Senior Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley 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 82 119 149
Rank change year-on-year +37 +30 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 20 26 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 0.97% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.04% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 1
10th Percentile £506 £561 -
25th Percentile £562 £595 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £646 £625 -
90th Percentile £763 £643 -
South East median daily rate £625 £613 £698
% change year-on-year +2.04% -12.25% +16.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +23 13 £620 +1.22% 10
Berkshire +18 7 £675 +17.90% 15
Senior Architect
South East

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) TOGAF
2 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) Cisco
2 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (55.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (55.00%) Palo Alto
2 11 (55.00%) VMware NSX
2 11 (55.00%) DevSecOps
3 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (50.00%) VSAN
3 10 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (50.00%) ITIL
3 10 (50.00%) MCSE
3 10 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (50.00%) PKI
3 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) NCSC
3 10 (50.00%) NIST
4 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (45.00%) Zachman Framework
4 9 (45.00%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (45.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (45.00%) Microservices
5 8 (40.00%) IaaS
5 8 (40.00%) Use Case
5 8 (40.00%) SaaS
5 8 (40.00%) PaaS

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) IaaS
1 8 (40.00%) PaaS
1 8 (40.00%) SaaS
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) VSAN
2 3 (15.00%) BGP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (15.00%) MPLS
2 3 (15.00%) NGFW
2 3 (15.00%) OSPF
2 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) VPN
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Ajax
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) MACH
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (50.00%) PKI
3 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevSecOps
1 11 (55.00%) TOGAF
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (50.00%) ITIL
3 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (45.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 9 (45.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
3 9 (45.00%) Zachman Framework
4 8 (40.00%) Use Case
5 6 (30.00%) IT Strategy
5 6 (30.00%) Requirements Management
5 6 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) MCSE
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (50.00%) NCSC
1 10 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (55.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Cisco
1 11 (55.00%) Palo Alto
1 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Snow