Lead Architect Jobs in London

Lead Architect
England > London

The median Lead Architect salary in London is £111,250 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 326 423 470
Rank change year-on-year +97 +47 +224
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 67 84 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48 50 91
10th Percentile £70,628 £70,980 £77,500
25th Percentile £97,500 £80,219 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £111,250 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - -
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £127,500 £140,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £105,000 £82,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -13.16% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,455 22,637 31,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,909 16,798 22,986
10th Percentile £40,971 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Central London -1 5 £120,000 -7.69% 7
Lead Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 30 (44.78%) Azure
2 27 (40.30%) Agile
3 23 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
4 21 (31.34%) Enterprise Architecture
5 19 (28.36%) Finance
5 19 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (26.87%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (26.87%) Roadmaps
7 16 (23.88%) Architectural Patterns
8 15 (22.39%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (20.90%) Analytics
10 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
10 13 (19.40%) Data Architecture
11 12 (17.91%) TOGAF
11 12 (17.91%) Information Security
11 12 (17.91%) Middleware
11 12 (17.91%) Data Governance
11 12 (17.91%) DevOps
11 12 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (17.91%) Cloud Native
11 12 (17.91%) IT Strategy
11 12 (17.91%) Technology Strategy
12 11 (16.42%) GDPR
12 11 (16.42%) Architectural Design
12 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
12 11 (16.42%) AWS
13 10 (14.93%) Power Platform
13 10 (14.93%) Microservices
13 10 (14.93%) Mentoring

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Maya
2 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.48%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.78%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) AWS
3 10 (14.93%) Power Platform
4 8 (11.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (8.96%) SaaS
6 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.97%) GCP
7 3 (4.48%) Boomi
7 3 (4.48%) Oracle CX
7 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) IaaS
8 2 (2.99%) PaaS
8 2 (2.99%) Serverless
8 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Power BI
2 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) Tableau
4 1 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (28.36%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Law
4 5 (7.46%) Games
4 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.97%) Marketing
6 3 (4.48%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Retail
7 2 (2.99%) Dutch Language
7 2 (2.99%) French Language
7 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Local Government
8 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.91%) Middleware
2 8 (11.94%) ADO
2 8 (11.94%) MERN Stack
2 8 (11.94%) REST
2 8 (11.94%) SOAP
2 8 (11.94%) WebSockets
3 4 (5.97%) Kafka
4 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.49%) RESTful
5 1 (1.49%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.94%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.46%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.30%) Agile
2 23 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (31.34%) Enterprise Architecture
4 18 (26.87%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (26.87%) Roadmaps
5 16 (23.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 15 (22.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (20.90%) Analytics
8 13 (19.40%) Data Architecture
8 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
9 12 (17.91%) Data Governance
9 12 (17.91%) DevOps
9 12 (17.91%) Information Security
9 12 (17.91%) IT Strategy
9 12 (17.91%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (17.91%) Technology Strategy
9 12 (17.91%) TOGAF
10 11 (16.42%) Architectural Design
11 10 (14.93%) Business Strategy
11 10 (14.93%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.96%) Python
2 5 (7.46%) Java
3 2 (2.99%) Bicep
3 2 (2.99%) Scala
3 2 (2.99%) SQL
4 1 (1.49%) Bash
4 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.48%) CISM
5 3 (4.48%) CISSP
5 3 (4.48%) ISSAP
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.99%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) GDPR
2 9 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.96%) SOC 2
4 5 (7.46%) HIPAA
5 4 (5.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (4.48%) NIST
7 2 (2.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (2.99%) PMO
8 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Terraform
2 4 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.99%) Grafana
3 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.49%) Ansible
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Databricks
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.97%) Pega
4 3 (4.48%) Adobe
4 3 (4.48%) Dell
4 3 (4.48%) Facebook
4 3 (4.48%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 3 (4.48%) YouTube
4 3 (4.48%) Zoho
5 2 (2.99%) Google
6 1 (1.49%) VMware