Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 335 301
Rank change year-on-year +60 -34 +161
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 94 62 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.38% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.40% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 39 100
10th Percentile £554 £535 £500
25th Percentile £609 £550 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £775 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +14.81% -6.90%
75th Percentile £800 £808 £775
90th Percentile £1,070 £855 £800
England median daily rate £688 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.41% -3.57%

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 12,489 15,319 20,314
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 93.95% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,361 10,134 14,813
10th Percentile £331 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £670 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 180 218
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.48 £18.11
25th Percentile £22.90 £23.80 £22.06
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -3.50% +15.14%
75th Percentile £49.50 £56.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.34 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in London over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies 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 25 September 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 +16 18 £722 -12.52% 20
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 September 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 37 (39.36%) AWS
2 29 (30.85%) Finance
3 28 (29.79%) Microservices
4 26 (27.66%) Agile
4 26 (27.66%) Azure
5 25 (26.60%) Security Cleared
6 23 (24.47%) SC Cleared
7 20 (21.28%) GCP
7 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
8 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
9 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (17.02%) Banking
11 15 (15.96%) Google
12 14 (14.89%) Enterprise Architecture
12 14 (14.89%) Migration
12 14 (14.89%) Python
12 14 (14.89%) Security Architecture
12 14 (14.89%) Public Sector
13 13 (13.83%) GDPR
13 13 (13.83%) Terraform
13 13 (13.83%) Event-Driven
14 12 (12.77%) CI/CD
14 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
14 12 (12.77%) Roadmaps
14 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (12.77%) DevOps
14 12 (12.77%) Linux
15 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
15 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (11.70%) Telecoms

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 10 (10.64%) Confluence
2 8 (8.51%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.19%) Endur
3 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.36%) AWS
2 26 (27.66%) Azure
3 20 (21.28%) GCP
4 10 (10.64%) SaaS
5 9 (9.57%) GitHub
5 9 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.45%) IaaS
6 7 (7.45%) PaaS
7 6 (6.38%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.13%) Collibra
10 2 (2.13%) dbt
10 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) SSL
2 6 (6.38%) Firewall
3 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 4 (4.26%) VPN
4 2 (2.13%) SAN
5 1 (1.06%) 3GPP
5 1 (1.06%) Anycast
5 1 (1.06%) BGP
5 1 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.06%) HTTP
5 1 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.06%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.06%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.38%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.32%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.19%) Power BI
4 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.19%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.13%) Big Data
5 2 (2.13%) DB2
5 2 (2.13%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.13%) Metadata
5 2 (2.13%) MySQL
5 2 (2.13%) SAP BW
5 2 (2.13%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (2.13%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.13%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.06%) AppScan
4 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) JUnit
4 1 (1.06%) Selenium
4 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.06%) Spinnaker
General
1 29 (30.85%) Finance
2 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 16 (17.02%) Banking
4 14 (14.89%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.70%) Telecoms
6 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (7.45%) Financial Institution
8 6 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.19%) Legal
9 3 (3.19%) Military
10 2 (2.13%) Back Office
10 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.06%) Police
11 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.70%) REST
2 8 (8.51%) AngularJS
2 8 (8.51%) Apache Camel
2 8 (8.51%) HTML
2 8 (8.51%) HTML5
2 8 (8.51%) JDBC
2 8 (8.51%) jQuery
2 8 (8.51%) JSON
2 8 (8.51%) LDAP
2 8 (8.51%) ODBC
2 8 (8.51%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (8.51%) SAML
2 8 (8.51%) SOAP
2 8 (8.51%) Web Services
3 6 (6.38%) Kafka
4 3 (3.19%) Node.js
5 2 (2.13%) .NET
5 2 (2.13%) Jinja
5 2 (2.13%) Middleware
5 2 (2.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Cloud Native
1 9 (9.57%) Public Cloud
2 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.13%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.77%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) VMS
5 1 (1.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.79%) Microservices
2 26 (27.66%) Agile
3 18 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (14.89%) Enterprise Architecture
4 14 (14.89%) Migration
4 14 (14.89%) Security Architecture
5 13 (13.83%) Event-Driven
6 12 (12.77%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
6 12 (12.77%) DevOps
6 12 (12.77%) Roadmaps
6 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
7 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (10.64%) TOGAF
9 9 (9.57%) Data Architecture
9 9 (9.57%) ITSM
9 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.57%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) Python
2 9 (9.57%) SQL
3 8 (8.51%) Java
3 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.45%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.32%) Bicep
5 5 (5.32%) Kotlin
6 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.13%) Bash
7 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.06%) C
8 1 (1.06%) C#
8 1 (1.06%) COBOL
8 1 (1.06%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.06%) JCL
8 1 (1.06%) PHP
8 1 (1.06%) R
8 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.47%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) CISSP
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.19%) GIAC
7 2 (2.13%) CCSK
7 2 (2.13%) CISA
7 2 (2.13%) CISM
7 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.13%) CRISC
7 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.13%) SANS
7 2 (2.13%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CEH
8 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.06%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) GDPR
2 9 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.45%) NIST
4 6 (6.38%) Data Quality
5 5 (5.32%) SOC 2
6 3 (3.19%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.13%) HL7
7 2 (2.13%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.38%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (21.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.83%) Terraform
3 9 (9.57%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (5.32%) Grafana
4 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.13%) Ansible
6 1 (1.06%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) SCCM
6 1 (1.06%) SCOM
6 1 (1.06%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Google
2 9 (9.57%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.51%) BMC
3 8 (8.51%) HP
3 8 (8.51%) Ivanti
3 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Remedy
4 5 (5.32%) Cisco
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle
6 3 (3.19%) AlgoSec
6 3 (3.19%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.19%) Tufin
7 2 (2.13%) Cerner
7 2 (2.13%) Databricks
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) Informatica
7 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.13%) OpenLink
7 2 (2.13%) SAP