Lead Architect Contracts

Lead Architect
UK

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 497 458
Rank change year-on-year +154 -39 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 256 213 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.39% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 153 278
10th Percentile £521 £600 £550
25th Percentile £600 £657 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £743 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +10.07% +3.85%
75th Percentile £850 £800 £788
90th Percentile £875 £973 £866
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +100.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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
England +160 236 £725 -2.03% 51
UK excluding London +116 149 £750 +7.14% 24
London +80 87 £675 -9.15% 25
Work from Home +84 82 £700 -5.60% 28
South West +49 79 £700 -3.45% 2
North of England +40 36 £850 +6.25% 10
North West +46 33 £850 +25.93% 4
South East +14 13 £688 +3.77% 3
Midlands +29 11 £659 +4.32% 7
West Midlands +27 9 £750 -6.25% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 £563 -
Scotland +34 3 £650 -18.75% 1
Yorkshire +18 3 £645 -24.12% 3
East of England +15 3 £850 +70.00% 1
East Midlands +17 2 £534 -11.96% 3

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 127 (49.61%) Security Cleared
2 106 (41.41%) SC Cleared
3 52 (20.31%) Strategic Thinking
4 50 (19.53%) Agile
5 49 (19.14%) Finance
6 46 (17.97%) Public Sector
6 46 (17.97%) CI/CD
7 44 (17.19%) DevOps
8 42 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (15.63%) Windows
10 39 (15.23%) AWS
11 38 (14.84%) Security Architecture
12 37 (14.45%) Zero Trust
13 36 (14.06%) Social Skills
13 36 (14.06%) Risk Management
14 35 (13.67%) Firewall
14 35 (13.67%) VPN
14 35 (13.67%) Apple iOS
14 35 (13.67%) Node.js
14 35 (13.67%) Android
15 34 (13.28%) Mobile Device Management
15 34 (13.28%) Windows Server
15 34 (13.28%) Roadmaps
15 34 (13.28%) Telecoms
16 31 (12.11%) Project Management
16 31 (12.11%) Threat Intelligence
17 30 (11.72%) Identity Access Management
18 29 (11.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
18 29 (11.33%) Design Patterns
19 28 (10.94%) Public Cloud

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.17%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) Mule
5 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG-S
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.23%) AWS
2 23 (8.98%) Azure
3 11 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.13%) Serverless
5 7 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
5 7 (2.73%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.34%) GCP
7 5 (1.95%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.95%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.17%) IaaS
9 3 (1.17%) SaaS
9 3 (1.17%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.67%) Firewall
1 35 (13.67%) VPN
2 11 (4.30%) LAN
2 11 (4.30%) WAN
3 5 (1.95%) Network Security
4 4 (1.56%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.56%) Wireless
5 3 (1.17%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.78%) IPsec
6 2 (0.78%) Junos
6 2 (0.78%) MPLS
7 1 (0.39%) CATAPAN
7 1 (0.39%) IPv4
7 1 (0.39%) IPv6
7 1 (0.39%) OSPF
7 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 7 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.56%) Big Data
5 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.17%) Flink
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.78%) DB2
6 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.39%) Metadata
7 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.39%) Power BI
7 1 (0.39%) Redis
7 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.56%) JIRA
3 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.78%) Selenium
3 2 (0.78%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.39%) Appium
4 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.39%) ERwin
4 1 (0.39%) MSI
4 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 49 (19.14%) Finance
2 46 (17.97%) Public Sector
3 36 (14.06%) Social Skills
4 34 (13.28%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.03%) Manufacturing
6 13 (5.08%) Legal
7 10 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.91%) Banking
7 10 (3.91%) Marketing
8 8 (3.13%) Electronics
9 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) French Language
11 2 (0.78%) Front Office
11 2 (0.78%) Games
11 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.67%) Node.js
2 9 (3.52%) React
3 8 (3.13%) .NET
3 8 (3.13%) CSS
4 7 (2.73%) .NET Core
5 6 (2.34%) Kafka
6 3 (1.17%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.17%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.17%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.78%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.78%) Playwright
7 2 (0.78%) Spring
8 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.39%) LDAP
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 1 (0.39%) SAP ALE
8 1 (0.39%) SAP Business Workflow
8 1 (0.39%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.39%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.94%) Public Cloud
2 22 (8.59%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.13%) CESG
5 7 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) NHS
9 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.39%) Derivative
10 1 (0.39%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.39%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.63%) Windows
2 35 (13.67%) Android
2 35 (13.67%) Apple iOS
3 34 (13.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.17%) Linux
4 3 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.78%) AIX
5 2 (0.78%) Solaris
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.31%) Strategic Thinking
2 50 (19.53%) Agile
3 46 (17.97%) CI/CD
4 44 (17.19%) DevOps
5 42 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (14.84%) Security Architecture
7 37 (14.45%) Zero Trust
8 36 (14.06%) Risk Management
9 34 (13.28%) Mobile Device Management
9 34 (13.28%) Roadmaps
10 31 (12.11%) Project Management
10 31 (12.11%) Threat Intelligence
11 30 (11.72%) Identity Access Management
12 29 (11.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 29 (11.33%) Design Patterns
13 27 (10.55%) Network Management
14 25 (9.77%) Digital Identity
15 21 (8.20%) Systems Engineering
16 20 (7.81%) Microservices
17 18 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.08%) JavaScript
2 12 (4.69%) SQL
3 11 (4.30%) TypeScript
4 10 (3.91%) C#
5 9 (3.52%) Java
6 7 (2.73%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.95%) Python
8 3 (1.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) ABAP
9 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 127 (49.61%) Security Cleared
2 106 (41.41%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.94%) Degree
4 21 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.91%) CISM
5 10 (3.91%) CISSP
6 8 (3.13%) CEH
6 8 (3.13%) CISA
6 8 (3.13%) CISMP
6 8 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 8 (3.13%) ISACA
6 8 (3.13%) SSCP
7 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.78%) CCNP
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.78%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.39%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.77%) JSP 440
2 10 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.52%) NIST
3 9 (3.52%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.13%) GDPR
4 8 (3.13%) HIPAA
5 7 (2.73%) SLA
6 4 (1.56%) NCSC
6 4 (1.56%) QA
7 3 (1.17%) GRC
8 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.56%) Terraform
2 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.78%) PingFederate
3 2 (0.78%) SCCM
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.08%) SAP
3 7 (2.73%) Google
3 7 (2.73%) Oracle
3 7 (2.73%) Pega
4 6 (2.34%) Databricks
5 5 (1.95%) Apple
6 3 (1.17%) Cisco
6 3 (1.17%) IBM
6 3 (1.17%) Juniper
6 3 (1.17%) Sparx
6 3 (1.17%) VMware
7 2 (0.78%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.78%) F5
7 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) Brio
8 1 (0.39%) Citrix
8 1 (0.39%) Infor
8 1 (0.39%) Informatica
8 1 (0.39%) TIBCO