Lead Architect Jobs in Manchester

Lead Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Lead Architect salary in Manchester is £120,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 194 225
Rank change year-on-year +38 +31 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 9 26 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.40% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 10
10th Percentile £87,000 £63,305 £64,850
25th Percentile £90,000 £72,493 £70,568
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £79,842 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.30% -11.29% +25.63%
75th Percentile - £84,991 £112,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £115,000
North West median annual salary £90,000 £79,842 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.72% -11.29% +25.63%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,047 4,917 4,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.38% 92.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,257 3,795 2,590
10th Percentile £31,450 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,047 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -4.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,340 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Manchester

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Manchester region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Business Development
3 3 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 3 (33.33%) Adaptive Web Design
3 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (22.22%) LLM
4 2 (22.22%) MLOps
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (22.22%) Data Science
4 2 (22.22%) DAMA
4 2 (22.22%) GDPR
4 2 (22.22%) Personalization

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Metadata
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) French Language
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 3 (33.33%) Adaptive Web Design
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 3 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (33.33%) Business Development
2 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Management
2 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 3 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
3 2 (22.22%) DAMA
3 2 (22.22%) Deep Learning
3 2 (22.22%) LLM
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Computacenter