Service Architect Contracts

Service Architect
UK

The median Service Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 602 718
Rank change year-on-year +144 +116 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Service Architect 113 88 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 72 106
10th Percentile £600 £525 £495
25th Percentile £613 £575 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £621
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.68% +26.14%
75th Percentile £700 £743 £700
90th Percentile £738 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +18.52%

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 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Service Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Architect over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England +118 101 £650 -7.14% 13
UK excluding London +72 59 £625 -7.41% 7
London +104 41 £675 -9.15% 5
South East +40 37 £625 -3.85%
Work from Home +117 25 £675 +12.50% 2
Midlands - 8 £650 - 2
East of England - 7 £700 -
South West -9 6 £538 -23.21% 3
East Midlands - 6 £650 -
West Midlands - 2 £600 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 featuring Service Architect in the job title.

1 77 (68.14%) Security Cleared
2 76 (67.26%) Service Management
3 49 (43.36%) DV Cleared
4 48 (42.48%) ITIL
5 41 (36.28%) ITSM
6 27 (23.89%) Service Design
7 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
8 17 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
10 12 (10.62%) Agile
11 11 (9.73%) Finance
12 10 (8.85%) IT4IT
13 9 (7.96%) Customer Requirements
13 9 (7.96%) Banking
14 8 (7.08%) Change Management
14 8 (7.08%) SIAM
14 8 (7.08%) Service Catalogue
15 7 (6.19%) Project Delivery
16 6 (5.31%) Impact Assessments
16 6 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
16 6 (5.31%) Disaster Recovery
16 6 (5.31%) Business Continuity
16 6 (5.31%) SLA
16 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
17 5 (4.42%) DevOps
18 4 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
18 4 (3.54%) Social Skills
18 4 (3.54%) Stakeholder Management
18 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 3 (2.65%) Business Analysis

Service 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (2.65%) Azure
2 2 (1.77%) AWS
3 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
General
1 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
2 11 (9.73%) Finance
3 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 4 (3.54%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.77%) Law
6 1 (0.88%) Electronics
6 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Legal
6 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.88%) Marketing
6 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) DCOM
1 1 (0.88%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.77%) CMDB
1 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (0.88%) PKI
2 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.88%) Smartcard
2 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.26%) Service Management
2 48 (42.48%) ITIL
3 41 (36.28%) ITSM
4 27 (23.89%) Service Design
5 12 (10.62%) Agile
6 10 (8.85%) IT4IT
7 9 (7.96%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (7.08%) Change Management
8 8 (7.08%) Service Catalogue
8 8 (7.08%) SIAM
9 7 (6.19%) Project Delivery
10 6 (5.31%) Business Continuity
10 6 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (5.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (5.31%) Impact Assessments
11 5 (4.42%) DevOps
12 4 (3.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 3 (2.65%) Business Analysis
13 3 (2.65%) Customer Experience
13 3 (2.65%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 77 (68.14%) Security Cleared
2 49 (43.36%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.88%) CISA
5 1 (0.88%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 6 (5.31%) SLA
3 4 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) Autotask
Vendors
1 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
2 2 (1.77%) SAP
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle
3 1 (0.88%) Remedy