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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 216 299
Rank change year-on-year -11 +83 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 181 230 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.01% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.08% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 164 166
10th Percentile £507 £463 £469
25th Percentile £575 £550 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +9.84%
75th Percentile £788 £738 £700
90th Percentile £850 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £56.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +14.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 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
North of England +17 61 £800 +16.36% 12
North West +41 55 £850 +58.14% 8
South West -11 44 £688 +10.00% 11
Midlands -6 26 £625 -16.11% 12
West Midlands +2 25 £613 -17.79% 6
Scotland +52 22 £675 +3.85% 5
South East -8 19 £700 +3.24% 12
East of England -28 10 £613 -9.26% 5
Yorkshire -14 4 £590 -20.81% 1
Northern Ireland -2 2 £513 - 2
Wales +21 1 £600 - 5
East Midlands -17 1 £775 +4.03% 6
North East - 1 £525 - 3
Technical Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 70 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 68 (37.57%) Agile
3 61 (33.70%) Windows
4 54 (29.83%) SC Cleared
5 50 (27.62%) Firewall
6 48 (26.52%) Azure
6 48 (26.52%) Public Cloud
7 47 (25.97%) Mobile Device Management
8 46 (25.41%) Security Architecture
9 45 (24.86%) Apple iOS
9 45 (24.86%) Android
9 45 (24.86%) DevOps
9 45 (24.86%) CI/CD
10 44 (24.31%) Zero Trust
10 44 (24.31%) Risk Management
11 42 (23.20%) VPN
11 42 (23.20%) Social Skills
11 42 (23.20%) Windows Server
12 40 (22.10%) Public Sector
12 40 (22.10%) Node.js
13 38 (20.99%) Roadmaps
14 37 (20.44%) Design Patterns
14 37 (20.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 37 (20.44%) Threat Intelligence
15 35 (19.34%) Finance
16 34 (18.78%) Microsoft
17 24 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (13.26%) Microservices
18 23 (12.71%) DV Cleared
19 22 (12.15%) 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 10 (5.52%) Confluence
2 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.55%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.52%) Azure
2 22 (12.15%) AWS
3 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (4.42%) GCP
4 5 (2.76%) GitHub
5 4 (2.21%) IaaS
5 4 (2.21%) PaaS
6 3 (1.66%) iPaaS
6 3 (1.66%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.10%) Azure App Service
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.10%) SaaS
7 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Serverless
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.55%) OCI
8 1 (0.55%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (27.62%) Firewall
2 42 (23.20%) VPN
3 21 (11.60%) LAN
4 20 (11.05%) WAN
5 10 (5.52%) 3G
5 10 (5.52%) 4G
6 5 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (2.76%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.66%) BGP
7 3 (1.66%) OSPF
7 3 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.10%) Network Security
8 2 (1.10%) WLAN
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.55%) DNS
9 1 (0.55%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.55%) IPsec
9 1 (0.55%) MPLS
9 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.10%) Big Data
2 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (7.18%) JIRA
2 4 (2.21%) GitLab
3 3 (1.66%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.66%) REST Assured
3 3 (1.66%) Selenium
3 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 42 (23.20%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.10%) Public Sector
3 35 (19.34%) Finance
4 13 (7.18%) Marketing
5 12 (6.63%) Electronics
5 12 (6.63%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.63%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.31%) Legal
9 3 (1.66%) Local Government
10 2 (1.10%) Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.10%) Node.js
2 13 (7.18%) Middleware
3 6 (3.31%) .NET
4 4 (2.21%) Web Services
5 3 (1.66%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.66%) J2EE
5 3 (1.66%) Java EE
5 3 (1.66%) REST
6 2 (1.10%) React Native
7 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.55%) CSS
7 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.55%) JSON
7 1 (0.55%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.55%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.55%) React
7 1 (0.55%) RESTful
7 1 (0.55%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.55%) XML
7 1 (0.55%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.52%) Public Cloud
2 11 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.42%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.66%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.66%) Clustering
8 3 (1.66%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.55%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.55%) NHS
10 1 (0.55%) PKI
10 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (33.70%) Windows
2 45 (24.86%) Android
2 45 (24.86%) Apple iOS
3 42 (23.20%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.18%) Linux
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (37.57%) Agile
2 47 (25.97%) Mobile Device Management
3 46 (25.41%) Security Architecture
4 45 (24.86%) CI/CD
4 45 (24.86%) DevOps
5 44 (24.31%) Risk Management
5 44 (24.31%) Zero Trust
6 38 (20.99%) Roadmaps
7 37 (20.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 37 (20.44%) Design Patterns
7 37 (20.44%) Threat Intelligence
8 24 (13.26%) Microservices
8 24 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (11.60%) Migration
9 21 (11.60%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (11.05%) Architectural Patterns
10 20 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.50%) Waterfall
12 18 (9.94%) Technical Architecture
13 15 (8.29%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.76%) Java
1 5 (2.76%) Python
2 3 (1.66%) C#
3 2 (1.10%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 70 (38.67%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.83%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.71%) DV Cleared
4 13 (7.18%) Degree
5 6 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.21%) HND
6 4 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CCIE
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.84%) QA
2 3 (1.66%) NCSC
3 2 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.21%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Firmware
2 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.55%) KVM
4 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (4.42%) Terraform
2 7 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.76%) Ansible
4 3 (1.66%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.66%) Podman
5 2 (1.10%) AirWatch
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.10%) SCCM
6 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.55%) Nagios
6 1 (0.55%) Nessus
6 1 (0.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.55%) vRealize
6 1 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.18%) SAP
3 11 (6.08%) VMware
4 9 (4.97%) Google
5 8 (4.42%) Databricks
6 7 (3.87%) Apple
6 7 (3.87%) Cisco
6 7 (3.87%) Palo Alto
6 7 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.21%) Splunk
8 3 (1.66%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.10%) Aruba
9 2 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.10%) Dell
9 2 (1.10%) F5
9 2 (1.10%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle
9 2 (1.10%) Pegasus
9 2 (1.10%) Samsung
9 2 (1.10%) Zscaler