Lead Architect Contracts in Central London

Lead Architect
London > Central London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Central London is £653, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 116 163
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 17 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.86% 0.58% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.61% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £555 £518 £656
25th Percentile £616 £632 £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% -3.13% +28.00%
75th Percentile £685 £859 £941
90th Percentile £688 £908 £1,013
London median daily rate £653 £675 £743
% change year-on-year -3.30% -9.15% +6.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,829 2,283 3,584
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 95.32% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,618 2,460
10th Percentile £338 £340 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.19 £15.83
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.13 £19.79
Median hourly rate £28.61 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -26.79% -5.41%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £40.00 £87.31
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +25.93% -23.94% +1.43%

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
City of London +4 13 £638 -17.74% 1
Lead Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 Central London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 5 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Data Development
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) dbt
3 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
3 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
3 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Back Office
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) LAN
4 2 (11.76%) WAN

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) dbt
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LAN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 1 (5.88%) BGP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Back Office
2 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.88%) JPA
2 1 (5.88%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) CMDB
1 2 (11.76%) iSeries
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
2 4 (23.53%) Data Development
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) OWASP
4 2 (11.76%) RBAC
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Security Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) PingFederate
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.88%) Juniper
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Okta
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) Ping Identity
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk