Lead Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 360 378
Rank change year-on-year +104 +18 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 90 112 259
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.43% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.45% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 80 182
10th Percentile £498 £540 £550
25th Percentile £575 £643 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £740 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +13.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £800 £850 £800
90th Percentile £850 £1,000 £850
UK median daily rate £725 £740 £675
% change year-on-year -2.03% +9.63% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £53.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Lead Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Architect.

Lead Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Architect over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Lead Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Architect.

Lead Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 39 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (30.00%) Telecoms
4 24 (26.67%) Finance
5 20 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
6 19 (21.11%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (21.11%) Network Management
6 19 (21.11%) Degree
7 18 (20.00%) Agile
7 18 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
7 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
8 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
9 16 (17.78%) DevOps
10 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 14 (15.56%) CI/CD
12 13 (14.44%) SAP
12 13 (14.44%) AWS
13 12 (13.33%) Azure
13 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
14 10 (11.11%) Migration
14 10 (11.11%) Windows
15 9 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
15 9 (10.00%) Marketing
15 9 (10.00%) Manufacturing
15 9 (10.00%) Presales
16 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
16 8 (8.89%) Machine Learning
16 8 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (8.89%) Electronics
16 8 (8.89%) Programme Management

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (4.44%) IIS
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) CICS
3 1 (1.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.11%) Mule
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.44%) AWS
2 12 (13.33%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) PaaS
3 7 (7.78%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (6.67%) IaaS
4 6 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.33%) SaaS
6 3 (3.33%) Serverless
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.11%) Slack
8 1 (1.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Firewall
1 5 (5.56%) VPN
2 4 (4.44%) LAN
2 4 (4.44%) WAN
3 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.22%) Big Data
4 2 (2.22%) DB2
4 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.11%) IDMS
5 1 (1.11%) Metadata
5 1 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
5 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.11%) ERwin
2 1 (1.11%) MSI
2 1 (1.11%) Selenium
2 1 (1.11%) Vagrant
General
1 27 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 24 (26.67%) Finance
3 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 17 (18.89%) Social Skills
5 9 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.00%) Marketing
6 8 (8.89%) Electronics
7 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Advertising
9 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Legal
9 1 (1.11%) Publishing
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) Node.js
2 3 (3.33%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.33%) scikit-learn
2 3 (3.33%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.11%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.11%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.11%) Kafka
4 1 (1.11%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 1 (1.11%) Playwright
4 1 (1.11%) Spring
4 1 (1.11%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.22%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.11%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.11%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.56%) Android
3 5 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.11%) AIX
4 1 (1.11%) Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Solaris
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
2 19 (21.11%) Network Management
3 18 (20.00%) Agile
3 18 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 16 (17.78%) DevOps
5 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 14 (15.56%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.11%) Migration
8 9 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (10.00%) Presales
9 8 (8.89%) Digital Marketing
9 8 (8.89%) Machine Learning
9 8 (8.89%) Programme Management
10 7 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (7.78%) Business Case
10 7 (7.78%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (7.78%) Design Patterns
10 7 (7.78%) Security Architecture
10 7 (7.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.56%) Python
2 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.33%) Bash
4 2 (2.22%) SQL
5 1 (1.11%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.11%) C#
5 1 (1.11%) COBOL
5 1 (1.11%) Java
5 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 39 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.11%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.11%) Degree
4 8 (8.89%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.33%) CCNA
6 3 (3.33%) CCNP
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.11%) CISM
8 1 (1.11%) CISSP
8 1 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) SLA
2 4 (4.44%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 3 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (14.44%) SAP
2 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) F5
4 4 (4.44%) Pega
5 3 (3.33%) Databricks
5 3 (3.33%) IBM
5 3 (3.33%) Sparx
5 3 (3.33%) VMware
6 2 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.11%) Citrix
7 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.11%) Splunk
7 1 (1.11%) TIBCO