Technical Architecture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Technical Architecture skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 299 308
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -31
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 76 148 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.64% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.72% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 110 153
10th Percentile £400 £424 £457
25th Percentile £513 £468 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £607 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +1.13% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £688
90th Percentile £788 £706 £771
UK median daily rate £588 £618 £625
% change year-on-year -4.86% -1.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
Median hourly rate £61.60 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £68.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.07% +95.71% -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technical Architecture is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK excluding London

Technical Architecture
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 Architecture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East +5 24 £525 -17.71% 18
Midlands +29 16 £750 +39.53% 4
West Midlands +29 15 £750 +36.36%
East of England +7 12 £565 -13.08% 3
South West -5 12 £588 -10.31% 11
Scotland +40 10 £575 -6.50%
North of England -18 2 £685 +24.55% 15
East Midlands +8 1 £800 +52.38% 4
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 2
North West -15 1 £685 +24.55% 7
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical Architecture
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 7 (9.21%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (9.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.63%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.63%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (2.63%) RMDS
3 1 (1.32%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.63%) AWS
2 15 (19.74%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) GCP
3 6 (7.89%) GitHub
4 5 (6.58%) IaaS
5 4 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (5.26%) SaaS
5 4 (5.26%) Serverless
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.63%) Route 53
7 2 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Firewall
2 12 (15.79%) WAN
3 11 (14.47%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (14.47%) LAN
4 8 (10.53%) VPN
5 7 (9.21%) MPLS
5 7 (9.21%) SD-WAN
5 7 (9.21%) WLAN
6 6 (7.89%) Internet
6 6 (7.89%) PBX
6 6 (7.89%) VoIP
7 5 (6.58%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (6.58%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (6.58%) DHCP
7 5 (6.58%) DNS
8 4 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (3.95%) 4G
9 3 (3.95%) 5G
9 3 (3.95%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (2.63%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle Database
2 7 (9.21%) SAP HANA
3 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 9 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.58%) Back Office
5 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Billing
6 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Local Government
6 2 (2.63%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (59.21%) Architect
2 17 (22.37%) Technical Architect
3 9 (11.84%) Consultant
4 8 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
4 8 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
5 7 (9.21%) Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architect
5 7 (9.21%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 7 (9.21%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (9.21%) SAP Technical Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) Network Architect
7 5 (6.58%) AWS Architect
7 5 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.26%) Analyst
8 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Finance Business Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) IT Architect
10 2 (2.63%) Market Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) Web Services
2 8 (10.53%) HTML
3 7 (9.21%) CSS
3 7 (9.21%) SAP Basis
3 7 (9.21%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 6 (7.89%) Node.js
4 6 (7.89%) REST
4 6 (7.89%) SOAP
5 5 (6.58%) React
5 5 (6.58%) XML
6 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.26%) JSON
7 3 (3.95%) .NET
7 3 (3.95%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.95%) RESTful
8 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.63%) SQLAlchemy
8 2 (2.63%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.58%) IoT
3 5 (6.58%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) NB-IoT
4 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.95%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.63%) CMDB
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.32%) FMCG
6 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
2 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (19.74%) Roadmaps
4 11 (14.47%) Agile
4 11 (14.47%) High Availability
4 11 (14.47%) Mentoring
4 11 (14.47%) Storage Management
5 9 (11.84%) Analytics
5 9 (11.84%) CI/CD
5 9 (11.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (10.53%) Data Architecture
6 8 (10.53%) ITIL
6 8 (10.53%) Programme Management
6 8 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 8 (10.53%) Security Architecture
6 8 (10.53%) Service Management
6 8 (10.53%) TOGAF
7 7 (9.21%) ArchiMate
7 7 (9.21%) Performance Management
7 7 (9.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
2 8 (10.53%) Python
3 6 (7.89%) Java
4 4 (5.26%) SQL
5 3 (3.95%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) Perl
6 1 (1.32%) R
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) AWS Certification
3 7 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (9.21%) Degree
4 6 (7.89%) CCIE
4 6 (7.89%) CCIE Data Center
4 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.95%) ACCA
6 3 (3.95%) CIMA
7 1 (1.32%) CCNA
7 1 (1.32%) CCNP
7 1 (1.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) GDPR
2 4 (5.26%) Government Security Classifications
2 4 (5.26%) NCSC
2 4 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) COBIT
3 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) ACF2
3 1 (1.32%) IAG
3 1 (1.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Terraform
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.95%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.32%) SCCM
4 1 (1.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Cisco
2 13 (17.11%) Oracle
3 11 (14.47%) Palo Alto
4 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.21%) SAP
5 7 (9.21%) ServiceNow
5 7 (9.21%) Zscaler
6 5 (6.58%) CheckPoint
6 5 (6.58%) Infoblox
6 5 (6.58%) Symantec
7 4 (5.26%) Splunk
8 2 (2.63%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.63%) F5
8 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.63%) VMware
9 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.32%) Juniper
9 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.32%) Sparx