Technical Architecture Contracts

Technical Architecture
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 379 345
Rank change year-on-year -11 -34 -39
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 206 343 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.62% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.69% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 228 449
10th Percentile £450 £436 £463
25th Percentile £513 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £59.46 £66.45 -
25th Percentile - £67.13 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £68.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +95.71% -39.13%
75th Percentile - £70.13 -
90th Percentile - £70.95 £39.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,078 50,015 79,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.30% 89.70% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,703 34,589 56,207
10th Percentile £300 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £646
90th Percentile £750 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,565 1,687 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Technical Architecture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in the UK

Technical Architecture
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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 -26 163 £581 -7.00% 114
London +21 93 £600 -4.00% 60
UK excluding London +2 78 £575 -6.50% 54
Work from Home +44 63 £550 -13.79% 67
South East +7 27 £525 -16.20% 13
Scotland +41 14 £625 -1.96% 3
East of England +9 12 £565 -29.38% 8
South West +2 12 £588 -7.84% 9
West Midlands +16 11 £750 +36.36% 3
Midlands +16 11 £750 +39.53% 5
North of England -12 2 £685 +14.17% 13
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 5
North West -1 1 £685 +11.65% 4

Technical Architecture
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 19 (9.22%) Confluence
2 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.97%) CMS
3 2 (0.97%) Kentico
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (6.80%) MS Visio
2 13 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.49%) HFM
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.49%) RMDS
4 1 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.61%) Azure
2 57 (27.67%) AWS
3 20 (9.71%) GCP
4 12 (5.83%) SaaS
5 10 (4.85%) Serverless
6 9 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.88%) GitHub
8 6 (2.91%) IaaS
8 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.91%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.94%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (1.94%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 4 (1.94%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.94%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.46%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.97%) Route 53
11 2 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.28%) WAN
2 13 (6.31%) Firewall
3 11 (5.34%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (5.34%) LAN
4 10 (4.85%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.88%) VPN
5 8 (3.88%) WLAN
6 7 (3.40%) MPLS
7 6 (2.91%) 4G
7 6 (2.91%) Internet
7 6 (2.91%) PBX
7 6 (2.91%) VoIP
8 5 (2.43%) 5G
8 5 (2.43%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.43%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (2.43%) DHCP
8 5 (2.43%) DNS
8 5 (2.43%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.83%) Oracle Database
2 9 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (3.88%) SAP HANA
3 8 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.43%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.43%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.94%) Power BI
5 4 (1.94%) Tableau
6 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.97%) Big Data
8 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.49%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (9.71%) JIRA
2 6 (2.91%) Git
3 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.97%) Gatling
4 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.49%) JMeter
5 1 (0.49%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.49%) Selenium
5 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
General
1 67 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.08%) Finance
3 26 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.37%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.88%) Retail
7 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.91%) Local Government
7 6 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.43%) Back Office
9 4 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.94%) Military
10 3 (1.46%) Billing
11 2 (0.97%) Banking
12 1 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.49%) French Language
12 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 110 (53.40%) Architect
2 42 (20.39%) Technical Architect
3 24 (11.65%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (10.68%) Consultant
5 18 (8.74%) Developer
6 17 (8.25%) Senior
7 14 (6.80%) Lead
8 13 (6.31%) SailPoint Architect
9 11 (5.34%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (5.34%) Project Manager
9 11 (5.34%) Senior Architect
9 11 (5.34%) Technical Consultant
10 10 (4.85%) AWS Architect
10 10 (4.85%) Senior Technical Architect
11 8 (3.88%) SAP Basis Consultant
11 8 (3.88%) SAP Consultant
11 8 (3.88%) SAP Technical Consultant
11 8 (3.88%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.40%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.91%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.08%) HTML
2 19 (9.22%) SOAP
2 19 (9.22%) XML
3 18 (8.74%) SailPoint
4 17 (8.25%) .NET
5 16 (7.77%) CSS
6 14 (6.80%) LDAP
7 13 (6.31%) JSP
7 13 (6.31%) React
7 13 (6.31%) Servlets
7 13 (6.31%) SPML
8 11 (5.34%) .NET Framework
8 11 (5.34%) Web Services
9 9 (4.37%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.37%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.37%) SAP Basis
10 8 (3.88%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (3.40%) Node.js
11 7 (3.40%) REST
11 7 (3.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.31%) Mainframe
2 11 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.85%) Security Posture
4 8 (3.88%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.40%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.91%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.43%) IoT
7 5 (2.43%) NB-IoT
7 5 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.97%) CMDB
10 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.88%) Linux
2 4 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (14.56%) Roadmaps
2 26 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (12.14%) Agile
4 24 (11.65%) DevOps
5 23 (11.17%) Containerisation
6 22 (10.68%) Mentoring
6 22 (10.68%) TOGAF
7 21 (10.19%) Architectural Design
7 21 (10.19%) Security Architecture
7 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (9.71%) Microservices
9 19 (9.22%) Design Patterns
9 19 (9.22%) High Availability
9 19 (9.22%) Project Management
10 17 (8.25%) Analytics
10 17 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (7.77%) Business Analysis
11 16 (7.77%) CI/CD
11 16 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (7.77%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.02%) JavaScript
2 25 (12.14%) Java
3 23 (11.17%) SQL
4 19 (9.22%) Python
5 16 (7.77%) C#
6 6 (2.91%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.49%) C
8 1 (0.49%) C++
8 1 (0.49%) Perl
8 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.49%) R
8 1 (0.49%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 44 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.71%) Degree
4 13 (6.31%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.88%) CISM
8 8 (3.88%) CISSP
9 6 (2.91%) CCIE
9 6 (2.91%) CCIE Data Center
9 6 (2.91%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.46%) ACCA
10 3 (1.46%) CCNA
10 3 (1.46%) CCNP
10 3 (1.46%) CIMA
11 2 (0.97%) CSPO
11 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.97%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.85%) NCSC
2 9 (4.37%) NIST
3 7 (3.40%) QA
4 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.43%) COBIT
5 5 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.43%) GDPR
5 5 (2.43%) ISO 22301
5 5 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.49%) GxP
8 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (10.19%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.31%) ACF2
2 13 (6.31%) IAG
2 13 (6.31%) RACF
3 9 (4.37%) Firmware
4 7 (3.40%) Docker
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.83%) Terraform
2 9 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.94%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.49%) Consul
4 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.49%) Kibana
4 1 (0.49%) logstash
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.49%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.49%) SCCM
4 1 (0.49%) SCOM
4 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.22%) SAP
2 19 (9.22%) ServiceNow
3 16 (7.77%) Cisco
3 16 (7.77%) Oracle
4 14 (6.80%) CyberArk
5 13 (6.31%) BeyondTrust
6 12 (5.83%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.85%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.40%) VMware
8 7 (3.40%) Zscaler
9 6 (2.91%) Splunk
10 5 (2.43%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.43%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.43%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.43%) Sparx
10 5 (2.43%) Symantec
11 4 (1.94%) Veeam
12 3 (1.46%) Talend
13 2 (0.97%) F5