Lead Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 347 386
Rank change year-on-year +97 +39 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 149 90 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 68 95
10th Percentile £516 £555 £503
25th Percentile £615 £644 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £850 £831 £800
90th Percentile £868 £991 £850
UK median daily rate £700 £743 £688
% change year-on-year -5.79% +8.07% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £45.75 -
90th Percentile - £52.20 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -46.97% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South West +51 81 £670 -7.59% 3
North of England +44 37 £850 +6.25% 13
North West +46 34 £850 +20.91% 5
South East +11 12 £750 +15.38% 3
Midlands +26 11 £750 +18.81% 6
West Midlands +20 9 £750 -6.25% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £563 -
Scotland +38 3 £650 -22.39%
Yorkshire +18 3 £645 -24.12% 3
East of England +15 3 £850 +70.00% 2
East Midlands +17 2 £534 -11.96% 3
Lead Architect
UK

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 21 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 103 (69.13%) Security Cleared
2 83 (55.70%) SC Cleared
3 51 (34.23%) Strategic Thinking
4 35 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (23.49%) Agile
5 34 (22.82%) Zero Trust
6 32 (21.48%) Risk Management
6 32 (21.48%) Telecoms
7 30 (20.13%) Firewall
7 30 (20.13%) Windows
7 30 (20.13%) VPN
7 30 (20.13%) Android
7 30 (20.13%) Security Architecture
7 30 (20.13%) Threat Intelligence
7 30 (20.13%) Windows Server
7 30 (20.13%) Apple iOS
7 30 (20.13%) Mobile Device Management
8 28 (18.79%) Node.js
8 28 (18.79%) DevOps
8 28 (18.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 28 (18.79%) CI/CD
9 27 (18.12%) Design Patterns
9 27 (18.12%) Identity Access Management
9 27 (18.12%) Public Cloud
9 27 (18.12%) Network Management
10 26 (17.45%) Project Management
11 25 (16.78%) JSP 440
11 25 (16.78%) Public Sector
11 25 (16.78%) Digital Identity
12 24 (16.11%) Degree

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.34%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.67%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.68%) Azure
2 3 (2.01%) AWS
3 2 (1.34%) GCP
4 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.67%) OCI
4 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.67%) SaaS
4 1 (0.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (0.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.13%) Firewall
1 30 (20.13%) VPN
2 7 (4.70%) LAN
2 7 (4.70%) WAN
3 4 (2.68%) Unified Communications
3 4 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.34%) BGP
4 2 (1.34%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.34%) IPsec
4 2 (1.34%) Junos
4 2 (1.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.67%) Metadata
1 1 (0.67%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (0.67%) Power BI
1 1 (0.67%) Redis
1 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.01%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.67%) ERwin
2 1 (0.67%) Selenium
2 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (21.48%) Telecoms
2 25 (16.78%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.41%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.74%) Finance
5 15 (10.07%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.03%) Electronics
6 6 (4.03%) Legal
6 6 (4.03%) Marketing
7 4 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Banking
8 2 (1.34%) French Language
8 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Law
9 1 (0.67%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.79%) Node.js
2 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.67%) Kafka
3 1 (0.67%) Next.js
3 1 (0.67%) Playwright
3 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.12%) Public Cloud
2 22 (14.77%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.37%) CESG
5 5 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.36%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.34%) NHS
6 2 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.67%) FMCG
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.67%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.13%) Android
1 30 (20.13%) Apple iOS
1 30 (20.13%) Windows
1 30 (20.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.23%) Strategic Thinking
2 35 (23.49%) Agile
2 35 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (22.82%) Zero Trust
4 32 (21.48%) Risk Management
5 30 (20.13%) Mobile Device Management
5 30 (20.13%) Security Architecture
5 30 (20.13%) Threat Intelligence
6 28 (18.79%) CI/CD
6 28 (18.79%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 28 (18.79%) DevOps
7 27 (18.12%) Design Patterns
7 27 (18.12%) Identity Access Management
7 27 (18.12%) Network Management
8 26 (17.45%) Project Management
9 25 (16.78%) Digital Identity
10 21 (14.09%) Systems Engineering
11 19 (12.75%) Roadmaps
12 14 (9.40%) Microservices
13 13 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.67%) Java
1 1 (0.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 103 (69.13%) Security Cleared
2 83 (55.70%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.11%) Degree
4 14 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.37%) CEH
5 8 (5.37%) CISA
5 8 (5.37%) CISM
5 8 (5.37%) CISMP
5 8 (5.37%) CISSP
5 8 (5.37%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (5.37%) ISACA
5 8 (5.37%) SSCP
6 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) CCNA
7 1 (0.67%) CCNP
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.67%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.78%) JSP 440
2 9 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (6.04%) PCI DSS
3 8 (5.37%) GDPR
3 8 (5.37%) HIPAA
3 8 (5.37%) NIST
4 2 (1.34%) GRC
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.67%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.34%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (6.04%) SAP
2 6 (4.03%) Google
3 5 (3.36%) Apple
4 3 (2.01%) VMware
5 2 (1.34%) Cisco
5 2 (1.34%) Juniper
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle
5 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.67%) Brio
6 1 (0.67%) Databricks
6 1 (0.67%) IBM
6 1 (0.67%) Infor
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow