Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Kensington

Senior Architect
Kensington and Chelsea > Kensington

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Kensington is £900, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kensington 12.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 13.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 - -
Kensington and Chelsea median daily rate £900 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Kensington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Kensington. 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 Kensington with a recognized job title 15 5 5
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £170 - £202
25th Percentile £369 £425 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £290
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +55.17% +45.00%
75th Percentile £675 £475 £345
90th Percentile £900 - £378
Kensington and Chelsea median daily rate £513 £450 £290
% change year-on-year +13.89% +55.17% +45.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £27.20
25th Percentile £24.00 £29.07 £28.17
Median hourly rate £25.00 £31.78 £29.78
Median % change year-on-year -21.32% +6.70% -
75th Percentile £26.00 £34.48 £31.39
90th Percentile £26.60 - £32.36
Kensington and Chelsea median hourly rate £25.00 £31.78 £29.78
% change year-on-year -21.32% +6.70% -

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kensington

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 Kensington region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kensington 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
38 Senior Architect jobs in Central London