Senior Architect Contracts in Berkshire

Senior Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 104 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 7 20 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 1.01% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £561 £561 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £573 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.90% - -
75th Percentile £791 £584 -
90th Percentile £841 - -
South East median daily rate £625 £613 £698
% change year-on-year +2.04% -12.25% +16.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Berkshire

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in Berkshire

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in Berkshire

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in Berkshire

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +30 2 £738 - 11
Bracknell +4 1 £480 - 1
Windsor - 1 - - 2
Senior Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) MACH
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) CMDB
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) MACH
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Personalization
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Snow