Senior Technical Architect Contracts

Senior Technical Architect
UK

The median Senior Technical Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 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 556 654 801
Rank change year-on-year +98 +147 -120
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Architect 15 33 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.058% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.061% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 38
10th Percentile £553 £568 £521
25th Percentile £600 £575 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £863 £734 £759
90th Percentile £875 £791 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £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 Technical Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Architect over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Architect in the UK

Senior Technical Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
UK excluding London +46 9 £675 +12.50% 2
England +86 8 £838 +39.58% 4
Work from Home +102 6 £638 -8.93% 1
Scotland +46 6 £663 -
London +97 5 £850 +22.74% 2
North of England +28 2 - -
North West +22 2 - -
South East +31 1 £825 +13.79% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 featuring Senior Technical Architect in the job title.

1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (26.67%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) iPaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (13.33%) Prototyping
4 2 (13.33%) Middleware
4 2 (13.33%) Charles River
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
4 2 (13.33%) LAN

Senior Technical 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 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) iPaaS
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) Content Management
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) ERP
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (13.33%) SOA
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Charles River
2 2 (13.33%) eFront
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) NetApp
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow