Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in Cornwall

Lead Architect
South West > Cornwall

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Cornwall is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cornwall 2.94% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
South West median daily rate £850 £625 £725
% change year-on-year +36.00% -13.79% -2.03%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cornwall

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cornwall. 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 Cornwall with a recognized job title 18 6 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 52.94% 75.00% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 18
10th Percentile £212 £285 £143
25th Percentile £285 £388 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £513 £203
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +153.09% -35.20%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £394
90th Percentile £686 £644 £394
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £18.12 - -
25th Percentile £20.81 - £31.60
Median hourly rate £23.58 - £33.07
Median % change year-on-year - - -80.55%
75th Percentile £24.49 - £34.53
90th Percentile - - £54.03
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £48.29
% change year-on-year -4.76% +30.46% -25.71%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cornwall

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cornwall.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Cornwall

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cornwall

For the 6 months to 24 April 2026, Lead Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cornwall region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cornwall by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared