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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 244 251
Rank change year-on-year +60 +7 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 726 321 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.09% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.18% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 206 315
10th Percentile £450 £453 £489
25th Percentile £513 £525 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -4.13%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £775
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +2.08% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £103.25 - -
90th Percentile £104.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £97.75 - -

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 45,686 27,116 40,535
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.32% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,799 17,461 26,079
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £620 £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 3,044 1,132 2,932
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.87 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.65 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -5.88%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +62 565 £600 -0.54% 94
UK excluding London +55 316 £613 +2.08% 88
London +18 254 £575 -7.07% 24
Work from Home -20 176 £600 -7.69% 54
South East +4 100 £640 +2.07% 19
North of England -39 74 £600 +4.35% 43
South West +3 49 £600 -4.00% 5
North West -20 43 £608 +1.33% 16
Midlands -29 41 £620 +2.90% 6
West Midlands -18 40 £620 -1.59% 6
East of England -2 29 £650 +116.67%
Yorkshire -37 27 £545 +3.81% 11
Wales -5 13 £600 +133.53% 5
Scotland -6 12 £635 +1.60% 4
North East -18 9 £800 +51.66% 16
Northern Ireland - 2 £475 - 6
East Midlands -27 1 £495 -10.00%

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 (49.31%) Security Cleared
2 282 (38.84%) SC Cleared
3 220 (30.30%) AWS
4 177 (24.38%) Azure
5 135 (18.60%) Roadmaps
6 120 (16.53%) Technical Leadership
7 119 (16.39%) Microservices
8 116 (15.98%) Agile
8 116 (15.98%) CI/CD
9 105 (14.46%) DevOps
10 102 (14.05%) Technical Architecture
11 96 (13.22%) Architectural Patterns
12 94 (12.95%) Microsoft
13 82 (11.29%) Migration
14 73 (10.06%) DV Cleared
14 73 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 70 (9.64%) TOGAF
16 68 (9.37%) Java
17 67 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture
18 63 (8.68%) Integration Patterns
19 60 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 57 (7.85%) Decision-Making
20 57 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
21 54 (7.44%) Data Modelling
22 53 (7.30%) Python
22 53 (7.30%) ServiceNow
23 52 (7.16%) AI
23 52 (7.16%) Containerisation
24 51 (7.02%) Serverless
25 47 (6.47%) 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 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.34%) Confluence
3 12 (1.65%) 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 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.96%) 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 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 220 (30.30%) AWS
2 177 (24.38%) Azure
3 51 (7.02%) Serverless
4 34 (4.68%) GitHub
5 31 (4.27%) GCP
6 30 (4.13%) PaaS
6 30 (4.13%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 20 (2.75%) IaaS
9 20 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.62%) Entra ID
10 19 (2.62%) SaaS
11 17 (2.34%) Route 53
12 15 (2.07%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.79%) Azure AKS
14 12 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.20%) Firewall
2 33 (4.55%) VPN
3 23 (3.17%) DNS
4 21 (2.89%) WAN
5 18 (2.48%) LAN
6 14 (1.93%) Network Security
7 13 (1.79%) DHCP
7 13 (1.79%) VLAN
8 12 (1.65%) Structured Cabling
9 11 (1.52%) Wireless
10 10 (1.38%) NAS
10 10 (1.38%) SAN
11 9 (1.24%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (1.24%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.96%) 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 (2.34%) Power BI
2 15 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (1.10%) 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 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (2.34%) Git
2 11 (1.52%) JIRA
3 10 (1.38%) 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
1 158 (21.76%) Public Sector
2 141 (19.42%) Social Skills
3 36 (4.96%) Finance
4 28 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
5 24 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (1.79%) Military
7 12 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.38%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.38%) Legal
9 9 (1.24%) Banking
10 5 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.55%) Marketing
11 4 (0.55%) Police
11 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.41%) Law
12 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.28%) Billing
13 2 (0.28%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.47%) Middleware
2 32 (4.41%) REST
3 28 (3.86%) .NET
3 28 (3.86%) OpenID
4 26 (3.58%) OAuth
5 21 (2.89%) SAML
6 20 (2.75%) SOAP
7 18 (2.48%) Node.js
8 15 (2.07%) OAuth2
8 15 (2.07%) RESTful
9 12 (1.65%) Kafka
9 12 (1.65%) Web Services
10 11 (1.52%) LDAP
11 10 (1.38%) GraphQL
12 9 (1.24%) React
12 9 (1.24%) SAP PI
13 8 (1.10%) AWS CDK
13 8 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
13 8 (1.10%) PySpark
14 7 (0.96%) Apollo GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.33%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.10%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.27%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 17 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.10%) CMDB
12 8 (1.10%) IoT
13 7 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 6 (0.83%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.69%) FMCG
15 5 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.44%) Windows
2 23 (3.17%) 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
1 135 (18.60%) Roadmaps
2 120 (16.53%) Technical Leadership
3 119 (16.39%) Microservices
4 116 (15.98%) Agile
4 116 (15.98%) CI/CD
5 105 (14.46%) DevOps
6 102 (14.05%) Technical Architecture
7 96 (13.22%) Architectural Patterns
8 82 (11.29%) Migration
9 73 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 70 (9.64%) TOGAF
11 67 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture
12 63 (8.68%) Integration Patterns
13 60 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 57 (7.85%) Decision-Making
14 57 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (7.44%) Data Modelling
16 52 (7.16%) AI
16 52 (7.16%) Containerisation
17 45 (6.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 68 (9.37%) Java
2 53 (7.30%) Python
3 33 (4.55%) SQL
4 27 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 18 (2.48%) Ruby
7 16 (2.20%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.65%) Bicep
9 9 (1.24%) C#
10 8 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.69%) ABAP
12 4 (0.55%) 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 (49.31%) Security Cleared
2 282 (38.84%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.06%) DV Cleared
4 24 (3.31%) Degree
5 23 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.20%) CCNP
7 16 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 12 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.10%) CCNA
11 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (1.10%) Server+ Certification
12 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.69%) CISA
13 5 (0.69%) CISSP
13 5 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.13%) NCSC
2 25 (3.44%) NIST
3 16 (2.20%) GDPR
4 11 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.96%) GRC
7 7 (0.96%) QA
8 5 (0.69%) WCAG
9 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.55%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.28%) GxP
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.07%) Docker
4 14 (1.93%) 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
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (6.06%) Terraform
2 40 (5.51%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.07%) Grafana
4 14 (1.93%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.38%) Ansible
6 8 (1.10%) 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 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.30%) ServiceNow
3 36 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 34 (4.68%) VMware
5 30 (4.13%) Oracle
6 24 (3.31%) SAP
7 17 (2.34%) Databricks
7 17 (2.34%) MuleSoft
8 16 (2.20%) Cisco
9 10 (1.38%) Ariba
10 8 (1.10%) Zscaler
11 7 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.96%) Red Hat
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