Lead Architect Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Lead Architect
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Lead Architect salary in Gloucestershire is £110,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £100,575 - -
25th Percentile £101,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,250 - -
75th Percentile £126,438 - -
90th Percentile £131,725 - -
South West median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £96,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.90% +6.94%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 1,296 377 1,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 93.09% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 895 215 1,243
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,650 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,150 £75,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,128 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.21% +2.26% -4.76%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 6 £110,250 - 4
Lead Architect
South West

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Flink
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Flink
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared