Senior Architect Contracts in the North of England

Senior Architect
England > North of England

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the North of England is £625, 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 147 177 205
Rank change year-on-year +30 +28 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 19 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 12
10th Percentile - £383 £553
25th Percentile £613 £594 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £605
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +1.24% -6.92%
75th Percentile £691 £731 £661
90th Percentile £850 £757 £765
England median daily rate £640 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +24 13 £625 +2.04% 30
Yorkshire +9 3 £675 +3.53% 13
North East - 3 £825 - 3
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
4 7 (36.84%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Banking
5 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (26.32%) Business Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) DBS Check
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (21.05%) GCP
6 4 (21.05%) Finance
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
7 3 (15.79%) SQL
7 3 (15.79%) Oracle
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
7 3 (15.79%) Logical Data Model
7 3 (15.79%) Tableau
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) D3.js
7 3 (15.79%) Database Optimisation
7 3 (15.79%) Conceptual Models
7 3 (15.79%) Data Strategy
7 3 (15.79%) Data Science

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Akamai
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
1 3 (15.79%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata Repository
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) D3.js
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Business Strategy
3 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Conceptual Models
5 3 (15.79%) Data Science
5 3 (15.79%) Data Strategy
5 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (15.79%) Database Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Logical Data Model
5 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
6 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) C++
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) DBS Check
4 2 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Workday
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) F5