Senior Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 350 456
Rank change year-on-year +68 +106 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 59 107 167
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.47% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 69 123
10th Percentile £551 £625 £525
25th Percentile £561 £675 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £744 £788 £804
90th Percentile £833 £805 £847
UK median daily rate £675 £698 £694
% change year-on-year -3.30% +0.61% +11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £37.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 21 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 17 (28.81%) Finance
2 15 (25.42%) Roadmaps
3 14 (23.73%) Migration
3 14 (23.73%) Azure
4 10 (16.95%) AWS
4 10 (16.95%) Agile
5 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
6 8 (13.56%) F5
6 8 (13.56%) DevOps
6 8 (13.56%) Banking
7 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
8 6 (10.17%) Firewall
8 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.17%) JSON
8 6 (10.17%) GCP
8 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
8 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
8 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
9 5 (8.47%) Architectural Design
9 5 (8.47%) Data Architecture
9 5 (8.47%) Analytics
9 5 (8.47%) Microservices
9 5 (8.47%) Data Migration
9 5 (8.47%) Cisco
9 5 (8.47%) WAN
9 5 (8.47%) SQL
10 4 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery

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 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Revit
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) Azure
2 10 (16.95%) AWS
3 6 (10.17%) GCP
4 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.78%) PaaS
4 4 (6.78%) SaaS
5 3 (5.08%) IaaS
6 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.39%) Serverless
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.69%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 5 (8.47%) WAN
3 4 (6.78%) LAN
4 3 (5.08%) WLAN
5 2 (3.39%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (3.39%) Internet
5 2 (3.39%) NetScaler
5 2 (3.39%) Network Security
5 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.69%) MPLS
6 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.08%) OLAP
2 3 (5.08%) OLTP
3 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.69%) DB2
4 1 (1.69%) NewSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Parquet
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.69%) Git
2 1 (1.69%) Postman
2 1 (1.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (28.81%) Finance
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Automotive
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) JSON
2 4 (6.78%) JSON Schema
3 3 (5.08%) Kafka
3 3 (5.08%) REST
3 3 (5.08%) Web Services
4 2 (3.39%) .NET
4 2 (3.39%) Pyramid
4 2 (3.39%) Swagger
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.69%) J2EE
5 1 (1.69%) LDAP
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 1 (1.69%) Middleware
5 1 (1.69%) SAML
5 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.69%) WCF
5 1 (1.69%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Life Science
3 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.69%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.42%) Roadmaps
2 14 (23.73%) Migration
3 10 (16.95%) Agile
4 8 (13.56%) DevOps
5 6 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
5 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
6 5 (8.47%) Analytics
6 5 (8.47%) Architectural Design
6 5 (8.47%) Data Architecture
6 5 (8.47%) Data Migration
6 5 (8.47%) Microservices
7 4 (6.78%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (6.78%) ERP
7 4 (6.78%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (6.78%) Security Architecture
8 3 (5.08%) Risk Management
8 3 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.47%) SQL
2 4 (6.78%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Java
4 2 (3.39%) ActionScript
4 2 (3.39%) Go
4 2 (3.39%) Scala
5 1 (1.69%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
2 2 (3.39%) RIBA
3 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.69%) CCIE
3 1 (1.69%) CCSK
3 1 (1.69%) CCSP
3 1 (1.69%) CISA
3 1 (1.69%) CISSP
3 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.69%) CRISC
3 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) FFIEC
3 1 (1.69%) GIAC
3 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.69%) MBA
3 1 (1.69%) PhD
3 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Firmware
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (1.69%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) F5
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Cisco
4 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.08%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Genesys
6 2 (3.39%) Guidewire
6 2 (3.39%) IFS
6 2 (3.39%) Pega
6 2 (3.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.69%) Citrix
7 1 (1.69%) HP
7 1 (1.69%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.69%) Siebel