Lead Architect Contracts in London

Lead Architect
England > London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 403 398
Rank change year-on-year +97 -5 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 88 86 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.33% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.34% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 63 135
10th Percentile £529 £601 £550
25th Percentile £569 £663 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £743 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% +6.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £781 £788 £794
90th Percentile £875 £950 £875
England median daily rate £725 £740 £670
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.45% +3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +44 14 £775 -3.13% 10
West London - 7 £575 -
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 28 (31.82%) Finance
2 27 (30.68%) AWS
3 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 16 (18.18%) Agile
4 16 (18.18%) Azure
4 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 15 (17.05%) DevOps
6 14 (15.91%) Analytics
6 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
8 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
8 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
8 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
9 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
9 11 (12.50%) Migration
9 11 (12.50%) SQL
10 10 (11.36%) C#
10 10 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (10.23%) React
11 9 (10.23%) Data Governance
12 8 (9.09%) Presales
12 8 (9.09%) Java
12 8 (9.09%) CSS
12 8 (9.09%) .NET
12 8 (9.09%) Banking
12 8 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
13 7 (7.95%) Data Lake

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 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
3 1 (1.14%) JBoss
3 1 (1.14%) Mule
3 1 (1.14%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.14%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 27 (30.68%) AWS
2 16 (18.18%) Azure
3 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.82%) Serverless
4 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.55%) GCP
5 4 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.41%) IaaS
6 3 (3.41%) Snowflake
6 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) LAN
1 3 (3.41%) WAN
1 3 (3.41%) Wireless
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.55%) Big Data
4 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.41%) Flink
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.14%) DB2
6 1 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) Appium
2 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) MSI
2 1 (1.14%) Selenium
2 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.14%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (31.82%) Finance
2 18 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 16 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Legal
5 4 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Electronics
7 2 (2.27%) Front Office
7 2 (2.27%) Games
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Advertising
8 1 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) React
2 8 (9.09%) .NET
2 8 (9.09%) CSS
3 7 (7.95%) .NET Core
4 5 (5.68%) Kafka
5 4 (4.55%) Node.js
6 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.14%) LDAP
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 1 (1.14%) SAP ALE
7 1 (1.14%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.14%) SAP Business Workflow
7 1 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.14%) Spring
7 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.14%) Vue
7 1 (1.14%) WCF
7 1 (1.14%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.27%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.14%) Derivative
4 1 (1.14%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
2 2 (2.27%) Android
2 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.14%) AIX
3 1 (1.14%) Solaris
3 1 (1.14%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (18.18%) Agile
2 15 (17.05%) DevOps
3 14 (15.91%) Analytics
3 14 (15.91%) CI/CD
4 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
4 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 11 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 11 (12.50%) Migration
6 10 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (10.23%) Data Governance
8 8 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (9.09%) Presales
9 7 (7.95%) Business Case
9 7 (7.95%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (6.82%) Data Architecture
10 6 (6.82%) Data Management
10 6 (6.82%) ITIL
10 6 (6.82%) LLM
10 6 (6.82%) Security Architecture
10 6 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
2 11 (12.50%) SQL
2 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 10 (11.36%) C#
4 8 (9.09%) Java
5 7 (7.95%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.41%) Python
7 1 (1.14%) ABAP
7 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Degree
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.27%) CISM
5 2 (2.27%) CISSP
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.14%) CITP
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) SLA
2 3 (3.41%) QA
3 1 (1.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.27%) PingFederate
1 2 (2.27%) SCCM
1 2 (2.27%) Terraform
2 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Pega
3 5 (5.68%) Databricks
4 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.14%) Citrix
5 1 (1.14%) Confluent
5 1 (1.14%) F5
5 1 (1.14%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle
5 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.14%) TIBCO