Lead Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 370 389
Rank change year-on-year +130 +19 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 158 90 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.40% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 68 96
10th Percentile £521 £555 £531
25th Percentile £625 £655 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £733 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +4.64% +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £831 £791
90th Percentile £858 £991 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £740 £675
% change year-on-year -2.03% +9.63% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £45.75 -
90th Percentile - £52.20 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,264 22,670 29,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,896 20,739
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,165 1,484
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South West +52 77 £700 -5.41% 4
North of England +52 39 £850 - 10
North West +50 36 £850 - 5
South East +13 17 £688 +1.85% 4
Midlands +34 11 £659 -9.58% 5
West Midlands +33 9 £750 -6.25% 4
Scotland +34 7 £766 +2.10%
Northern Ireland - 4 £563 -
Yorkshire +20 3 £645 -24.12% 3
East of England +14 3 £850 +70.00% 3
East Midlands +23 2 £534 -18.74% 1
Lead Architect
UK

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 106 (67.09%) Security Cleared
2 83 (52.53%) SC Cleared
3 49 (31.01%) Strategic Thinking
4 34 (21.52%) Firewall
4 34 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (21.52%) Windows
4 34 (21.52%) VPN
4 34 (21.52%) Agile
4 34 (21.52%) Public Sector
4 34 (21.52%) Windows Server
4 34 (21.52%) Zero Trust
5 33 (20.89%) Telecoms
6 32 (20.25%) Risk Management
7 31 (19.62%) Design Patterns
8 30 (18.99%) Android
8 30 (18.99%) Threat Intelligence
8 30 (18.99%) Security Architecture
8 30 (18.99%) Apple iOS
8 30 (18.99%) Mobile Device Management
9 29 (18.35%) DevOps
10 28 (17.72%) Node.js
10 28 (17.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 28 (17.72%) Public Cloud
10 28 (17.72%) CI/CD
11 27 (17.09%) Roadmaps
11 27 (17.09%) Identity Access Management
12 26 (16.46%) Project Management
13 25 (15.82%) JSP 440
13 25 (15.82%) Network Management
13 25 (15.82%) Digital Identity

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.53%) IIS
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.80%) AWS
2 4 (2.53%) Azure
3 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (1.90%) IaaS
3 3 (1.90%) PaaS
3 3 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (1.27%) GCP
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.63%) Kong
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.63%) OCI
5 1 (0.63%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.63%) SaaS
5 1 (0.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 34 (21.52%) Firewall
1 34 (21.52%) VPN
2 12 (7.59%) LAN
2 12 (7.59%) WAN
3 6 (3.80%) BGP
4 4 (2.53%) CATAPAN
4 4 (2.53%) IPv4
4 4 (2.53%) IPv6
4 4 (2.53%) OSPF
4 4 (2.53%) Unified Communications
4 4 (2.53%) VLAN
4 4 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.90%) SAN
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.27%) DAB
6 2 (1.27%) IPsec
6 2 (1.27%) Junos
6 2 (1.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.63%) Metadata
3 1 (0.63%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.63%) Power BI
3 1 (0.63%) Redis
3 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.90%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.63%) ERwin
2 1 (0.63%) Selenium
2 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 34 (21.52%) Public Sector
2 33 (20.89%) Telecoms
3 19 (12.03%) Finance
4 18 (11.39%) Manufacturing
5 17 (10.76%) Social Skills
6 9 (5.70%) Electronics
6 9 (5.70%) Marketing
7 6 (3.80%) Legal
8 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Banking
9 2 (1.27%) French Language
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.72%) Node.js
2 2 (1.27%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.63%) Kafka
3 1 (0.63%) Next.js
3 1 (0.63%) Playwright
3 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.72%) Public Cloud
2 20 (12.66%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.06%) CESG
5 6 (3.80%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.16%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
7 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) FMCG
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.52%) Windows
1 34 (21.52%) Windows Server
2 30 (18.99%) Android
2 30 (18.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.01%) Strategic Thinking
2 34 (21.52%) Agile
2 34 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 34 (21.52%) Zero Trust
3 32 (20.25%) Risk Management
4 31 (19.62%) Design Patterns
5 30 (18.99%) Mobile Device Management
5 30 (18.99%) Security Architecture
5 30 (18.99%) Threat Intelligence
6 29 (18.35%) DevOps
7 28 (17.72%) CI/CD
7 28 (17.72%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 27 (17.09%) Identity Access Management
8 27 (17.09%) Roadmaps
9 26 (16.46%) Project Management
10 25 (15.82%) Digital Identity
10 25 (15.82%) Network Management
11 19 (12.03%) Systems Engineering
12 16 (10.13%) Strategic Roadmap
13 15 (9.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.53%) Python
2 3 (1.90%) Bash
2 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 106 (67.09%) Security Cleared
2 83 (52.53%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.92%) Degree
4 15 (9.49%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.70%) CCNP
5 9 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (5.06%) CEH
6 8 (5.06%) CISA
6 8 (5.06%) CISM
6 8 (5.06%) CISMP
6 8 (5.06%) CISSP
6 8 (5.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (5.06%) ISACA
6 8 (5.06%) SSCP
7 5 (3.16%) CCNA
7 5 (3.16%) JNCIS
8 4 (2.53%) CCDP
9 3 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.82%) JSP 440
2 9 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (5.70%) PCI DSS
3 8 (5.06%) GDPR
3 8 (5.06%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.06%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.16%) Terraform
2 4 (2.53%) SCCM
3 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (7.59%) SAP
2 7 (4.43%) VMware
3 6 (3.80%) Cisco
3 6 (3.80%) Google
3 6 (3.80%) Juniper
4 5 (3.16%) Apple
4 5 (3.16%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.53%) F5
5 4 (2.53%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.63%) Brio
7 1 (0.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) Infor
7 1 (0.63%) Informatica
7 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce