Senior Architect Contracts in the South East

Senior Architect
England > South East

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the South East is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 190 230
Rank change year-on-year +33 +40 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 47 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.84% 0.45% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.47% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 22
10th Percentile - £648 £501
25th Percentile £550 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £698 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% +16.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £728 £656
90th Percentile £699 £753 £698
England median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,156 5,513 7,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.38% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,099 3,836 5,074
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 240 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.69 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.30
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Thames Valley +40 27 £613 -5.04% 3
Berkshire - 21 £573 - 2
Hampshire +15 15 £600 -17.24% 4
Buckinghamshire +38 6 £613 -5.04% 1
Surrey +9 2 £650 - 2
East Sussex +6 1 £775 -3.13%
Kent +5 1 £825 +26.92% 4
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 South East region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 34 (72.34%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) Security Architecture
3 14 (29.79%) DevOps
4 12 (25.53%) Presales
5 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
6 10 (21.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (17.02%) VMware
7 8 (17.02%) Azure
7 8 (17.02%) Network Management
8 7 (14.89%) F5
8 7 (14.89%) Customer Requirements
8 7 (14.89%) Finance
8 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
9 6 (12.77%) NCSC
9 6 (12.77%) NIST
9 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
9 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (12.77%) SDLC
10 5 (10.64%) AWS
10 5 (10.64%) Endace
10 5 (10.64%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (10.64%) Network Design
10 5 (10.64%) MPLS
10 5 (10.64%) BGP
10 5 (10.64%) WAN
10 5 (10.64%) SSL
10 5 (10.64%) Cisco
10 5 (10.64%) Juniper
11 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
11 4 (8.51%) IT Strategy

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) BGP
1 5 (10.64%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (10.64%) MPLS
1 5 (10.64%) SSL
1 5 (10.64%) WAN
2 3 (6.38%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (4.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (4.26%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.26%) NetScaler
3 2 (4.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
General
1 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Back Office
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Security Architecture
2 14 (29.79%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) Presales
4 8 (17.02%) Network Management
5 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.89%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (12.77%) SDLC
6 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.64%) Network Design
8 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (8.51%) IT Strategy
8 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.51%) Technology Strategy
9 3 (6.38%) Decision-Making
9 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.38%) Prototyping
9 3 (6.38%) Requirements Management
9 3 (6.38%) Technology Roadmap
9 3 (6.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.26%) ActionScript
2 1 (2.13%) Java
2 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (72.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) DV Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) CCNP
4 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.38%) MCSE
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) NCSC
1 6 (12.77%) NIST
2 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Endace
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) VMware
2 7 (14.89%) F5
3 5 (10.64%) Cisco
3 5 (10.64%) Juniper
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.13%) BT
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce