The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Technical Architect role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Technical Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Technical Architect
Rank 832 852 855
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Technical Architect 28 35 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.029% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.030% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 22 27 10
Average salary £92,500 £77,500 £75,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.35% +3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £100,000 £91,000
UK excluding London average salary £68,750 £62,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -37.50%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Lead Technical Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Lead Technical Architect within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Technical Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Technical Architect
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Lead Technical Architect within the UK.

Lead Technical Architect Salary Trend

Lead Technical Architect
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Technical Architect over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Lead Technical Architect Salary Histogram

Lead Technical Architect
Top 20 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Technical Architect within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +2 28 £92,500 +19.35%
London +23 18 £100,000 +29.03%
Canary Wharf +6 11 £100,000 -
Yorkshire -2 4 - -
South Yorkshire - 4 - -
Sheffield - 4 - -
South East -8 2 - -
South West - 2 £60,000 -
Bristol - 2 £60,000 -
Birmingham -14 1 £85,000 +17.24%
West Midlands -22 1 £85,000 +17.24%
East of England - 1 £77,500 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £77,500 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 - -
Rickmansworth - 1 £77,500 -
Northampton - 1 - -

Lead Technical Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead Technical Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Lead Technical Architect in their job title.

1 26 (54.17%) Technical Architecture
2 23 (47.92%) Degree
3 22 (45.83%) Java
4 17 (35.42%) OO
5 16 (33.33%) C#
5 16 (33.33%) Back Office
5 16 (33.33%) Banking
6 15 (31.25%) Investment Banking
6 15 (31.25%) Stress Testing
6 15 (31.25%) Basel III
6 15 (31.25%) ETL
7 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
8 7 (14.58%) WebSphere
8 7 (14.58%) hybris
8 7 (14.58%) ATG
9 6 (12.50%) J2EE
9 6 (12.50%) Spring
10 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (10.42%) ITIL
11 4 (8.333%) PHP
11 4 (8.333%) FatWire
11 4 (8.333%) VMware
11 4 (8.333%) Fredhopper
11 4 (8.333%) Time Management
11 4 (8.333%) Endeca
12 3 (6.250%) Retail
12 3 (6.250%) Blue Martini
12 3 (6.250%) SCOM
12 3 (6.250%) Spring Integration
12 3 (6.250%) Active Directory

Lead Technical Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead Technical Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Lead Technical Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (14.58%) WebSphere
2 6 (12.50%) J2EE
2 6 (12.50%) Spring
3 3 (6.250%) Spring Integration
3 3 (6.250%) Web Services
4 2 (4.167%) JDBC
4 2 (4.167%) Servlets
4 2 (4.167%) Struts
5 1 (2.083%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.083%) HTML
5 1 (2.083%) .NET
5 1 (2.083%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.083%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.167%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.167%) MS Exchange
1 2 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.083%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (2.083%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.083%) Wireless
1 1 (2.083%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
General
1 16 (33.33%) Back Office
1 16 (33.33%) Banking
2 15 (31.25%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.250%) Retail
4 2 (4.167%) Front Office
4 2 (4.167%) Finance
5 1 (2.083%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.167%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.083%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.083%) Video on Demand
3 1 (2.083%) SaaS
3 1 (2.083%) Social Media
3 1 (2.083%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.083%) Clustering
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.083%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.083%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.083%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.083%) Windows Vista
1 1 (2.083%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Technical Architecture
2 17 (35.42%) OO
3 15 (31.25%) Stress Testing
3 15 (31.25%) ETL
4 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
5 5 (10.42%) ITIL
6 4 (8.333%) Time Management
7 3 (6.250%) PRINCE2
8 2 (4.167%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.167%) Business Analysis
8 2 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (2.083%) TDD
9 1 (2.083%) Asset Management
9 1 (2.083%) TOGAF
9 1 (2.083%) Network Design
9 1 (2.083%) Release Management
9 1 (2.083%) Enterprise Architecture
9 1 (2.083%) Load Balancing
9 1 (2.083%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (2.083%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Java
2 16 (33.33%) C#
3 4 (8.333%) PHP
4 1 (2.083%) C++/CLI
4 1 (2.083%) C++
4 1 (2.083%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.167%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.083%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.083%) HP AIS
3 1 (2.083%) HP ASE
3 1 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.083%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.083%) CCNA
3 1 (2.083%) MCSE
3 1 (2.083%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.25%) Basel III
2 2 (4.167%) SLA
2 2 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.250%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.083%) Xen
3 1 (2.083%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (6.250%) SCOM
2 1 (2.083%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) hybris
1 7 (14.58%) ATG
2 4 (8.333%) FatWire
2 4 (8.333%) VMware
2 4 (8.333%) Fredhopper
2 4 (8.333%) Endeca
3 3 (6.250%) Blue Martini
3 3 (6.250%) HP
3 3 (6.250%) Cisco
4 2 (4.167%) IBM
4 2 (4.167%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.167%) Citrix
4 2 (4.167%) NetApp
5 1 (2.083%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.083%) Sybase
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Main duties will include: Responsibility for analysing and documenting the entire technical landscape of all systems and applications, logical and physical; Responsible for defining budgetary costs for all...
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Key Skills: -Extensive knowledge (5+ years) of Microsoft Dynamics AX. -X++ & MorphX. -Experience of N-Tier architectures. -Strong experience using C# -Experience of T-SQL including stored procedures...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £700 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Key Skills: -Extensive knowledge (5+ years) of Microsoft Dynamics AX. -X++ & MorphX. -Experience of N-Tier architectures. -Strong experience using C# -Experience of T-SQL including stored procedures...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013