Lead Architect Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Lead Architect
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Lead Architect salary in Hertfordshire is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £90,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
75th Percentile £110,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £100,000 - £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 2,184 651 1,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 84.66% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 448 1,448
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £25,809
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,125 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £51,194 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.78% -13.64%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Stevenage - 3 £100,000 - 1
Royston - 1 - -
Lead Architect
East of England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 2 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) AI
1 1 (25.00%) Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks