Senior Architect Contracts

Senior Architect
UK

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 457 524
Rank change year-on-year +77 +67 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 218 266 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.47% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 171 242
10th Percentile £509 £575 £530
25th Percentile £561 £613 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £668
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +4.87% +9.47%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £763
90th Percentile £850 £825 £849
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £698 £605
% change year-on-year -7.87% +15.47% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
75th Percentile £70.19 - -
90th Percentile £89.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +66 178 £675 -3.57% 91
London +61 99 £750 +5.63% 56
UK excluding London +66 81 £643 -7.87% 35
Work from Home +108 79 £633 -12.76% 38
South East +42 46 £613 -12.25% 13
Scotland +37 10 £775 +19.23% 1
South West -2 9 £675 -5.26% 1
North of England +25 8 £613 +1.24% 13
Midlands +32 7 £675 -15.63% 5
West Midlands +35 6 £675 -15.63% 4
North West +24 6 £613 -6.67% 8
Yorkshire +14 2 £652 +7.77% 4
East of England +4 2 - - 4
East Midlands +19 1 £704 -12.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 64 (29.36%) Security Cleared
2 53 (24.31%) Finance
3 47 (21.56%) Azure
4 41 (18.81%) Security Architecture
5 39 (17.89%) Social Skills
6 36 (16.51%) SC Cleared
7 34 (15.60%) Public Sector
8 33 (15.14%) Roadmaps
9 30 (13.76%) AWS
10 28 (12.84%) Migration
11 26 (11.93%) SaaS
11 26 (11.93%) Agile
12 25 (11.47%) Firewall
12 25 (11.47%) DevOps
13 24 (11.01%) IaaS
13 24 (11.01%) NIST
13 24 (11.01%) Cloud Security
14 22 (10.09%) Microsoft
14 22 (10.09%) Banking
15 21 (9.63%) Degree
16 19 (8.72%) Data Modelling
17 17 (7.80%) Analytics
18 16 (7.34%) SQL
18 16 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
18 16 (7.34%) Computer Science
18 16 (7.34%) PaaS
19 15 (6.88%) Data Architecture
19 15 (6.88%) F5
19 15 (6.88%) GCP
19 15 (6.88%) SDLC

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.83%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) Camunda
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Revit
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.92%) Primavera
2 2 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.92%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.46%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.56%) Azure
2 30 (13.76%) AWS
3 26 (11.93%) SaaS
4 24 (11.01%) IaaS
5 16 (7.34%) PaaS
6 15 (6.88%) GCP
7 12 (5.50%) Serverless
8 8 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.92%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.92%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) Lucidchart
12 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.47%) Firewall
2 13 (5.96%) WAN
3 10 (4.59%) Network Security
4 8 (3.67%) MPLS
5 7 (3.21%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (3.21%) LAN
5 7 (3.21%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.29%) BGP
6 5 (2.29%) SAN
6 5 (2.29%) SSL
7 4 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.38%) WLAN
9 2 (0.92%) DHCP
9 2 (0.92%) DNS
9 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.92%) Internet
9 2 (0.92%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.92%) VPN
9 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.67%) Big Data
2 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.83%) OLAP
3 4 (1.83%) OLTP
3 4 (1.83%) Parquet
3 4 (1.83%) Star Schema
4 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.38%) Metadata
5 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.46%) DB2
6 1 (0.46%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.46%) NewSQL
6 1 (0.46%) Power BI
6 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.29%) JIRA
2 4 (1.83%) ERwin
General
1 53 (24.31%) Finance
2 39 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.60%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.09%) Banking
5 12 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.29%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.29%) Retail
7 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.83%) Publishing
8 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.92%) Back Office
9 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.05%) JSON
2 9 (4.13%) JSON Schema
3 7 (3.21%) Middleware
4 6 (2.75%) Kafka
5 5 (2.29%) .NET
5 5 (2.29%) LDAP
6 4 (1.83%) Apache Avro
6 4 (1.83%) Web Services
6 4 (1.83%) YAML
7 3 (1.38%) REST
7 3 (1.38%) SAML
7 3 (1.38%) XML
8 2 (0.92%) J2EE
8 2 (0.92%) Pyramid
8 2 (0.92%) Swagger
9 1 (0.46%) Node.js
9 1 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.46%) SAPUI5
9 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.46%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.96%) Management Information System
2 12 (5.50%) IoT
3 10 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.21%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.21%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.83%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (1.83%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.38%) Life Science
7 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.75%) Linux
1 6 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (18.81%) Security Architecture
2 33 (15.14%) Roadmaps
3 28 (12.84%) Migration
4 26 (11.93%) Agile
5 25 (11.47%) DevOps
6 24 (11.01%) Cloud Security
7 19 (8.72%) Data Modelling
8 17 (7.80%) Analytics
9 16 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (7.34%) Computer Science
10 15 (6.88%) Data Architecture
10 15 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (6.88%) Presales
10 15 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (6.88%) SDLC
11 14 (6.42%) Architectural Design
11 14 (6.42%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (6.42%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (5.96%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.34%) SQL
2 9 (4.13%) Java
3 7 (3.21%) Python
4 4 (1.83%) C#
4 4 (1.83%) Go
5 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.38%) Scala
6 2 (0.92%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.46%) ABAP
7 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (29.36%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.63%) Degree
4 13 (5.96%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.50%) CISSP
6 11 (5.05%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (4.13%) GIAC
8 8 (3.67%) CCSK
8 8 (3.67%) CISA
8 8 (3.67%) CRISC
8 8 (3.67%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.29%) ISTQB
10 5 (2.29%) PhD
10 5 (2.29%) SANS
11 3 (1.38%) CCNP
11 3 (1.38%) MBA
11 3 (1.38%) MCSE
11 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.01%) NIST
2 10 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.13%) GDPR
3 9 (4.13%) QA
4 6 (2.75%) NCSC
5 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.29%) NIST 800
6 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.92%) Docker
3 2 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (4.59%) Terraform
2 5 (2.29%) Endace
3 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.38%) Ansible
5 2 (0.92%) Consul
5 2 (0.92%) Packer
5 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.92%) Puppet
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 22 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.88%) F5
3 12 (5.50%) Cisco
4 10 (4.59%) VMware
5 9 (4.13%) Google
5 9 (4.13%) SAP
6 7 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.75%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.29%) Juniper
9 4 (1.83%) Genesys
9 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.38%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.38%) Pega
11 2 (0.92%) Charles River
11 2 (0.92%) eFront
11 2 (0.92%) IFS
11 2 (0.92%) Sparx
12 1 (0.46%) BT
12 1 (0.46%) Micro Focus
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