Senior Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 318 367
Rank change year-on-year +42 +49 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 63 81 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.42% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 57
10th Percentile £512 £550 £565
25th Percentile £588 £561 £579
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £643 £698
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -7.87% +15.47%
75th Percentile £728 £731 £756
90th Percentile £791 £843 £793
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £700
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +22 22 £601 -1.84% 87
North of England +34 19 £625 +2.04% 79
North West +21 13 £625 +2.04% 43
Midlands +22 10 £613 -9.26% 33
West Midlands +19 10 £613 -9.26% 20
South West +42 8 £625 -7.41% 41
Scotland +7 4 £600 -22.58% 16
Yorkshire +8 3 £675 +3.53% 30
North East - 3 £825 - 7
East of England +28 1 £751 - 25
Northern Ireland - 1 £700 - 11
Wales - 1 £725 - 2
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 24 (38.10%) Azure
3 21 (33.33%) AWS
4 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
5 16 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (23.81%) Migration
7 12 (19.05%) Agile
7 12 (19.05%) Finance
7 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
8 11 (17.46%) Cloud Security
8 11 (17.46%) TOGAF
9 9 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
10 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (12.70%) Microservices
10 8 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (12.70%) VMware
10 8 (12.70%) Cisco
11 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (11.11%) Oracle
11 7 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (38.10%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (9.52%) GCP
3 6 (9.52%) IaaS
3 6 (9.52%) PaaS
3 6 (9.52%) SaaS
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.76%) Serverless
7 2 (3.17%) Akamai
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub
8 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) VSAN
2 5 (7.94%) Firewall
3 4 (6.35%) VPN
4 3 (4.76%) BGP
4 3 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (4.76%) MPLS
4 3 (4.76%) NGFW
4 3 (4.76%) OSPF
4 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.76%) WAN
5 2 (3.17%) DNS
5 2 (3.17%) Network Security
5 2 (3.17%) VLAN
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.59%) HTTP
6 1 (1.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Data Mining
1 3 (4.76%) Tableau
2 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Finance
2 12 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.17%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Legal
5 2 (3.17%) Military
5 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Law
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) D3.js
2 2 (3.17%) REST
2 2 (3.17%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.59%) Ajax
3 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.59%) CSS
3 1 (1.59%) HTML
3 1 (1.59%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) MACH
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) Web Services
3 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.52%) PKI
2 6 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.76%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.59%) CMDB
6 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 5 (7.94%) Linux
3 3 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (23.81%) Migration
3 12 (19.05%) Agile
4 11 (17.46%) Cloud Security
4 11 (17.46%) TOGAF
5 9 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 9 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (12.70%) Microservices
6 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
7 7 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.94%) PowerShell
1 5 (7.94%) Python
1 5 (7.94%) SQL
2 3 (4.76%) C
2 3 (4.76%) Embedded C
2 3 (4.76%) Java
3 2 (3.17%) C++
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) Bicep
4 1 (1.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (9.52%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.52%) MCSE
4 6 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (7.94%) DBS Check
5 5 (7.94%) Degree
6 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.76%) CISSP
7 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (3.17%) CCSP
8 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.59%) CCNP
9 1 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (9.52%) NCSC
1 6 (9.52%) NIST
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) GRC
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.76%) Firmware
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) CASB
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Cisco
2 8 (12.70%) VMware
3 7 (11.11%) Oracle
3 7 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 3 (4.76%) TOWER Software
5 2 (3.17%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.17%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) Workday
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Snow