Lead Architect Jobs in Leeds

Lead Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Lead Architect salary in Leeds is £94,637 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 116 167
Rank change year-on-year +45 +51 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 5 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.64% 0.67% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.70% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile £86,160 £63,750 £75,675
25th Percentile £87,900 £77,324 £85,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £85,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% -26.09% +68.50%
75th Percentile £98,474 - £126,250
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £94,637 £85,000 £112,500
% change year-on-year +11.34% -24.44% +75.78%

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 733 2,287 2,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 96.38% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 482 1,652 1,636
10th Percentile £28,525 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -0.18% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £84,959 £86,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Leeds

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 Leeds region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (80.00%) API Management
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) SAS
1 4 (80.00%) Basel II
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
1 4 (80.00%) Market Risk
1 4 (80.00%) Stress Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (80.00%) Basel III
1 4 (80.00%) R
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Dodd-Frank
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps

Lead 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 4 (80.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (80.00%) Market Risk
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Data Encryption
1 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Fraud Detection
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Stress Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) R
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Basel II
1 4 (80.00%) Basel III
1 4 (80.00%) Dodd-Frank
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
1 4 (80.00%) IFRS
1 4 (80.00%) IFRS 9
1 4 (80.00%) PCI DSS