Lead Architect Jobs in the North West

Lead Architect
England > North West

The median Lead Architect salary in the North West is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 244 277
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 68 51 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.85% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.54% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 11
10th Percentile £68,353 £61,494 £64,850
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,493 £75,379
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £79,842 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -11.29% +25.63%
75th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £113,750
90th Percentile - - £115,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,403 9,402 6,918
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.63% 89.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 7,225 4,030
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,063 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the North West

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cumbria - 58 £70,000 - 1
Manchester +33 10 £105,000 +31.51% 5
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 West region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 61 (89.71%) Business Strategy
1 61 (89.71%) Enterprise Architecture
2 59 (86.76%) Agile
3 58 (85.29%) PLM
3 58 (85.29%) Siemens
3 58 (85.29%) CAD
3 58 (85.29%) SAP
3 58 (85.29%) ERP
3 58 (85.29%) Manufacturing
3 58 (85.29%) JIRA
3 58 (85.29%) Confluence
4 56 (82.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (10.29%) TOGAF
6 4 (5.88%) Finance
6 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Roadmaps
7 3 (4.41%) Product Backlog
7 3 (4.41%) Adaptive Web Design
7 3 (4.41%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (4.41%) Architecture Roadmap
7 3 (4.41%) Architectural Design
7 3 (4.41%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (4.41%) Banking
7 3 (4.41%) Business Development
7 3 (4.41%) ArchiMate
7 3 (4.41%) Zachman Framework
7 3 (4.41%) AWS
7 3 (4.41%) Data Architecture
7 3 (4.41%) Investment Management

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (85.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.41%) AWS
2 2 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.47%) Azure
3 1 (1.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Tableau
2 1 (1.47%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.47%) Metadata
2 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (85.29%) JIRA
General
1 58 (85.29%) Manufacturing
2 4 (5.88%) Finance
2 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Banking
3 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.47%) French Language
4 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (89.71%) Business Strategy
1 61 (89.71%) Enterprise Architecture
2 59 (86.76%) Agile
3 58 (85.29%) CAD
3 58 (85.29%) ERP
3 58 (85.29%) PLM
4 7 (10.29%) TOGAF
5 3 (4.41%) Adaptive Web Design
5 3 (4.41%) ArchiMate
5 3 (4.41%) Architectural Design
5 3 (4.41%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (4.41%) Business Development
5 3 (4.41%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (4.41%) Data Architecture
5 3 (4.41%) Investment Management
5 3 (4.41%) Product Backlog
5 3 (4.41%) Roadmaps
5 3 (4.41%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (4.41%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (2.94%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 56 (82.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
1 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) NCSC
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
Vendors
1 58 (85.29%) SAP
1 58 (85.29%) Siemens
2 1 (1.47%) Computacenter