Lead Architect Jobs in Bristol

Lead Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Architect salary in Bristol is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 145 162
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 5 13 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.41% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.43% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £95,500 - -
25th Percentile - £63,117 £64,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £64,059 £69,503
Median % change year-on-year +56.11% -7.83% -2.98%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £78,514
90th Percentile £127,150 £100,000 £86,906
South West median annual salary £100,000 £96,250 £79,903
% change year-on-year +3.90% +20.46% +11.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,151 3,055 2,400
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 97.11% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 775 2,291 1,497
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,569
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +8.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,500 £87,500 £87,451
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Bristol

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Bristol

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 Bristol region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) Data Stewardship
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Power BI
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) MBA
4 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Collibra
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) Data Science
1 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Microservices
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MBA
1 1 (20.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica