Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Senior Architect
North West > Merseyside

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Merseyside is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £657 - -
25th Percentile £659 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £740 - -
90th Percentile £771 - -
North West median daily rate £673 £242 £589
% change year-on-year +178.25% -58.93% -1.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 168 213 223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.67% 93.83% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 108 137
10th Percentile £129 £165 £212
25th Percentile £208 £213 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £406 £460
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -11.68% +4.55%
75th Percentile £570 £547 £535
90th Percentile £687 £600 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 14
10th Percentile - £15.22 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £17.33 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.37 £18.12 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -7.08% +11.05%
75th Percentile £17.44 £24.18 £28.58
90th Percentile £21.11 £41.40 £44.00
North West median hourly rate £24.62 £37.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -33.46% +21.15% +30.57%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Merseyside

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 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
Liverpool - 3 £675 - 1
Senior Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Merseyside region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SOC 1
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Azure

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 1
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk