Technical Architect Contracts in the South East

Technical Architect
England > South East

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the South East is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 178 227
Rank change year-on-year +12 +49 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 21 42 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.75% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.79% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 36 27
10th Percentile £653 £481 £510
25th Percentile £675 £608 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £678 £615
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +10.24% +23.00%
75th Percentile £775 £745 £694
90th Percentile £820 - £710
England median daily rate £650 £678 £645
% change year-on-year -4.13% +5.12% +17.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,035 5,299 7,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 94.63% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,027 3,700 5,008
10th Percentile £214 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £390 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 231 321
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.97 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £75.00 £58.38
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the South East

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Thames Valley +11 8 £700 +7.69% 5
Hampshire -5 6 £760 +20.16%
Berkshire -8 6 £688 +5.77% 3
West Sussex -5 4 £750 +10.62%
Kent - 3 £825 -
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £725 +11.54% 2
Technical Architect
England

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Technical 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 across the South East region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Finance
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (28.57%) Software Architecture
5 5 (23.81%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (19.05%) SOLID
6 4 (19.05%) Terraform
6 4 (19.05%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (19.05%) Ansible
6 4 (19.05%) Coaching
6 4 (19.05%) GitLab
6 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
6 4 (19.05%) C#
6 4 (19.05%) Java
6 4 (19.05%) .NET
6 4 (19.05%) SOA
6 4 (19.05%) TDD
6 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
6 4 (19.05%) AWS
7 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
7 3 (14.29%) REST
7 3 (14.29%) JIRA
7 3 (14.29%) Java EE
7 3 (14.29%) Selenium

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.76%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) IPsec
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) MPLS
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) OSPF
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.76%) Redis
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 3 (14.29%) Java EE
2 3 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.76%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 5 (23.81%) Microservices
4 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (19.05%) Coaching
4 4 (19.05%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (19.05%) SOA
4 4 (19.05%) SOLID
4 4 (19.05%) TDD
5 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C#
1 4 (19.05%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (14.29%) Podman
3 1 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Aruba
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce