Lead Architect Contracts in London

Lead Architect
England > London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in London is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 306 406
Rank change year-on-year +17 +100 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 64 85 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.51% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 62 64
10th Percentile £500 £519 £600
25th Percentile £591 £586 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £742
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -5.60% +5.93%
75th Percentile £754 £763 £781
90th Percentile £816 £875 £943
England median daily rate £670 £725 £740
% change year-on-year -7.59% -2.03% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.85
25th Percentile £62.50 - £39.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £51.13
90th Percentile - - £54.35
England median hourly rate £81.00 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +8 18 £653 -15.77% 2
East London - 1 - -
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 19 (29.69%) AWS
2 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.31%) ServiceNow
4 12 (18.75%) Azure
5 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.19%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (17.19%) Enterprise Architecture
5 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
5 11 (17.19%) Roadmaps
6 10 (15.63%) HTML
6 10 (15.63%) Finance
6 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
7 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
8 8 (12.50%) Business Strategy
8 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 8 (12.50%) SQL
9 7 (10.94%) Web Services
9 7 (10.94%) ITSM
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 7 (10.94%) Service Management
9 7 (10.94%) CMDB
9 7 (10.94%) Analytics
9 7 (10.94%) Data Governance
9 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (10.94%) Service Catalogue
9 7 (10.94%) RBAC
10 6 (9.38%) Data Development
10 6 (9.38%) Architectural Design

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) SAP FSCM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) AWS
2 12 (18.75%) Azure
3 6 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.69%) dbt
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
1 4 (6.25%) Network Security
1 4 (6.25%) WAN
2 3 (4.69%) LAN
3 2 (3.13%) BGP
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (3.13%) EIGRP
3 2 (3.13%) OSPF
3 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.56%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Finance
2 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Back Office
3 5 (7.81%) Banking
4 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Publishing
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Police
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) HTML
2 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
3 7 (10.94%) Web Services
4 3 (4.69%) .NET
4 3 (4.69%) CSS
5 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.13%) JPA
5 2 (3.13%) Kafka
5 2 (3.13%) Node.js
5 2 (3.13%) REST
5 2 (3.13%) SailPoint
5 2 (3.13%) Spring
5 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.56%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (1.56%) JSON
6 1 (1.56%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.56%) WCF
6 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) CMDB
2 4 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) iSeries
4 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Equities
5 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.19%) Enterprise Architecture
1 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (17.19%) Roadmaps
1 11 (17.19%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (12.50%) Business Strategy
2 8 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 7 (10.94%) Analytics
3 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (10.94%) Data Governance
3 7 (10.94%) ITSM
3 7 (10.94%) Migration
3 7 (10.94%) RBAC
3 7 (10.94%) Service Catalogue
3 7 (10.94%) Service Management
4 6 (9.38%) Agile
4 6 (9.38%) Architectural Design
4 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (9.38%) Data Development
5 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
2 8 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) C#
3 3 (4.69%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
1 17 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.69%) PMP
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) GRC
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
1 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) PingFederate
2 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.69%) Google
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Okta
2 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
2 3 (4.69%) SAP
3 2 (3.13%) CheckPoint
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco
3 2 (3.13%) CyberArk
3 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.13%) Juniper
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle
3 2 (3.13%) Ping Identity
3 2 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (1.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Foundry
4 1 (1.56%) Palantir
4 1 (1.56%) Pega
4 1 (1.56%) Virgin Media