Lead Architect Contracts in the North of England

Lead Architect
England > North of England

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the North of England is £775, 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 160 146 204
Rank change year-on-year -14 +58 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 6 39 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.82% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.88% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 26 7
10th Percentile £733 £694 £745
25th Percentile £744 £728 £800
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £850 £850
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £788 - £1,288
90th Percentile - - £1,650
England median daily rate £670 £725 £740
% change year-on-year -7.59% -2.03% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £35.00
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England 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
North West -16 3 £775 -8.82% 14
North East - 2 £750 - 3
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 8
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) BYOD
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) BYOD
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP