Technical Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 183 293
Rank change year-on-year -5 +110 -108
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Architect 169 324 396
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.34% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.40% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 215 282
10th Percentile £513 £500 £500
25th Percentile £561 £556 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £678 £638
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +6.35% +13.59%
75th Percentile £753 £743 £734
90th Percentile £825 £763 £762
UK median daily rate £650 £677 £638
% change year-on-year -3.92% +6.12% +10.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -46.97% +14.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Technical Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architect.

Technical Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Technical Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Technical Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Technical Architect.

Technical Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Architect in the job title.

1 63 (37.28%) Azure
2 58 (34.32%) Security Cleared
3 55 (32.54%) SC Cleared
4 50 (29.59%) Agile
5 42 (24.85%) AWS
5 42 (24.85%) Public Sector
6 38 (22.49%) Social Skills
6 38 (22.49%) Migration
7 33 (19.53%) Finance
8 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 26 (15.38%) Data Migration
9 25 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (14.20%) DevOps
11 22 (13.02%) .NET
11 22 (13.02%) Windows
11 22 (13.02%) Cloud Native
12 21 (12.43%) Data Structures
12 21 (12.43%) Public Cloud
12 21 (12.43%) Change Management
13 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
14 19 (11.24%) Design Patterns
14 19 (11.24%) Firewall
14 19 (11.24%) SharePoint
15 18 (10.65%) NetApp
15 18 (10.65%) Data Security
15 18 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (10.65%) CI/CD
16 17 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (9.47%) Waterfall
17 16 (9.47%) Security Architecture

Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.24%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.37%) Confluence
3 3 (1.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (1.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) JBoss
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.28%) Azure
2 42 (24.85%) AWS
3 18 (10.65%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.51%) GCP
5 9 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 8 (4.73%) GitHub
7 7 (4.14%) IaaS
7 7 (4.14%) PaaS
8 5 (2.96%) Serverless
9 4 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.78%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.18%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.18%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.24%) Firewall
2 15 (8.88%) LAN
2 15 (8.88%) WAN
3 12 (7.10%) VPN
4 8 (4.73%) 3G
4 8 (4.73%) 4G
5 5 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (2.37%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.78%) BGP
7 3 (1.78%) OSPF
7 3 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.18%) Network Security
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.59%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.59%) Internet
9 1 (0.59%) IPsec
9 1 (0.59%) MPLS
9 1 (0.59%) VLAN
9 1 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.55%) RDBMS
1 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
1 6 (3.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.59%) Big Data
4 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.59%) Power BI
4 1 (0.59%) Redis
4 1 (0.59%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (2.37%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (24.85%) Public Sector
2 38 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 33 (19.53%) Finance
4 11 (6.51%) Marketing
5 9 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.73%) Electronics
6 8 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.73%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.37%) Banking
8 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.78%) Local Government
9 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Aviation
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (1.18%) Military
10 2 (1.18%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.02%) .NET
2 12 (7.10%) REST
3 11 (6.51%) Node.js
4 9 (5.33%) Middleware
5 7 (4.14%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.55%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.55%) React
7 5 (2.96%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (2.96%) OAuth
7 5 (2.96%) OpenID
7 5 (2.96%) SAML
8 4 (2.37%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.37%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.37%) RESTful
9 3 (1.78%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (1.18%) AWS CDK
10 2 (1.18%) J2EE
10 2 (1.18%) React Native
10 2 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.02%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.43%) Data Structures
2 21 (12.43%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.55%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.18%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Genomics
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.59%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.02%) Windows
2 11 (6.51%) Android
2 11 (6.51%) Apple iOS
3 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.59%) Agile
2 38 (22.49%) Migration
3 26 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 25 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (14.20%) DevOps
6 21 (12.43%) Change Management
7 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
8 19 (11.24%) Design Patterns
9 18 (10.65%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.65%) Data Security
10 17 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (9.47%) Security Architecture
11 16 (9.47%) Waterfall
12 15 (8.88%) Analytics
12 15 (8.88%) Microservices
13 14 (8.28%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (8.28%) Technical Architecture
14 13 (7.69%) IT Strategy
15 11 (6.51%) Business Strategy
15 11 (6.51%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.47%) Python
2 11 (6.51%) SQL
3 9 (5.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.73%) C#
5 6 (3.55%) Java
6 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.59%) Bicep
7 1 (0.59%) C++
7 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 55 (32.54%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.92%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) Degree
5 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CCIE
7 1 (0.59%) CCNP
7 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CISM
7 1 (0.59%) CISSP
7 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.10%) NIST
2 11 (6.51%) QA
3 4 (2.37%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.78%) GDPR
5 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (3.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.92%) Terraform
2 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.18%) VxRail
4 1 (0.59%) Control-M
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.65%) NetApp
3 11 (6.51%) Databricks
4 10 (5.92%) SAP
5 7 (4.14%) Cisco
5 7 (4.14%) MuleSoft
5 7 (4.14%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.96%) LogRhythm
6 5 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.96%) Splunk
7 4 (2.37%) Oracle
8 2 (1.18%) Aruba
8 2 (1.18%) Dell
8 2 (1.18%) F5
8 2 (1.18%) VMware
8 2 (1.18%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.59%) Google
9 1 (0.59%) HP
9 1 (0.59%) IBM
9 1 (0.59%) OpenText