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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 378 356
Rank change year-on-year +58 -22 -1
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 228 218 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.59% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 139 252
10th Percentile £436 £460 £456
25th Percentile £513 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £598 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -4.40% -
75th Percentile £695 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £775 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £60.63 £52.12 £66.45
25th Percentile - £56.65 £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 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +73 192 £620 +5.53% 221
London +65 110 £650 +4.00% 139
UK excluding London +28 88 £550 -4.35% 92
Work from Home +35 70 £575 +4.55% 131
North of England +28 25 £550 -19.71% 17
South East +30 22 £610 +16.19% 25
North West +24 18 £551 -19.60% 11
South West +35 15 £550 -6.38% 11
Scotland -5 11 £525 -17.65% 9
Midlands +10 7 £538 -28.33% 23
East of England +15 6 £321 -42.09% 8
Yorkshire +7 5 £550 -22.64% 4
West Midlands +2 5 £553 -26.27% 12
North East - 2 £590 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £538 - 9
Wales - 1 £236 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £492 - 3

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 10 (4.39%) Confluence
1 10 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.07%) NetWeaver
2 7 (3.07%) SAP EP
3 5 (2.19%) Camunda
3 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.88%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.88%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (13.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (3.07%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.32%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.88%) Endur
5 2 (0.88%) Finacle
5 2 (0.88%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.44%) Maximo
6 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.44%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.44%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (27.19%) Azure
2 52 (22.81%) AWS
3 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
4 21 (9.21%) GCP
5 18 (7.89%) Serverless
6 16 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
6 16 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (6.14%) SaaS
8 13 (5.70%) Azure Functions
9 12 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (4.82%) GitHub
11 10 (4.39%) PowerApps
12 9 (3.95%) PaaS
12 9 (3.95%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.51%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.19%) DNS
1 5 (2.19%) VPN
2 4 (1.75%) Firewall
3 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) VoIP
5 1 (0.44%) 4G
5 1 (0.44%) 5G
5 1 (0.44%) BGP
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.44%) Multicast
5 1 (0.44%) OSPF
5 1 (0.44%) PBX
5 1 (0.44%) SAN
5 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.44%) VSAN
5 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.28%) SAP HANA
2 11 (4.82%) Power BI
3 10 (4.39%) Metadata
3 10 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.75%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.75%) Tableau
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.32%) Big Data
9 3 (1.32%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.32%) Looker
9 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.88%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.88%) UniData
Development Applications
1 12 (5.26%) JIRA
2 7 (3.07%) Git
3 4 (1.75%) MLflow
4 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.44%) Hudson
6 1 (0.44%) Maven
6 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 106 (46.49%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.42%) Finance
3 32 (14.04%) Banking
4 27 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.95%) Retail
8 8 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.63%) Military
10 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.75%) Back Office
11 4 (1.75%) Legal
12 3 (1.32%) Automotive
12 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Front Office
13 2 (0.88%) Marketing
13 2 (0.88%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Electronics
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 138 (60.53%) Architect
2 45 (19.74%) Technical Architect
3 36 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 35 (15.35%) SAP Architect
5 21 (9.21%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
6 20 (8.77%) Senior
7 18 (7.89%) Lead
8 15 (6.58%) Developer
9 10 (4.39%) Consultant
10 9 (3.95%) Technical Leader
11 8 (3.51%) SAP Technical Architect
11 8 (3.51%) Security Architect
12 7 (3.07%) Analyst
12 7 (3.07%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.07%) Designer
12 7 (3.07%) Senior Architect
13 6 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (2.63%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 6 (2.63%) Technical Manager
13 6 (2.63%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.96%) Web Services
2 13 (5.70%) React
3 11 (4.82%) .NET
3 11 (4.82%) SAP PI
4 9 (3.95%) Middleware
5 8 (3.51%) Kafka
5 8 (3.51%) SAP Fiori
5 8 (3.51%) SAPUI5
6 7 (3.07%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.63%) JSON
7 6 (2.63%) NumPy
7 6 (2.63%) Pandas
7 6 (2.63%) REST
7 6 (2.63%) XML
8 5 (2.19%) RESTful
8 5 (2.19%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (1.75%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (1.75%) Node.js
9 4 (1.75%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.19%) Educational Technology
4 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.32%) NHS
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.63%) Windows
2 6 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 46 (20.18%) Agile
3 43 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (17.98%) DevOps
5 36 (15.79%) Microservices
5 36 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 35 (15.35%) Technical Leadership
7 32 (14.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 31 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (12.72%) Project Delivery
10 25 (10.96%) CI/CD
10 25 (10.96%) CRM
10 25 (10.96%) Migration
11 23 (10.09%) ERP
12 22 (9.65%) Data Governance
12 22 (9.65%) Impact Assessments
12 22 (9.65%) Mentoring
13 21 (9.21%) Analytics
14 18 (7.89%) Data Architecture
15 17 (7.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (13.60%) Java
2 20 (8.77%) SQL
3 19 (8.33%) Python
4 11 (4.82%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.82%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.95%) ABAP
6 8 (3.51%) C#
7 7 (3.07%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.19%) X++
9 4 (1.75%) Bash
9 4 (1.75%) C++
9 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.32%) C
10 3 (1.32%) Perl
11 2 (0.88%) DAML
11 2 (0.88%) UniBasic
12 1 (0.44%) Ada
12 1 (0.44%) COBOL
12 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.28%) Degree
4 12 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.32%) PhD
11 2 (0.88%) CCNA
11 2 (0.88%) CCNP
11 2 (0.88%) CISM
11 2 (0.88%) CISSP
11 2 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.44%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.39%) GDPR
2 8 (3.51%) QA
3 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.75%) NCSC
5 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) COBIT
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.82%) Docker
2 6 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (7.46%) Terraform
2 15 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Graylog
5 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.44%) Packer
5 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (24.56%) SAP
2 41 (17.98%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 12 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.82%) Google
5 9 (3.95%) Ariba
5 9 (3.95%) Oracle
6 7 (3.07%) Cisco
7 6 (2.63%) Databricks
7 6 (2.63%) VMware
8 4 (1.75%) Adobe
9 3 (1.32%) Citrix
9 3 (1.32%) Dataiku
9 3 (1.32%) DataRobot
9 3 (1.32%) Dell
9 3 (1.32%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.32%) IFS
10 2 (0.88%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.88%) Temenos
10 2 (0.88%) Workday