Lead Architect Jobs in Central London

Lead Architect
London > Central London

The median Lead Architect salary in Central London is £121,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 157 221
Rank change year-on-year -4 +64 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 4 32 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.17% 0.84% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.88% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 6
10th Percentile £95,500 £85,650 £73,750
25th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £111,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £121,250 £130,000 £162,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -20.00% +62.50%
75th Percentile £123,750 £140,000 £225,000
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £111,250 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,198 3,622 4,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 95.37% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 2,738 3,927
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,813 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,625 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
City of London +14 3 £122,500 -5.77% 5
Lead Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 Central London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware