%) GCP
5 27 (7.99%) Serverless
6 24 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.03%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.96%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.66%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.07%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (2.07%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
12 7 (2.07%) Route 53
13 6 (1.78%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.21%) Firewall
2 17 (5.03%) WAN
3 13 (3.85%) LAN
4 12 (3.55%) VPN
5 11 (3.25%) SAN
6 9 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.37%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.78%) DNS
8 6 (1.78%) Network Security
9 4 (1.18%) DHCP
10 3 (0.89%) BGP
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.89%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.89%) Skype
10 3 (0.89%) VLAN
11 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.59%) VSAN
12 1 (0.30%) DMZ
12 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.25%) Metadata
5 10 (2.96%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.66%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.66%) Power BI
7 8 (2.37%) MySQL
8 7 (2.07%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.07%) Redis
9 6 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.48%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 22 (6.51%) CircleCI
2 18 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.73%) Git
4 10 (2.96%) JIRA
4 10 (2.96%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (1.78%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.48%) Gradle
6 5 (1.48%) Maven
6 5 (1.48%) SonarLint
7 4 (1.18%) GitLab
8 3 (0.89%) Hudson
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.30%) WebStorm
General
1 99 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.96%) Public Sector
3 43 (12.72%) Finance
4 21 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.14%) Banking
6 10 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.96%) Marketing
7 9 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.37%) Military
8 8 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.07%) Legal
10 5 (1.48%) Back Office
10 5 (1.48%) Billing
10 5 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.18%) Aviation
12 3 (0.89%) Automotive
12 3 (0.89%) Electronics
12 3 (0.89%) Law
12 3 (0.89%) Local Government
12 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.40%) Middleware
2 21 (6.21%) RESTful
3 17 (5.03%) REST
4 14 (4.14%) GraphQL
5 13 (3.85%) .NET
5 13 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
5 13 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.25%) Node.js
6 11 (3.25%) SOAP
7 10 (2.96%) Kafka
8 9 (2.66%) Celery
8 9 (2.66%) Visualforce
9 8 (2.37%) J2EE
9 8 (2.37%) React
10 7 (2.07%) JSON
10 7 (2.07%) JWT
10 7 (2.07%) OAuth
10 7 (2.07%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.78%) FHIR
11 6 (1.78%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.17%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.40%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.73%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.25%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.66%) NHS
7 7 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.78%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.48%) CMDB
9 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.18%) Grid Computing
10 4 (1.18%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.18%) PKI
11 3 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.51%) Windows
2 13 (3.85%) Linux
3 7 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.89%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.89%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (23.67%) CI/CD
2 79 (23.37%) Roadmaps
3 67 (19.82%) Technical Leadership
4 66 (19.53%) Agile
5 56 (16.57%) Microservices
6 51 (15.09%) Technical Architecture
7 49 (14.50%) Migration
8 45 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (12.43%) DevOps
9 42 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (12.13%) Mentoring
11 37 (10.95%) Containerisation
12 35 (10.36%) Data Modelling
12 35 (10.36%) Strategic Roadmap
13 34 (10.06%) IT Strategy
14 33 (9.76%) Integration Patterns
15 32 (9.47%) AI
16 31 (9.17%) Architectural Patterns
17 30 (8.88%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.61%) Java
2 33 (9.76%) Python
3 26 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 14 (4.14%) Apex Code
4 14 (4.14%) C#
4 14 (4.14%) SQL
5 12 (3.55%) Kotlin
5 12 (3.55%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.48%) Bicep
6 5 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.89%) Ruby
7 3 (0.89%) SOQL
7 3 (0.89%) SOSL
7 3 (0.89%) VB
7 3 (0.89%) VBScript
8 2 (0.59%) Go
9 1 (0.30%) ABAP
9 1 (0.30%) Bash
9 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 124 (36.69%) Security Cleared
2 88 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.99%) DV Cleared
4 12 (3.55%) Degree
5 7 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.89%) CCNP
9 3 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.89%) VCAP
10 2 (0.59%) CCNA
11 1 (0.30%) CCIE
11 1 (0.30%) CCSE
11 1 (0.30%) CISSP
11 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.30%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.30%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.66%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.18%) HL7
4 4 (1.18%) NCSC
5 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.89%) NIST
5 3 (0.89%) QA
6 2 (0.59%) GRC
6 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (9.76%) Docker
2 16 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.89%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (18.93%) Terraform
2 56 (16.57%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.10%) Grafana
3 24 (7.10%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.37%) Ansible
5 6 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.89%) SCCM
8 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.59%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.59%) SCOM
9 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.99%) Salesforce
3 25 (7.40%) SAP
4 22 (6.51%) Oracle
5 14 (4.14%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.55%) MuleSoft
7 11 (3.25%) Databricks
7 11 (3.25%) Workday
8 10 (2.96%) VMware
9 8 (2.37%) Cisco
10 7 (2.07%) Citrix
11 6 (1.78%) Gigya
11 6 (1.78%) Google
12 5 (1.48%) Dell
12 5 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.48%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.18%) Ariba
14 3 (0.89%) Capita
14 3 (0.89%) Dynatrace