Lead Architect Contracts in the North West

Lead Architect
England > North West

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the North West is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 147 161
Rank change year-on-year +42 +14 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 36 11 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.30% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.36% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 13
10th Percentile £713 £718 £586
25th Percentile £794 £800 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £850 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +21.43% +26.13%
75th Percentile - £1,650 £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £725 £725 £675
% change year-on-year - +7.41% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,622 3,037 3,869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 94.55% 96.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,730 2,184 2,839
10th Percentile £281 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +10.12%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 138 178
10th Percentile £11.04 £14.18 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.64 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.87% +51.35% +12.47%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.50 £65.23 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Manchester +47 35 £850 -32.00% 3
Cheshire +4 1 £567 -16.00%
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 North West region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 30 (83.33%) Android
1 30 (83.33%) Apple iOS
1 30 (83.33%) Windows
1 30 (83.33%) VPN
1 30 (83.33%) Firewall
1 30 (83.33%) Risk Management
1 30 (83.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 30 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 29 (80.56%) Threat Intelligence
2 29 (80.56%) Agile
3 28 (77.78%) Node.js
3 28 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 28 (77.78%) DevOps
3 28 (77.78%) Security Architecture
3 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 28 (77.78%) Zero Trust
4 27 (75.00%) Public Cloud
5 26 (72.22%) Design Patterns
6 16 (44.44%) Roadmaps
6 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
7 15 (41.67%) SC Cleared
8 13 (36.11%) Microservices
9 11 (30.56%) Product Strategy
9 11 (30.56%) Strategic Roadmap
10 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
10 10 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (25.00%) Product Ownership
12 7 (19.44%) Product Roadmap
12 7 (19.44%) User Experience
13 6 (16.67%) Legal

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

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (8.33%) AWS
1 3 (8.33%) IaaS
1 3 (8.33%) PaaS
1 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (2.78%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (83.33%) Firewall
1 30 (83.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.67%) Legal
3 3 (8.33%) Electronics
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.33%) Marketing
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Military
4 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (77.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (13.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (83.33%) Android
1 30 (83.33%) Apple iOS
1 30 (83.33%) Windows
1 30 (83.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 30 (83.33%) Risk Management
2 29 (80.56%) Agile
2 29 (80.56%) Threat Intelligence
3 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 28 (77.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 28 (77.78%) DevOps
3 28 (77.78%) Security Architecture
3 28 (77.78%) Zero Trust
4 26 (72.22%) Design Patterns
5 16 (44.44%) Roadmaps
6 13 (36.11%) Microservices
7 11 (30.56%) Product Strategy
7 11 (30.56%) Strategic Roadmap
8 10 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (19.44%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (19.44%) User Experience
10 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 15 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Apple
1 5 (13.89%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) SAP