Service Architect Contracts in England

Service Architect
UK > England

The median Service Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 595 674
Rank change year-on-year +164 +79 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 110 66 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 57 85
10th Percentile £563 £548 £488
25th Percentile £613 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +17.07%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £700
90th Percentile £738 - £745
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +21.52%

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Service Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Architect in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Architect in England

Service 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 Service Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +135 47 £675 -9.15% 1
South East +53 42 £625 -3.85%
Midlands - 9 £650 -
East of England - 7 £700 -
East Midlands - 6 £650 -
South West -1 4 £638 -8.93% 1
West Midlands - 3 £710 -
Service Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Service 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 Service Architect in the job title.

1 76 (69.09%) Service Management
1 76 (69.09%) Security Cleared
2 53 (48.18%) DV Cleared
3 42 (38.18%) ITIL
4 38 (34.55%) ITSM
5 32 (29.09%) Service Design
6 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
7 13 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 13 (11.82%) Agile
8 12 (10.91%) Finance
9 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
10 8 (7.27%) Project Delivery
10 8 (7.27%) Customer Requirements
10 8 (7.27%) Banking
10 8 (7.27%) IT4IT
11 7 (6.36%) Change Management
12 6 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (5.45%) Business Continuity
12 6 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
12 6 (5.45%) DevOps
12 6 (5.45%) SIAM
12 6 (5.45%) Service Catalogue
13 5 (4.55%) Impact Assessments
14 4 (3.64%) Customer Experience
14 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 3 (2.73%) Project Management
15 3 (2.73%) Business Analysis
15 3 (2.73%) NIST

Service 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (1.82%) AWS
1 2 (1.82%) Azure
General
1 16 (14.55%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.91%) Finance
3 8 (7.27%) Banking
4 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.82%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.91%) Electronics
5 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.91%) Law
5 1 (0.91%) Legal
5 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.91%) Marketing
5 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.91%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (0.91%) CMDB
2 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
2 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (69.09%) Service Management
2 42 (38.18%) ITIL
3 38 (34.55%) ITSM
4 32 (29.09%) Service Design
5 13 (11.82%) Agile
6 8 (7.27%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (7.27%) IT4IT
6 8 (7.27%) Project Delivery
7 7 (6.36%) Change Management
8 6 (5.45%) Business Continuity
8 6 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (5.45%) DevOps
8 6 (5.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (5.45%) Service Catalogue
8 6 (5.45%) SIAM
9 5 (4.55%) Impact Assessments
10 4 (3.64%) Customer Experience
11 3 (2.73%) Business Analysis
11 3 (2.73%) Project Management
12 2 (1.82%) Asset Management
Qualifications
1 76 (69.09%) Security Cleared
2 53 (48.18%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (5.45%) ServiceNow
2 1 (0.91%) SAP