Senior Architect Contracts in the City of London

Senior Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the City of London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 120 158
Rank change year-on-year +6 +38 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 9 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.34% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 14
10th Percentile £618 £610 £609
25th Percentile £665 £700 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £730 £713
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +2.46% +1.79%
75th Percentile £751 £875 £756
90th Percentile £801 - £805
Central London median daily rate £713 £730 £700
% change year-on-year -2.40% +4.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,084 3,467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.07% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 1,480 2,358
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -6.46% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +4.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 23
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.64
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.67%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the City of London

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the City of London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the City of London

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 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 City of London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
3 4 (44.44%) GDPR
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) IaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) PaaS
4 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (22.22%) High Availability

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (33.33%) PaaS
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ARM Templates
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (22.22%) Reinsurance
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) SABSA
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bicep
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Guidewire
3 1 (11.11%) Murex
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Workday