Senior Architect Contract Job Trends in Telford

Senior Architect
Shropshire > Telford

The median Senior Architect daily rate in Telford is £665, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £665 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £665 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 751 163 86
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.56% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 122 73
10th Percentile £365 £325 £299
25th Percentile £416 £406 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +5.21%
75th Percentile £548 £537 £538
90th Percentile £636 £549 £564
Shropshire median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.65% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 0
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% - -
75th Percentile £59.75 - -
90th Percentile £65.25 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £18.68 -
% change year-on-year +181.05% - -

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in Telford

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 Telford region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Lakehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Pega
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Management
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) REST

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Pega