Senior Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 133 161
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 17 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.63% 0.49% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.52% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile - £480 £474
25th Percentile £561 £563 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £619 - £625
90th Percentile - £702 £755
South East median daily rate £600 £698 £600
% change year-on-year -14.04% +16.33% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £72.84 -
South East median hourly rate £102.87 £72.84 -
% change year-on-year +41.24% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,488 2,714 3,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.33% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,845 2,343
10th Percentile £213 £300 £211
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 79 97
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £13.00
Median hourly rate £48.18 £50.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +185.71% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.80 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £64.29
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -2 14 £573 -4.58% 2
Buckinghamshire +24 3 £613 +11.36%
Senior Architect
South East

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 12 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 job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) Security Architecture
3 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
4 4 (23.53%) Presales
5 3 (17.65%) NCSC
5 3 (17.65%) NIST
5 3 (17.65%) JSON
5 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 2 (11.76%) Firewall
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) ActionScript
6 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (11.76%) F5
6 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
6 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
6 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
6 2 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (5.88%) GDPR
7 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
7 1 (5.88%) JSON Schema
7 1 (5.88%) Data Lineage
7 1 (5.88%) Data Mapping
7 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.88%) Azure

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Security Architecture
2 4 (23.53%) Presales
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lineage
4 1 (5.88%) Data Mapping
4 1 (5.88%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) ActionScript
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) NCSC
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) F5
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft