Lead Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 264 321
Rank change year-on-year -23 +57 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 28 77 109
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.62% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 72
10th Percentile £563 £506 £564
25th Percentile £603 £621 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £742
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -5.60% +5.93%
75th Percentile £727 £841 £756
90th Percentile £1,074 £868 £950
UK median daily rate £723 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +3.21% -3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 23 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 £67.50 £53.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £98.56 £72.50 £56.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% +100.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,509 12,350 21,193
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.55% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,318 8,294 14,941
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 385 506
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.84 £24.81
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.81 £75.00 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Lead Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Lead Architect over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

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 remote working options 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 4 August 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (35.71%) Azure
5 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 7 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
7 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
8 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.86%) Finance
8 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 4 (14.29%) Network Design
9 4 (14.29%) Microservices
9 4 (14.29%) GCP
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
10 3 (10.71%) Terraform
10 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
10 3 (10.71%) Technology Roadmap
10 3 (10.71%) Strategic Roadmap
10 3 (10.71%) Architectural Patterns
10 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
10 3 (10.71%) Open Source
10 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) BGP
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (7.14%) EIGRP
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) LAN
1 2 (7.14%) OSPF
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Broadband
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Back Office
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
1 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.29%) Microservices
4 4 (14.29%) Network Design
4 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.71%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
5 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
5 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (10.71%) Open Source
5 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.71%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (10.71%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (7.14%) Architectural Design
6 2 (7.14%) Business Strategy
6 2 (7.14%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
1 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.57%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) AirWatch
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) CheckPoint
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco
2 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
2 2 (7.14%) Juniper
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
2 2 (7.14%) Pega
2 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.57%) Refinitiv