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 £775, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 153 183
Rank change year-on-year +40 +30 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 14 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.38% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.40% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £518 £663 £635
25th Percentile £621 £687 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £859 £931 £781
90th Percentile £908 £1,000 £785
Central London median daily rate £775 £725 £750
% change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +15.38%

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 2,076 3,249 3,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 94.83% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 2,191 2,948
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +3.20%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 50
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.37 £15.56
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £34.69 £72.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £46.15 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 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 City of London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Process Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) E-Discovery
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Legal
5 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (14.29%) PingFederate
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) SAP BW
1 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) MSI
1 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) Games
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
1 1 (7.14%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
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%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) E-Discovery
3 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 2 (14.29%) Process Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.14%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (7.14%) Business Case
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
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%) OCP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
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%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Pega
2 1 (7.14%) SAP