Senior Architect Contracts in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 292 349
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 82 99 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.65% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.60% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 58 94
10th Percentile £513 £521 £578
25th Percentile £600 £603 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £763 £710
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +7.39% +4.22%
75th Percentile £775 £780 £775
90th Percentile £800 £875 £875
England median daily rate £640 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +6 10 £713 -3.72% 9
East London +15 3 £625 - 1
South London +5 1 - -
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 34 (41.46%) AWS
2 28 (34.15%) Azure
3 27 (32.93%) Social Skills
4 25 (30.49%) Finance
5 18 (21.95%) Security Cleared
6 16 (19.51%) SQL
6 16 (19.51%) TOGAF
6 16 (19.51%) Migration
7 15 (18.29%) Agile
8 14 (17.07%) Windows
8 14 (17.07%) Security Architecture
8 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (17.07%) Roadmaps
9 13 (15.85%) Public Cloud
9 13 (15.85%) SC Cleared
9 13 (15.85%) ITIL
9 13 (15.85%) Python
9 13 (15.85%) Data Modelling
10 12 (14.63%) Data Architecture
11 11 (13.41%) GCP
11 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
11 11 (13.41%) CISSP
11 11 (13.41%) Architectural Design
12 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
12 10 (12.20%) NIST
12 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
12 10 (12.20%) Banking
12 10 (12.20%) Windows Server
13 9 (10.98%) Terraform

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.44%) Apache
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) AWS
2 28 (34.15%) Azure
3 11 (13.41%) GCP
4 9 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.98%) SaaS
5 7 (8.54%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.54%) Serverless
6 5 (6.10%) IaaS
6 5 (6.10%) PaaS
6 5 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.10%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.88%) GitHub
7 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.66%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Firewall
1 5 (6.10%) VPN
2 4 (4.88%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) Network Security
3 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.10%) Data Mining
1 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.88%) Tableau
3 3 (3.66%) Big Data
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.44%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.44%) Metadata
4 2 (2.44%) Power BI
4 2 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) OLAP
5 1 (1.22%) OLTP
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.22%) AppScan
2 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.22%) ERwin
2 1 (1.22%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) JUnit
2 1 (1.22%) Selenium
2 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.49%) Finance
3 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Banking
4 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.10%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Police
8 2 (2.44%) Legal
8 2 (2.44%) Local Government
8 2 (2.44%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Law
9 1 (1.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) .NET
1 4 (4.88%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.66%) CSS
2 3 (3.66%) D3.js
2 3 (3.66%) HTML
3 2 (2.44%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.44%) Shiny
4 1 (1.22%) Jinja
4 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.76%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.32%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.44%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.44%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.22%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.07%) Windows
2 10 (12.20%) Windows Server
3 9 (10.98%) Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.51%) Migration
1 16 (19.51%) TOGAF
2 15 (18.29%) Agile
3 14 (17.07%) Roadmaps
3 14 (17.07%) Security Architecture
4 13 (15.85%) Data Modelling
4 13 (15.85%) ITIL
5 12 (14.63%) Data Architecture
6 11 (13.41%) Architectural Design
7 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.98%) Cloud Security
8 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (9.76%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (9.76%) Data Strategy
9 8 (9.76%) Risk Management
10 7 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.54%) Project Management
10 7 (8.54%) SABSA
10 7 (8.54%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.51%) SQL
2 13 (15.85%) Python
3 7 (8.54%) Java
4 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.66%) Bash
6 3 (3.66%) Bicep
6 3 (3.66%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.44%) R
8 1 (1.22%) C#
8 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) CISSP
4 6 (7.32%) Degree
5 5 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.10%) CISM
6 4 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (4.88%) CCSK
6 4 (4.88%) CISA
6 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.88%) CRISC
6 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.88%) GIAC
6 4 (4.88%) SANS
7 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.22%) CCNP
8 1 (1.22%) ISEB
8 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) NIST
2 9 (10.98%) GDPR
3 8 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (4.88%) NIST 800
5 3 (3.66%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) Docker
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Terraform
2 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.66%) Grafana
3 3 (3.66%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.22%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle
3 6 (7.32%) Cisco
4 4 (4.88%) Google
4 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.66%) AlgoSec
5 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.66%) Informatica
5 3 (3.66%) Tufin
6 2 (2.44%) Databricks
6 2 (2.44%) Sage
6 2 (2.44%) Talend
7 1 (1.22%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.22%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.22%) IBM
7 1 (1.22%) Murex
7 1 (1.22%) Sparx
7 1 (1.22%) Veracode
7 1 (1.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.22%) Workday