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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 371 351
Rank change year-on-year -4 -20 -35
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 200 348 671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.62% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.69% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 217 460
10th Percentile £428 £425 £463
25th Percentile £505 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £661 £688 £725
90th Percentile £772 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £614 £600
% change year-on-year -6.28% +2.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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 23 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
England -24 160 £575 -7.63% 106
London +30 88 £575 -8.00% 52
UK excluding London -6 76 £575 -6.28% 46
Work from Home +47 65 £550 -8.33% 58
South East +8 25 £525 -20.03% 14
Midlands +32 15 £750 +39.53% 4
West Midlands +21 15 £750 +36.36%
East of England +10 12 £565 -23.39% 3
South West +6 12 £588 -10.31% 14
Scotland +38 10 £575 -6.50%
North of England -11 2 £685 +24.55% 11
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 3
North West -4 1 £685 +14.17% 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 10 (5.00%) Confluence
2 5 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) CMS
3 2 (1.00%) Kentico
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.50%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.00%) RMDS
5 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle TCA
5 1 (0.50%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (31.00%) Azure
2 59 (29.50%) AWS
3 20 (10.00%) GCP
4 13 (6.50%) SaaS
5 12 (6.00%) Serverless
6 11 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (4.00%) GitHub
9 7 (3.50%) IaaS
10 6 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (3.00%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.00%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (2.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 4 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.50%) PaaS
12 3 (1.50%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.50%) WAN
2 13 (6.50%) Firewall
3 11 (5.50%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (5.50%) LAN
4 10 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.00%) VPN
5 8 (4.00%) WLAN
6 7 (3.50%) MPLS
7 6 (3.00%) 4G
7 6 (3.00%) Internet
7 6 (3.00%) PBX
7 6 (3.00%) VoIP
8 5 (2.50%) 5G
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (2.50%) DHCP
8 5 (2.50%) DNS
8 5 (2.50%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (5.50%) Oracle Database
2 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.50%) SAP HANA
4 5 (2.50%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.00%) Power BI
5 4 (2.00%) Tableau
6 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.00%) Big Data
8 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.50%) Essbase
8 1 (0.50%) KDB
8 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (5.50%) JIRA
2 6 (3.00%) Git
3 3 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.00%) Gatling
4 2 (1.00%) 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 68 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.00%) Finance
3 27 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Retail
5 9 (4.50%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.00%) Local Government
6 6 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.50%) Back Office
7 5 (2.50%) Billing
7 5 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.50%) Military
10 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 109 (54.50%) Architect
2 36 (18.00%) Technical Architect
3 27 (13.50%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (11.00%) Consultant
5 17 (8.50%) Developer
6 14 (7.00%) Lead
7 13 (6.50%) SailPoint Architect
8 11 (5.50%) AWS Architect
8 11 (5.50%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (5.50%) Project Manager
9 10 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
10 9 (4.50%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (4.50%) Senior
11 8 (4.00%) Technical Leader
12 7 (3.50%) SAP Basis Consultant
12 7 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
12 7 (3.50%) SAP Technical Consultant
13 6 (3.00%) .NET Developer
13 6 (3.00%) Analyst
13 6 (3.00%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.50%) HTML
2 19 (9.50%) SOAP
2 19 (9.50%) XML
3 18 (9.00%) SailPoint
4 17 (8.50%) .NET
5 16 (8.00%) CSS
6 14 (7.00%) LDAP
7 13 (6.50%) JSP
7 13 (6.50%) React
7 13 (6.50%) Servlets
7 13 (6.50%) SPML
8 11 (5.50%) .NET Framework
8 11 (5.50%) Web Services
9 9 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.50%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.00%) SAP Basis
11 7 (3.50%) JSON
11 7 (3.50%) Node.js
11 7 (3.50%) REST
11 7 (3.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Mainframe
2 9 (4.50%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.50%) IoT
5 6 (3.00%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.50%) NB-IoT
6 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) CMDB
9 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.50%) Blog
10 1 (0.50%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.50%) Linux
2 4 (2.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (16.00%) Roadmaps
2 28 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (13.00%) Agile
4 24 (12.00%) DevOps
5 22 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (11.00%) TOGAF
6 21 (10.50%) Architectural Design
6 21 (10.50%) Mentoring
7 20 (10.00%) Analytics
8 19 (9.50%) High Availability
8 19 (9.50%) Project Management
9 18 (9.00%) Data Modelling
10 16 (8.00%) Business Analysis
10 16 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 16 (8.00%) Security Architecture
11 15 (7.50%) CI/CD
11 15 (7.50%) Data Management
11 15 (7.50%) Migration
11 15 (7.50%) RBAC
12 14 (7.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.50%) JavaScript
2 25 (12.50%) Java
3 23 (11.50%) SQL
4 21 (10.50%) Python
5 16 (8.00%) C#
6 6 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.50%) C
8 1 (0.50%) C++
8 1 (0.50%) Perl
8 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.50%) R
8 1 (0.50%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 30 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.50%) Degree
4 14 (7.00%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.50%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.00%) CCIE
8 6 (3.00%) CCIE Data Center
9 3 (1.50%) ACCA
9 3 (1.50%) CCNA
9 3 (1.50%) CCNP
9 3 (1.50%) CIMA
9 3 (1.50%) CISM
9 3 (1.50%) CISSP
10 2 (1.00%) CSPO
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.00%) PhD
10 2 (1.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.00%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) NCSC
3 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.50%) COBIT
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
4 5 (2.50%) ISO 22301
4 5 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 4 (2.00%) NIST
6 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.50%) GxP
7 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (10.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.50%) ACF2
2 13 (6.50%) IAG
2 13 (6.50%) RACF
3 8 (4.00%) Docker
4 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.00%) Terraform
2 10 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.00%) 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 30 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.50%) ServiceNow
3 18 (9.00%) Cisco
4 17 (8.50%) SAP
5 16 (8.00%) Oracle
6 14 (7.00%) CyberArk
7 13 (6.50%) BeyondTrust
8 12 (6.00%) Palo Alto
9 8 (4.00%) VMware
10 7 (3.50%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.00%) Splunk
12 5 (2.50%) CheckPoint
12 5 (2.50%) Infoblox
12 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
12 5 (2.50%) Sparx
12 5 (2.50%) Symantec
13 4 (2.00%) Veeam
14 3 (1.50%) Talend
15 2 (1.00%) F5
15 2 (1.00%) Fortinet