Lead Architect Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Architect
England > Midlands

The median Lead Architect salary in the Midlands is £78,126 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 310 316
Rank change year-on-year +55 +6 -57
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 55 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.16% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.18% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33 10 20
10th Percentile £50,000 £63,500 £43,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £49,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,126 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £84,964 £84,688 £83,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,125
England median annual salary £79,966 £92,169 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.24% +2.41% +8.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,003 8,554 10,298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 89.45% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,239 4,752 7,093
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,775 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the Midlands

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the Midlands

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the Midlands

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +64 45 £78,126 +0.81% 4
East Midlands -7 9 £66,250 -17.19% 1
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 11 (20.00%) Pega
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
1 11 (20.00%) AWS
2 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
4 7 (12.73%) Azure Certification
4 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
4 7 (12.73%) Security Architecture
4 7 (12.73%) Relational Database
4 7 (12.73%) AWS Certification
4 7 (12.73%) Public Cloud
4 7 (12.73%) Project Management
4 7 (12.73%) Agile
4 7 (12.73%) Oracle
5 6 (10.91%) Finance
5 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
5 6 (10.91%) Coaching
6 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 5 (9.09%) Kanban
6 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (9.09%) Migration
6 5 (9.09%) Unisys
7 4 (7.27%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (7.27%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (7.27%) Business Strategy
7 4 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.27%) Social Skills

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.82%) Appian
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.82%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.82%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.82%) SAP SCM
3 1 (1.82%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.82%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) AWS
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (5.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.82%) Boomi
4 1 (1.82%) SaaS
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) BGP
1 4 (7.27%) DNS
1 4 (7.27%) SSL
1 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
2 3 (5.45%) WAN
3 2 (3.64%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle Database
2 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
3 3 (5.45%) DB2
3 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Automotive
5 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Billing
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (7.27%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.82%) EDI
2 1 (1.82%) HTML
2 1 (1.82%) IDoc
2 1 (1.82%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.82%) SAP XI
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
2 1 (1.82%) Visualforce
2 1 (1.82%) Web Services
2 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (12.73%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (3.64%) IoT
5 2 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
1 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
2 7 (12.73%) Agile
2 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
2 7 (12.73%) Project Management
2 7 (12.73%) Security Architecture
3 6 (10.91%) Coaching
3 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
4 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (9.09%) Kanban
4 5 (9.09%) Migration
5 4 (7.27%) ArchiMate
5 4 (7.27%) Cloud Operations
5 4 (7.27%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (7.27%) Data Migration
5 4 (7.27%) Information Security
5 4 (7.27%) IT Strategy
5 4 (7.27%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.27%) Scrum
5 4 (7.27%) SDLC
5 4 (7.27%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.45%) SQL
2 1 (1.82%) ABAP
2 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.82%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) AWS Certification
1 7 (12.73%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (5.45%) CCSK
3 3 (5.45%) CCSP
3 3 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.45%) CISM
3 3 (5.45%) CISSP
4 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) NIST
2 2 (3.64%) NCSC
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Pega
2 7 (12.73%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.09%) Unisys
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.27%) Sparx
5 3 (5.45%) Google
5 3 (5.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.82%) Conga
7 1 (1.82%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.82%) Guidewire