Lead Architect Contracts in the North of England

Lead Architect
England > North of England

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the North of England is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 204 205
Rank change year-on-year +58 +1 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 39 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 0.27% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.29% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 23
10th Percentile £694 £745 £556
25th Percentile £728 £800 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +21.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £1,288 £750
90th Percentile - £1,650 £925
England median daily rate £725 £740 £675
% change year-on-year -2.03% +9.63% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,441 5,553 6,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.27% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 3,920 5,127
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £673 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 162 292
10th Percentile £11.02 £13.96 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.82 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +65.08% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.97 £49.40 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.68 £49.98
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West +46 36 £850 - 5
Yorkshire +24 3 £645 -24.12% 3
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 North of England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 30 (76.92%) Windows
1 30 (76.92%) VPN
1 30 (76.92%) Firewall
1 30 (76.92%) Risk Management
1 30 (76.92%) Apple iOS
1 30 (76.92%) Android
1 30 (76.92%) Mobile Device Management
1 30 (76.92%) Windows Server
2 29 (74.36%) Threat Intelligence
2 29 (74.36%) Agile
3 28 (71.79%) Security Architecture
3 28 (71.79%) Node.js
3 28 (71.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 28 (71.79%) DevOps
3 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 28 (71.79%) Zero Trust
4 27 (69.23%) Public Cloud
5 26 (66.67%) Design Patterns
6 16 (41.03%) Roadmaps
6 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
7 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
8 13 (33.33%) Microservices
9 11 (28.21%) Product Strategy
9 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (28.21%) Strategic Roadmap
9 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
10 9 (23.08%) Product Ownership
11 7 (17.95%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (17.95%) User Experience
12 6 (15.38%) Google

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (7.69%) AWS
1 3 (7.69%) IaaS
1 3 (7.69%) PaaS
1 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Azure
2 1 (2.56%) GCP
2 1 (2.56%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (76.92%) Firewall
1 30 (76.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Legal
3 3 (7.69%) Electronics
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.69%) Marketing
3 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (71.79%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (69.23%) Public Cloud
2 9 (23.08%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.82%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (76.92%) Android
1 30 (76.92%) Apple iOS
1 30 (76.92%) Windows
1 30 (76.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) Mobile Device Management
1 30 (76.92%) Risk Management
2 29 (74.36%) Agile
2 29 (74.36%) Threat Intelligence
3 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
3 28 (71.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 28 (71.79%) DevOps
3 28 (71.79%) Security Architecture
3 28 (71.79%) Zero Trust
4 26 (66.67%) Design Patterns
5 16 (41.03%) Roadmaps
6 13 (33.33%) Microservices
7 11 (28.21%) Product Strategy
7 11 (28.21%) Strategic Roadmap
7 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (17.95%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (17.95%) User Experience
9 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
10 3 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Google
2 5 (12.82%) Apple
3 3 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Brio