Lead Architect Job Trends in Northampton

Lead Architect
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Lead Architect salary in Northampton is £120,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 1.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 - -
Northamptonshire median annual salary £120,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 258 247 186
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.63% 98.02% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 183 135 161
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,150 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £80,000 £72,500
Northamptonshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Lead Architect job vacancy trend in Northampton

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Northampton.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Architect job vacancies in Northampton

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Lead Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northampton region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
1 3 (100.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) B2B
1 3 (100.00%) CRM
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Kong
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Kong
1 3 (100.00%) Snowflake
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Apollo GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (100.00%) B2B
1 3 (100.00%) CRM
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (100.00%) SAP