Lead Architect Jobs in the North West

Lead Architect
England > North West

The median Lead Architect salary in the North West is £79,842 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 278 308
Rank change year-on-year +35 +30 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 48 20 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.49% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 37 11 17
10th Percentile £59,870 £64,850 -
25th Percentile £72,493 £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 £113,750 £76,520
90th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 -
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
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 9,207 7,117 9,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 89.21% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,087 4,116 5,478
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the North West.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Manchester +32 24 £79,842 -11.29% 3
Lancashire - 15 £79,932 - 1
Merseyside +13 6 £55,000 -52.17%
Cheshire - 3 - -
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 26 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 North West region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 28 (58.33%) Azure
2 27 (56.25%) AWS
3 19 (39.58%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (35.42%) AWS Certification
4 17 (35.42%) Azure Certification
5 15 (31.25%) Roadmaps
5 15 (31.25%) Oracle
6 14 (29.17%) Public Cloud
6 14 (29.17%) Relational Database
7 12 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (25.00%) Coaching
7 12 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
9 10 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (20.83%) Finance
10 9 (18.75%) CISM
10 9 (18.75%) Identity Management
10 9 (18.75%) Management Information System
10 9 (18.75%) ERP
10 9 (18.75%) WAN
10 9 (18.75%) CCSP
10 9 (18.75%) CISSP
10 9 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (18.75%) Information Security
10 9 (18.75%) Agile
10 9 (18.75%) Security Architecture
10 9 (18.75%) OWASP
10 9 (18.75%) Application Security
10 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
10 9 (18.75%) CCSK

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (16.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (6.25%) SAP IBP
2 3 (6.25%) SAP PP
2 3 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) Azure
2 27 (56.25%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (14.58%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) OCI
5 1 (2.08%) PaaS
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) SD-WAN
1 9 (18.75%) WAN
2 8 (16.67%) BGP
2 8 (16.67%) DNS
2 8 (16.67%) SSL
2 8 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) Relational Database
2 8 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 8 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 6 (12.50%) DB2
3 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.25%) SAP TM
3 2 (4.17%) EDI
4 1 (2.08%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (29.17%) Public Cloud
3 9 (18.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (18.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.25%) FMCG
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
1 8 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Roadmaps
2 12 (25.00%) Coaching
2 12 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 12 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 10 (20.83%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (18.75%) Agile
4 9 (18.75%) Application Security
4 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 9 (18.75%) ERP
4 9 (18.75%) Identity Management
4 9 (18.75%) Information Security
4 9 (18.75%) OWASP
4 9 (18.75%) Secure Coding
4 9 (18.75%) Security Architecture
5 8 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 8 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
5 8 (16.67%) SDLC
5 8 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) AWS Certification
1 17 (35.42%) Azure Certification
2 9 (18.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 9 (18.75%) CCSK
2 9 (18.75%) CCSP
2 9 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.75%) CISM
2 9 (18.75%) CISSP
3 8 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 9 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Oracle
2 8 (16.67%) Sparx
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.50%) Google
4 6 (12.50%) IBM
5 3 (6.25%) SAP