Lead Architect Jobs in England

Lead Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 672 728
Rank change year-on-year +158 +56 -162
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 343 261 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.31% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 249 159 279
10th Percentile £63,117 £70,400 £56,374
25th Percentile £72,493 £77,500 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £92,169 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +2.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £139,500
UK median annual salary £79,932 £92,169 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.28% +2.41% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
North of England +114 121 £79,932 -15.86% 7
London +58 80 £110,000 +12.82% 26
Midlands +56 55 £78,126 -2.34% 6
Yorkshire +125 53 £79,932 -20.07% 3
North West +37 48 £79,842 -11.29% 3
West Midlands +48 45 £78,126 +2.46% 4
South East +25 43 £70,000 -12.50% 4
South West +10 40 £96,250 +37.88% 3
North East +15 20 £79,932 -18.02% 1
East Midlands -6 9 £66,250 -17.19% 2
East of England +18 2 £100,000 +5.26% 4
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 119 (34.69%) Azure
2 91 (26.53%) AWS
2 91 (26.53%) Roadmaps
3 77 (22.45%) Finance
4 76 (22.16%) Agile
5 62 (18.08%) Security Cleared
6 59 (17.20%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (17.20%) Mentoring
7 58 (16.91%) Azure Certification
8 57 (16.62%) Social Skills
8 57 (16.62%) AWS Certification
9 55 (16.03%) Public Cloud
10 54 (15.74%) Oracle
11 53 (15.45%) Decision-Making
12 51 (14.87%) Relational Database
13 49 (14.29%) Coaching
14 45 (13.12%) Microsoft
15 41 (11.95%) TOGAF
15 41 (11.95%) Enterprise Architecture
16 40 (11.66%) SC Cleared
17 39 (11.37%) Security Architecture
17 39 (11.37%) Migration
17 39 (11.37%) SDLC
17 39 (11.37%) IT Strategy
18 37 (10.79%) CISSP
19 36 (10.50%) SQL
19 36 (10.50%) Application Security
20 35 (10.20%) Public Sector
20 35 (10.20%) Systems Engineering
21 34 (9.91%) NIST

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (8.16%) WebLogic
2 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) Apache
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.29%) Appian
3 1 (0.29%) Drupal
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 28 (8.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.17%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.87%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.29%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 119 (34.69%) Azure
2 91 (26.53%) AWS
3 29 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (8.16%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (6.41%) GCP
6 7 (2.04%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.46%) Azure Stack
7 5 (1.46%) OCI
7 5 (1.46%) PaaS
7 5 (1.46%) SaaS
7 5 (1.46%) Serverless
8 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.17%) Matillion
8 4 (1.17%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.87%) Azure API Management
9 3 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.75%) BGP
1 30 (8.75%) DNS
1 30 (8.75%) TCP/IP
2 28 (8.16%) SSL
3 27 (7.87%) SD-WAN
3 27 (7.87%) WAN
4 9 (2.62%) CTI
5 7 (2.04%) Network Security
6 3 (0.87%) Broadband
6 3 (0.87%) Internet
7 2 (0.58%) CATAPAN
7 2 (0.58%) DAB
7 2 (0.58%) DHCP
7 2 (0.58%) Firewall
7 2 (0.58%) HTTP
7 2 (0.58%) IPv4
7 2 (0.58%) IPv6
7 2 (0.58%) OSPF
7 2 (0.58%) VLAN
8 1 (0.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.87%) Relational Database
2 28 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.16%) Oracle Database
2 28 (8.16%) RDBMS
3 21 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.54%) DB2
5 10 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.46%) Power BI
8 4 (1.17%) Metadata
9 3 (0.87%) Big Data
9 3 (0.87%) QualityStage
10 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.29%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.29%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.92%) Team Foundation Server
1 10 (2.92%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.62%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 77 (22.45%) Finance
2 57 (16.62%) Social Skills
3 35 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
5 20 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.83%) Legal
6 13 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.50%) Law
8 10 (2.92%) Marketing
9 9 (2.62%) Police
10 8 (2.33%) Automotive
11 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.75%) Banking
12 6 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.46%) Billing
13 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.17%) Local Government
14 4 (1.17%) Wearables
15 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.45%) Spring Boot
2 28 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
3 19 (5.54%) .NET
4 10 (2.92%) HTML
5 4 (1.17%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.17%) CSS
5 4 (1.17%) Web Services
6 3 (0.87%) EDI
6 3 (0.87%) HTML5
6 3 (0.87%) SAP TM
6 3 (0.87%) Spring
6 3 (0.87%) YAML
7 2 (0.58%) Kafka
7 2 (0.58%) OpenID
7 2 (0.58%) SAML
8 1 (0.29%) Middleware
8 1 (0.29%) SAP XI
8 1 (0.29%) SOAP
8 1 (0.29%) XBRL
8 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.20%) Enterprise Software
2 55 (16.03%) Public Cloud
3 32 (9.33%) Management Information System
4 27 (7.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 14 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.33%) IoT
7 7 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.75%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.75%) Robotics
9 5 (1.46%) Replication
10 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.87%) FMCG
11 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.58%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.29%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.29%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.45%) Linux
2 28 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (26.53%) Roadmaps
2 76 (22.16%) Agile
3 59 (17.20%) Mentoring
4 53 (15.45%) Decision-Making
5 49 (14.29%) Coaching
6 41 (11.95%) Enterprise Architecture
6 41 (11.95%) TOGAF
7 39 (11.37%) IT Strategy
7 39 (11.37%) Migration
7 39 (11.37%) SDLC
7 39 (11.37%) Security Architecture
8 36 (10.50%) Application Security
9 35 (10.20%) Systems Engineering
10 34 (9.91%) Information Security
10 34 (9.91%) Scrum
11 33 (9.62%) OWASP
11 33 (9.62%) Project Management
12 31 (9.04%) CI/CD
12 31 (9.04%) Collaborative Working
12 31 (9.04%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.50%) SQL
2 16 (4.66%) C#
3 11 (3.21%) Java
4 10 (2.92%) Python
5 7 (2.04%) Scala
6 6 (1.75%) C
6 6 (1.75%) R
7 5 (1.46%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.58%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) ABAP
10 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (18.08%) Security Cleared
2 58 (16.91%) Azure Certification
3 57 (16.62%) AWS Certification
4 40 (11.66%) SC Cleared
5 37 (10.79%) CISSP
6 33 (9.62%) CISM
7 30 (8.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (7.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 27 (7.87%) CCSK
8 27 (7.87%) CCSP
8 27 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (7.29%) Degree
10 8 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.04%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.75%) CISA
12 6 (1.75%) SANS
13 5 (1.46%) CRISC
13 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.91%) NIST
2 5 (1.46%) GDPR
3 4 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.87%) QA
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.87%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (15.74%) Oracle
2 45 (13.12%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.16%) Sparx
4 22 (6.41%) Google
5 21 (6.12%) Pega
6 19 (5.54%) IBM
7 11 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.21%) Unisys
8 7 (2.04%) Databricks
8 7 (2.04%) SAP
9 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco
11 2 (0.58%) Juniper
12 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.29%) Conga
12 1 (0.29%) DocuSign
12 1 (0.29%) Guidewire
12 1 (0.29%) Reuters
12 1 (0.29%) VMware