Lead Architect Jobs in London

Lead Architect
England > London

The median Lead Architect salary in London is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 487 627
Rank change year-on-year +57 +140 -205
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 79 149 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.43% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 53 100 186
10th Percentile £74,766 £77,250 £69,000
25th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £97,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £130,000 £117,500 £127,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £137,500 £156,250
England median annual salary £79,966 £92,169 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.24% +2.41% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +77 35 £130,000 -16.13% 11
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 28 (35.44%) Roadmaps
2 25 (31.65%) Azure
3 23 (29.11%) Agile
4 19 (24.05%) Mentoring
5 18 (22.78%) Finance
6 16 (20.25%) Thought Leadership
7 15 (18.99%) Technology Roadmap
8 14 (17.72%) Data Strategy
8 14 (17.72%) Creative Thinking
9 13 (16.46%) Product Requirements
9 13 (16.46%) Customer Requirements
10 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
11 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
12 10 (12.66%) Azure Certification
12 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (12.66%) AWS
12 10 (12.66%) Oracle
12 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
13 9 (11.39%) TOGAF
13 9 (11.39%) Product Ownership
14 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
14 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
14 8 (10.13%) IT Strategy
14 8 (10.13%) CI/CD
14 8 (10.13%) Systems Engineering
14 8 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence
14 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
14 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
14 8 (10.13%) CISSP
15 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse

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 4 (5.06%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Drupal
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.65%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) AWS
3 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.06%) OCI
3 4 (5.06%) PaaS
4 3 (3.80%) Azure API Management
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.53%) GCP
5 2 (2.53%) SaaS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.27%) IaaS
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) BGP
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
1 4 (5.06%) SD-WAN
1 4 (5.06%) SSL
1 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.06%) WAN
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.80%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.53%) Big Data
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.27%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Power BI
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.27%) Maven
1 1 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (22.78%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Local Government
6 2 (2.53%) Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Marketing
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.27%) French Language
7 1 (1.27%) German Language
7 1 (1.27%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) HTML
2 6 (7.59%) .NET
3 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.06%) CSS
4 4 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.80%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.80%) HTML5
5 3 (3.80%) Spring
5 3 (3.80%) Web Services
5 3 (3.80%) YAML
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.27%) FIXML
6 1 (1.27%) Kafka
6 1 (1.27%) Middleware
6 1 (1.27%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.59%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) Cyberattack
4 4 (5.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) PKI
6 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.44%) Roadmaps
2 23 (29.11%) Agile
3 19 (24.05%) Mentoring
4 16 (20.25%) Thought Leadership
5 15 (18.99%) Technology Roadmap
6 14 (17.72%) Creative Thinking
6 14 (17.72%) Data Strategy
7 13 (16.46%) Customer Requirements
7 13 (16.46%) Product Requirements
8 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (11.39%) TOGAF
10 8 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (10.13%) CI/CD
10 8 (10.13%) IT Strategy
10 8 (10.13%) Systems Engineering
11 7 (8.86%) Strategic Roadmap
11 7 (8.86%) Technology Strategy
12 6 (7.59%) Analytics
12 6 (7.59%) DevOps
12 6 (7.59%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.06%) C#
1 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
1 4 (5.06%) SQL
2 1 (1.27%) Java
2 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.13%) AWS Certification
3 8 (10.13%) CISSP
3 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.86%) Degree
5 4 (5.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.06%) CCSK
5 4 (5.06%) CCSP
5 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.06%) CISM
5 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) NIST
2 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
1 10 (12.66%) Oracle
2 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow
2 6 (7.59%) Unisys
3 5 (6.33%) Pega
4 4 (5.06%) Sparx
5 3 (3.80%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.27%) Reuters