Senior Architect Contracts in the South East

Senior Architect
England > South East

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the South East 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 133 159 198
Rank change year-on-year +26 +39 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 26 46 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.83% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.89% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 16
10th Percentile £473 - £656
25th Percentile £513 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £698
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -12.25% +16.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £709
90th Percentile £718 £699 £763
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 - £102.87 -
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +37 20 £625 +2.04% 16
Buckinghamshire +23 13 £620 +1.22% 4
Berkshire +18 7 £675 +17.90% 9
Hampshire +14 3 £475 -20.83% 14
Kent +9 2 £675 -18.18% 3
Surrey +16 1 £650 - 1
Senior Architect
England

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

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 South East region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) TOGAF
3 11 (42.31%) VMware
3 11 (42.31%) Cisco
3 11 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (42.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (42.31%) Palo Alto
3 11 (42.31%) VMware NSX
3 11 (42.31%) DevSecOps
4 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (38.46%) NCSC
4 10 (38.46%) NIST
4 10 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) VSAN
4 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (38.46%) ITIL
4 10 (38.46%) MCSE
4 10 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (38.46%) PKI
5 9 (34.62%) Zachman Framework
5 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (34.62%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (34.62%) Microservices
5 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
5 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
6 8 (30.77%) IaaS
6 8 (30.77%) Use Case
6 8 (30.77%) AWS

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
1 8 (30.77%) IaaS
1 8 (30.77%) PaaS
1 8 (30.77%) SaaS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) VSAN
2 3 (11.54%) BGP
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (11.54%) MPLS
2 3 (11.54%) NGFW
2 3 (11.54%) OSPF
2 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 3 (11.54%) WAN
3 2 (7.69%) DNS
3 2 (7.69%) VLAN
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.85%) Firewall
4 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Electronics
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Ajax
1 1 (3.85%) CSS
1 1 (3.85%) HTML
1 1 (3.85%) MACH
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
1 1 (3.85%) Web Services
1 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (38.46%) PKI
3 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.54%) Device Driver
3 3 (11.54%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (11.54%) IoT
3 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) TOGAF
2 11 (42.31%) DevSecOps
3 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (38.46%) ITIL
4 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
4 9 (34.62%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (34.62%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (34.62%) Microservices
4 9 (34.62%) Zachman Framework
5 8 (30.77%) Use Case
6 6 (23.08%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) IT Strategy
6 6 (23.08%) Requirements Management
6 6 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (19.23%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 3 (11.54%) Architectural Design
9 3 (11.54%) Cloud Enablement
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) C
1 3 (11.54%) Embedded C
2 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) MCSE
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (38.46%) NCSC
1 10 (38.46%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (42.31%) VMware NSX
2 3 (11.54%) Firmware
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Cisco
1 11 (42.31%) Palo Alto
1 11 (42.31%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Snow