Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £608, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
7 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 263 246
Rank change year-on-year +49 -17 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 714 332 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.01% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 1.10% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 205 279
10th Percentile £453 £450 £488
25th Percentile £513 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £710 £700 £775
90th Percentile £775 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £575 £700
% change year-on-year +8.70% -17.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £35.00 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £102.50 - -
90th Percentile £103.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 49,463 30,049 36,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 91.45% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,748 19,085 23,408
10th Percentile £329 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,453 1,494 2,053
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.10 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.95
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.78% +15.89%

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 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +33 532 £618 +7.39% 154
UK excluding London +26 310 £625 +8.70% 97
London +10 234 £583 -6.80% 81
Work from Home +9 209 £600 -1.64% 70
South East +19 110 £675 +3.85% 21
North of England -54 76 £550 +1.15% 32
South West -2 51 £550 -16.51% 10
North West -23 47 £604 +11.08% 16
Midlands -35 33 £626 +11.29% 12
West Midlands -40 32 £626 +3.90% 10
Yorkshire -39 25 £525 -3.45% 8
Wales +7 18 £600 -2.04% 9
Scotland -14 13 £700 -3.11% 10
East of England -29 11 £725 +31.22% 3
North East -39 5 £550 - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands -14 1 £495 -1.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 (51.96%) Security Cleared
2 291 (40.76%) SC Cleared
3 238 (33.33%) AWS
4 194 (27.17%) Azure
5 144 (20.17%) Technical Leadership
6 123 (17.23%) Technical Architecture
7 120 (16.81%) Agile
8 119 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 115 (16.11%) CI/CD
10 108 (15.13%) DevOps
11 106 (14.85%) Microservices
12 104 (14.57%) Microsoft
13 86 (12.04%) Architectural Patterns
14 84 (11.76%) Migration
15 83 (11.62%) Integration Patterns
15 83 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 77 (10.78%) TOGAF
17 74 (10.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 71 (9.94%) AI
19 71 (9.94%) Java
20 70 (9.80%) DV Cleared
21 67 (9.38%) Enterprise Architecture
22 65 (9.10%) Decision-Making
23 63 (8.82%) Containerisation
23 63 (8.82%) Data Modelling
24 61 (8.54%) Event-Driven
25 60 (8.40%) Middleware
26 57 (7.98%) Python
27 52 (7.28%) Terraform

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 22 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.82%) Confluence
2 13 (1.82%) SAS
3 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.70%) Apache
6 4 (0.56%) NetWeaver
6 4 (0.56%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Drupal
9 1 (0.14%) Mendix
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
4 4 (0.56%) Infor LN
4 4 (0.56%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.56%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 238 (33.33%) AWS
2 194 (27.17%) Azure
3 47 (6.58%) GitHub
4 43 (6.02%) Serverless
5 41 (5.74%) GCP
6 35 (4.90%) Entra ID
7 34 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 30 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (3.36%) PaaS
10 22 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 15 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.10%) Azure AKS
13 14 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.96%) Route 53
14 13 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.82%) IaaS
14 13 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.72%) Firewall
2 34 (4.76%) VPN
3 20 (2.80%) DNS
4 16 (2.24%) WAN
5 12 (1.68%) LAN
5 12 (1.68%) Structured Cabling
5 12 (1.68%) VLAN
6 11 (1.54%) Wireless
7 10 (1.40%) DHCP
7 10 (1.40%) Network Security
8 9 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (1.26%) NAS
8 9 (1.26%) NX-OS
8 9 (1.26%) SAN
9 6 (0.84%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.84%) VSAN
10 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (0.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.94%) Power BI
2 17 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.68%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.98%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.84%) Metadata
8 6 (0.84%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 6 (0.84%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 5 (0.70%) Big Data
10 4 (0.56%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.42%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.42%) MySQL
11 3 (0.42%) Redis
11 3 (0.42%) SAP HANA
11 3 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (3.08%) Git
2 16 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.26%) JIRA
4 4 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.42%) Maven
5 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 164 (22.97%) Public Sector
2 162 (22.69%) Social Skills
3 50 (7.00%) Finance
4 31 (4.34%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (1.68%) Legal
8 10 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.12%) Banking
11 6 (0.84%) Retail
12 5 (0.70%) Marketing
12 5 (0.70%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.56%) Military
13 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.42%) Front Office
14 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.40%) Middleware
2 35 (4.90%) REST
3 29 (4.06%) OAuth
4 25 (3.50%) SOAP
5 24 (3.36%) OpenID
6 22 (3.08%) .NET
7 17 (2.38%) SAML
8 16 (2.24%) RESTful
9 14 (1.96%) Kafka
10 13 (1.82%) Node.js
11 11 (1.54%) OAuth2
12 10 (1.40%) GraphQL
12 10 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (1.40%) SAP PI
13 8 (1.12%) AWS CDK
13 8 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
13 8 (1.12%) SAPUI5
13 8 (1.12%) Spring
14 7 (0.98%) Apollo GraphQL
15 6 (0.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 90 (12.61%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.16%) Data Centre
4 37 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 24 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.68%) CMDB
11 12 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.12%) IoT
12 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.98%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.84%) FMCG
15 5 (0.70%) NHS
15 5 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.36%) Windows
2 19 (2.66%) Linux
3 14 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.42%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) CatOS
6 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (20.17%) Technical Leadership
2 123 (17.23%) Technical Architecture
3 120 (16.81%) Agile
4 119 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 115 (16.11%) CI/CD
6 108 (15.13%) DevOps
7 106 (14.85%) Microservices
8 86 (12.04%) Architectural Patterns
9 84 (11.76%) Migration
10 83 (11.62%) Integration Patterns
10 83 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 77 (10.78%) TOGAF
12 74 (10.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 72 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 71 (9.94%) AI
15 67 (9.38%) Enterprise Architecture
16 65 (9.10%) Decision-Making
17 63 (8.82%) Containerisation
17 63 (8.82%) Data Modelling
18 61 (8.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 71 (9.94%) Java
2 57 (7.98%) Python
3 30 (4.20%) JavaScript
3 30 (4.20%) SQL
4 19 (2.66%) PowerShell
5 17 (2.38%) Ruby
5 17 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.82%) Bicep
7 10 (1.40%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.12%) ABAP
9 7 (0.98%) C#
10 6 (0.84%) Bash
11 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.42%) SOQL
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) C++
13 2 (0.28%) Swift
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) R
14 1 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 371 (51.96%) Security Cleared
2 291 (40.76%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 31 (4.34%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.36%) Degree
6 23 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.10%) CCNP
8 15 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.12%) CCNA
12 8 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (1.12%) Server+ Certification
13 5 (0.70%) CISA
13 5 (0.70%) CISSP
13 5 (0.70%) OSCP
13 5 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.34%) NCSC
2 23 (3.22%) NIST
3 19 (2.66%) GDPR
4 8 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.12%) QA
5 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.70%) GRC
6 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.56%) WCAG
8 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.28%) GxP
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.64%) Docker
3 16 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Squid
8 1 (0.14%) vCloud
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (7.28%) Terraform
2 51 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.54%) Ansible
3 11 (1.54%) Grafana
4 10 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.56%) Argo
7 4 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.14%) Consul
9 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) linkerd
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.14%) SCOM
9 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 104 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.00%) ServiceNow
3 43 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 29 (4.06%) SAP
5 28 (3.92%) VMware
6 25 (3.50%) Oracle
7 17 (2.38%) Cisco
8 14 (1.96%) Databricks
9 11 (1.54%) Google
10 10 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.40%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.26%) Ariba
12 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.70%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.70%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.70%) IBM
13 5 (0.70%) Infor
13 5 (0.70%) Sparx
14 4 (0.56%) Apple
14 4 (0.56%) F5
193 Technical Architect jobs Nationwide