Technical Architecture Contracts in England

Technical Architecture
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 361 370
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 -60
Contract jobs citing Technical Architecture 156 301 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.70% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 194 340
10th Percentile £438 £430 £463
25th Percentile £503 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +9.27%
75th Percentile £688 £698 £725
90th Percentile £775 £818 £788
UK median daily rate £588 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £61.60 £71.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +102.86% -39.13%
75th Percentile - £71.50 -
90th Percentile - - £39.50
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £68.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.07% +95.71% -39.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Technical Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Architecture in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Architecture in England

Technical Architecture
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +30 87 £597 -4.48% 76
South East +3 26 £525 -17.71% 18
East of England +8 12 £565 -29.38% 4
South West 0 12 £588 -9.62% 13
Midlands +21 11 £750 +39.53% 5
West Midlands +17 11 £750 +36.36% 3
North of England -2 2 £685 +14.17% 15
Yorkshire +11 1 - - 5
North West -4 1 £685 +11.65% 5
Technical Architecture
UK

Technical Architecture
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (5.77%) Confluence
2 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (3.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.92%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.64%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.64%) HFM
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.64%) RMDS
4 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.85%) AWS
2 43 (27.56%) Azure
3 14 (8.97%) GCP
4 10 (6.41%) Serverless
5 9 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (5.13%) GitHub
7 6 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.56%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.92%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.92%) SaaS
10 2 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.28%) Route 53
10 2 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.64%) IaaS
11 1 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.62%) WAN
2 13 (8.33%) Firewall
3 11 (7.05%) Cisco ASA
3 11 (7.05%) LAN
4 10 (6.41%) SD-WAN
5 8 (5.13%) VPN
5 8 (5.13%) WLAN
6 7 (4.49%) MPLS
7 6 (3.85%) 4G
7 6 (3.85%) Internet
7 6 (3.85%) PBX
7 6 (3.85%) VoIP
8 5 (3.21%) 5G
8 5 (3.21%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.21%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (3.21%) DHCP
8 5 (3.21%) DNS
8 5 (3.21%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.77%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (5.77%) Oracle Database
2 8 (5.13%) SAP HANA
2 8 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.21%) RDBMS
3 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.56%) Power BI
4 4 (2.56%) Tableau
5 3 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.64%) Essbase
6 1 (0.64%) KDB
6 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (6.41%) JIRA
2 3 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.28%) Gatling
3 2 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.64%) JMeter
4 1 (0.64%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.64%) Selenium
4 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.38%) Finance
3 18 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.77%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.85%) Local Government
5 6 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.56%) Billing
7 4 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Banking
8 2 (1.28%) Military
8 2 (1.28%) Retail
9 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.64%) French Language
9 1 (0.64%) Front Office
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (48.72%) Architect
2 23 (14.74%) Technical Architect
3 20 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (10.90%) Consultant
5 15 (9.62%) Developer
6 14 (8.97%) Lead
7 10 (6.41%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.77%) Technical Consultant
9 8 (5.13%) SailPoint Architect
9 8 (5.13%) SAP Basis Consultant
9 8 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
9 8 (5.13%) SAP Technical Consultant
9 8 (5.13%) Technical Leader
10 7 (4.49%) Senior
11 6 (3.85%) AWS Architect
11 6 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (3.85%) Network Architect
12 5 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
13 4 (2.56%) Business Project Manager
13 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.38%) HTML
2 16 (10.26%) CSS
3 15 (9.62%) .NET
4 14 (8.97%) XML
5 13 (8.33%) React
6 11 (7.05%) .NET Framework
6 11 (7.05%) Web Services
7 10 (6.41%) SailPoint
8 9 (5.77%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.77%) GraphQL
8 9 (5.77%) LDAP
8 9 (5.77%) SOAP
9 8 (5.13%) JSP
9 8 (5.13%) SAP Basis
9 8 (5.13%) SAP Fiori
9 8 (5.13%) Servlets
9 8 (5.13%) SPML
10 7 (4.49%) JSON
10 7 (4.49%) Node.js
10 7 (4.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.13%) Mainframe
3 7 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.21%) IoT
5 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.21%) NB-IoT
5 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.28%) CMDB
8 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.64%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.64%) Blog
9 1 (0.64%) FMCG
9 1 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.13%) Linux
2 4 (2.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (13.46%) Agile
2 20 (12.82%) Mentoring
2 20 (12.82%) TOGAF
3 18 (11.54%) Architectural Design
3 18 (11.54%) Roadmaps
4 17 (10.90%) DevOps
4 17 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (10.26%) Analytics
5 16 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (8.97%) Data Modelling
7 14 (8.97%) High Availability
8 13 (8.33%) Business Analysis
8 13 (8.33%) Microservices
8 13 (8.33%) Project Management
9 12 (7.69%) Data Management
9 12 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (7.69%) ITIL
9 12 (7.69%) PRINCE2
10 11 (7.05%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.95%) JavaScript
2 19 (12.18%) Python
3 16 (10.26%) SQL
4 15 (9.62%) Java
5 14 (8.97%) C#
6 6 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.64%) C
7 1 (0.64%) C++
7 1 (0.64%) Perl
7 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.64%) R
7 1 (0.64%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 32 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.90%) Degree
4 13 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 11 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (5.77%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.49%) CISM
7 7 (4.49%) CISSP
8 6 (3.85%) CCIE
8 6 (3.85%) CCIE Data Center
8 6 (3.85%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.92%) CCNA
9 3 (1.92%) CCNP
10 2 (1.28%) CSPO
10 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.28%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.64%) MCP
11 1 (0.64%) PhD
11 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.13%) NIST
2 7 (4.49%) NCSC
2 7 (4.49%) QA
3 6 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.21%) COBIT
4 5 (3.21%) GDPR
4 5 (3.21%) ISO 22301
4 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.64%) GxP
7 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (9.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.13%) ACF2
2 8 (5.13%) IAG
2 8 (5.13%) RACF
3 2 (1.28%) Docker
4 1 (0.64%) Firmware
4 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.77%) Terraform
2 4 (2.56%) FortiGate
2 4 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.64%) Consul
3 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.64%) Kibana
3 1 (0.64%) logstash
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.64%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.64%) SCCM
3 1 (0.64%) SCOM
3 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.26%) Cisco
3 14 (8.97%) ServiceNow
4 12 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 11 (7.05%) SAP
6 9 (5.77%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.77%) Oracle
7 8 (5.13%) BeyondTrust
8 7 (4.49%) VMware
8 7 (4.49%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.85%) Splunk
10 5 (3.21%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.21%) Infoblox
10 5 (3.21%) Sparx
10 5 (3.21%) Symantec
11 4 (2.56%) Veeam
12 3 (1.92%) Talend
13 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.28%) F5
13 2 (1.28%) Fortinet