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 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 245 248
Rank change year-on-year +61 +3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 722 320 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.44% 1.08% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.17% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 205 313
10th Percentile £450 £450 £488
25th Percentile £513 £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £627 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -3.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £725 £755 £775
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £618 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +2.92% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £35.00 - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £93.75 - -
75th Percentile £103.06 - -
90th Percentile £104.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.50 - -

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 46,278 27,307 40,582
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.32% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,166 17,569 26,038
10th Percentile £325 £289 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,090 1,147 2,946
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.30 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.46% -26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 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 14 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 14 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 +51 559 £600 -0.25% 111
UK excluding London +49 320 £618 +2.92% 99
London +11 244 £573 -6.53% 28
Work from Home -27 172 £600 -7.69% 64
South East +11 104 £640 +2.44% 21
North of England -28 75 £600 +4.35% 45
South West +6 51 £600 -9.43% 8
North West -20 44 £608 +1.33% 17
Midlands -26 37 £620 +2.90% 9
West Midlands -23 36 £620 -1.59% 8
East of England -5 30 £650 +116.67% 2
Yorkshire -32 27 £545 +3.81% 13
Wales -7 13 £600 +133.53% 4
Scotland -12 12 £635 +1.60% 5
North East -28 9 £800 +51.66% 15
Northern Ireland - 2 £475 - 6
East Midlands -23 1 £495 -10.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 358 (49.58%) Security Cleared
2 280 (38.78%) SC Cleared
3 218 (30.19%) AWS
4 176 (24.38%) Azure
5 137 (18.98%) Roadmaps
6 124 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
7 119 (16.48%) Microservices
8 118 (16.34%) Agile
8 118 (16.34%) CI/CD
9 106 (14.68%) DevOps
10 100 (13.85%) Technical Architecture
11 97 (13.43%) Architectural Patterns
12 94 (13.02%) Microsoft
13 85 (11.77%) Migration
14 75 (10.39%) DV Cleared
15 73 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (9.56%) TOGAF
17 68 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
17 68 (9.42%) Java
18 65 (9.00%) Integration Patterns
19 61 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
20 59 (8.17%) Decision-Making
20 59 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 56 (7.76%) Data Modelling
22 55 (7.62%) AI
22 55 (7.62%) ServiceNow
23 54 (7.48%) Python
24 52 (7.20%) Containerisation
25 51 (7.06%) Serverless
26 48 (6.65%) Middleware

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 20 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.35%) Confluence
3 12 (1.66%) SAS
4 6 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.83%) CMS
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.69%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.69%) nginx
5 5 (0.69%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.55%) Apache
6 4 (0.55%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.55%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) ArchiCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.69%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.55%) Infor CloudSuite
4 4 (0.55%) Infor LN
4 4 (0.55%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.55%) Magento
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.42%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 218 (30.19%) AWS
2 176 (24.38%) Azure
3 51 (7.06%) Serverless
4 35 (4.85%) GitHub
5 32 (4.43%) GCP
6 30 (4.16%) Power Platform
7 29 (4.02%) PaaS
8 25 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (2.63%) Entra ID
11 19 (2.63%) IaaS
11 19 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.63%) SaaS
12 18 (2.49%) Route 53
13 15 (2.08%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.80%) Azure AKS
15 12 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 11 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.37%) Firewall
2 33 (4.57%) VPN
3 24 (3.32%) DNS
4 22 (3.05%) WAN
5 18 (2.49%) LAN
6 14 (1.94%) Network Security
7 13 (1.80%) DHCP
7 13 (1.80%) VLAN
8 12 (1.66%) Structured Cabling
9 11 (1.52%) Wireless
10 10 (1.39%) NAS
10 10 (1.39%) SAN
11 9 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (1.25%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.83%) 3GPP
13 6 (0.83%) IPsec
13 6 (0.83%) SSL
13 6 (0.83%) VSAN
13 6 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.35%) Power BI
2 15 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 10 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (1.11%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.83%) Redis
8 6 (0.83%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 6 (0.83%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 5 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.69%) Big Data
9 5 (0.69%) MySQL
10 4 (0.55%) Metadata
11 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.35%) Git
2 11 (1.52%) JIRA
3 10 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.69%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.14%) Maven
6 1 (0.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 157 (21.75%) Public Sector
2 142 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 38 (5.26%) Finance
4 29 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
6 24 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.52%) Military
7 11 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.39%) Legal
9 9 (1.25%) Banking
10 5 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.55%) Marketing
11 4 (0.55%) Police
12 3 (0.42%) Law
12 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.28%) Billing
13 2 (0.28%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.65%) Middleware
2 33 (4.57%) REST
3 29 (4.02%) OpenID
4 27 (3.74%) .NET
4 27 (3.74%) OAuth
5 22 (3.05%) SAML
6 21 (2.91%) SOAP
7 18 (2.49%) Node.js
8 16 (2.22%) OAuth2
9 15 (2.08%) RESTful
10 12 (1.66%) Kafka
10 12 (1.66%) Web Services
11 11 (1.52%) LDAP
12 10 (1.39%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.25%) React
13 9 (1.25%) SAP PI
14 8 (1.11%) AWS CDK
14 8 (1.11%) Lightning Web Components
14 8 (1.11%) PySpark
15 7 (0.97%) Apollo GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.85%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.77%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.35%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.52%) CMDB
11 10 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.25%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.11%) IoT
14 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 6 (0.83%) Private Cloud
16 5 (0.69%) FMCG
16 5 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.46%) Windows
2 23 (3.19%) Linux
3 11 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.55%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) CatOS
6 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (18.98%) Roadmaps
2 124 (17.17%) Technical Leadership
3 119 (16.48%) Microservices
4 118 (16.34%) Agile
4 118 (16.34%) CI/CD
5 106 (14.68%) DevOps
6 100 (13.85%) Technical Architecture
7 97 (13.43%) Architectural Patterns
8 85 (11.77%) Migration
9 73 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (9.56%) TOGAF
11 68 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
12 65 (9.00%) Integration Patterns
13 61 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (8.17%) Decision-Making
14 59 (8.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (7.76%) Data Modelling
16 55 (7.62%) AI
17 52 (7.20%) Containerisation
18 45 (6.23%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 68 (9.42%) Java
2 54 (7.48%) Python
3 33 (4.57%) SQL
4 27 (3.74%) JavaScript
5 20 (2.77%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.49%) Ruby
7 16 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.52%) Bicep
9 9 (1.25%) C#
10 8 (1.11%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.69%) ABAP
11 5 (0.69%) Bash
12 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.55%) PHP
12 4 (0.55%) VB
12 4 (0.55%) VBScript
13 2 (0.28%) SOQL
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) R
14 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 358 (49.58%) Security Cleared
2 280 (38.78%) SC Cleared
3 75 (10.39%) DV Cleared
4 25 (3.46%) AWS Certification
5 24 (3.32%) Degree
6 22 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.22%) CCNP
7 16 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.11%) CCNA
10 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.11%) Server+ Certification
11 7 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.69%) CISA
12 5 (0.69%) CISSP
12 5 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.02%) NCSC
2 26 (3.60%) NIST
3 19 (2.63%) GDPR
4 11 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.97%) GRC
7 7 (0.97%) QA
8 5 (0.69%) WCAG
9 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.55%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.28%) GxP
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
12 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.14%) COBIT
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.08%) Docker
4 14 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.69%) RACF
5 5 (0.69%) Squid
6 4 (0.55%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.55%) Varnish
6 4 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (6.09%) Terraform
2 40 (5.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.08%) Grafana
4 14 (1.94%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.39%) Ansible
6 8 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.69%) Consul
7 5 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.69%) SCCM
8 1 (0.14%) Argo
8 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.14%) linkerd
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.14%) vRealize
8 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 94 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.62%) ServiceNow
3 36 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.71%) VMware
5 30 (4.16%) Oracle
6 24 (3.32%) SAP
7 17 (2.35%) Databricks
8 16 (2.22%) Cisco
9 13 (1.80%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.39%) Ariba
11 7 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.97%) Zscaler
12 6 (0.83%) Adobe
12 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.83%) Google
12 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.83%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.55%) Infor