Technology Architect Contract Job Trends

Technology Architect
UK

The median Technology Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 553 640
Rank change year-on-year +20 +87 +184
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Architect 7 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.024% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.025% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £456 £590 £475
25th Percentile £520 £613 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £486
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +33.74% -12.43%
75th Percentile £788 £737 £583
90th Percentile £818 £797 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £681 £548
% change year-on-year +6.46% +24.27% +17.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 29,559 35,319 46,870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 92.93% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,644 21,679 32,085
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,630 1,509
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.80 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.11 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.80% +0.34% +98.86%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in the UK

Technology Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Architect over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Architect in the UK

Technology Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technology Architect job vacancies in the UK

Technology Architect
Top 8 Contract Job 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 22 September 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 7 £675 +3.85% 5
UK excluding London -16 5 £725 +6.46% 5
Work from Home +15 4 £725 +16.00% 1
South East - 3 £775 -
London +25 2 £414 -36.31% 1
North of England -25 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 £520 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, 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 3 (42.86%) ADSL
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
1 3 (42.86%) 4G
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) ThingWorx
1 3 (42.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Publishing
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) PMO
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree

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 3 (42.86%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) 4G
1 3 (42.86%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 3 (42.86%) IoT
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Business Case
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle