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 £688 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 264 342 376
Rank change year-on-year +78 +34 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 81 116 256
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.50% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 84 179
10th Percentile £486 £543 £550
25th Percentile £562 £635 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £743 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.47% +10.07% +8.00%
75th Percentile £841 £831 £800
90th Percentile £883 £1,000 £851
UK median daily rate £700 £743 £688
% change year-on-year -5.79% +8.07% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 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 13,749 23,373 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.31% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 16,533 30,788
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 596
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.46 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.48
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.77 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.35 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

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 21 May 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 36 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 34 (41.98%) SC Cleared
3 24 (29.63%) Telecoms
4 23 (28.40%) Strategic Thinking
5 22 (27.16%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (27.16%) Network Management
5 22 (27.16%) Degree
6 21 (25.93%) Systems Engineering
7 19 (23.46%) Finance
8 18 (22.22%) Agile
9 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
9 17 (20.99%) DevOps
10 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
11 10 (12.35%) Azure
12 9 (11.11%) Migration
12 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
12 9 (11.11%) Presales
13 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
13 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
13 8 (9.88%) AWS
13 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
14 7 (8.64%) Security Architecture
14 7 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (8.64%) Windows
14 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (8.64%) Business Case
14 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
14 7 (8.64%) Customer Requirements
14 7 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
15 6 (7.41%) Zero Trust

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 (1.23%) IIS
1 1 (1.23%) JBoss
1 1 (1.23%) Mule
1 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.35%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) AWS
3 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (4.94%) Serverless
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.70%) SaaS
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.23%) OCI
7 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.23%) Slack
7 1 (1.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Firewall
1 5 (6.17%) VPN
2 3 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) LAN
3 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
3 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.47%) Big Data
3 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.23%) DB2
4 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) Metadata
4 1 (1.23%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.23%) Power BI
4 1 (1.23%) Redis
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.23%) ERwin
2 1 (1.23%) MSI
2 1 (1.23%) Selenium
2 1 (1.23%) Vagrant
2 1 (1.23%) webpack
General
1 24 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 19 (23.46%) Finance
3 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Banking
6 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (2.47%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Advertising
8 1 (1.23%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.23%) Publishing
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Node.js
2 3 (3.70%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.70%) scikit-learn
2 3 (3.70%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.23%) CSS
3 1 (1.23%) CSS3
3 1 (1.23%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.23%) HTML
3 1 (1.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
3 1 (1.23%) Playwright
3 1 (1.23%) React
3 1 (1.23%) Spring
3 1 (1.23%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.16%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.47%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.23%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Android
2 5 (6.17%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.23%) AIX
3 1 (1.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Solaris
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.40%) Strategic Thinking
2 22 (27.16%) Network Management
3 21 (25.93%) Systems Engineering
4 18 (22.22%) Agile
5 17 (20.99%) DevOps
6 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.11%) Migration
7 9 (11.11%) Presales
8 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
9 7 (8.64%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (8.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (8.64%) Business Case
9 7 (8.64%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (8.64%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.64%) Security Architecture
10 6 (7.41%) Data Management
10 6 (7.41%) Data Migration
10 6 (7.41%) Risk Management
10 6 (7.41%) Roadmaps
10 6 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.47%) Python
1 2 (2.47%) SQL
2 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.23%) C#
2 1 (1.23%) Java
2 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 34 (41.98%) SC Cleared
3 22 (27.16%) Degree
4 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) OCP
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) SLA
2 4 (4.94%) NCSC
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Docker
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.23%) Terraform
1 1 (1.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Oracle
3 4 (4.94%) Pega
4 3 (3.70%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) Google
4 3 (3.70%) SAP
4 3 (3.70%) Sparx
5 2 (2.47%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.23%) Citrix
6 1 (1.23%) F5
6 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.23%) TIBCO