Lead Architect Jobs in Manchester

Lead Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Architect salary in Manchester is £79,842 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 222 235
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 24 21 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.47% 0.42% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.46% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 18
10th Percentile £62,305 £64,850 -
25th Percentile £71,702 £65,758 £52,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £90,000 £71,640
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +25.63% -2.53%
75th Percentile £84,964 £112,500 £76,520
90th Percentile £86,000 £115,000 -
North West median annual salary £79,842 £90,000 £71,640
% change year-on-year -11.29% +25.63% -0.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 4,853 4,545 5,496
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.58% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 2,666 3,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,017 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 2 £55,000 -
Lead Architect
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Manchester region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) AWS
3 9 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 9 (37.50%) Azure Certification
4 8 (33.33%) Oracle
5 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
5 7 (29.17%) Public Cloud
6 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Coaching
7 5 (20.83%) OWASP
7 5 (20.83%) Security Architecture
7 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
7 5 (20.83%) Docker
7 5 (20.83%) WAN
7 5 (20.83%) CCSP
7 5 (20.83%) CISSP
7 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (20.83%) CISM
7 5 (20.83%) Identity Management
7 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
7 5 (20.83%) Information Security
7 5 (20.83%) Agile
7 5 (20.83%) NIST
7 5 (20.83%) SD-WAN
7 5 (20.83%) Application Security
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (16.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) OCI
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SD-WAN
1 5 (20.83%) WAN
2 4 (16.67%) BGP
2 4 (16.67%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) SSL
2 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (12.50%) DB2
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (29.17%) Public Cloud
3 5 (20.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Coaching
1 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (20.83%) Agile
2 5 (20.83%) Application Security
2 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
2 5 (20.83%) Identity Management
2 5 (20.83%) Information Security
2 5 (20.83%) OWASP
2 5 (20.83%) Secure Coding
2 5 (20.83%) Security Architecture
3 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (16.67%) Kanban
3 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 4 (16.67%) Migration
3 4 (16.67%) Open Source
3 4 (16.67%) Scrum
3 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 9 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 5 (20.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 5 (20.83%) CCSK
2 5 (20.83%) CCSP
2 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.83%) CISM
2 5 (20.83%) CISSP
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Sparx
3 3 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) IBM