Lead Architect Contracts in Bristol

Lead Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Bristol is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 41 74
Rank change year-on-year -26 +33 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 2 37 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.29% 3.99% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 4.20% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £74 £591
25th Percentile £613 £263 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £716
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -24.93% -42.72%
75th Percentile £638 £559 £788
90th Percentile - £600 -
South West median daily rate £625 £660 £700
% change year-on-year -5.30% -5.71% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 24 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 643 880 1,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 94.93% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 495 715
10th Percentile £247 £260 £319
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £719
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 186 123
10th Percentile £12.82 £22.75 £20.45
25th Percentile £18.36 £56.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £74.10 £80.00 £84.47
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +17.27%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Bristol

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Lead Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 25 August 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 Bristol region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes