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 during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 159 183
Rank change year-on-year +47 +24 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 12 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.33% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £518 £650 £595
25th Percentile £618 £663 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £875 £688
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £875 £950 £788
90th Percentile £915 £1,025 £810
Central London median daily rate £775 £800 £688
% change year-on-year -3.13% +16.36% +5.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,060 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.06% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

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 7 May 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 7 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 City of London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (16.67%) Process Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (16.67%) Degree
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) E-Discovery
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) PingFederate
5 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Advertising
5 1 (8.33%) Games
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Digital Media
1 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (16.67%) E-Discovery
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Process Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (8.33%) Business Case
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Fintech
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) Pega