Senior Architect Contracts in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 447 482
Rank change year-on-year +85 +35 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 180 229 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.45% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.47% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 155 214
10th Percentile £525 £579 £525
25th Percentile £558 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £775 £759 £775
90th Percentile £850 £814 £863
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £668
% change year-on-year -7.14% +4.87% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
75th Percentile £70.19 - -
90th Percentile £89.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,525 48,539 68,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,000 34,387 48,854
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,454 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.43 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
London +68 99 £750 +7.14% 57
South East +43 47 £613 -12.25% 11
Midlands +42 8 £675 -5.26% 7
North of England +31 8 £613 -2.00% 16
South West +1 8 £675 -8.47% 2
West Midlands +38 7 £675 -5.26% 5
North West +21 6 £613 -6.67% 9
East of England +11 3 - - 3
Yorkshire +11 2 £652 +6.02% 6
East Midlands +14 1 £704 -12.00% 2
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 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 England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 56 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 48 (26.67%) Finance
3 41 (22.78%) Azure
4 36 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 28 (15.56%) SC Cleared
5 28 (15.56%) Public Sector
6 27 (15.00%) Social Skills
7 26 (14.44%) AWS
8 25 (13.89%) Agile
9 24 (13.33%) Firewall
10 23 (12.78%) DevOps
11 22 (12.22%) Migration
11 22 (12.22%) SaaS
12 21 (11.67%) Degree
12 21 (11.67%) Banking
12 21 (11.67%) Roadmaps
13 20 (11.11%) Cloud Security
13 20 (11.11%) NIST
13 20 (11.11%) Data Modelling
14 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
15 18 (10.00%) IaaS
16 17 (9.44%) Analytics
16 17 (9.44%) SQL
17 15 (8.33%) Data Architecture
17 15 (8.33%) Computer Science
17 15 (8.33%) Presales
18 14 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
19 13 (7.22%) Management Information System
19 13 (7.22%) GCP
19 13 (7.22%) SDLC

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.67%) Camunda
3 2 (1.11%) JBoss
3 2 (1.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.11%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.11%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Revit
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Primavera
1 2 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (1.11%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.78%) Azure
2 26 (14.44%) AWS
3 22 (12.22%) SaaS
4 18 (10.00%) IaaS
5 13 (7.22%) GCP
6 10 (5.56%) PaaS
6 10 (5.56%) Serverless
7 7 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.11%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) dbt
11 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.56%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.33%) Firewall
2 9 (5.00%) Network Security
2 9 (5.00%) WAN
3 7 (3.89%) Cisco Firepower
3 7 (3.89%) MPLS
3 7 (3.89%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.78%) BGP
4 5 (2.78%) SAN
4 5 (2.78%) SSL
5 4 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.22%) LAN
6 2 (1.11%) DHCP
6 2 (1.11%) DNS
6 2 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.11%) Internet
6 2 (1.11%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.11%) NetScaler
6 2 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (4.44%) Big Data
2 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.22%) Metadata
3 4 (2.22%) OLAP
3 4 (2.22%) OLTP
3 4 (2.22%) Parquet
3 4 (2.22%) Star Schema
4 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.11%) Tableau
6 1 (0.56%) DB2
6 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.22%) ERwin
1 4 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 48 (26.67%) Finance
2 28 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 21 (11.67%) Banking
5 9 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.22%) Publishing
7 4 (2.22%) Retail
8 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.11%) Back Office
9 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Law
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.11%) JSON
2 9 (5.00%) JSON Schema
3 7 (3.89%) LDAP
4 5 (2.78%) Kafka
4 5 (2.78%) Middleware
4 5 (2.78%) SAML
4 5 (2.78%) XML
5 4 (2.22%) Apache Avro
5 4 (2.22%) Web Services
5 4 (2.22%) YAML
6 3 (1.67%) REST
7 2 (1.11%) Java EE
7 2 (1.11%) OAuth
7 2 (1.11%) Pyramid
7 2 (1.11%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.11%) SOAP
7 2 (1.11%) SPML
7 2 (1.11%) Swagger
8 1 (0.56%) .NET
8 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.22%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.00%) IoT
3 8 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.89%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.89%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.22%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (2.22%) Freedom of Information Act
8 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.67%) Life Science
8 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.33%) Linux
1 6 (3.33%) Windows
2 2 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 25 (13.89%) Agile
3 23 (12.78%) DevOps
4 22 (12.22%) Migration
5 21 (11.67%) Roadmaps
6 20 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 20 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 17 (9.44%) Analytics
8 15 (8.33%) Computer Science
8 15 (8.33%) Data Architecture
8 15 (8.33%) Presales
9 14 (7.78%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (7.22%) Architectural Design
10 13 (7.22%) CI/CD
10 13 (7.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (7.22%) SDLC
11 12 (6.67%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
12 11 (6.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.44%) SQL
2 10 (5.56%) Java
3 6 (3.33%) Python
4 4 (2.22%) Go
5 3 (1.67%) Scala
6 2 (1.11%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 56 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.67%) Degree
4 11 (6.11%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (5.00%) CISSP
7 8 (4.44%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (3.89%) CCSK
8 7 (3.89%) CISA
8 7 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.89%) CRISC
8 7 (3.89%) GIAC
9 5 (2.78%) ISTQB
9 5 (2.78%) PhD
10 4 (2.22%) SANS
11 3 (1.67%) CCNP
11 3 (1.67%) MBA
11 3 (1.67%) MCSE
11 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.11%) NIST
2 10 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.44%) GDPR
3 8 (4.44%) QA
4 6 (3.33%) NCSC
5 4 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.22%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.00%) Terraform
2 5 (2.78%) Endace
3 4 (2.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.11%) Ansible
4 2 (1.11%) Consul
4 2 (1.11%) Packer
4 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.11%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.11%) Cisco
3 9 (5.00%) F5
3 9 (5.00%) Google
4 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.44%) VMware
5 6 (3.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.78%) Juniper
7 4 (2.22%) Genesys
7 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.67%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.67%) Pega
8 3 (1.67%) SAP
9 2 (1.11%) Charles River
9 2 (1.11%) eFront
9 2 (1.11%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.11%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.11%) Sparx
10 1 (0.56%) Informatica
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle