Lead Architect Contracts in the South West

Lead Architect
England > South West

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the South West is £625, 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 103 80 131
Rank change year-on-year -23 +51 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 8 78 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 2.44% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 2.61% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 31
10th Percentile £603 £525 £649
25th Percentile £606 £660 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £740
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -5.41% +9.63%
75th Percentile £713 £838 £822
90th Percentile £758 £900 £963
England median daily rate £670 £725 £740
% change year-on-year -7.59% -2.03% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +55.56% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire -5 5 £688 -11.29% 1
Bristol -9 3 £625 +733.33% 8
Lead Architect
England

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

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 South West region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Pega
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) CESG
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) CEH
4 1 (12.50%) CISMP
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CESG
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Compliance Management
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Risk and Compliance Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CEH
3 1 (12.50%) CISA
3 1 (12.50%) CISM
3 1 (12.50%) CISMP
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) ISACA
3 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Pega
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP