Lead Architect Contracts in the South East

Lead Architect
England > South East

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the South East is £688 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 187 197 233
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 17 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.47% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 18
10th Percentile £438 £500 £482
25th Percentile £550 £505 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £663 £594
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +11.58% -1.04%
75th Percentile £791 £800 £713
90th Percentile £819 £1,100 £800
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 - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,161 5,536 7,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.33% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,107 3,852 5,076
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £390 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 243 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.30 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.30
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +9 12 £688 +37.50% 1
Berkshire -8 10 £500 -
Hampshire +2 5 - -
Buckinghamshire +29 1 £750 +16.28% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £825 -
Lead Architect
England

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

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 South East region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Presales
3 4 (23.53%) Service Design
3 4 (23.53%) CATAPAN
3 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (23.53%) JNCIS
3 4 (23.53%) VLAN
3 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
3 4 (23.53%) Service Management
3 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 4 (23.53%) VPN
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco
3 4 (23.53%) IPv4
3 4 (23.53%) IPv6
3 4 (23.53%) CCNP
3 4 (23.53%) CCDP
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (23.53%) Juniper
3 4 (23.53%) OSPF
3 4 (23.53%) BGP
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) SIAM
4 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) LAN
5 2 (11.76%) WAN
5 2 (11.76%) DAB

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) BGP
1 4 (23.53%) CATAPAN
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) IPv4
1 4 (23.53%) IPv6
1 4 (23.53%) OSPF
1 4 (23.53%) VLAN
1 4 (23.53%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) DAB
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.88%) Selenium
1 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.88%) Next.js
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Presales
2 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (23.53%) Service Design
2 4 (23.53%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) IT Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) SIAM
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Traceability Matrix
5 1 (5.88%) Data Design
5 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.88%) Fintech
5 1 (5.88%) Microservices
5 1 (5.88%) Prototyping
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architecture
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) CCDP
2 4 (23.53%) CCNP
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) JNCIS
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco
1 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
1 4 (23.53%) Juniper
2 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft