Lead Architect Jobs in Wales

Lead Architect
UK > Wales

The median Lead Architect salary in Wales is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 128 132
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 15 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.74% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile - - £67,875
25th Percentile £64,750 £56,289 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,742 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.93% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £69,196 £80,313
90th Percentile - - £81,625
UK median annual salary £79,932 £92,169 £88,500
% change year-on-year -13.28% +4.15% +4.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,870 1,431 1,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 85.79% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 820 1,133
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,410 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,107 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Wales

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Wales

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
South Wales - 14 £68,750 -
West Wales +2 1 £63,823 +1.72%
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 Wales region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (26.67%) Open Source
4 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) ArchiMate
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle Database
4 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (26.67%) Kanban
4 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle
4 4 (26.67%) WebLogic

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (26.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure API Management
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) BGP
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) SSL
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Database
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (26.67%) ArchiMate
3 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Kanban
3 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
3 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Open Source
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Re-Platforming
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) SDLC
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (6.67%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
1 4 (26.67%) Sparx