Technical Architect Contracts

Technical Architect
UK

The median Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 246 322
Rank change year-on-year -16 +76 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 385 605 741
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.08% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.14% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 419 504
10th Percentile £500 £500 £493
25th Percentile £563 £563 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +5.88% +10.87%
75th Percentile £769 £745 £738
90th Percentile £831 £799 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.97% +14.78%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £56.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architect in the UK

Technical Architect
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -16 335 £675 -0.95% 143
London +31 185 £630 -13.10% 56
Work from Home 0 169 £700 +3.24% 97
UK excluding London -17 159 £700 +7.69% 98
North of England +22 61 £800 +12.68% 21
North West +45 54 £850 +41.67% 13
South West -10 42 £688 +10.00% 16
South East -9 20 £750 +10.62% 15
Scotland +32 15 £650 - 6
Midlands -15 12 £663 -11.07% 24
West Midlands -17 11 £625 -16.11% 17
East of England -26 10 £613 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire -9 5 £590 -20.81% 4
Northern Ireland +3 2 £513 - 3
Wales +18 1 £600 - 9
East Midlands -12 1 £775 +4.03% 7
North East - 1 £525 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 126 (32.73%) Azure
2 125 (32.47%) Security Cleared
3 104 (27.01%) SC Cleared
4 101 (26.23%) Agile
5 93 (24.16%) Social Skills
6 87 (22.60%) Public Sector
7 76 (19.74%) AWS
8 73 (18.96%) Roadmaps
9 71 (18.44%) DevOps
10 67 (17.40%) Windows
11 66 (17.14%) Microsoft
12 65 (16.88%) Firewall
13 63 (16.36%) Finance
13 63 (16.36%) Migration
14 60 (15.58%) CI/CD
15 53 (13.77%) Public Cloud
16 51 (13.25%) Security Architecture
17 48 (12.47%) Node.js
17 48 (12.47%) Design Patterns
18 47 (12.21%) Apple iOS
18 47 (12.21%) Microservices
18 47 (12.21%) Android
18 47 (12.21%) VPN
19 46 (11.95%) Windows Server
20 45 (11.69%) Mobile Device Management
21 44 (11.43%) Risk Management
21 44 (11.43%) Zero Trust
21 44 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
22 41 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
23 38 (9.87%) Cyber Threat Intelligence

Technical 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 26 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (0.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (0.78%) CMS
3 3 (0.78%) IIS
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.26%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 126 (32.73%) Azure
2 76 (19.74%) AWS
3 23 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (4.68%) GCP
6 16 (4.16%) Entra ID
7 15 (3.90%) GitHub
7 15 (3.90%) SaaS
8 14 (3.64%) Serverless
9 13 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.38%) PaaS
10 12 (3.12%) IaaS
10 12 (3.12%) Power Platform
11 7 (1.82%) Azure Functions
12 6 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.56%) PowerApps
13 5 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 65 (16.88%) Firewall
2 47 (12.21%) VPN
3 27 (7.01%) LAN
4 22 (5.71%) WAN
5 10 (2.60%) 3G
5 10 (2.60%) 4G
6 5 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.78%) BGP
7 3 (0.78%) OSPF
7 3 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.52%) Network Security
8 2 (0.52%) WLAN
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.26%) DNS
9 1 (0.26%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.26%) IPsec
9 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.60%) RDBMS
2 10 (2.60%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (1.56%) Big Data
5 5 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.30%) Power BI
6 4 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.78%) DB2
8 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.26%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (2.86%) JIRA
2 5 (1.30%) Git
2 5 (1.30%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.04%) GitLab
4 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.78%) REST Assured
4 3 (0.78%) Selenium
4 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 93 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 87 (22.60%) Public Sector
3 63 (16.36%) Finance
4 17 (4.42%) Marketing
5 16 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.38%) Legal
7 11 (2.86%) Banking
7 11 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.60%) Electronics
8 10 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.34%) Retail
10 8 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.56%) Billing
12 6 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.78%) Local Government
14 3 (0.78%) Military
15 2 (0.52%) Aviation
15 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.47%) Node.js
2 34 (8.83%) .NET
3 17 (4.42%) REST
4 16 (4.16%) Middleware
5 12 (3.12%) React
6 11 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.60%) GraphQL
8 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (2.08%) OAuth
9 7 (1.82%) J2EE
10 6 (1.56%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.56%) RESTful
10 6 (1.56%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.56%) Web Services
11 5 (1.30%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.30%) OpenID
11 5 (1.30%) SAML
12 4 (1.04%) ASP.NET
12 4 (1.04%) Spring
13 3 (0.78%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 53 (13.77%) Public Cloud
2 26 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.30%) Genomics
9 5 (1.30%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Clustering
10 4 (1.04%) CMDB
10 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.04%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.78%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (17.40%) Windows
2 47 (12.21%) Android
2 47 (12.21%) Apple iOS
3 46 (11.95%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.16%) Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (26.23%) Agile
2 73 (18.96%) Roadmaps
3 71 (18.44%) DevOps
4 63 (16.36%) Migration
5 60 (15.58%) CI/CD
6 51 (13.25%) Security Architecture
7 48 (12.47%) Design Patterns
8 47 (12.21%) Microservices
9 45 (11.69%) Mobile Device Management
10 44 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (11.43%) Risk Management
10 44 (11.43%) Zero Trust
11 41 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (9.87%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 38 (9.87%) Threat Intelligence
13 36 (9.35%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (9.09%) Data Migration
15 33 (8.57%) Technical Architecture
16 32 (8.31%) Strategic Roadmap
17 29 (7.53%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.75%) Python
2 23 (5.97%) Java
3 19 (4.94%) SQL
4 14 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.38%) C#
6 5 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.52%) Go
8 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.52%) Scala
9 1 (0.26%) Bicep
9 1 (0.26%) C++
9 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Ruby
9 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.75%) Degree
4 21 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 17 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.04%) HND
9 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CCIE
10 1 (0.26%) CCNP
10 1 (0.26%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.97%) QA
2 18 (4.68%) NIST
3 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (4.42%) Docker
2 10 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.04%) vCloud
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) KVM
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.94%) Terraform
3 5 (1.30%) Ansible
4 3 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.78%) Podman
5 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.52%) VxRail
6 1 (0.26%) Control-M
6 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.26%) Nagios
6 1 (0.26%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Puppet
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 66 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.45%) NetApp
3 19 (4.94%) SAP
4 13 (3.38%) Databricks
5 12 (3.12%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.86%) Google
7 9 (2.34%) Cisco
7 9 (2.34%) Oracle
7 9 (2.34%) VMware
8 8 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.56%) Dell
10 5 (1.30%) Apple
10 5 (1.30%) LogRhythm
10 5 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.30%) Splunk
11 4 (1.04%) Virgin Media
12 3 (0.78%) Sparx
13 2 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.52%) Zscaler