Lead Architect Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Lead Architect
South East > Surrey

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Surrey is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 September 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
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £638 £375 £700
% change year-on-year +70.00% -46.43% +7.69%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 325 515 716
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.87% 93.13% 97.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 364 580
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £625 £675 £739
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 22
10th Percentile £22.28 £15.96 £17.17
25th Percentile £26.58 £30.00 £34.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £48.95
Median % change year-on-year - +12.37% +8.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £61.22
90th Percentile - £76.86 £66.91
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +111.01%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Surrey

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Surrey

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 6 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 7 September 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 Surrey region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management