Lead Architect Contracts in the Thames Valley

Lead Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the Thames Valley is £688 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 138 163
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 10 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.34% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.37% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £791 £659 -
90th Percentile £819 £703 -
South East median daily rate £688 £675 £594
% change year-on-year +1.85% +13.68% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £55.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,501 2,739 3,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 94.38% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,904 2,301
10th Percentile £208 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.88% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 75 103
10th Percentile £15.74 £17.27 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.29 £66.21 £23.63
90th Percentile £85.37 £79.19 £56.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the Thames Valley

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the Thames Valley

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the Thames Valley

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire -13 8 £500 -
Buckinghamshire +25 1 £750 +1.35% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £825 -
Lead Architect
South East

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Presales
2 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) IPv4
4 1 (10.00%) IPv6
4 1 (10.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) CCDP
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
4 1 (10.00%) BGP
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) JNCIS
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Redis

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) CATAPAN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) IPv4
2 1 (10.00%) IPv6
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) Next.js
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (30.00%) Presales
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Data Design
2 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (10.00%) Fintech
2 1 (10.00%) Microservices
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCDP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) JNCIS
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (10.00%) Juniper
1 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft