Service Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Service Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 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 330 403 465
Rank change year-on-year +73 +62 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 55 41 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 33
10th Percentile £566 £540 £469
25th Percentile £607 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £700 £618
% change year-on-year -7.14% +13.36% +25.38%

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 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Architect in the UK excluding London

Service 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 Service Architect within the UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Service Architect in the job title.

1 52 (94.55%) Security Cleared
2 48 (87.27%) Service Management
3 37 (67.27%) DV Cleared
4 21 (38.18%) Service Design
5 20 (36.36%) ITIL
6 18 (32.73%) ITSM
7 10 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (14.55%) IT4IT
9 7 (12.73%) Project Delivery
9 7 (12.73%) Agile
10 6 (10.91%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (9.09%) Business Continuity
11 5 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
11 5 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
12 4 (7.27%) SIAM
12 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
13 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
13 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (5.45%) Business Analysis
13 3 (5.45%) Project Management
13 3 (5.45%) NIST
14 2 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
14 2 (3.64%) Acceptance Criteria
14 2 (3.64%) Prototyping
15 1 (1.82%) User Experience
15 1 (1.82%) Ticket Management
15 1 (1.82%) Contract Management

Service 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:

General
1 1 (1.82%) Electronics
1 1 (1.82%) Finance
1 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
1 1 (1.82%) Marketing
1 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
1 1 (1.82%) Social Skills
1 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (87.27%) Service Management
2 21 (38.18%) Service Design
3 20 (36.36%) ITIL
4 18 (32.73%) ITSM
5 8 (14.55%) IT4IT
6 7 (12.73%) Agile
6 7 (12.73%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.91%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (9.09%) Business Continuity
8 5 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
8 5 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
9 4 (7.27%) SIAM
10 3 (5.45%) Business Analysis
10 3 (5.45%) Project Management
11 2 (3.64%) Acceptance Criteria
11 2 (3.64%) Prototyping
12 1 (1.82%) Customer Journey Map
12 1 (1.82%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 52 (94.55%) Security Cleared
2 37 (67.27%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Autotask
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.82%) SAP