Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Lead Architect
England > East of England

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the East of England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 83 110
Rank change year-on-year -29 +27 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.33% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £533 £623 -
25th Percentile £563 £656 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £850
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -14.71% +28.30%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £875
90th Percentile £718 - -
England median daily rate £638 £688 £725
% change year-on-year -7.20% -5.17% -2.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 2,030 919 1,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 86.62% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 459 749
10th Percentile £191 £190 £211
25th Percentile £357 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £442
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +10.29% -6.95%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 177 598
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.33 £16.65
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% +18.62%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.00 £64.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £71.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 the East of England.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in the East of England

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in the East of England

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the East of England

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 3 £625 - 1
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 East of England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SailPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) OCI
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce