Senior Architect Contracts

Senior Architect
UK

The median Senior Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 419 517
Rank change year-on-year +17 +98 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Architect 179 275 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.52% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 178 231
10th Percentile £534 £558 £525
25th Percentile £561 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £698 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +3.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £776 £772 £784
90th Percentile £850 £816 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £643 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -1.07% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -
75th Percentile £70.19 £44.81 -
90th Percentile £89.80 £62.48 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +5 142 £675 -3.30% 116
London +26 75 £775 +10.71% 45
UK excluding London +34 71 £643 -1.07% 82
Work from Home +67 65 £663 -8.62% 66
South East +19 41 £613 -12.25% 9
Scotland +44 10 £775 +19.23% 8
Midlands +27 8 £675 +5.47% 14
West Midlands +18 8 £675 -15.63% 10
North of England +17 6 £600 -0.83% 33
North West +14 5 £427 -33.66% 18
South West -8 4 £700 +20.69% 8
East of England +5 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +10 1 £600 -0.83% 10

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 48 (26.82%) Finance
2 44 (24.58%) Security Cleared
3 40 (22.35%) Azure
4 31 (17.32%) Security Architecture
5 30 (16.76%) Social Skills
5 30 (16.76%) Roadmaps
6 28 (15.64%) Public Sector
7 26 (14.53%) AWS
8 25 (13.97%) Agile
9 23 (12.85%) Migration
9 23 (12.85%) DevOps
10 22 (12.29%) IaaS
11 21 (11.73%) Microsoft
11 21 (11.73%) Banking
11 21 (11.73%) SaaS
12 20 (11.17%) Firewall
12 20 (11.17%) Cloud Security
13 19 (10.61%) NIST
13 19 (10.61%) SC Cleared
14 18 (10.06%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (8.94%) SQL
16 16 (8.94%) PaaS
17 15 (8.38%) F5
17 15 (8.38%) GCP
17 15 (8.38%) SDLC
18 14 (7.82%) Analytics
18 14 (7.82%) WAN
19 13 (7.26%) Data Architecture
19 13 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.12%) Confluence
1 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Revit
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Primavera
3 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.56%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.56%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.35%) Azure
2 26 (14.53%) AWS
3 22 (12.29%) IaaS
4 21 (11.73%) SaaS
5 16 (8.94%) PaaS
6 15 (8.38%) GCP
7 11 (6.15%) Serverless
8 9 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.12%) AWS IoT
10 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.12%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.56%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.56%) dbt
11 1 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.17%) Firewall
2 14 (7.82%) WAN
3 9 (5.03%) MPLS
4 8 (4.47%) LAN
4 8 (4.47%) Network Security
5 7 (3.91%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (3.91%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.79%) BGP
6 5 (2.79%) SSL
7 3 (1.68%) SAN
7 3 (1.68%) WLAN
8 2 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.12%) Internet
8 2 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.12%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.12%) VPN
8 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.56%) Multicast
9 1 (0.56%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (4.47%) NoSQL
2 5 (2.79%) Big Data
3 4 (2.23%) OLAP
3 4 (2.23%) OLTP
3 4 (2.23%) Parquet
3 4 (2.23%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.12%) Metadata
4 2 (1.12%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.56%) DB2
5 1 (0.56%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.56%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.56%) NewSQL
5 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.23%) ERwin
1 4 (2.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Postman
2 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 48 (26.82%) Finance
2 30 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 28 (15.64%) Public Sector
4 21 (11.73%) Banking
5 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.68%) Publishing
7 3 (1.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Back Office
8 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Military
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.15%) JSON
2 9 (5.03%) JSON Schema
3 8 (4.47%) Middleware
4 5 (2.79%) .NET
4 5 (2.79%) LDAP
5 4 (2.23%) Apache Avro
5 4 (2.23%) Kafka
5 4 (2.23%) REST
5 4 (2.23%) Web Services
5 4 (2.23%) YAML
6 3 (1.68%) SAML
6 3 (1.68%) Swagger
6 3 (1.68%) XML
7 2 (1.12%) J2EE
7 2 (1.12%) Pyramid
8 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.56%) React
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.56%) SAPUI5
8 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.15%) IoT
2 10 (5.59%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.47%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.91%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.35%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.23%) Freedom of Information
6 4 (2.23%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.68%) Life Science
7 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.68%) Windows
2 2 (1.12%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (17.32%) Security Architecture
2 30 (16.76%) Roadmaps
3 25 (13.97%) Agile
4 23 (12.85%) DevOps
4 23 (12.85%) Migration
5 20 (11.17%) Cloud Security
6 18 (10.06%) Data Modelling
7 17 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (8.38%) SDLC
9 14 (7.82%) Analytics
10 13 (7.26%) Data Architecture
10 13 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (6.70%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (6.15%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.15%) Design Patterns
12 11 (6.15%) Enterprise Architecture
12 11 (6.15%) IT Strategy
12 11 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.94%) SQL
2 8 (4.47%) Java
3 6 (3.35%) Python
4 4 (2.23%) C#
5 2 (1.12%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.12%) Go
5 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.12%) Scala
6 1 (0.56%) ABAP
6 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.15%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.59%) Degree
5 9 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.35%) CISSP
6 6 (3.35%) GIAC
7 5 (2.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (2.79%) CCSK
7 5 (2.79%) CISA
7 5 (2.79%) CRISC
8 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.23%) PhD
9 3 (1.68%) CCNP
9 3 (1.68%) MCSE
9 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.68%) SANS
10 2 (1.12%) MBA
10 2 (1.12%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.61%) NIST
2 10 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.47%) GDPR
4 6 (3.35%) NCSC
5 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.68%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.68%) QA
6 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (5.03%) Terraform
2 5 (2.79%) Endace
2 5 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.56%) Ansible
3 1 (0.56%) Grafana
3 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.56%) Netcool
Vendors
1 21 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.38%) F5
3 12 (6.70%) Cisco
4 10 (5.59%) VMware
5 9 (5.03%) Google
6 5 (2.79%) Juniper
6 5 (2.79%) SAP
7 4 (2.23%) Genesys
7 4 (2.23%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.68%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.68%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.68%) Pega
9 2 (1.12%) Charles River
9 2 (1.12%) eFront
9 2 (1.12%) HP
9 2 (1.12%) IFS
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle
9 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) Zscaler