Senior Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 139 163
Rank change year-on-year +37 +24 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.083% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.088% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £625 - £565
25th Percentile £663 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% +27.66%
75th Percentile £688 - £783
90th Percentile £785 - £787
England median daily rate £675 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,762 2,284 3,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.69% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,571 2,548
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 69 85
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.31 £27.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £54.50 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Warwickshire +4 2 £800 -
Coventry - 2 £675 -
Birmingham +13 1 £600 -25.00% 2
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Release Train
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Revit
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Life Science
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) ETL

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (14.29%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Release Train
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) RIBA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Guidewire
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft