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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 384 351
Rank change year-on-year -16 -33 -41
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 202 340 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.61% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 225 450
10th Percentile £450 £444 £467
25th Percentile £513 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.26%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
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 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
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 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 8 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 8 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 -20 159 £575 -8.00% 111
London +13 91 £600 -4.00% 54
UK excluding London -16 77 £575 -6.50% 59
Work from Home +28 62 £538 -15.88% 65
South East +2 27 £525 -16.20% 11
Scotland +39 14 £625 -1.96% 5
South West +2 12 £588 -7.84% 10
Midlands +14 11 £750 +39.53% 5
West Midlands +11 11 £750 +36.36% 3
East of England +5 11 £565 -29.38% 10
North of England -6 2 £685 +14.17% 13
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 5
North West -3 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 (9.41%) Confluence
2 5 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.99%) CMS
3 2 (0.99%) Kentico
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (6.93%) MS Visio
2 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.49%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle TCA
4 1 (0.50%) RMDS
4 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.21%) Azure
2 56 (27.72%) AWS
3 20 (9.90%) GCP
4 12 (5.94%) SaaS
5 9 (4.46%) Serverless
6 8 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (3.96%) GitHub
7 7 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.97%) IaaS
8 6 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.98%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (1.98%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 4 (1.98%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.98%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.49%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.43%) WAN
2 13 (6.44%) Firewall
3 11 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (5.45%) LAN
4 10 (4.95%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.96%) VPN
5 8 (3.96%) WLAN
6 7 (3.47%) MPLS
7 6 (2.97%) 4G
7 6 (2.97%) Internet
7 6 (2.97%) PBX
7 6 (2.97%) VoIP
8 5 (2.48%) 5G
8 5 (2.48%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (2.48%) DHCP
8 5 (2.48%) DNS
8 5 (2.48%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.45%) Oracle Database
2 8 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.96%) SAP HANA
2 8 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.48%) RDBMS
3 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.98%) Power BI
4 4 (1.98%) Tableau
5 2 (0.99%) Big Data
5 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.50%) KDB
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 20 (9.90%) JIRA
2 6 (2.97%) Git
3 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.99%) Gatling
4 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.50%) JMeter
5 1 (0.50%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.50%) Selenium
5 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
General
1 65 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.37%) Finance
3 26 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.46%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.96%) Retail
7 6 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.97%) Local Government
7 6 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.48%) Back Office
9 4 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.98%) Military
10 3 (1.49%) Billing
11 2 (0.99%) Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Front Office
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (53.47%) Architect
2 42 (20.79%) Technical Architect
3 24 (11.88%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (10.89%) Consultant
5 16 (7.92%) Developer
5 16 (7.92%) Senior
6 14 (6.93%) Lead
7 13 (6.44%) SailPoint Architect
8 11 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (5.45%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.45%) Senior Architect
8 11 (5.45%) Technical Consultant
9 10 (4.95%) Senior Technical Architect
10 9 (4.46%) AWS Architect
11 8 (3.96%) SAP Basis Consultant
11 8 (3.96%) SAP Consultant
11 8 (3.96%) SAP Technical Consultant
11 8 (3.96%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.47%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.97%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.36%) HTML
2 19 (9.41%) SOAP
2 19 (9.41%) XML
3 18 (8.91%) SailPoint
4 16 (7.92%) CSS
5 15 (7.43%) .NET
6 14 (6.93%) LDAP
7 13 (6.44%) JSP
7 13 (6.44%) Servlets
7 13 (6.44%) SPML
8 11 (5.45%) Web Services
9 10 (4.95%) React
10 9 (4.46%) .NET Framework
10 9 (4.46%) SAP Basis
11 8 (3.96%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.96%) SAP Fiori
12 7 (3.47%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.47%) JSON
12 7 (3.47%) Node.js
12 7 (3.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.44%) Mainframe
2 11 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.95%) Security Posture
4 8 (3.96%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.47%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.48%) IoT
7 5 (2.48%) NB-IoT
7 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.99%) CMDB
9 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.50%) Blog
10 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.50%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.96%) Linux
2 4 (1.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (14.85%) Roadmaps
2 25 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (11.39%) Containerisation
4 22 (10.89%) Agile
4 22 (10.89%) DevOps
4 22 (10.89%) TOGAF
5 21 (10.40%) Architectural Design
5 21 (10.40%) Mentoring
5 21 (10.40%) Security Architecture
6 20 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (9.41%) Design Patterns
7 19 (9.41%) High Availability
7 19 (9.41%) Project Management
8 18 (8.91%) Microservices
9 17 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (7.92%) Analytics
10 16 (7.92%) CI/CD
10 16 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.43%) Business Analysis
11 15 (7.43%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.84%) JavaScript
2 25 (12.38%) Java
3 21 (10.40%) SQL
4 16 (7.92%) Python
5 14 (6.93%) C#
6 5 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.50%) C
7 1 (0.50%) C++
7 1 (0.50%) Perl
7 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 44 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.90%) Degree
4 12 (5.94%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.96%) CISM
7 8 (3.96%) CISSP
8 6 (2.97%) CCIE
8 6 (2.97%) CCIE Data Center
8 6 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.49%) ACCA
9 3 (1.49%) CCNA
9 3 (1.49%) CCNP
9 3 (1.49%) CIMA
10 2 (0.99%) CSPO
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.99%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.95%) NCSC
2 9 (4.46%) NIST
3 7 (3.47%) QA
4 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.48%) COBIT
5 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.48%) GDPR
5 5 (2.48%) ISO 22301
5 5 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (1.98%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.50%) GxP
8 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (10.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.44%) ACF2
2 13 (6.44%) IAG
2 13 (6.44%) RACF
3 9 (4.46%) Firmware
4 7 (3.47%) Docker
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.94%) Terraform
2 9 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.98%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.50%) Consul
4 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.50%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) logstash
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.50%) SCCM
4 1 (0.50%) SCOM
4 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.41%) SAP
2 19 (9.41%) ServiceNow
3 16 (7.92%) Cisco
4 15 (7.43%) Oracle
5 14 (6.93%) CyberArk
6 13 (6.44%) BeyondTrust
7 12 (5.94%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.95%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.47%) VMware
9 7 (3.47%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.97%) Splunk
11 5 (2.48%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.48%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.48%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.48%) Sparx
11 5 (2.48%) Symantec
12 4 (1.98%) Veeam
13 3 (1.49%) Talend
14 2 (0.99%) F5