Senior Technical Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Technical Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 414 489
Rank change year-on-year +38 +75 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 12 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.092% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.098% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 19
10th Percentile £588 £547 £488
25th Percentile £625 £575 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £580 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.48% -10.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £788 £625 £713
90th Percentile £833 - £793
UK median daily rate £775 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +29.17% -11.11% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,417 29,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 94.25% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,557 14,891 20,714
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,078 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.04 £14.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.23
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.35
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

Senior Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Technical Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Technical Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Scotland +55 9 £663 - 4
North of England +32 2 - - 6
North West +11 2 - - 4
South East +24 1 £825 +50.00%
Senior Technical Architect
UK

Senior Technical Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 June 2024, Senior Technical 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Technical Architect in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Confluence
3 3 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Firmware
3 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (16.67%) SOA
4 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Middleware
4 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) J2EE
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) VMware

Senior Technical Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) iPaaS
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) J2EE
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Content Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) SOA
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Firmware
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) VMware