Systems Architect Contracts

System Architect
UK

The median System Architect daily rate in the UK is £620 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 671 797
Rank change year-on-year +161 +126 -165
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Architect 72 32 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.055% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.058% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 11 27
10th Percentile £213 £413 £425
25th Percentile £525 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £565 £615
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -8.21% +9.33%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £725 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £607 £588
% change year-on-year +2.10% +3.36% -5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 3
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.90 £56.38
25th Percentile £67.50 - £58.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 £66.00 £60.92
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +8.34% +0.96%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.93
90th Percentile £85.00 - £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £66.00 £60.92
% change year-on-year +6.06% +8.34% +0.96%

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
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 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +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 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Architect over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Architect over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Architect in the UK

Systems Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +142 70 £620 +16.98% 22
UK excluding London +91 58 £620 +2.10% 20
South West +57 45 £620 -1.94% 4
Work from Home +128 31 £488 -12.95% 6
London +103 12 £750 +52.28% 3
North of England +42 10 £500 - 2
North West +30 9 £500 - 2
South East +17 2 £750 +50.00% 4
Midlands +26 1 £425 -34.62% 3
West Midlands +18 1 £425 -34.62% 1
North East - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 Systems Architect in the job title.

1 44 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 40 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 31 (43.06%) Systems Engineering
4 29 (40.28%) Network Management
4 29 (40.28%) Degree
4 29 (40.28%) Telecoms
5 25 (34.72%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (30.56%) Strategic Thinking
7 13 (18.06%) Active Directory
8 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 9 (12.50%) ITIL
9 9 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
10 8 (11.11%) Windows
10 8 (11.11%) Finance
11 7 (9.72%) Data Modelling
12 6 (8.33%) UML
12 6 (8.33%) SQL
12 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
12 6 (8.33%) XML
12 6 (8.33%) Data Management
12 6 (8.33%) Migration
12 6 (8.33%) JSON
12 6 (8.33%) SysML
12 6 (8.33%) Azure
12 6 (8.33%) Data Migration
12 6 (8.33%) REST
12 6 (8.33%) DevOps
12 6 (8.33%) Power BI

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 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (4.17%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) Azure
1 6 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
2 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.94%) Power Automate
2 5 (6.94%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.39%) AWS
3 1 (1.39%) Boomi
3 1 (1.39%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
1 2 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (1.39%) 4G
2 1 (1.39%) 5G
2 1 (1.39%) DHCP
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.39%) SAN
2 1 (1.39%) VoIP
2 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Power BI
1 6 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 29 (40.28%) Telecoms
2 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (6.94%) Financial Institution
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Local Government
6 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.39%) Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) JSON
1 6 (8.33%) REST
1 6 (8.33%) XML
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.39%) J2EE
3 1 (1.39%) SOAP
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.72%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.17%) NHS
3 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Windows
2 6 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) Systems Engineering
2 29 (40.28%) Network Management
3 22 (30.56%) Strategic Thinking
4 9 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 9 (12.50%) ITIL
4 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.72%) Data Modelling
6 6 (8.33%) Data Management
6 6 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 6 (8.33%) Database Optimisation
6 6 (8.33%) DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) Migration
6 6 (8.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 6 (8.33%) SysML
6 6 (8.33%) UML
7 5 (6.94%) ArchiMate
7 5 (6.94%) CI/CD
7 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
7 5 (6.94%) MODAF
7 5 (6.94%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.33%) SQL
2 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.39%) C
3 1 (1.39%) C++
3 1 (1.39%) Java
3 1 (1.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 40 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 29 (40.28%) Degree
4 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) CCIE
7 1 (1.39%) CCNP
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.39%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.39%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) Sparx
3 3 (4.17%) Aareon
3 3 (4.17%) Northgate
3 3 (4.17%) Thales
4 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) ESRI
5 1 (1.39%) IFS
5 1 (1.39%) Juniper
5 1 (1.39%) Pega
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