Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Senior Architect
England > East Midlands

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the East Midlands is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 1 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.68% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.73% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile - £613 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £625 £565
Median % change year-on-year -35.68% +10.62% -
75th Percentile - £638 £626
90th Percentile - - £656
England median daily rate £688 £688 £675
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -3.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 798 684 757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 93.06% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 402 551
10th Percentile £190 £251 £213
25th Percentile £333 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £468
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -4.91% +1.46%
75th Percentile £525 £529 £588
90th Percentile £638 £609 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 37 54
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.19 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.18 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.13% +7.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.25 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.92 £52.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the East Midlands

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £402 - 5
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Sqoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata