Lead Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Lead Architect
England > Midlands

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £659 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 160 169
Rank change year-on-year +35 +9 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 12 5 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.14% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.15% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 25
10th Percentile £457 £574 £525
25th Percentile £489 £591 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £728 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +14.24% +25.62%
75th Percentile £769 £925 £738
90th Percentile £875 £970 £830
England median daily rate £725 £733 £675
% change year-on-year -1.02% +8.52% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,524 3,265 4,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 94.64% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 2,296 3,558
10th Percentile £213 £223 £205
25th Percentile £326 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.61%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the Midlands

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the Midlands

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the Midlands

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands +37 10 £750 -6.25% 4
East Midlands +23 2 £534 -18.74% 1
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Presales
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Junos
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (16.67%) IPsec
5 2 (16.67%) MPLS
5 2 (16.67%) BGP
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) Juniper
6 1 (8.33%) Informatica
6 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (8.33%) ETL
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.33%) CCNP
6 1 (8.33%) CCNA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) SLA

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) BGP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (16.67%) IPsec
1 2 (16.67%) Junos
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) MPLS
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.33%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) FMCG
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (25.00%) Presales
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (8.33%) CRM
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCNA
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) JNCIS
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Infor
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce