Lead Architect Contracts in Central London

Lead Architect
London > Central London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Central London is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 165 188
Rank change year-on-year +49 +23 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 14 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.58% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £518 £650 £600
25th Percentile £632 £663 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £859 £913 £813
90th Percentile £908 £985 £825
London median daily rate £700 £743 £700
% change year-on-year -5.79% +6.14% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,313 3,670 4,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 95.20% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 2,509 3,264
10th Percentile £348 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 51
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.75
London median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +51 12 £775 -3.13% 6
West End of London - 2 £675 - 3
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Lead Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Central London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Process Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) E-Discovery
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Management
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Games
5 2 (14.29%) Legal
5 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Games
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Publishing
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
1 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) E-Discovery
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) Process Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.14%) Application Packaging
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (7.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Citrix
2 1 (7.14%) Pega