Senior Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £656, 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 245 269 380
Rank change year-on-year +24 +111 +90
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 59 76 97
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.53% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 46 65
10th Percentile £548 £519 £577
25th Percentile £593 £561 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 £661 £725
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -8.83% +11.54%
75th Percentile £775 £749 £775
90th Percentile £800 £831 £809
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £700
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Architect.

Senior Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Senior Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Architect.

Senior Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (37.29%) SC Cleared
3 17 (28.81%) AWS
4 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
5 15 (25.42%) Azure
6 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
7 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
8 11 (18.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (18.64%) SaaS
9 10 (16.95%) PaaS
9 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (16.95%) Use Case
9 10 (16.95%) Agile
9 10 (16.95%) VMware
9 10 (16.95%) Finance
9 10 (16.95%) Windows
9 10 (16.95%) IaaS
10 9 (15.25%) Microservices
10 9 (15.25%) Architectural Design
10 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.25%) Linux
10 9 (15.25%) SQL
10 9 (15.25%) TOGAF
11 8 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (13.56%) ITIL
11 8 (13.56%) Data Modelling
11 8 (13.56%) Cisco
11 8 (13.56%) Migration

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) Azure
3 11 (18.64%) SaaS
4 10 (16.95%) IaaS
4 10 (16.95%) PaaS
5 6 (10.17%) GCP
5 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (10.17%) Serverless
6 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) VSAN
2 3 (5.08%) VPN
3 2 (3.39%) BGP
3 2 (3.39%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.39%) DNS
3 2 (3.39%) MPLS
3 2 (3.39%) NGFW
3 2 (3.39%) OSPF
3 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.39%) WAN
4 1 (1.69%) Firewall
4 1 (1.69%) HTTP
4 1 (1.69%) Internet
4 1 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) Big Data
2 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.39%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.39%) Data Vault
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.69%) Metadata
3 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
1 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.95%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Retail
7 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (1.69%) Military
8 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
1 3 (5.08%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (3.39%) REST
2 2 (3.39%) Shiny
3 1 (1.69%) Ajax
3 1 (1.69%) CSS
3 1 (1.69%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.69%) HTML
3 1 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.69%) SOAP
3 1 (1.69%) Spring
3 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.69%) Web Services
3 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (11.86%) PKI
3 4 (6.78%) IoT
3 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.08%) Device Driver
4 3 (5.08%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.08%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) CMDB
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 9 (15.25%) Linux
3 8 (13.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
1 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (16.95%) Agile
3 10 (16.95%) Use Case
4 9 (15.25%) Architectural Design
4 9 (15.25%) Microservices
4 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.25%) TOGAF
5 8 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (13.56%) Data Modelling
5 8 (13.56%) DevSecOps
5 8 (13.56%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (13.56%) ITIL
5 8 (13.56%) Migration
6 7 (11.86%) Containerisation
6 7 (11.86%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
7 6 (10.17%) Data Governance
7 6 (10.17%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.25%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.78%) Python
4 3 (5.08%) Bicep
4 3 (5.08%) C
4 3 (5.08%) Embedded C
5 2 (3.39%) Java
5 2 (3.39%) R
6 1 (1.69%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (37.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) MCSE
3 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (11.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (8.47%) DBS Check
5 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.69%) CCNP
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.69%) Degree
7 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (13.56%) NCSC
1 8 (13.56%) NIST
2 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 3 (5.08%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (13.56%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.08%) Firmware
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (1.69%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) Istio
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) VMware
2 8 (13.56%) Cisco
2 8 (13.56%) Palo Alto
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Databricks
5 2 (3.39%) Sage
6 1 (1.69%) BT
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) Snow
6 1 (1.69%) Veeam