Lead Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Lead Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Architect salary in Birmingham is £64,600 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 115 132
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 1 29 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.069% 1.05% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 1.11% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 29 4
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile £63,150 £50,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,600 £79,842 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +10.13% +1.75%
75th Percentile £66,050 £85,000 £77,188
90th Percentile - £86,000 £81,125
West Midlands median annual salary £78,700 £78,984 £76,250
% change year-on-year -0.36% +3.59% +38.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,362 2,602 1,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 94.28% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 798 2,117 1,386
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,125 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,485 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.97% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Birmingham

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 Birmingham region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) CITP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CITP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki