Senior Architect Contracts in Reading

Senior Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Reading is £738, 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 58 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +30 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.25% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £611 - -
25th Percentile £647 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - -
75th Percentile £822 - -
90th Percentile £854 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £675 £573 -
% change year-on-year +17.90% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 563 1,112 996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 632 664
10th Percentile £325 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £651
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 24
10th Percentile - £35.00 £26.45
25th Percentile - £52.90 £51.48
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.20
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
% change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Reading

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in Reading

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in Reading

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

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 Reading region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP