Senior Architect Contracts in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 330 424
Rank change year-on-year +18 +94 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 87 153 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.61% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 99 123
10th Percentile £525 £575 £525
25th Percentile £575 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £780 £775 £781
90th Percentile £875 £875 £860
England median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +30 7 £730 +4.29% 4
South London +11 3 £672 -1.90%
East London -10 3 £625 -16.67%
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 31 (35.63%) Finance
2 22 (25.29%) Azure
3 21 (24.14%) Security Architecture
4 20 (22.99%) Cloud Security
5 18 (20.69%) Banking
5 18 (20.69%) SaaS
5 18 (20.69%) AWS
5 18 (20.69%) IaaS
6 16 (18.39%) Agile
6 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
7 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
7 15 (17.24%) Firewall
7 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
8 14 (16.09%) NIST
8 14 (16.09%) Migration
8 14 (16.09%) Analytics
8 14 (16.09%) GCP
9 13 (14.94%) Public Sector
10 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
10 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
10 12 (13.79%) SQL
11 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (12.64%) Data Architecture
11 11 (12.64%) Roadmaps
12 10 (11.49%) Design Patterns
12 10 (11.49%) Application Security
12 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (11.49%) Serverless
12 10 (11.49%) Data Quality
12 10 (11.49%) PaaS

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Primavera
1 1 (1.15%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.15%) SAP PS
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.29%) Azure
2 18 (20.69%) AWS
2 18 (20.69%) IaaS
2 18 (20.69%) SaaS
3 14 (16.09%) GCP
4 10 (11.49%) PaaS
4 10 (11.49%) Serverless
5 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.30%) AWS IoT
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.15%) dbt
8 1 (1.15%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.24%) Firewall
2 8 (9.20%) Network Security
3 2 (2.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.30%) LAN
3 2 (2.30%) MPLS
3 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.30%) WAN
3 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Big Data
1 6 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.60%) OLAP
2 4 (4.60%) OLTP
2 4 (4.60%) Parquet
2 4 (4.60%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.15%) DB2
3 1 (1.15%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.15%) Metadata
3 1 (1.15%) NewSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) ERwin
1 4 (4.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (35.63%) Finance
2 18 (20.69%) Banking
3 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.75%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Publishing
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.20%) JSON
1 8 (9.20%) JSON Schema
2 5 (5.75%) LDAP
2 5 (5.75%) Middleware
3 4 (4.60%) Apache Avro
3 4 (4.60%) Kafka
3 4 (4.60%) YAML
4 3 (3.45%) SAML
4 3 (3.45%) XML
5 2 (2.30%) Pyramid
5 2 (2.30%) REST
5 2 (2.30%) Swagger
5 2 (2.30%) Web Services
6 1 (1.15%) .NET
6 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.15%) CSS
6 1 (1.15%) React
6 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) IoT
2 9 (10.34%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.60%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (4.60%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.15%) Derivative
7 1 (1.15%) FMCG
7 1 (1.15%) IVR
7 1 (1.15%) Life Science
7 1 (1.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Linux
1 2 (2.30%) Unix
1 2 (2.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) Security Architecture
2 20 (22.99%) Cloud Security
3 16 (18.39%) Agile
3 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
4 14 (16.09%) Analytics
4 14 (16.09%) Migration
5 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (12.64%) Data Architecture
5 11 (12.64%) Roadmaps
6 10 (11.49%) Application Security
6 10 (11.49%) Design Patterns
6 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (10.34%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.34%) Data Mapping
8 8 (9.20%) Architectural Design
8 8 (9.20%) Logical Data Model
8 8 (9.20%) Master Data Management
8 8 (9.20%) Physical Data Model
8 8 (9.20%) SDLC
8 8 (9.20%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) SQL
2 6 (6.90%) Java
3 5 (5.75%) Python
4 3 (3.45%) Go
5 2 (2.30%) C#
5 2 (2.30%) Scala
6 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) Degree
3 6 (6.90%) CISSP
3 6 (6.90%) GIAC
4 5 (5.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (5.75%) CCSK
4 5 (5.75%) CISA
4 5 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.75%) CRISC
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.45%) MBA
6 3 (3.45%) PhD
6 3 (3.45%) SANS
7 1 (1.15%) CCSP
7 1 (1.15%) CISM
7 1 (1.15%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) NIST
2 10 (11.49%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.90%) GDPR
4 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.45%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.15%) GRC
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Consul
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Packer
3 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) Genesys
3 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.45%) Pega
5 2 (2.30%) Charles River
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco
5 2 (2.30%) eFront
5 2 (2.30%) F5
5 2 (2.30%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.15%) IFS
6 1 (1.15%) NetApp
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) SAP