Senior Architect Contracts in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 432 501
Rank change year-on-year +54 +69 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 163 230 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.50% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 152 210
10th Percentile £525 £564 £525
25th Percentile £550 £613 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £776 £775 £775
90th Percentile £843 £838 £863
UK median daily rate £674 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.79% +3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
75th Percentile £70.19 - -
90th Percentile £89.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
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 Senior Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +28 87 £750 +7.14% 42
South East +47 46 £613 -12.25% 12
South West +5 9 £675 -5.26% 1
North of England +20 7 £606 +0.21% 13
Midlands +39 6 £675 -15.63% 10
West Midlands +26 6 £675 -15.63% 8
North West +16 6 £613 -6.67% 8
East of England +5 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +8 1 £600 -0.83% 3
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Senior 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 54 (33.13%) Security Cleared
2 44 (26.99%) Finance
3 36 (22.09%) Security Architecture
4 34 (20.86%) Azure
5 27 (16.56%) AWS
6 26 (15.95%) SC Cleared
6 26 (15.95%) Public Sector
7 24 (14.72%) Agile
8 22 (13.50%) Firewall
9 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
9 21 (12.88%) Roadmaps
9 21 (12.88%) DevOps
10 20 (12.27%) Cloud Security
10 20 (12.27%) NIST
10 20 (12.27%) SaaS
10 20 (12.27%) Migration
10 20 (12.27%) Banking
11 18 (11.04%) Microsoft
11 18 (11.04%) IaaS
12 17 (10.43%) Data Modelling
13 15 (9.20%) SQL
13 15 (9.20%) Analytics
14 14 (8.59%) GCP
14 14 (8.59%) SDLC
15 13 (7.98%) Presales
15 13 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 13 (7.98%) Data Architecture
15 13 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (7.36%) Degree

Senior Architect Skill Set
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 4 (2.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Revit
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.61%) Primavera
1 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.61%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.86%) Azure
2 27 (16.56%) AWS
3 20 (12.27%) SaaS
4 18 (11.04%) IaaS
5 14 (8.59%) GCP
6 11 (6.75%) PaaS
7 10 (6.13%) Serverless
8 7 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.23%) AWS IoT
12 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.61%) dbt
12 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.50%) Firewall
2 9 (5.52%) Network Security
2 9 (5.52%) WAN
3 7 (4.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 7 (4.29%) MPLS
3 7 (4.29%) SD-WAN
4 5 (3.07%) BGP
4 5 (3.07%) SSL
5 4 (2.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.45%) LAN
6 3 (1.84%) SAN
7 2 (1.23%) DHCP
7 2 (1.23%) DNS
7 2 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (1.23%) Internet
7 2 (1.23%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.23%) WLAN
8 1 (0.61%) DNSSEC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (4.91%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.68%) Big Data
3 4 (2.45%) OLAP
3 4 (2.45%) OLTP
3 4 (2.45%) Parquet
3 4 (2.45%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.23%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) DB2
5 1 (0.61%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.61%) NewSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) JIRA
2 4 (2.45%) ERwin
3 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (26.99%) Finance
2 26 (15.95%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.88%) Social Skills
4 20 (12.27%) Banking
5 6 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.07%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.45%) Publishing
8 3 (1.84%) Retail
9 2 (1.23%) Back Office
9 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.75%) JSON
2 9 (5.52%) JSON Schema
3 5 (3.07%) LDAP
3 5 (3.07%) Middleware
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Avro
4 4 (2.45%) Kafka
4 4 (2.45%) YAML
5 3 (1.84%) REST
5 3 (1.84%) SAML
5 3 (1.84%) XML
6 2 (1.23%) Pyramid
6 2 (1.23%) Swagger
6 2 (1.23%) Web Services
7 1 (0.61%) .NET
7 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.61%) CSS
7 1 (0.61%) Node.js
7 1 (0.61%) React
7 1 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.13%) IoT
2 9 (5.52%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.29%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.45%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (2.45%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.84%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.84%) Life Science
7 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Linux
1 4 (2.45%) Windows
2 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.09%) Security Architecture
2 24 (14.72%) Agile
3 21 (12.88%) DevOps
3 21 (12.88%) Roadmaps
4 20 (12.27%) Cloud Security
4 20 (12.27%) Migration
5 17 (10.43%) Data Modelling
6 15 (9.20%) Analytics
7 14 (8.59%) SDLC
8 13 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (7.98%) Data Architecture
8 13 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (7.98%) Presales
8 13 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (7.36%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (6.75%) Architectural Design
10 11 (6.75%) CI/CD
10 11 (6.75%) Design Patterns
11 10 (6.13%) Application Security
11 10 (6.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.20%) SQL
2 7 (4.29%) Java
3 5 (3.07%) Python
4 3 (1.84%) Go
5 2 (1.23%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.23%) C#
5 2 (1.23%) Scala
6 1 (0.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (33.13%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) Degree
4 11 (6.75%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.68%) CISSP
6 6 (3.68%) GIAC
7 5 (3.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (3.07%) CCSK
7 5 (3.07%) CISA
7 5 (3.07%) CRISC
7 5 (3.07%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.07%) PhD
8 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.84%) CCNP
9 3 (1.84%) MBA
9 3 (1.84%) MCSE
9 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.27%) NIST
2 10 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.52%) GDPR
4 8 (4.91%) QA
5 6 (3.68%) NCSC
6 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.84%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.91%) Terraform
2 5 (3.07%) Endace
3 4 (2.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Consul
4 1 (0.61%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Packer
4 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) Cisco
3 9 (5.52%) F5
3 9 (5.52%) Google
4 8 (4.91%) VMware
5 5 (3.07%) Juniper
5 5 (3.07%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.45%) Genesys
6 4 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.84%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.84%) Pega
8 2 (1.23%) Charles River
8 2 (1.23%) eFront
8 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.61%) IFS
9 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.61%) NetApp
9 1 (0.61%) SAP
9 1 (0.61%) Sparx