Lead Architect Contracts in England

Lead Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Architect daily rate in England is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 482 430
Rank change year-on-year +162 -52 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 236 177 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.37% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 128 247
10th Percentile £525 £559 £550
25th Percentile £623 £650 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £733 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +8.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £788
90th Percentile £875 £963 £875
UK median daily rate £725 £740 £675
% change year-on-year -2.03% +9.63% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +107 85 £700 -4.44% 32
South West +59 72 £700 -5.41% 3
North of England +51 39 £850 - 7
North West +46 36 £850 - 4
South East +18 17 £688 +1.85% 2
Midlands +35 12 £659 -9.58% 5
West Midlands +37 10 £750 -6.25% 4
Yorkshire +18 3 £645 -24.12% 2
East of England +14 3 £850 +70.00% 2
East Midlands +23 2 £534 -18.74% 1
Lead Architect
UK

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 118 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 94 (39.83%) SC Cleared
3 52 (22.03%) Agile
4 51 (21.61%) Finance
5 49 (20.76%) Public Sector
6 46 (19.49%) CI/CD
7 45 (19.07%) Strategic Thinking
8 44 (18.64%) DevOps
9 41 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (16.53%) Windows
10 39 (16.53%) Roadmaps
11 38 (16.10%) VPN
11 38 (16.10%) Firewall
12 37 (15.68%) Zero Trust
13 36 (15.25%) Security Architecture
14 35 (14.83%) Apple iOS
14 35 (14.83%) Node.js
14 35 (14.83%) Android
14 35 (14.83%) Risk Management
14 35 (14.83%) Social Skills
15 34 (14.41%) Mobile Device Management
15 34 (14.41%) Windows Server
16 33 (13.98%) AWS
17 32 (13.56%) Project Management
18 31 (13.14%) Threat Intelligence
19 30 (12.71%) Public Cloud
20 29 (12.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
20 29 (12.29%) Telecoms
21 28 (11.86%) Identity Access Management
21 28 (11.86%) Design Patterns

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.42%) CICS
5 1 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) Mule
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) HFM
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.98%) AWS
2 19 (8.05%) Azure
3 8 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.97%) IaaS
4 7 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
5 6 (2.54%) PaaS
5 6 (2.54%) Serverless
6 5 (2.12%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.69%) GCP
7 4 (1.69%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.27%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.27%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.85%) Kong
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 38 (16.10%) Firewall
1 38 (16.10%) VPN
2 11 (4.66%) LAN
2 11 (4.66%) WAN
3 6 (2.54%) BGP
4 4 (1.69%) CATAPAN
4 4 (1.69%) IPv4
4 4 (1.69%) IPv6
4 4 (1.69%) OSPF
4 4 (1.69%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.69%) VLAN
4 4 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.27%) Wireless
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.85%) DAB
6 2 (0.85%) IPsec
6 2 (0.85%) Junos
6 2 (0.85%) MPLS
7 1 (0.42%) Network Security
7 1 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.39%) Data Lake
2 8 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.69%) Big Data
4 3 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.27%) Flink
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (0.85%) DB2
5 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.42%) Essbase
6 1 (0.42%) IDMS
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.42%) Redis
6 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.27%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.85%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) Appium
4 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.42%) ERwin
4 1 (0.42%) MSI
4 1 (0.42%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 51 (21.61%) Finance
2 49 (20.76%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.83%) Social Skills
4 29 (12.29%) Telecoms
5 25 (10.59%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.51%) Legal
6 13 (5.51%) Marketing
7 12 (5.08%) Electronics
8 8 (3.39%) Banking
9 6 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.27%) Retail
12 2 (0.85%) French Language
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Advertising
13 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.83%) Node.js
2 5 (2.12%) .NET
3 4 (1.69%) Kafka
4 3 (1.27%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.27%) CSS
4 3 (1.27%) React
5 2 (0.85%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.85%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.85%) Playwright
5 2 (0.85%) Spring
6 1 (0.42%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.42%) LDAP
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 1 (0.42%) Next.js
6 1 (0.42%) SPFx
6 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.42%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.71%) Public Cloud
2 18 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.39%) CESG
4 8 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.27%) LIMS
9 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) NHS
9 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.42%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.53%) Windows
2 35 (14.83%) Android
2 35 (14.83%) Apple iOS
3 34 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.85%) Linux
6 1 (0.42%) AIX
6 1 (0.42%) Solaris
6 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.03%) Agile
2 46 (19.49%) CI/CD
3 45 (19.07%) Strategic Thinking
4 44 (18.64%) DevOps
5 41 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (16.53%) Roadmaps
7 37 (15.68%) Zero Trust
8 36 (15.25%) Security Architecture
9 35 (14.83%) Risk Management
10 34 (14.41%) Mobile Device Management
11 32 (13.56%) Project Management
12 31 (13.14%) Threat Intelligence
13 29 (12.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 28 (11.86%) Design Patterns
14 28 (11.86%) Identity Access Management
15 25 (10.59%) Digital Identity
16 20 (8.47%) Network Management
17 19 (8.05%) Microservices
18 18 (7.63%) Technical Leadership
19 17 (7.20%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.81%) JavaScript
2 8 (3.39%) SQL
3 7 (2.97%) Java
4 6 (2.54%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.12%) C#
6 4 (1.69%) Python
7 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.42%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.42%) COBOL
8 1 (0.42%) JCL
8 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 118 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 94 (39.83%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.47%) Degree
4 17 (7.20%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.66%) CISSP
6 10 (4.24%) CISM
7 9 (3.81%) CISA
8 8 (3.39%) CEH
8 8 (3.39%) CISMP
8 8 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.39%) ISACA
8 8 (3.39%) SSCP
9 7 (2.97%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.12%) CCNP
11 5 (2.12%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.69%) CCDP
13 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.59%) JSP 440
2 10 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.24%) NIST
3 9 (3.81%) GDPR
4 8 (3.39%) HIPAA
4 8 (3.39%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.39%) SLA
5 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.27%) GRC
5 3 (1.27%) QA
6 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.85%) Docker
1 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (3.39%) Terraform
2 3 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.85%) PingFederate
3 2 (0.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (8.05%) SAP
2 17 (7.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.97%) Google
3 7 (2.97%) Pega
4 6 (2.54%) Cisco
4 6 (2.54%) Databricks
4 6 (2.54%) Juniper
5 5 (2.12%) Apple
6 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
6 4 (1.69%) Infor
7 3 (1.27%) IBM
7 3 (1.27%) LabWare
7 3 (1.27%) Oracle
8 2 (0.85%) Informatica
8 2 (0.85%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) Brio
9 1 (0.42%) F5
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) TIBCO