Lead Architect Jobs in England

Lead Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Architect salary in England is £79,966 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 689 717
Rank change year-on-year +177 +28 -172
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 341 267 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 250 165 277
10th Percentile £63,117 £71,300 £57,474
25th Percentile £72,493 £77,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,966 £92,169 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +2.41% +5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £147,000
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 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +123 121 £79,932 -11.19% 6
London +57 79 £110,000 +12.82% 37
Midlands +47 55 £78,126 -2.34% 5
Yorkshire +123 53 £79,932 -11.92% 1
North West +40 48 £79,842 -11.29% 5
West Midlands +51 45 £78,126 +0.81% 4
South East +30 44 £70,000 -12.50% 5
South West +7 37 £96,250 +37.88% 4
North East +18 20 £79,932 -18.02%
East Midlands -9 9 £66,250 -17.19% 1
East of England +25 3 £100,000 +5.26% 2
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 (34.90%) Azure
2 92 (26.98%) Roadmaps
3 88 (25.81%) AWS
4 76 (22.29%) Agile
5 73 (21.41%) Finance
6 60 (17.60%) Security Cleared
6 60 (17.60%) Mentoring
7 59 (17.30%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (17.01%) Azure Certification
8 58 (17.01%) Social Skills
9 57 (16.72%) AWS Certification
10 54 (15.84%) Oracle
11 52 (15.25%) Public Cloud
12 51 (14.96%) Relational Database
12 51 (14.96%) Decision-Making
13 50 (14.66%) Coaching
14 45 (13.20%) Microsoft
15 43 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
16 42 (12.32%) TOGAF
17 41 (12.02%) IT Strategy
18 39 (11.44%) SC Cleared
19 37 (10.85%) Security Architecture
19 37 (10.85%) SDLC
20 36 (10.56%) Migration
21 35 (10.26%) CISSP
21 35 (10.26%) Systems Engineering
21 35 (10.26%) Public Sector
22 34 (9.97%) Scrum
22 34 (9.97%) Information Security
23 33 (9.68%) Project Management

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 (8.21%) WebLogic
2 2 (0.59%) 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 (8.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.17%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.88%) 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 (34.90%) Azure
2 88 (25.81%) AWS
3 29 (8.50%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (8.21%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (6.45%) GCP
6 7 (2.05%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.47%) Azure Stack
7 5 (1.47%) OCI
7 5 (1.47%) PaaS
7 5 (1.47%) SaaS
7 5 (1.47%) Serverless
8 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.17%) Matillion
8 4 (1.17%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.88%) Azure API Management
9 3 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.80%) BGP
1 30 (8.80%) DNS
1 30 (8.80%) TCP/IP
2 28 (8.21%) SSL
3 27 (7.92%) SD-WAN
3 27 (7.92%) WAN
4 9 (2.64%) CTI
5 5 (1.47%) Network Security
6 3 (0.88%) Broadband
6 3 (0.88%) Internet
7 2 (0.59%) CATAPAN
7 2 (0.59%) DAB
7 2 (0.59%) DHCP
7 2 (0.59%) Firewall
7 2 (0.59%) HTTP
7 2 (0.59%) IPv4
7 2 (0.59%) IPv6
7 2 (0.59%) OSPF
7 2 (0.59%) VLAN
8 1 (0.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.96%) Relational Database
2 28 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (8.21%) Oracle Database
2 28 (8.21%) RDBMS
3 21 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.57%) DB2
5 11 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.47%) Power BI
8 4 (1.17%) Metadata
8 4 (1.17%) QualityStage
9 3 (0.88%) Big Data
10 2 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.59%) 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 (2.93%) Team Foundation Server
1 10 (2.93%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.64%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 73 (21.41%) Finance
2 58 (17.01%) Social Skills
3 35 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
5 20 (5.87%) Legal
6 17 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.64%) Law
8 9 (2.64%) Police
9 8 (2.35%) Automotive
10 7 (2.05%) Marketing
10 7 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.76%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.47%) Banking
12 5 (1.47%) Billing
12 5 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.17%) Local Government
13 4 (1.17%) Wearables
14 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.50%) Spring Boot
2 28 (8.21%) RabbitMQ
3 19 (5.57%) .NET
4 10 (2.93%) HTML
5 4 (1.17%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.17%) CSS
5 4 (1.17%) Web Services
6 3 (0.88%) EDI
6 3 (0.88%) HTML5
6 3 (0.88%) SAP TM
6 3 (0.88%) Spring
6 3 (0.88%) YAML
7 2 (0.59%) Kafka
7 2 (0.59%) OpenID
7 2 (0.59%) SAML
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Camel
8 1 (0.29%) FIXML
8 1 (0.29%) IDoc
8 1 (0.29%) Middleware
8 1 (0.29%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.30%) Enterprise Software
2 52 (15.25%) Public Cloud
3 32 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 27 (7.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 14 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.35%) IoT
7 6 (1.76%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.76%) Robotics
8 5 (1.47%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.88%) FMCG
10 3 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.88%) Replication
11 2 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.59%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.29%) CESG
12 1 (0.29%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.50%) Linux
2 28 (8.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (26.98%) Roadmaps
2 76 (22.29%) Agile
3 60 (17.60%) Mentoring
4 51 (14.96%) Decision-Making
5 50 (14.66%) Coaching
6 43 (12.61%) Enterprise Architecture
7 42 (12.32%) TOGAF
8 41 (12.02%) IT Strategy
9 37 (10.85%) SDLC
9 37 (10.85%) Security Architecture
10 36 (10.56%) Migration
11 35 (10.26%) Systems Engineering
12 34 (9.97%) Information Security
12 34 (9.97%) Scrum
13 33 (9.68%) Application Security
13 33 (9.68%) Project Management
14 32 (9.38%) Technology Strategy
15 31 (9.09%) CI/CD
15 31 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
15 31 (9.09%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.68%) SQL
2 16 (4.69%) C#
3 8 (2.35%) Java
4 7 (2.05%) Python
5 5 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.17%) Scala
6 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.88%) C
7 3 (0.88%) R
8 2 (0.59%) C++
9 1 (0.29%) ABAP
9 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 60 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 58 (17.01%) Azure Certification
3 57 (16.72%) AWS Certification
4 39 (11.44%) SC Cleared
5 35 (10.26%) CISSP
6 31 (9.09%) CISM
7 30 (8.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (7.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 27 (7.92%) CCSK
8 27 (7.92%) CCSP
8 27 (7.92%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (6.45%) Degree
10 7 (2.05%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.17%) CISA
14 3 (0.88%) CRISC
14 3 (0.88%) SANS
14 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.09%) NIST
2 5 (1.47%) GDPR
3 4 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.17%) QA
4 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.59%) NCSC
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (8.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.92%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (15.84%) Oracle
2 45 (13.20%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.21%) Sparx
4 22 (6.45%) Google
5 21 (6.16%) Pega
6 19 (5.57%) IBM
7 11 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.23%) Unisys
8 7 (2.05%) Databricks
8 7 (2.05%) SAP
9 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.59%) Cisco
11 2 (0.59%) Juniper
12 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.29%) Conga
12 1 (0.29%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (0.29%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.29%) Reuters
12 1 (0.29%) VMware