Service Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Service 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 333 336 408
Rank change year-on-year +3 +72 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 6 63 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.33% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 47 35
10th Percentile - £513 £540
25th Percentile £613 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +20.43%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £725
90th Percentile £708 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%

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%

Service Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service 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 Service 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 West +42 3 £625 -1.96%
West Midlands +13 1 £625 -11.97%
Midlands +11 1 £625 -3.85%
South East +4 1 £725 +16.00% 2
North of England - 1 £625 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £625 -
Service Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Service 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 Service Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) NIST
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Skype
4 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) PKI

Service 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Skype
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Service Design
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) MCSA
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) OPNET
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) VMware