Senior Architect Contracts in Central London

Senior Architect
London > Central London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Central London is £713, 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 119 125 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 10 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.33% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.34% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £594 £625 £610
25th Percentile £623 £704 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £740 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £751 £850 £750
90th Percentile £788 £875 £803
London median daily rate £675 £763 £710
% change year-on-year -11.48% +7.39% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Central London

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in Central London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in Central London

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London +9 9 £725 -2.03% 5
Camden - 1 £580 - 3
West End of London - 1 £580 - 5
Senior Architect
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) GDPR
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) IaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) CISSP
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) CISM

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

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) IaaS
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (10.00%) Route 53
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (20.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) SABSA
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) CISM
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (10.00%) Murex
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Workday