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 £716, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 185 193
Rank change year-on-year +39 +8 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 18 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.51% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile - £312 £554
25th Percentile £613 £418 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £716 £600 £603
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -0.41% +0.42%
75th Percentile £738 £616 £655
90th Percentile £763 £625 £685
England median daily rate £675 £675 £698
% change year-on-year - -3.30% -0.29%
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 3,262 4,512 5,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 92.80% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,156 2,739 3,620
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 450 169
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% -8.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.88 £43.48
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +16 13 £671 +56.99% 54
Yorkshire +6 4 £723 +20.42% 20
North East - 1 - - 7
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Business Strategy
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) DBS Check
6 4 (22.22%) Degree
6 4 (22.22%) Data Security
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) AWS
6 4 (22.22%) Security Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
6 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
7 3 (16.67%) Attestation
7 3 (16.67%) Application Security
7 3 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (16.67%) Cyberattack
7 3 (16.67%) Finance
7 3 (16.67%) Military
8 2 (11.11%) Google
8 2 (11.11%) Agile
8 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (11.11%) Data Migration

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 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Akamai
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Cyberattack
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (27.78%) Business Strategy
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Data Security
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 4 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Application Security
5 3 (16.67%) Attestation
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) C++
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
1 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) DBS Check
4 4 (22.22%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) F5