Senior Architect Contracts

Senior Architect
UK

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the UK is £674 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 441 523
Rank change year-on-year +47 +82 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 199 269 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.47% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.49% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 169 236
10th Percentile £521 £573 £525
25th Percentile £561 £613 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £775
90th Percentile £841 £828 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £698 £600
% change year-on-year -7.87% +16.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
75th Percentile £70.19 - -
90th Percentile £89.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England +40 163 £675 -3.57% 87
London +32 87 £750 +7.14% 50
UK excluding London +60 80 £643 -7.87% 40
Work from Home +84 71 £672 -7.31% 63
South East +40 46 £613 -12.25% 10
Scotland +47 10 £775 +19.23% 2
South West 0 9 £675 +16.38% 1
North of England +25 7 £606 +0.21% 12
Midlands +32 6 £675 -15.63% 10
West Midlands +19 6 £675 -15.63% 7
North West +18 6 £613 -6.67% 6
East of England +10 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +6 1 £600 -0.83% 4

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 57 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (24.12%) Finance
3 43 (21.61%) Azure
4 39 (19.60%) Security Architecture
5 32 (16.08%) Roadmaps
6 31 (15.58%) Public Sector
6 31 (15.58%) Social Skills
7 29 (14.57%) AWS
7 29 (14.57%) SC Cleared
8 27 (13.57%) Agile
9 25 (12.56%) DevOps
10 23 (11.56%) Migration
11 22 (11.06%) Firewall
11 22 (11.06%) Microsoft
11 22 (11.06%) SaaS
11 22 (11.06%) IaaS
11 22 (11.06%) Cloud Security
11 22 (11.06%) NIST
12 21 (10.55%) Banking
13 18 (9.05%) Data Modelling
14 16 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (8.04%) SQL
14 16 (8.04%) PaaS
15 15 (7.54%) Analytics
15 15 (7.54%) F5
15 15 (7.54%) GCP
15 15 (7.54%) SDLC
16 14 (7.04%) Presales
16 14 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (7.04%) Data Architecture

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Revit
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Primavera
3 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.61%) Azure
2 29 (14.57%) AWS
3 22 (11.06%) IaaS
3 22 (11.06%) SaaS
4 16 (8.04%) PaaS
5 15 (7.54%) GCP
6 11 (5.53%) Serverless
7 8 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.01%) AWS IoT
10 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.01%) iPaaS
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.50%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.50%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.06%) Firewall
2 13 (6.53%) WAN
3 10 (5.03%) Network Security
4 9 (4.52%) MPLS
5 7 (3.52%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (3.52%) LAN
5 7 (3.52%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.51%) BGP
6 5 (2.51%) SSL
7 4 (2.01%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.51%) SAN
8 3 (1.51%) WLAN
9 2 (1.01%) DHCP
9 2 (1.01%) DNS
9 2 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.01%) Internet
9 2 (1.01%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (4.02%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.02%) Big Data
3 4 (2.01%) OLAP
3 4 (2.01%) OLTP
3 4 (2.01%) Parquet
3 4 (2.01%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.01%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) DB2
5 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.50%) NewSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.02%) JIRA
2 4 (2.01%) ERwin
3 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (24.12%) Finance
2 31 (15.58%) Public Sector
2 31 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.55%) Banking
4 11 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.51%) Financial Institution
5 5 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.01%) Publishing
6 4 (2.01%) Retail
7 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.01%) Back Office
8 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Legal
9 1 (0.50%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Military
9 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.53%) JSON
2 9 (4.52%) JSON Schema
3 7 (3.52%) Middleware
4 5 (2.51%) .NET
4 5 (2.51%) LDAP
5 4 (2.01%) Apache Avro
5 4 (2.01%) Kafka
5 4 (2.01%) Web Services
5 4 (2.01%) YAML
6 3 (1.51%) REST
6 3 (1.51%) SAML
6 3 (1.51%) XML
7 2 (1.01%) J2EE
7 2 (1.01%) Pyramid
7 2 (1.01%) Swagger
8 1 (0.50%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.50%) React
8 1 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.50%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.53%) IoT
2 10 (5.03%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.52%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.52%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.01%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (2.01%) Freedom of Information Act
6 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.51%) Life Science
6 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.51%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.01%) Linux
1 4 (2.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.60%) Security Architecture
2 32 (16.08%) Roadmaps
3 27 (13.57%) Agile
4 25 (12.56%) DevOps
5 23 (11.56%) Migration
6 22 (11.06%) Cloud Security
7 18 (9.05%) Data Modelling
8 16 (8.04%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (7.54%) Analytics
9 15 (7.54%) SDLC
10 14 (7.04%) Data Architecture
10 14 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (7.04%) Presales
10 14 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (6.53%) Architectural Patterns
12 12 (6.03%) Application Security
12 12 (6.03%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (6.03%) IT Strategy
12 12 (6.03%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (5.53%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.04%) SQL
2 8 (4.02%) Java
3 6 (3.02%) Python
4 4 (2.01%) C#
5 3 (1.51%) Go
6 2 (1.01%) ActionScript
6 2 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.01%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) ABAP
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.53%) Degree
4 11 (5.53%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.52%) CISSP
7 6 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (3.02%) GIAC
8 5 (2.51%) CCSK
8 5 (2.51%) CISA
8 5 (2.51%) CRISC
8 5 (2.51%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.51%) PhD
9 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.51%) CCNP
10 3 (1.51%) MBA
10 3 (1.51%) MCSE
10 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.51%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.06%) NIST
2 10 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.52%) GDPR
3 9 (4.52%) QA
4 6 (3.02%) NCSC
5 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.51%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.01%) Docker
3 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (4.52%) Terraform
2 5 (2.51%) Endace
3 4 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.01%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.50%) Consul
5 1 (0.50%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.50%) Netcool
5 1 (0.50%) Packer
5 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.54%) F5
3 12 (6.03%) Cisco
4 10 (5.03%) VMware
5 9 (4.52%) Google
6 6 (3.02%) SAP
7 5 (2.51%) Juniper
7 5 (2.51%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.01%) Genesys
8 4 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.51%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.51%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.51%) Pega
10 2 (1.01%) Charles River
10 2 (1.01%) eFront
10 2 (1.01%) HP
10 2 (1.01%) IFS
11 1 (0.50%) Citrix
11 1 (0.50%) Siebel
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