Technical Architect Contract Job Trends

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £584, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 249 213
Rank change year-on-year -31 -36 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 351 365 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.01% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 1.08% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 240 400
10th Percentile £450 £466 £500
25th Percentile £513 £520 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £627 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -3.61% -
75th Percentile £700 £750 £732
90th Percentile £750 £799 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £595 £650
% change year-on-year -4.20% -8.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £86.50 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £101.75 - -
90th Percentile £104.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 - £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 32,472 33,653 43,373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.85% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,595 20,286 29,396
10th Percentile £279 £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 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,912 1,252 1,544
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +55.71%
75th Percentile £55.12 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.14 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +86.55%

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 19 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 19 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 -31 284 £575 -4.17% 116
UK excluding London -42 158 £570 -4.20% 69
London -1 136 £612 -3.27% 49
Work from Home -33 109 £604 -10.47% 56
North of England -4 64 £550 +10.00% 9
North West -1 40 £550 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire -27 23 £550 -3.00% 3
South West -6 19 £710 +6.77% 6
South East -25 19 £625 +15.74% 44
East of England -14 18 £553 -0.45% 7
Scotland -11 15 £723 -5.25%
Midlands -48 15 £520 -8.93% 4
West Midlands -39 14 £523 -7.85% 3
Wales +8 8 £588 -2.08%
North East -7 1 - - 2
East Midlands -20 1 £450 -21.74% 1

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 140 (39.89%) Security Cleared
2 117 (33.33%) AWS
3 110 (31.34%) Azure
4 99 (28.21%) SC Cleared
5 84 (23.93%) Roadmaps
6 82 (23.36%) CI/CD
7 71 (20.23%) Agile
8 70 (19.94%) Technical Leadership
9 68 (19.37%) Terraform
10 60 (17.09%) Microservices
11 59 (16.81%) Kubernetes
12 53 (15.10%) Technical Architecture
13 50 (14.25%) Migration
14 48 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
14 48 (13.68%) Microsoft
15 47 (13.39%) Java
16 45 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (12.25%) DevOps
18 42 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (11.68%) Containerisation
20 40 (11.40%) Mentoring
21 38 (10.83%) Integration Patterns
22 37 (10.54%) Docker
22 37 (10.54%) Python
23 35 (9.97%) Data Modelling
23 35 (9.97%) Strategic Roadmap
24 34 (9.69%) TOGAF
25 33 (9.40%) AI
25 33 (9.40%) GitHub
26 32 (9.12%) DV Cleared

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 (3.13%) 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 7 (1.99%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.14%) Endur
2 4 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (1.14%) SAP HR
2 4 (1.14%) SAP PM
2 4 (1.14%) 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 (33.33%) AWS
2 110 (31.34%) Azure
3 33 (9.40%) GitHub
4 29 (8.26%) GCP
5 28 (7.98%) Serverless
6 23 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.13%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (2.56%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (1.99%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (1.99%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.99%) AWS Fargate
11 7 (1.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.55%) Firewall
2 16 (4.56%) WAN
3 13 (3.70%) SAN
4 12 (3.42%) VPN
5 11 (3.13%) LAN
6 9 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 9 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.71%) DNS
7 6 (1.71%) Network Security
8 4 (1.14%) DHCP
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%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.57%) VSAN
11 1 (0.28%) DMZ
11 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.42%) Metadata
5 10 (2.85%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.85%) Power BI
6 9 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.56%) MySQL
7 8 (2.28%) Redis
8 7 (1.99%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (5.70%) CircleCI
2 17 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.56%) Git
4 11 (3.13%) JIRA
5 10 (2.85%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.42%) Gradle
7 5 (1.42%) Maven
7 5 (1.42%) SonarLint
8 4 (1.14%) GitLab
9 2 (0.57%) Hudson
10 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
General
1 106 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.79%) Public Sector
3 41 (11.68%) Finance
4 21 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.27%) Banking
6 10 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.85%) Marketing
7 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.99%) Legal
9 7 (1.99%) Military
10 5 (1.42%) Back Office
10 5 (1.42%) Billing
11 4 (1.14%) Aviation
12 3 (0.85%) Automotive
12 3 (0.85%) Electronics
12 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Law
12 3 (0.85%) Local Government
12 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.27%) Middleware
2 21 (5.98%) RESTful
3 18 (5.13%) REST
4 16 (4.56%) Spring Boot
5 15 (4.27%) .NET
6 14 (3.99%) GraphQL
7 13 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
8 11 (3.13%) SOAP
9 10 (2.85%) Kafka
9 10 (2.85%) Node.js
10 9 (2.56%) Celery
10 9 (2.56%) Visualforce
11 8 (2.28%) J2EE
11 8 (2.28%) React
11 8 (2.28%) Spring
12 7 (1.99%) JWT
12 7 (1.99%) OAuth
12 7 (1.99%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.71%) Dropwizard
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.12%) Product Ownership
2 26 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (6.27%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.56%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.56%) NHS
6 8 (2.28%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.71%) CMDB
7 6 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.71%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.14%) Grid Computing
9 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) PKI
10 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.70%) Windows
2 11 (3.13%) Linux
3 7 (1.99%) 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 84 (23.93%) Roadmaps
2 82 (23.36%) CI/CD
3 71 (20.23%) Agile
4 70 (19.94%) Technical Leadership
5 60 (17.09%) Microservices
6 53 (15.10%) Technical Architecture
7 50 (14.25%) Migration
8 48 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (12.25%) DevOps
11 42 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (11.68%) Containerisation
13 40 (11.40%) Mentoring
14 38 (10.83%) Integration Patterns
15 35 (9.97%) Data Modelling
15 35 (9.97%) Strategic Roadmap
16 34 (9.69%) TOGAF
17 33 (9.40%) AI
18 30 (8.55%) IT Strategy
19 29 (8.26%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (13.39%) Java
2 37 (10.54%) Python
3 29 (8.26%) TypeScript
4 17 (4.84%) SQL
5 16 (4.56%) C#
6 14 (3.99%) Apex Code
7 12 (3.42%) PowerShell
8 11 (3.13%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.42%) Bicep
10 4 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.14%) 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
1 140 (39.89%) Security Cleared
2 99 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.12%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.70%) Degree
5 11 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.85%) CCNP
9 3 (0.85%) VCAP
10 2 (0.57%) CCNA
10 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CCSE
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) ISEB
11 1 (0.28%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.99%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.42%) GDPR
4 4 (1.14%) HL7
4 4 (1.14%) NCSC
4 4 (1.14%) NIST
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%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (10.54%) Docker
2 15 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.71%) 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 (19.37%) Terraform
2 59 (16.81%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.55%) Grafana
3 23 (6.55%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.28%) Ansible
5 6 (1.71%) 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 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 24 (6.84%) SAP
4 23 (6.55%) Oracle
5 17 (4.84%) VMware
6 16 (4.56%) ServiceNow
7 12 (3.42%) Cisco
8 11 (3.13%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.13%) Workday
9 9 (2.56%) Databricks
10 7 (1.99%) Google
11 6 (1.71%) Citrix
11 6 (1.71%) Gigya
11 6 (1.71%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.42%) ForgeRock
12 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.14%) Ariba
13 4 (1.14%) Dell
14 3 (0.85%) Adobe