Lead Architect Contracts in Berkshire

Lead Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 115 106
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 4 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.48% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £388 -
25th Percentile - £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile - £575 £575
90th Percentile - £613 £665
South East median daily rate £625 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.00 - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Berkshire

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in Berkshire

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 4 £625 -
Lead Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Reference Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Sharing
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Reference Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle