Senior Systems Architect Contracts

Senior System Architect
UK

The median Senior System Architect daily rate in the UK is £446 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 - 857
Rank change year-on-year - - -192
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Architect 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £280 - £769
25th Percentile £338 - £779
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - £816
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.82%
75th Percentile £567 - £862
90th Percentile £632 - £876
UK excluding London median daily rate £242 - -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Senior Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Architect over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Systems Architect in the UK

Senior Systems Architect
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 - 2 £446 - 1
London - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £242 -
Work from Home - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £242 - 1
North of England - 1 £242 -

Senior Systems Architect Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior Systems 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 Systems Architect in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Informatics
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) Pega
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) KYC
1 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) NHS

Senior Systems 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) Informatics
1 1 (33.33%) KYC
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Pega