Senior Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £643 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 370 415
Rank change year-on-year +60 +45 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 80 73 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 48 61
10th Percentile £550 £568 £498
25th Percentile £561 £579 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £698 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% +16.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £719 £752 £763
90th Percentile £844 £800 £809
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +40 46 £613 -12.25% 9
Scotland +47 10 £775 +19.23% 2
South West 0 9 £675 +16.38% 1
North of England +25 7 £606 +0.21% 12
Midlands +32 6 £675 -15.63% 10
West Midlands +19 6 £675 -15.63% 7
North West +18 6 £613 -6.67% 6
East of England +10 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +6 1 £600 -0.83% 4
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.25%) Roadmaps
2 17 (21.25%) DevOps
3 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 15 (18.75%) Azure
4 15 (18.75%) Security Architecture
5 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
5 14 (17.50%) Finance
6 12 (15.00%) Presales
7 11 (13.75%) IT Strategy
7 11 (13.75%) DV Cleared
8 10 (12.50%) VMware
8 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
9 9 (11.25%) WAN
10 8 (10.00%) AWS
10 8 (10.00%) Network Management
10 8 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
10 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.75%) Customer Requirements
11 7 (8.75%) F5
11 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (8.75%) QA
11 7 (8.75%) Cisco
11 7 (8.75%) Agile
11 7 (8.75%) TOGAF
12 6 (7.50%) Migration
12 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
12 6 (7.50%) SDLC

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Revit
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.75%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.75%) PaaS
3 3 (3.75%) SaaS
4 2 (2.50%) IaaS
4 2 (2.50%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) WAN
2 5 (6.25%) BGP
2 5 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (6.25%) MPLS
2 5 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 5 (6.25%) SSL
3 4 (5.00%) Firewall
3 4 (5.00%) LAN
4 3 (3.75%) SAN
5 2 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.50%) NetScaler
5 2 (2.50%) WLAN
6 1 (1.25%) DHCP
6 1 (1.25%) DNS
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.25%) Metadata
2 1 (1.25%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (17.50%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Back Office
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) JSON
2 2 (2.50%) .NET
2 2 (2.50%) J2EE
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (1.25%) JSON Schema
3 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.50%) Life Science
3 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.25%) DevOps
1 17 (21.25%) Roadmaps
2 15 (18.75%) Security Architecture
3 12 (15.00%) Presales
4 11 (13.75%) IT Strategy
5 8 (10.00%) Network Management
5 8 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (8.75%) Agile
6 7 (8.75%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.75%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (8.75%) TOGAF
7 6 (7.50%) Migration
7 6 (7.50%) SDLC
7 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.25%) Network Design
8 5 (6.25%) Risk Analysis
8 5 (6.25%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.75%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) ActionScript
3 1 (1.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 42 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.75%) CCNP
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 3 (3.75%) MCSE
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.50%) PhD
6 2 (2.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) NCSC
2 6 (7.50%) NIST
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
4 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Endace
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) VMware
2 7 (8.75%) Cisco
2 7 (8.75%) F5
3 5 (6.25%) Juniper
3 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.25%) BT
6 1 (1.25%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.25%) Sparx