Lead Architect Jobs in Berkshire

Lead Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Lead Architect salary in Berkshire is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 146 180
Rank change year-on-year +23 +34 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 4 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.24% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.62% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 3
10th Percentile £61,500 - £65,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,000 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -13.33% -19.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% -12.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,339 3,080 2,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.20% 95.47% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 590 2,128 1,601
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,183 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,275 £82,500 £93,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Berkshire

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Berkshire

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Berkshire

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Reading +52 4 £85,000 +39.34% 2
Lead Architect
South East

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) French Language
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) Computacenter
3 1 (25.00%) Business Agility

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Business Agility
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Computacenter