Lead Architect Contracts in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 136 148
Rank change year-on-year +36 +12 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 9 4 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.17% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.18% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 19
10th Percentile £542 £570 £520
25th Percentile £660 £581 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £825 £950 £731
90th Percentile £915 £980 £745
England median daily rate £725 £740 £675
% change year-on-year -2.03% +9.63% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,262 3,427
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.88% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,556 2,510
10th Percentile £259 £250 £220
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.01%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 81
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.32
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +8 4 £750 -6.25% 3
Warwickshire +3 2 £950 - 1
Solihull - 2 £463 -
Coventry - 1 £750 -
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 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 West Midlands region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Presales
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Junos
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) IPsec
4 2 (22.22%) MPLS
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
4 2 (22.22%) Juniper
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) BGP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (22.22%) IPsec
1 2 (22.22%) Junos
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) MPLS
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (33.33%) Presales
1 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Business Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) Master Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIS
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce