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 £751, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 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
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 122 147
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 14 5 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.23% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.24% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 21
10th Percentile £624 £595 £625
25th Percentile £700 £663 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £800 £875 £750
90th Percentile £826 - £788
Central London median daily rate £747 £775 £700
% change year-on-year -3.58% +10.71% -
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 1,643 2,046 3,246
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 95.30% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 1,410 2,175
10th Percentile £350 £350 £353
25th Percentile £453 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% -5.63% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £790 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 20
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.33 £15.37
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.83 £22.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.29% -35.00% -15.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £32.03 £72.50
90th Percentile £89.88 £45.13 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.15% -23.49% -15.66%

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 June 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 26 June 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 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
4 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) GDPR
5 4 (28.57%) Terraform
5 4 (28.57%) Finance
5 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
6 3 (21.43%) IaaS
6 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
6 3 (21.43%) Serverless
6 3 (21.43%) Google
6 3 (21.43%) SaaS
6 3 (21.43%) PaaS
6 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
6 3 (21.43%) SQL
7 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
7 2 (14.29%) NIST

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) IaaS
4 3 (21.43%) PaaS
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.14%) Collibra
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
1 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
2 1 (7.14%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Reinsurance
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Security
1 5 (35.71%) Migration
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) SABSA
4 2 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) CodeQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) CISM
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Guidewire
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) Okta
4 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro