Technical Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 239 297
Rank change year-on-year -3 +58 -73
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 157 229 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.00% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.06% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 164 180
10th Percentile £531 £491 £463
25th Percentile £581 £557 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £825 £745 £688
90th Percentile £850 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £633
% change year-on-year -3.70% +6.72% +11.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +13.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +30 64 £800 +8.84% 6
North West +46 56 £850 +36.00% 6
South West -7 37 £638 +2.00% 12
South East -8 21 £750 +10.62% 14
Scotland +30 15 £650 - 2
Midlands -14 12 £663 -11.07% 12
West Midlands -9 10 £613 -17.79% 7
East of England -22 10 £613 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire -11 6 £590 -20.81%
Northern Ireland +6 2 £513 -
East Midlands -11 2 £788 +5.70% 5
North East - 1 £525 -
Technical Architect
UK

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 66 (42.04%) Agile
2 55 (35.03%) Windows
3 54 (34.39%) Security Cleared
4 49 (31.21%) Firewall
5 46 (29.30%) Azure
6 44 (28.03%) SC Cleared
6 44 (28.03%) DevOps
6 44 (28.03%) CI/CD
7 43 (27.39%) Public Cloud
8 42 (26.75%) Android
8 42 (26.75%) Security Architecture
8 42 (26.75%) Apple iOS
8 42 (26.75%) Windows Server
9 41 (26.11%) VPN
10 40 (25.48%) Risk Management
10 40 (25.48%) Node.js
10 40 (25.48%) Zero Trust
10 40 (25.48%) Social Skills
11 39 (24.84%) Mobile Device Management
12 38 (24.20%) Roadmaps
13 36 (22.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 36 (22.93%) Threat Intelligence
14 34 (21.66%) Public Sector
15 32 (20.38%) Design Patterns
15 32 (20.38%) Finance
16 25 (15.92%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
18 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 20 (12.74%) Microservices
19 20 (12.74%) AWS

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.64%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.64%) RMDS
1 1 (0.64%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (29.30%) Azure
2 20 (12.74%) AWS
3 7 (4.46%) GCP
4 6 (3.82%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.18%) GitHub
6 4 (2.55%) IaaS
6 4 (2.55%) PaaS
7 3 (1.91%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.27%) SaaS
8 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.64%) OCI
9 1 (0.64%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 49 (31.21%) Firewall
2 41 (26.11%) VPN
3 19 (12.10%) LAN
4 18 (11.46%) WAN
5 8 (5.10%) 3G
5 8 (5.10%) 4G
6 5 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (3.18%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.91%) BGP
7 3 (1.91%) OSPF
7 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.27%) DNS
8 2 (1.27%) Network Security
8 2 (1.27%) WLAN
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.64%) Internet
9 1 (0.64%) IPsec
9 1 (0.64%) Multicast
9 1 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.27%) Big Data
2 2 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) JIRA
2 4 (2.55%) GitLab
3 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.91%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.91%) Selenium
3 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 40 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.66%) Public Sector
3 32 (20.38%) Finance
4 10 (6.37%) Marketing
5 9 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.73%) Electronics
5 9 (5.73%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.73%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.82%) Legal
7 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Local Government
9 2 (1.27%) Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Military
10 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (25.48%) Node.js
2 10 (6.37%) Middleware
3 7 (4.46%) .NET
4 4 (2.55%) REST
4 4 (2.55%) Web Services
5 3 (1.91%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.91%) J2EE
5 3 (1.91%) Java EE
6 2 (1.27%) React Native
7 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.64%) JSON
7 1 (0.64%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.64%) OAuth
7 1 (0.64%) OpenID
7 1 (0.64%) React
7 1 (0.64%) RESTful
7 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.64%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.39%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.10%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.18%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.91%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.91%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.27%) Clustering
8 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.64%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.64%) PKI
9 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (35.03%) Windows
2 42 (26.75%) Android
2 42 (26.75%) Apple iOS
2 42 (26.75%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.01%) Linux
4 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (42.04%) Agile
2 44 (28.03%) CI/CD
2 44 (28.03%) DevOps
3 42 (26.75%) Security Architecture
4 40 (25.48%) Risk Management
4 40 (25.48%) Zero Trust
5 39 (24.84%) Mobile Device Management
6 38 (24.20%) Roadmaps
7 36 (22.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 36 (22.93%) Threat Intelligence
8 32 (20.38%) Design Patterns
9 25 (15.92%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (12.74%) Microservices
12 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.46%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (10.83%) Migration
14 17 (10.83%) Technical Architecture
15 15 (9.55%) Waterfall
16 14 (8.92%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.18%) Java
1 5 (3.18%) Python
2 4 (2.55%) C#
3 2 (1.27%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (34.39%) Security Cleared
2 44 (28.03%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.10%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.01%) Degree
5 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.55%) HND
6 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) CCIE
8 1 (0.64%) CCNP
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.28%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) NCSC
3 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.18%) Docker
3 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.64%) KVM
5 1 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.10%) Terraform
2 5 (3.18%) Ansible
3 3 (1.91%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.91%) Podman
4 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.64%) Nagios
4 1 (0.64%) Nessus
4 1 (0.64%) Puppet
4 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.64%) vRealize
4 1 (0.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.37%) SAP
2 10 (6.37%) VMware
3 9 (5.73%) Cisco
4 8 (5.10%) Google
5 7 (4.46%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.18%) Apple
6 5 (3.18%) Databricks
7 4 (2.55%) Splunk
8 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.27%) Aruba
9 2 (1.27%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.27%) Dell
9 2 (1.27%) F5
9 2 (1.27%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.27%) Oracle
9 2 (1.27%) Pegasus
9 2 (1.27%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow