Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Derby

Senior Architect
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Derby is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.49% - 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £625
75th Percentile £588 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £575 - £625

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 188 99 122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 92.52% 98.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 52 61
10th Percentile £235 £171 £250
25th Percentile £438 £394 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% +14.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £588
90th Percentile £683 £696 £630
Derbyshire median daily rate £513 £508 £450
% change year-on-year +0.99% +12.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 12 12
10th Percentile - £18.25 -
25th Percentile £12.76 £25.04 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £22.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +9.90% +29.15%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £27.25 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £21.25 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year -15.51% +4.01% +28.21%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in Derby

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Derby.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in Derby

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 7 October 2026, Senior Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Derby region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) X.509
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware