Senior Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Senior Architect
England > Midlands

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £613, 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 101 126 165
Rank change year-on-year +25 +39 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 10 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.25% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.28% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £588 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £800
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -15.63% +34.12%
75th Percentile £788 £731 -
90th Percentile £803 £802 -
England median daily rate £640 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the Midlands

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the Midlands

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the Midlands

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the Midlands

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 10 £613 -9.26% 9
Senior Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) CASB
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) CISSP
4 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Security Management
4 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) TOWER Software
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (20.00%) CCSP
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) Unix

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) General Ledger
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Security Management
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CISA
4 1 (10.00%) SANS
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (20.00%) TOWER Software
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet