Lead Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Lead Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Architect salary in Birmingham is £78,984 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 134 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +51 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 28 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.03% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.09% 0.22% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 28 4 7
10th Percentile - £56,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,984 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £81,125 -
West Midlands median annual salary £78,126 £76,250 £53,750
% change year-on-year +2.46% +41.86% -28.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,570 1,859 2,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 93.51% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,097 1,426 2,307
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.80%
75th Percentile £69,914 £71,250 £70,375
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Birmingham

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Birmingham

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Lead Architect 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 permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 6 (21.43%) Coaching
3 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (17.86%) Finance
5 4 (14.29%) Information Security
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 4 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (10.71%) NIST
6 3 (10.71%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (10.71%) Business Case
6 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
6 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Application Security
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) CCSK
6 3 (10.71%) CCSP
6 3 (10.71%) CISSP

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Boomi
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) DB2
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) EDI
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) Visualforce
1 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 7 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (21.43%) Coaching
3 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 4 (14.29%) Information Security
5 4 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 4 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (10.71%) Application Security
6 3 (10.71%) Business Case
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Design Patterns
6 3 (10.71%) ERP
6 3 (10.71%) Identity Management
6 3 (10.71%) OWASP
6 3 (10.71%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (10.71%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.71%) CCSK
1 3 (10.71%) CCSP
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.71%) CISM
1 3 (10.71%) CISSP
2 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Conga
3 1 (3.57%) DocuSign
3 1 (3.57%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce