Architect Jobs in Leeds

Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Architect salary in Leeds is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +16
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 51 231 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 6.47% 10.18% 9.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.92% 10.61% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 38 116 131
10th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,713
25th Percentile £66,250 £70,097 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £98,474 £90,313 £91,250
90th Percentile - £116,250 £102,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 737 2,177 2,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.95% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 508 1,581 1,697
10th Percentile £27,925 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,673 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,919 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +6.80%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Leeds

Architect
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Architect in Leeds

Architect
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Leeds over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 19 (37.25%) Agile
4 18 (35.29%) Banking
5 17 (33.33%) Microservices
5 17 (33.33%) GCP
5 17 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 16 (31.37%) DevOps
7 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (29.41%) Product Ownership
7 15 (29.41%) IT Strategy
8 14 (27.45%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (27.45%) Technology Strategy
9 12 (23.53%) Architecture Governance
9 12 (23.53%) Data Integration
10 11 (21.57%) TOGAF
10 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
11 10 (19.61%) Enterprise Architecture
11 10 (19.61%) Customer Engagement
12 9 (17.65%) Azure
12 9 (17.65%) Analytics
12 9 (17.65%) Data Management
12 9 (17.65%) ETL
12 9 (17.65%) Business Strategy
13 8 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
13 8 (15.69%) API Management
13 8 (15.69%) Integration Patterns
13 8 (15.69%) API Design

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (13.73%) SAS
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) GCP
2 9 (17.65%) Azure
3 6 (11.76%) AWS
4 4 (7.84%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.92%) Serverless
7 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.96%) IaaS
7 1 (1.96%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) PaaS
7 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.96%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) DHCP
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) LAN
2 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) WAN
2 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.92%) Flink
3 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (35.29%) Banking
4 8 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (9.80%) Back Office
6 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Local Government
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.96%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.73%) Credit Risk
2 7 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (13.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.73%) Market Risk
3 6 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.84%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.92%) CMDB
5 2 (3.92%) IVR
5 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.96%) CCTV
6 1 (1.96%) NHS
6 1 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Agile
2 17 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 17 (33.33%) Microservices
3 16 (31.37%) DevOps
4 15 (29.41%) IT Strategy
4 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (27.45%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (27.45%) Technology Strategy
6 12 (23.53%) Architecture Governance
6 12 (23.53%) Data Integration
7 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
7 11 (21.57%) TOGAF
8 10 (19.61%) Customer Engagement
8 10 (19.61%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (17.65%) Analytics
9 9 (17.65%) Business Strategy
9 9 (17.65%) Data Management
9 9 (17.65%) ETL
10 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 7 (13.73%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) R
3 2 (3.92%) Scala
4 1 (1.96%) Bicep
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Basel II
1 7 (13.73%) Basel III
1 7 (13.73%) Dodd-Frank
1 7 (13.73%) GDPR
1 7 (13.73%) IFRS
1 7 (13.73%) IFRS 9
1 7 (13.73%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (3.92%) SAP
3 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Meraki
4 1 (1.96%) Okta
4 1 (1.96%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.96%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) Workday