Lead Architect Contracts in London

Lead Architect
England > London

The median Lead Architect daily rate in London is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 371 393
Rank change year-on-year +63 +22 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Architect 92 111 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.46% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 83 125
10th Percentile £488 £609 £569
25th Percentile £563 £700 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £743 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +6.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £791 £775 £823
90th Percentile £888 £923 £875
England median daily rate £700 £743 £700
% change year-on-year -5.79% +6.14% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +43 16 £775 +6.90% 1
West London - 8 £575 -
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 28 (30.43%) Finance
2 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 23 (25.00%) AWS
4 19 (20.65%) Agile
5 18 (19.57%) Analytics
6 17 (18.48%) Azure
7 16 (17.39%) DevOps
8 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
9 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
9 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
9 13 (14.13%) Public Sector
9 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
10 12 (13.04%) TypeScript
10 12 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.96%) C#
11 11 (11.96%) React
11 11 (11.96%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.87%) CSS
12 10 (10.87%) SQL
13 9 (9.78%) Banking
13 9 (9.78%) Migration
13 9 (9.78%) .NET
13 9 (9.78%) Data Governance
14 8 (8.70%) Pega
14 8 (8.70%) T-SQL
14 8 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
14 8 (8.70%) Presales
14 8 (8.70%) .NET Core
14 8 (8.70%) Customer Requirements

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.09%) Drupal
2 1 (1.09%) IIS
2 1 (1.09%) JBoss
2 1 (1.09%) Mule
2 1 (1.09%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) SAP BPC
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.09%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.09%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.00%) AWS
2 17 (18.48%) Azure
3 7 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (6.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 6 (6.52%) Serverless
5 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.43%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.35%) GCP
6 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.09%) IaaS
9 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.09%) SaaS
9 1 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) LAN
1 3 (3.26%) WAN
1 3 (3.26%) Wireless
2 1 (1.09%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.35%) Big Data
3 4 (4.35%) SAP BW
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.17%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.09%) DB2
6 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.09%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) MSI
2 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.09%) Vagrant
2 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 28 (30.43%) Finance
2 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.78%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Legal
6 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Front Office
7 2 (2.17%) Games
7 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.09%) Advertising
8 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) React
2 10 (10.87%) CSS
3 9 (9.78%) .NET
4 8 (8.70%) .NET Core
5 5 (5.43%) Node.js
6 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.17%) Kafka
7 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.09%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.09%) CSS3
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 1 (1.09%) Middleware
7 1 (1.09%) REST
7 1 (1.09%) SAP ALE
7 1 (1.09%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (1.09%) Spring
7 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.09%) Vue
7 1 (1.09%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.17%) Data Fabric
2 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.09%) Blog
3 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.09%) Derivative
3 1 (1.09%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.09%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 2 (2.17%) Android
2 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.09%) AIX
3 1 (1.09%) Solaris
3 1 (1.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.65%) Agile
2 18 (19.57%) Analytics
3 16 (17.39%) DevOps
4 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
4 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
5 12 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (11.96%) Roadmaps
6 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
7 9 (9.78%) Data Governance
7 9 (9.78%) Migration
8 8 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (8.70%) Presales
9 7 (7.61%) Business Case
9 7 (7.61%) LLM
10 6 (6.52%) Data Management
10 6 (6.52%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.52%) ITIL
10 6 (6.52%) Security Architecture
10 6 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
2 12 (13.04%) TypeScript
3 11 (11.96%) C#
4 10 (10.87%) SQL
5 8 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 7 (7.61%) Java
7 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.09%) ABAP
8 1 (1.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (7.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.52%) Degree
2 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) CISM
3 2 (2.17%) CISSP
3 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.09%) CITP
4 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.09%) OCP
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.09%) PhD
4 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) SLA
2 3 (3.26%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) GRC
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) NIST
3 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.17%) PingFederate
1 2 (2.17%) SCCM
2 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.09%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) Pega
3 6 (6.52%) SAP
4 5 (5.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.09%) Citrix
5 1 (1.09%) Confluent
5 1 (1.09%) F5
5 1 (1.09%) Google
5 1 (1.09%) IBM
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle
5 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.09%) TIBCO