Technical Architecture Contracts

Technical Architecture
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Technical Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 384 371
Rank change year-on-year +54 -13 -16
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 197 200 382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.53% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 133 227
10th Percentile £431 £450 £434
25th Percentile £514 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £588 £605
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.89% -3.20%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £614
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.28% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £42.44 - £66.45
25th Percentile £60.63 - £67.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -10.07% +95.71%
75th Percentile - - £70.13
90th Percentile - - £70.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technical Architecture falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architecture.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Architecture within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +59 163 £615 +6.96% 232
UK excluding London +79 89 £550 -4.35% 173
London +30 85 £650 +9.43% 93
Work from Home +50 76 £613 +11.36% 106
North of England +44 27 £602 -12.19% 41
South East +47 20 £625 +38.89% 46
North West +35 19 £618 -9.85% 23
South West +48 14 £550 -6.38% 27
Scotland +11 11 £525 -17.65% 17
East of England +28 9 £404 -28.42% 15
Yorkshire +12 5 £550 - 14
Midlands +11 5 £481 -35.87% 31
West Midlands +3 4 £459 -38.77% 17
North East - 2 £590 - 4
Wales - 2 £462 - 2
East Midlands +10 1 £538 -32.81% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £492 - 1

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.58%) Confluence
2 7 (3.55%) NetWeaver
2 7 (3.55%) SAP EP
2 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.03%) Camunda
4 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.52%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.51%) OpenROAD
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.55%) SAP CRM
3 3 (1.52%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.02%) Finacle
4 2 (1.02%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.51%) Maximo
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.51%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.51%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.37%) Azure
2 40 (20.30%) AWS
3 18 (9.14%) Serverless
4 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
5 16 (8.12%) GCP
6 14 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (7.11%) SaaS
7 12 (6.09%) GitHub
8 11 (5.58%) Azure Functions
8 11 (5.58%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (5.08%) PaaS
9 10 (5.08%) PowerApps
10 9 (4.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (4.57%) Power Automate
11 8 (4.06%) IaaS
11 8 (4.06%) SuccessFactors
12 6 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (2.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.54%) DNS
2 4 (2.03%) Firewall
2 4 (2.03%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.52%) VoIP
3 3 (1.52%) VPN
4 2 (1.02%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.02%) IPsec
4 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.02%) LAN
4 2 (1.02%) Network Security
4 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.02%) SSL
4 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.02%) WAN
4 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.51%) 4G
5 1 (0.51%) 5G
5 1 (0.51%) Multicast
5 1 (0.51%) PBX
5 1 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (4.57%) SAP HANA
2 8 (4.06%) Metadata
2 8 (4.06%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.55%) Power BI
4 5 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.54%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.54%) Tableau
5 4 (2.03%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.03%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.03%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.52%) Big Data
6 3 (1.52%) Looker
6 3 (1.52%) MySQL
6 3 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.60%) JIRA
2 7 (3.55%) Git
3 4 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.03%) Maven
4 3 (1.52%) GitLab
4 3 (1.52%) MLflow
5 2 (1.02%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.02%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.51%) Ant
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (0.51%) Gradle
6 1 (0.51%) Hudson
6 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 89 (45.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.26%) Finance
3 32 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.11%) Banking
6 13 (6.60%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.06%) Retail
8 6 (3.05%) Military
9 5 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.03%) Legal
10 4 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.52%) Front Office
11 3 (1.52%) Local Government
12 2 (1.02%) Back Office
12 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 115 (58.38%) Architect
2 48 (24.37%) Technical Architect
3 32 (16.24%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (10.66%) Lead
5 19 (9.64%) Senior
6 15 (7.61%) SAP Architect
7 13 (6.60%) Consultant
7 13 (6.60%) Developer
8 11 (5.58%) Technical Leader
9 9 (4.57%) Lead Architect
9 9 (4.57%) SAP Technical Architect
10 8 (4.06%) Analyst
11 6 (3.05%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.05%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.05%) Designer
11 6 (3.05%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.54%) Data Architect
12 5 (2.54%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.54%) Dynamics 365 Architect
12 5 (2.54%) IFS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.58%) React
2 10 (5.08%) SAP PI
3 9 (4.57%) Kafka
4 8 (4.06%) PySpark
4 8 (4.06%) SAP Fiori
4 8 (4.06%) SAPUI5
5 7 (3.55%) .NET
5 7 (3.55%) Node.js
6 6 (3.05%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.05%) Middleware
6 6 (3.05%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.05%) XML
7 5 (2.54%) NumPy
7 5 (2.54%) Pandas
7 5 (2.54%) Spring
7 5 (2.54%) Web Services
8 4 (2.03%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.03%) CSS
8 4 (2.03%) HTML
8 4 (2.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.55%) Educational Technology
3 6 (3.05%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.54%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.54%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.02%) Derivative
7 2 (1.02%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.02%) Equities
7 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.02%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.55%) Linux
2 5 (2.54%) Windows
3 4 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.86%) Agile
2 40 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (19.29%) Roadmaps
4 32 (16.24%) DevOps
4 32 (16.24%) Technical Leadership
5 30 (15.23%) Enterprise Architecture
6 29 (14.72%) Microservices
7 24 (12.18%) ERP
7 24 (12.18%) Mentoring
8 23 (11.68%) Data Governance
9 22 (11.17%) CI/CD
10 20 (10.15%) CRM
11 18 (9.14%) Migration
12 17 (8.63%) Analytics
13 15 (7.61%) Decision-Making
13 15 (7.61%) TOGAF
14 14 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
14 14 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.69%) Java
2 23 (11.68%) SQL
3 16 (8.12%) Python
4 14 (7.11%) TypeScript
5 13 (6.60%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.57%) ABAP
6 9 (4.57%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.55%) C#
7 7 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.03%) Bash
8 4 (2.03%) Perl
9 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.02%) UniBasic
10 1 (0.51%) Ada
10 1 (0.51%) C++
10 1 (0.51%) COBOL
10 1 (0.51%) X++
Qualifications
1 53 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 46 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.68%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.55%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.52%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.02%) IIBA
10 1 (0.51%) CCNP
10 1 (0.51%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) MCSA
10 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.06%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.06%) QA
2 6 (3.05%) GDPR
3 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.03%) NCSC
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) IFRS
5 2 (1.02%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.09%) Docker
2 6 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.02%) RACF
3 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (10.15%) Terraform
2 14 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.05%) Ansible
4 4 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.52%) Grafana
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.52%) Packer
5 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.51%) Graylog
7 1 (0.51%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (17.26%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.75%) SAP
3 15 (7.61%) Oracle
4 10 (5.08%) Google
5 8 (4.06%) Ariba
5 8 (4.06%) Cisco
5 8 (4.06%) VMware
6 7 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.05%) IFS
8 5 (2.54%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.03%) Adobe
9 4 (2.03%) Databricks
9 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.52%) Citrix
10 3 (1.52%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.52%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.02%) IBM
11 2 (1.02%) Informatica
11 2 (1.02%) Mitel
11 2 (1.02%) Temenos