Lead Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Architect salary in the West Midlands is £78,126 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 215 266 255
Rank change year-on-year +51 -11 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 45 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.21% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 29 7 10
10th Percentile - £59,000 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £43,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,126 £77,500 £49,150
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +57.68% -34.47%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £83,000 £85,000
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,806 6,079 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.99% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,364 4,759
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,912 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 28 £78,984 +12.83% 4
Shropshire - 5 - -
Staffordshire -17 3 - -
Walsall - 1 £77,500 -
Lead Architect
England

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

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 West Midlands region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 11 (24.44%) Pega
2 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
3 7 (15.56%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Security Architecture
4 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 6 (13.33%) Coaching
4 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (11.11%) Finance
5 5 (11.11%) Unisys
5 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.89%) Information Security
6 4 (8.89%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (8.89%) Technology Strategy
6 4 (8.89%) Business Strategy
6 4 (8.89%) IT Strategy
7 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (6.67%) Secure Coding
7 3 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
7 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 3 (6.67%) NIST
7 3 (6.67%) Application Security
7 3 (6.67%) CI/CD

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (2.22%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) AWS
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) Boomi
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 3 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) DB2
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) EDI
1 1 (2.22%) HTML
1 1 (2.22%) Visualforce
1 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.22%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
2 7 (15.56%) Security Architecture
3 6 (13.33%) Coaching
3 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (8.89%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (8.89%) Business Strategy
5 4 (8.89%) Information Security
5 4 (8.89%) IT Strategy
5 4 (8.89%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (6.67%) Agile
6 3 (6.67%) Application Security
6 3 (6.67%) Business Case
6 3 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.67%) Design Patterns
6 3 (6.67%) Identity Management
6 3 (6.67%) Microservices
6 3 (6.67%) OWASP
6 3 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 3 (6.67%) CCSK
1 3 (6.67%) CCSP
1 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (6.67%) CISM
1 3 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (4.44%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Pega
2 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 5 (11.11%) Unisys
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) IBM
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.22%) Conga
6 1 (2.22%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.22%) Guidewire