Lead Architect Jobs in the North of England

Lead Architect
England > North of England

The median Lead Architect salary in the North of England is £92,319 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 259 394
Rank change year-on-year -10 +135 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 77 131 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.72% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.76% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16 113 27
10th Percentile £64,509 £69,962 £73,200
25th Percentile £70,000 £74,766 £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,319 £79,932 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -11.19% +20.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 £118,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £86,250 £126,250
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 10,559 17,213 14,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 95.07% 89.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,449 13,282 8,075
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,750
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West +15 67 £87,500 +9.59% 33
Yorkshire +15 9 £94,637 +14.71% 26
North East +27 1 £69,384 -13.23% 10
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 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 North of England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 64 (83.12%) Enterprise Architecture
2 62 (80.52%) Agile
3 60 (77.92%) Business Strategy
4 58 (75.32%) Confluence
4 58 (75.32%) Manufacturing
4 58 (75.32%) PLM
4 58 (75.32%) SAP
4 58 (75.32%) ERP
4 58 (75.32%) Siemens
4 58 (75.32%) CAD
4 58 (75.32%) JIRA
5 56 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
7 10 (12.99%) TOGAF
8 7 (9.09%) Banking
8 7 (9.09%) Finance
8 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (9.09%) GDPR
9 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (7.79%) Data Science
9 6 (7.79%) PCI DSS
9 6 (7.79%) Python
9 6 (7.79%) Risk Management
10 5 (6.49%) Data Management
10 5 (6.49%) Data Integration
10 5 (6.49%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (6.49%) Analytics
10 5 (6.49%) GCP
10 5 (6.49%) Mentoring

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 58 (75.32%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) SAS
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.49%) GCP
2 3 (3.90%) AWS
2 3 (3.90%) SaaS
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.30%) Azure
4 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) Tableau
3 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 58 (75.32%) JIRA
General
1 58 (75.32%) Manufacturing
2 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Banking
3 7 (9.09%) Finance
4 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.30%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Credit Risk
1 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.19%) Market Risk
1 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (83.12%) Enterprise Architecture
2 62 (80.52%) Agile
3 60 (77.92%) Business Strategy
4 58 (75.32%) CAD
4 58 (75.32%) ERP
4 58 (75.32%) PLM
5 10 (12.99%) TOGAF
6 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (7.79%) Data Science
7 6 (7.79%) Risk Management
8 5 (6.49%) Analytics
8 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.49%) Data Integration
8 5 (6.49%) Data Management
8 5 (6.49%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (6.49%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.19%) API Management
9 4 (5.19%) CI/CD
9 4 (5.19%) Containerisation
9 4 (5.19%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.79%) Python
2 4 (5.19%) R
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (72.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) GDPR
2 6 (7.79%) PCI DSS
3 4 (5.19%) Basel II
3 4 (5.19%) Basel III
3 4 (5.19%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (5.19%) IFRS
3 4 (5.19%) IFRS 9
4 2 (2.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.60%) NCSC
4 2 (2.60%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 58 (75.32%) SAP
1 58 (75.32%) Siemens
2 1 (1.30%) Computacenter