Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Senior Architect
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Nottingham is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.98% - 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £528 - £677
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 - £704
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £564 - £731
90th Percentile £569 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £549 - £704
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 189 125 143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.24% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 70 102
10th Percentile £190 £187 £288
25th Percentile £286 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £545 £530 £600
90th Percentile £658 £576 £700
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £426 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -12.84% +8.61% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 3 8
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.27 £9.51
25th Percentile £15.42 £13.79 £13.38
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.80 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +3.71% +1.24%
75th Percentile £17.19 £15.03 £15.94
90th Percentile £17.87 £15.07 £18.23
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.10 £14.27
% change year-on-year +8.28% +5.82% -6.12%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Senior Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Nottingham region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Istio

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Presales
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Istio
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet