Lead Architect Contracts in the City of London

Lead Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the City of London is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 114 162
Rank change year-on-year +9 +48 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 14 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.55% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.57% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £525 £518 £644
25th Percentile £575 £648 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £775 £800
Median % change year-on-year -17.74% -3.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £670 £866 £922
90th Percentile £695 £908 £1,003
Central London median daily rate £653 £775 £725
% change year-on-year -15.77% +6.90% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the City of London

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the City of London

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the City of London

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 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 City of London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) ITSM
3 2 (14.29%) CMDB
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) OWASP
3 2 (14.29%) iSeries
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) SIEM
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) SailPoint
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) OSPF
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Back Office
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) SailPoint
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
2 1 (7.14%) JPA
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) CMDB
1 2 (14.29%) iSeries
1 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Application Security
2 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
2 2 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) ITSM
2 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 2 (14.29%) OWASP
2 2 (14.29%) RBAC
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
2 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (14.29%) Service Management
2 2 (14.29%) SIEM
2 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) PingFederate
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) CyberArk
2 2 (14.29%) Okta
2 2 (14.29%) Ping Identity
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto