Service Architect Contracts in England

Service Architect
UK > England

The median Service Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 460 556
Rank change year-on-year -11 +96 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 22 88 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 68 65
10th Percentile £500 £518 £563
25th Percentile £525 £613 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £743
90th Percentile £750 £733 -
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 23,477 34,692 44,605
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 92.88% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,364 22,677 31,611
10th Percentile £293 £298 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,088 2,595 1,346
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% -10.23% +79.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.82 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.50% +75.44%

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 29 June 2025.

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 29 June 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
London +32 10 £588 -9.62% 7
South West +44 7 - - 1
South East +14 1 £725 +16.00% 5
North of England +10 1 £625 - 1
West Midlands +6 1 £625 -9.09%
Yorkshire +4 1 £625 -
Midlands -1 1 £625 -3.85%
Service Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 2025, 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 21 (95.45%) ITIL
2 13 (59.09%) Service Management
2 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
3 12 (54.55%) Service Design
4 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
5 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
7 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (18.18%) ITSM
8 4 (18.18%) Finance
9 3 (13.64%) Law
9 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
9 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
9 3 (13.64%) Requirements Workshops
10 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (9.09%) SIAM
10 2 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
10 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
10 2 (9.09%) DevOps
10 2 (9.09%) Presales
10 2 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
10 2 (9.09%) DCOM
10 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
10 2 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
10 2 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
10 2 (9.09%) Customer Engagement

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 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Law
4 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) ITIL
2 13 (59.09%) Service Management
3 12 (54.55%) Service Design
4 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (22.73%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) ITSM
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Requirements Workshops
7 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
8 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
8 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 2 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
8 2 (9.09%) DevOps
8 2 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
8 2 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
8 2 (9.09%) Presales
8 2 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
8 2 (9.09%) SIAM
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (9.09%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) QAD
3 1 (4.55%) VMware