Technology Architect Contracts

Technology Architect
UK

The median Technology Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 695 847
Rank change year-on-year +112 +152 -179
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Architect 3 21 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.035% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.037% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £410 £414
25th Percentile £600 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £552
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +1.90% -
75th Percentile £769 £675 £555
90th Percentile £810 £735 £556
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £750 £552
% change year-on-year -16.67% +35.87% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Technology Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technology Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Architect in the UK

Technology Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Architect.

Daily rate trend for Technology Architect in the UK

Technology Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Architect over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Architect in the UK

Technology Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +112 3 £650 +15.56% 4
Work from Home +120 2 £625 +66.67% 1
UK excluding London +55 2 £625 -16.67% 1
London +106 1 £825 +120.00% 3
North of England +37 1 £600 -20.00%
Yorkshire +20 1 £600 -20.00%
East of England +16 1 £650 - 1

Technology Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Technology Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Technology Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Skype
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components

Technology Architect Skill Set
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Skype
1 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce