Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 242 217
Rank change year-on-year -39 -25 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 353 376 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 1.03% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 1.11% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 248 397
10th Percentile £450 £465 £500
25th Percentile £512 £524 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £627 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -3.61% -
75th Percentile £700 £750 £731
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £566 £598 £650
% change year-on-year -5.23% -8.08% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile £102.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £90.00 - £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 32,350 33,960 43,317
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 92.81% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,481 20,515 29,296
10th Percentile £280 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,914 1,266 1,538
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +49.17%
75th Percentile £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +80.00%

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 24 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 24 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 -36 287 £575 -7.02% 101
UK excluding London -36 165 £566 -5.23% 73
London -23 133 £609 -3.78% 39
Work from Home -25 108 £600 -7.69% 45
North of England -2 64 £550 +10.00% 8
North West +2 40 £550 +10.00% 1
South East -28 24 £625 +13.64% 49
Yorkshire -19 23 £550 -3.00% 6
East of England -7 20 £553 -1.12% 5
South West -2 19 £710 +10.08% 7
Scotland -8 15 £723 -5.25%
Midlands -41 15 £520 -8.93% 4
West Midlands -28 14 £523 -7.85% 2
Wales +6 8 £588 -2.08% 1
North East -8 1 - - 1
East Midlands -12 1 £450 -21.74% 2

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 146 (41.36%) Security Cleared
2 117 (33.14%) AWS
3 112 (31.73%) Azure
4 103 (29.18%) SC Cleared
5 86 (24.36%) Roadmaps
6 81 (22.95%) CI/CD
7 74 (20.96%) Agile
8 69 (19.55%) Technical Leadership
9 68 (19.26%) Terraform
10 60 (17.00%) Microservices
11 59 (16.71%) Kubernetes
12 52 (14.73%) Migration
13 50 (14.16%) Technical Architecture
14 49 (13.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 48 (13.60%) Microsoft
16 45 (12.75%) Java
16 45 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (12.18%) DevOps
18 41 (11.61%) Containerisation
18 41 (11.61%) Mentoring
19 40 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
20 37 (10.48%) Docker
20 37 (10.48%) Integration Patterns
21 36 (10.20%) Python
21 36 (10.20%) TOGAF
22 35 (9.92%) Data Modelling
22 35 (9.92%) Strategic Roadmap
23 34 (9.63%) DV Cleared
24 33 (9.35%) GitHub
25 32 (9.07%) AI

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 (3.12%) WebLogic
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.85%) SAS
3 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.28%) Appian
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.28%) SAP EP
Applications
1 6 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.13%) Endur
2 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.13%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.13%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Summit
4 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.28%) Magento
4 1 (0.28%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.28%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 117 (33.14%) AWS
2 112 (31.73%) Azure
3 33 (9.35%) GitHub
4 29 (8.22%) GCP
5 28 (7.93%) Serverless
6 23 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.10%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (2.55%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (1.98%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (1.98%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (1.98%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.52%) Firewall
2 19 (5.38%) WAN
3 14 (3.97%) LAN
3 14 (3.97%) VPN
4 13 (3.68%) SAN
5 11 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.55%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.70%) DNS
7 6 (1.70%) Network Security
8 4 (1.13%) DHCP
8 4 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.85%) BGP
9 3 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.85%) NAS
9 3 (0.85%) Skype
9 3 (0.85%) VLAN
10 2 (0.57%) NetScaler
10 2 (0.57%) VSAN
11 1 (0.28%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.68%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.40%) Metadata
5 10 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (2.83%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.83%) Power BI
6 9 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.55%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.55%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.55%) MySQL
7 8 (2.27%) Redis
8 7 (1.98%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.70%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 20 (5.67%) CircleCI
2 17 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.53%) Git
4 11 (3.12%) JIRA
5 10 (2.83%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.42%) Gradle
7 5 (1.42%) Maven
7 5 (1.42%) SonarLint
8 4 (1.13%) GitLab
9 2 (0.57%) Hudson
10 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
General
1 109 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 86 (24.36%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.05%) Finance
4 21 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.25%) Banking
6 10 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.55%) Marketing
7 9 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.98%) Legal
8 7 (1.98%) Military
8 7 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.42%) Back Office
9 5 (1.42%) Billing
10 4 (1.13%) Aviation
10 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Automotive
11 3 (0.85%) Law
11 3 (0.85%) Local Government
12 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.57%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.23%) Middleware
2 20 (5.67%) RESTful
3 17 (4.82%) REST
4 15 (4.25%) .NET
4 15 (4.25%) Spring Boot
5 14 (3.97%) GraphQL
6 13 (3.68%) Lightning Web Components
7 11 (3.12%) Kafka
8 10 (2.83%) Node.js
8 10 (2.83%) SOAP
9 9 (2.55%) Celery
9 9 (2.55%) Visualforce
10 8 (2.27%) J2EE
10 8 (2.27%) Spring
11 7 (1.98%) JWT
11 7 (1.98%) OAuth
11 7 (1.98%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.98%) React
12 6 (1.70%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.78%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.37%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.53%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.55%) NHS
5 9 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.70%) CMDB
6 6 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.70%) N-Tier
7 5 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.13%) Grid Computing
8 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.13%) PKI
9 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.95%) Windows
2 12 (3.40%) Linux
3 7 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.85%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (24.36%) Roadmaps
2 81 (22.95%) CI/CD
3 74 (20.96%) Agile
4 69 (19.55%) Technical Leadership
5 60 (17.00%) Microservices
6 52 (14.73%) Migration
7 50 (14.16%) Technical Architecture
8 49 (13.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (12.18%) DevOps
11 41 (11.61%) Containerisation
11 41 (11.61%) Mentoring
12 40 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 37 (10.48%) Integration Patterns
14 36 (10.20%) TOGAF
15 35 (9.92%) Data Modelling
15 35 (9.92%) Strategic Roadmap
16 32 (9.07%) AI
17 30 (8.50%) IT Strategy
18 28 (7.93%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.75%) Java
2 36 (10.20%) Python
3 29 (8.22%) TypeScript
4 18 (5.10%) SQL
5 16 (4.53%) C#
6 14 (3.97%) Apex Code
7 12 (3.40%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.12%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.42%) Bicep
10 4 (1.13%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.13%) Ruby
11 3 (0.85%) SOQL
11 3 (0.85%) SOSL
11 3 (0.85%) VB
11 3 (0.85%) VBScript
12 1 (0.28%) ABAP
12 1 (0.28%) Bash
12 1 (0.28%) Go
12 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 146 (41.36%) Security Cleared
2 103 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.63%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.97%) Degree
5 12 (3.40%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 6 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) VCAP
11 2 (0.57%) CCNA
11 2 (0.57%) CISSP
11 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CCSE
12 1 (0.28%) ISEB
12 1 (0.28%) JNCIE
12 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.42%) GDPR
3 5 (1.42%) NIST
4 4 (1.13%) HL7
4 4 (1.13%) NCSC
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) GRC
6 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.57%) QA
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.28%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (10.48%) Docker
2 15 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.85%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.28%) Varnish
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (19.26%) Terraform
2 59 (16.71%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.52%) Grafana
3 23 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.27%) Ansible
5 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.85%) SCCM
8 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.57%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.57%) SCOM
9 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.80%) Salesforce
3 23 (6.52%) Oracle
4 22 (6.23%) SAP
5 18 (5.10%) VMware
6 16 (4.53%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.68%) Cisco
8 11 (3.12%) Workday
9 10 (2.83%) MuleSoft
10 9 (2.55%) Databricks
11 7 (1.98%) Google
12 6 (1.70%) Citrix
12 6 (1.70%) Gigya
12 6 (1.70%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.42%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.42%) OpenAI
14 4 (1.13%) Ariba
15 3 (0.85%) Adobe
15 3 (0.85%) Hitachi