Lead Architect Job Trends in Crawley

Lead Architect
West Sussex > Crawley

The median Lead Architect salary in Crawley is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Crawley 0.81% - 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% - 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £125,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 - -
75th Percentile £135,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £130,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Crawley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Crawley. 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 Crawley with a recognized job title 231 92 98
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 80.70% 98.00%
Number of salaries quoted 133 61 54
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £23,450
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £29,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +15.68% -19.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £68,750
West Sussex median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -4.55%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Crawley

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Crawley

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Crawley.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Crawley

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, Lead Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Crawley region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Weka

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NVIDIA