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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 238 262
Rank change year-on-year +53 +24 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 718 317 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.10% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.19% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 204 296
10th Percentile £434 £458 £500
25th Percentile £512 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.92%
75th Percentile £720 £750 £769
90th Percentile £800 £838 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £600 £700
% change year-on-year +1.67% -14.29% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £35.00 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £93.75 - -
75th Percentile £103.06 - -
90th Percentile £104.20 - -
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 45,089 26,570 40,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.35% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,438 17,201 25,885
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £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 3,017 1,072 2,851
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.85 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +51 561 £600 -1.84% 144
UK excluding London +57 312 £610 +1.67% 117
London +21 252 £575 -8.00% 53
Work from Home -18 172 £600 -6.25% 72
South East +7 98 £638 +3.24% 34
North of England -39 74 £600 +4.35% 44
South West -6 45 £600 -2.04% 9
North West -17 43 £608 +1.33% 18
Midlands -19 43 £600 -0.41% 7
West Midlands -21 42 £610 -3.17% 7
East of England -8 29 £650 +20.93%
Yorkshire -41 27 £545 +3.81% 10
Wales -4 13 £600 +133.53% 15
Scotland +6 12 £635 +1.60% 4
North East -24 9 £800 +51.66% 16
Northern Ireland - 2 £475 - 4
East Midlands -27 1 £495 -10.00%

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 350 (48.75%) Security Cleared
2 271 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 215 (29.94%) AWS
4 175 (24.37%) Azure
5 136 (18.94%) Roadmaps
6 122 (16.99%) Microservices
7 119 (16.57%) CI/CD
7 119 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
8 116 (16.16%) Agile
9 105 (14.62%) DevOps
10 98 (13.65%) Technical Architecture
11 95 (13.23%) Architectural Patterns
12 92 (12.81%) Microsoft
13 84 (11.70%) Migration
14 77 (10.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 73 (10.17%) DV Cleared
16 68 (9.47%) TOGAF
17 67 (9.33%) Enterprise Architecture
18 66 (9.19%) Java
19 60 (8.36%) Integration Patterns
20 57 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 56 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
22 54 (7.52%) Data Modelling
23 53 (7.38%) Decision-Making
24 52 (7.24%) AI
24 52 (7.24%) ServiceNow
25 51 (7.10%) Python
25 51 (7.10%) Serverless
26 50 (6.96%) Containerisation
27 48 (6.69%) 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 20 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.23%) Confluence
3 10 (1.39%) SAS
4 6 (0.84%) CMS
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.70%) NetWeaver
5 5 (0.70%) nginx
5 5 (0.70%) SAP EP
6 4 (0.56%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.56%) Apache
6 4 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (0.56%) 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 (0.70%) SAP CRM
4 4 (0.56%) Magento
5 3 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.42%) Infor LN
5 3 (0.42%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.42%) SAP EWM
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
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 215 (29.94%) AWS
2 175 (24.37%) Azure
3 51 (7.10%) Serverless
4 35 (4.87%) GitHub
5 33 (4.60%) PaaS
6 31 (4.32%) GCP
7 30 (4.18%) Power Platform
8 25 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (3.06%) IaaS
12 21 (2.92%) SaaS
13 19 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (2.51%) Route 53
15 17 (2.37%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.09%) Amazon S3
17 14 (1.95%) Azure AKS
18 12 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 11 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
19 11 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.27%) Firewall
2 33 (4.60%) VPN
3 20 (2.79%) DNS
4 18 (2.51%) LAN
4 18 (2.51%) WAN
5 14 (1.95%) Network Security
6 13 (1.81%) DHCP
6 13 (1.81%) VLAN
7 12 (1.67%) Structured Cabling
8 11 (1.53%) Wireless
9 10 (1.39%) NAS
9 10 (1.39%) SAN
10 9 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
10 9 (1.25%) NX-OS
11 7 (0.97%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.84%) 3GPP
12 6 (0.84%) IPsec
12 6 (0.84%) SSL
12 6 (0.84%) VSAN
12 6 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.37%) Power BI
2 15 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.81%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
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 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.84%) Metadata
8 6 (0.84%) Redis
9 5 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.70%) Big Data
9 5 (0.70%) MySQL
9 5 (0.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 5 (0.70%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.23%) Git
2 10 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.39%) JIRA
3 5 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.14%) Maven
5 1 (0.14%) MSI
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
5 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 156 (21.73%) Public Sector
2 145 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 38 (5.29%) Finance
4 29 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
6 24 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (1.95%) Military
7 14 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.25%) Banking
9 9 (1.25%) Legal
10 5 (0.70%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.56%) Marketing
11 4 (0.56%) Police
11 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.42%) Law
12 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.28%) Billing
13 2 (0.28%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.41%) Middleware
2 33 (4.60%) REST
3 30 (4.18%) .NET
4 26 (3.62%) OpenID
5 24 (3.34%) OAuth
6 21 (2.92%) SOAP
7 19 (2.65%) SAML
8 18 (2.51%) Node.js
9 15 (2.09%) OAuth2
10 12 (1.67%) RESTful
11 11 (1.53%) Web Services
12 10 (1.39%) GraphQL
13 9 (1.25%) Kafka
13 9 (1.25%) LDAP
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 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.01%) Data Centre
4 29 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 18 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.25%) CMDB
12 9 (1.25%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 6 (0.84%) IoT
15 6 (0.84%) PKI
16 5 (0.70%) FMCG
16 5 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.48%) Windows
2 23 (3.20%) Linux
3 11 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.56%) 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
1 136 (18.94%) Roadmaps
2 122 (16.99%) Microservices
3 119 (16.57%) CI/CD
3 119 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
4 116 (16.16%) Agile
5 105 (14.62%) DevOps
6 98 (13.65%) Technical Architecture
7 95 (13.23%) Architectural Patterns
8 84 (11.70%) Migration
9 77 (10.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 68 (9.47%) TOGAF
11 67 (9.33%) Enterprise Architecture
12 60 (8.36%) Integration Patterns
13 57 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (7.52%) Data Modelling
16 53 (7.38%) Decision-Making
17 52 (7.24%) AI
18 50 (6.96%) Containerisation
19 41 (5.71%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 66 (9.19%) Java
2 51 (7.10%) Python
3 35 (4.87%) SQL
4 26 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.65%) PowerShell
6 17 (2.37%) Ruby
7 16 (2.23%) Bicep
7 16 (2.23%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.39%) C#
9 8 (1.11%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.70%) ABAP
11 4 (0.56%) Bash
11 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.56%) PHP
11 4 (0.56%) VB
11 4 (0.56%) VBScript
12 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.28%) SOQL
13 1 (0.14%) Swift
13 1 (0.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 350 (48.75%) Security Cleared
2 271 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 73 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 24 (3.34%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.20%) Degree
6 18 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.23%) CCNP
7 16 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.81%) 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 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.70%) CISSP
12 5 (0.70%) OSCP
12 5 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.76%) NCSC
2 24 (3.34%) NIST
3 15 (2.09%) GDPR
4 11 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.25%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.11%) GRC
7 8 (1.11%) QA
8 5 (0.70%) WCAG
9 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.56%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.28%) GxP
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) COBIT
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (3.34%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.09%) Docker
4 14 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (0.70%) RACF
5 5 (0.70%) Squid
6 4 (0.56%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.56%) Varnish
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 48 (6.69%) Terraform
2 38 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.09%) Grafana
4 14 (1.95%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.39%) Ansible
6 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.70%) Consul
7 5 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 5 (0.70%) 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 92 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.24%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.01%) Salesforce
4 32 (4.46%) VMware
5 30 (4.18%) Oracle
6 24 (3.34%) SAP
7 20 (2.79%) MuleSoft
8 16 (2.23%) Cisco
8 16 (2.23%) Databricks
9 10 (1.39%) Ariba
10 8 (1.11%) Zscaler
11 7 (0.97%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.84%) Adobe
12 6 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.84%) Google
12 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.84%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.42%) Darktrace