Lead Architect Jobs in the City of London

Lead Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Architect salary in the City of London is £95,000 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 135 145 215
Rank change year-on-year +10 +70 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 13 35 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 1.04% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.09% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 5
10th Percentile - £97,775 £67,000
25th Percentile £83,750 £105,000 £107,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £130,000 £200,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -35.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £104,063 £140,000 £225,000
90th Percentile £123,750 - -
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £130,000 £200,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% -35.00% +100.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,922 3,219 4,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 95.86% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 2,556 3,735
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,372
% change year-on-year - -2.52% +2.58%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the City of London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the City of London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the City of London

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

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 City of London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Mentoring
2 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) Business Strategy
2 10 (76.92%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
3 9 (69.23%) Power Platform
3 9 (69.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
3 9 (69.23%) Law
3 9 (69.23%) CRM
3 9 (69.23%) OpenEdge
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
4 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Azure
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Middleware
6 1 (7.69%) Ontologies
6 1 (7.69%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (7.69%) Microservices
6 1 (7.69%) Logical Data Model
6 1 (7.69%) Physical Data Model
6 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
6 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (7.69%) ArchiMate

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (69.23%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Vault
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 9 (69.23%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Business Strategy
1 10 (76.92%) Mentoring
2 9 (69.23%) CRM
2 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) IT Strategy
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.69%) Data Management
5 1 (7.69%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (7.69%) Master Data Management
5 1 (7.69%) Metadata Management
5 1 (7.69%) Ontologies
5 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft