Technical Architect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 91 106
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 14 26 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.75% 1.37% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.48% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 21
10th Percentile £469 £445 £663
25th Percentile £503 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £562 £745
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -24.63% +24.17%
75th Percentile £621 £775 -
90th Percentile £713 - -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £672
% change year-on-year -4.17% -10.71% +3.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,653 1,761 1,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.06% 93.13% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,113 1,350
10th Percentile £235 £214 £225
25th Percentile £381 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 62 64
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.60 £15.16
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.44 £17.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.05 £22.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -2.65% +25.81%
75th Percentile £38.13 £33.23 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.88 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.94
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.44% +74.23%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Technical Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Coventry - 6 £505 -
Birmingham -1 4 £750 +32.28% 4
Warwickshire -12 2 £486 -6.54%
Shropshire -20 1 £614 +9.35%
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 October 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) SAP
3 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
4 5 (35.71%) SAP PI
4 5 (35.71%) JIRA
4 5 (35.71%) Apex Code
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Salesforce
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
5 4 (28.57%) User Stories
5 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (28.57%) Sequence Diagram
5 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
5 4 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
5 4 (28.57%) SAP HR
5 4 (28.57%) SAP PM
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) ETL
5 4 (28.57%) CRM
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (28.57%) Visualforce
5 4 (28.57%) Use Case

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) NetWeaver
1 1 (7.14%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) SAP HR
1 4 (28.57%) SAP PM
2 3 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (7.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
1 5 (35.71%) SAP PI
2 4 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (28.57%) Visualforce
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) EDI
4 1 (7.14%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (7.14%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) CRM
4 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Sequence Diagram
4 4 (28.57%) Use Case
4 4 (28.57%) User Stories
5 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) ERP
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Apex Code
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) ABAP
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) SAP
2 5 (35.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Ariba
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) JD Edwards
4 1 (7.14%) QAD