Service Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Service Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Service Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 441 554
Rank change year-on-year +134 +113 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 30 26 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 54
10th Percentile £595 £406 £494
25th Percentile £650 £448 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £688 £631 £636
90th Percentile £715 £743 £696
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% +21.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Service Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Service Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Service 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 Service Architect.

Service Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Service Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Service Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Service Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Service 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 Service Architect in the job title.

1 20 (66.67%) Service Management
1 20 (66.67%) ITIL
2 15 (50.00%) ITSM
3 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
4 11 (36.67%) Finance
5 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) Change Management
6 7 (23.33%) Banking
7 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 5 (16.67%) DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) Service Design
8 4 (13.33%) SIAM
8 4 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 4 (13.33%) Agile
9 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
9 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
9 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (10.00%) Azure
9 3 (10.00%) AWS
9 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Modelling
9 3 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
10 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (6.67%) Migration
10 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (6.67%) Service Catalogue
10 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
11 1 (3.33%) Change Advisory Board
11 1 (3.33%) Law

Service 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) AWS
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) DCOM
1 1 (3.33%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) CMDB
1 1 (3.33%) PKI
1 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.33%) Smartcard
1 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) ITIL
1 20 (66.67%) Service Management
2 15 (50.00%) ITSM
3 7 (23.33%) Change Management
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Service Design
5 4 (13.33%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Experience
5 4 (13.33%) SIAM
6 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Modelling
6 3 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (10.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (6.67%) Migration
7 2 (6.67%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
8 1 (3.33%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (3.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.33%) COBIT
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) Remedy
2 1 (3.33%) SAP