Service Architect Contracts

Service Architect
UK

The median Service Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 457 648
Rank change year-on-year -42 +191 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 21 125 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.31% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 84 59
10th Percentile £500 £566 £524
25th Percentile £544 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £743
90th Percentile £681 £736 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +20.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Service Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England -37 18 £625 -3.85% 4
Work from Home +20 10 £563 -16.67% 2
London 0 10 £594 -12.04% 2
UK excluding London +6 6 £625 - 3
South West +45 3 £625 -1.96%
Midlands +14 1 £625 -3.85%
West Midlands +12 1 £625 -11.97%
South East +4 1 £725 +16.00% 1
North of England - 1 £625 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £625 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Service Architect in the job title.

1 18 (85.71%) ITIL
2 15 (71.43%) Service Design
3 13 (61.90%) Service Management
4 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
5 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
6 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
7 6 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (23.81%) ITSM
9 4 (19.05%) Finance
9 4 (19.05%) Law
9 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
9 4 (19.05%) Azure
9 4 (19.05%) AWS
9 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (19.05%) Requirements Workshops
10 3 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
10 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (14.29%) SIAM
10 3 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
10 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
10 3 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
10 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
10 3 (14.29%) DevOps
10 3 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
10 3 (14.29%) DCOM
10 3 (14.29%) SLA
10 3 (14.29%) Microsoft

Service 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Skype
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Law
3 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) CMDB
1 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
1 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) ITIL
2 15 (71.43%) Service Design
3 13 (61.90%) Service Management
4 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (23.81%) ITSM
7 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) Requirements Workshops
8 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
8 3 (14.29%) DevOps
8 3 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
8 3 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
8 3 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 3 (14.29%) SIAM
9 2 (9.52%) Analytics
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) OPNET
1 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.52%) QAD
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Freshdesk
3 1 (4.76%) VMware