Service Architect Contracts in England

Service Architect
UK > England

The median Service Architect daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 566 638
Rank change year-on-year +133 +72 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 98 74 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 65 92
10th Percentile £600 £563 £501
25th Percentile £613 £600 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +22.85%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £700
90th Percentile £738 - £750
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £618
% change year-on-year -7.14% +13.36% +25.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Service Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Service Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Architect in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Service Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Service Architect in England

Service Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +110 42 £675 -9.15% 5
South East +58 36 £625 -3.85% 1
Midlands - 7 £650 - 2
East of England - 7 £700 -
East Midlands - 6 £650 -
South West -16 5 £575 -17.86% 3
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2
Service Architect
UK

Service Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 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 job ads across the England region featuring Service Architect in the job title.

1 69 (70.41%) Security Cleared
2 68 (69.39%) Service Management
3 49 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 39 (39.80%) ITIL
5 36 (36.73%) ITSM
6 25 (25.51%) Service Design
7 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
8 12 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (11.22%) Agile
10 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
10 8 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
10 8 (8.16%) IT4IT
11 7 (7.14%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.14%) Finance
12 6 (6.12%) ServiceNow
12 6 (6.12%) SIAM
13 5 (5.10%) Impact Assessments
13 5 (5.10%) Service Catalogue
13 5 (5.10%) DevOps
13 5 (5.10%) Collaborative Working
13 5 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (5.10%) Banking
13 5 (5.10%) Business Continuity
14 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 4 (4.08%) Change Management
14 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (3.06%) NIST
15 3 (3.06%) Social Skills
15 3 (3.06%) Customer Experience
15 3 (3.06%) Project Management

Service Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (1.02%) AWS
1 1 (1.02%) Azure
General
1 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.14%) Finance
3 5 (5.10%) Banking
4 3 (3.06%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Electronics
5 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Law
5 1 (1.02%) Legal
5 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.02%) Marketing
5 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.02%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.02%) CMDB
2 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (69.39%) Service Management
2 39 (39.80%) ITIL
3 36 (36.73%) ITSM
4 25 (25.51%) Service Design
5 11 (11.22%) Agile
6 8 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (8.16%) IT4IT
7 7 (7.14%) Project Delivery
8 6 (6.12%) SIAM
9 5 (5.10%) Business Continuity
9 5 (5.10%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (5.10%) DevOps
9 5 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.10%) Impact Assessments
9 5 (5.10%) Service Catalogue
10 4 (4.08%) Change Management
11 3 (3.06%) Business Analysis
11 3 (3.06%) Customer Experience
11 3 (3.06%) Project Management
12 2 (2.04%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 69 (70.41%) Security Cleared
2 49 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) Autotask
Vendors
1 6 (6.12%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.02%) SAP