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 £740 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 154 179
Rank change year-on-year +35 +25 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 8 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.49% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.52% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 18
10th Percentile £625 £609 £605
25th Percentile £704 £653 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £713 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% +1.79% +5.66%
75th Percentile £850 £756 £841
90th Percentile £875 £805 £956
Central London median daily rate £740 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +5.71% - +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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 across the City of London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Charles River
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) eFront
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Google
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) SABSA
5 1 (12.50%) Multicast

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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS IoT
4 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) Multicast
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
1 1 (12.50%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Avro
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) JSON Schema
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Master Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
2 1 (12.50%) Presales
2 1 (12.50%) SABSA
2 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSK
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) CRISC
2 1 (12.50%) FFIEC
2 1 (12.50%) GIAC
2 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Charles River
2 2 (25.00%) eFront
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) Genesys
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce