Hybrid/Remote Senior Architect Contract Job Trends

Senior Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Architect daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £605, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 241 264
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 58 80 110
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.68% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.74% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 61
10th Percentile £513 £511 £500
25th Percentile £523 £615 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £737 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.94% +13.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £728 £799 £750
90th Percentile £900 £800 £875
UK median daily rate £650 £723 £675
% change year-on-year -10.03% +7.04% -1.85%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,474 10,884 16,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 93.11% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,181 6,887 11,150
10th Percentile £328 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 200 364
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.40 £17.29
25th Percentile £20.58 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.39 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.58% -28.78% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.85
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £34.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -25.74% -24.02% +46.72%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Architect job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Architect job vacancies

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Senior Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Architect job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Architect job vacancies

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Senior Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 21 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.86%) AWS
4 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (22.41%) Agile
6 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
6 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (17.24%) DevOps
7 10 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (15.52%) Migration
9 8 (13.79%) Business Strategy
9 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 8 (13.79%) Microservices
9 8 (13.79%) SaaS
10 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.07%) IT Strategy
10 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (12.07%) Technology Strategy
10 7 (12.07%) Terraform
11 6 (10.34%) CISSP
11 6 (10.34%) IaaS
11 6 (10.34%) PaaS
11 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
12 5 (8.62%) AI
12 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
12 5 (8.62%) Coaching
12 5 (8.62%) Data Architecture

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 15 (25.86%) AWS
3 8 (13.79%) SaaS
4 6 (10.34%) IaaS
4 6 (10.34%) PaaS
5 5 (8.62%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.45%) Google Gemini
7 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Internet
2 4 (6.90%) Firewall
2 4 (6.90%) SSL
3 3 (5.17%) DNS
3 3 (5.17%) Network Security
4 2 (3.45%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.45%) Anycast
4 2 (3.45%) BGP
4 2 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (3.45%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 2 (3.45%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.72%) DHCP
5 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.72%) LAN
5 1 (1.72%) MPLS
5 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.72%) DB2
3 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) Sqoop
3 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) MLflow
2 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.45%) Military
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
2 4 (6.90%) LDAP
2 4 (6.90%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) SOAP
3 3 (5.17%) Apache Camel
3 3 (5.17%) HTML
3 3 (5.17%) HTML5
3 3 (5.17%) JDBC
3 3 (5.17%) jQuery
3 3 (5.17%) JSON
3 3 (5.17%) ODBC
3 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (5.17%) React
3 3 (5.17%) SAML
3 3 (5.17%) Web Services
4 2 (3.45%) CrewAI
4 2 (3.45%) eBPF
4 2 (3.45%) LangGraph
4 2 (3.45%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (22.41%) Agile
3 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (17.24%) DevOps
4 10 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
5 9 (15.52%) Migration
6 8 (13.79%) Business Strategy
6 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
6 8 (13.79%) Microservices
7 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.07%) IT Strategy
7 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (12.07%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.62%) Coaching
9 5 (8.62%) Data Architecture
9 5 (8.62%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (8.62%) Security Architecture
9 5 (8.62%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.45%) C
3 2 (3.45%) Java
3 2 (3.45%) SQL
4 1 (1.72%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) C#
4 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) CISSP
4 3 (5.17%) CCIE
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.17%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) CCNP
6 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.45%) GDPR
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.45%) SCCM
6 1 (1.72%) Istio
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) BMC
3 3 (5.17%) Cisco
3 3 (5.17%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) HP
3 3 (5.17%) Ivanti
3 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.17%) Remedy
4 2 (3.45%) Arista
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.45%) Wind River
5 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.72%) F5
5 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.72%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.72%) Meraki