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 during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 417 480
Rank change year-on-year +88 +63 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 62 40 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 35 33
10th Percentile £513 £540 £432
25th Percentile £600 £575 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £566
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +19.26% +11.80%
75th Percentile £708 £725 £675
90th Percentile £738 £756 £745
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +21.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 4 May 2024. 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 +53 42 £625 -3.85%
Midlands - 9 £650 -
East of England - 7 £700 -
East Midlands - 6 £650 -
South West -1 4 £638 -8.93% 1
West Midlands - 3 £710 -
Service Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 57 (91.94%) Security Cleared
2 55 (88.71%) Service Management
3 41 (66.13%) DV Cleared
4 27 (43.55%) Service Design
5 22 (35.48%) ITIL
6 19 (30.65%) ITSM
7 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (12.90%) Agile
8 8 (12.90%) IT4IT
8 8 (12.90%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.68%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (9.68%) Service Catalogue
9 6 (9.68%) Business Continuity
9 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.06%) Impact Assessments
11 4 (6.45%) SIAM
11 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
12 3 (4.84%) Business Analysis
12 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (4.84%) Project Management
12 3 (4.84%) Finance
12 3 (4.84%) NIST
12 3 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (3.23%) Acceptance Criteria
13 2 (3.23%) Prototyping
13 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Modelling
13 2 (3.23%) Portfolio Management
13 2 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (1.61%) AWS
1 1 (1.61%) Azure
General
1 3 (4.84%) Finance
2 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.61%) Electronics
3 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.61%) Marketing
3 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (88.71%) Service Management
2 27 (43.55%) Service Design
3 22 (35.48%) ITIL
4 19 (30.65%) ITSM
5 8 (12.90%) Agile
5 8 (12.90%) IT4IT
5 8 (12.90%) Project Delivery
6 6 (9.68%) Business Continuity
6 6 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (9.68%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (9.68%) Service Catalogue
7 5 (8.06%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (6.45%) SIAM
9 3 (4.84%) Business Analysis
9 3 (4.84%) Project Management
10 2 (3.23%) Acceptance Criteria
10 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Modelling
10 2 (3.23%) Portfolio Management
10 2 (3.23%) Prototyping
Qualifications
1 57 (91.94%) Security Cleared
2 41 (66.13%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.84%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.61%) SAP