Lead Architect Jobs in the South East

Lead Architect
England > South East

The median Lead Architect salary in the South East is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 350 351
Rank change year-on-year +52 +1 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 9 56 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.094% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.32% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 8
10th Percentile £57,585 £61,000 £69,875
25th Percentile £57,670 £67,500 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.65% -7.10%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £116,500
England median annual salary £102,500 £83,750 £95,000
% change year-on-year +22.39% -11.84% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,442 17,510 11,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.99% 94.30% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 12,366 7,826
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,331
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.98% +0.55%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the South East

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley +48 7 £72,500 +11.54% 29
Berkshire +29 4 £85,000 +30.77% 28
Buckinghamshire +20 2 £57,670 - 1
Middlesex - 2 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £125,000 - 1
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 South East region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) SFIA
5 2 (22.22%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (22.22%) GDPR
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (22.22%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (22.22%) Information Security
5 2 (22.22%) Leaflet
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Dependency Management
5 2 (22.22%) Line Management
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
5 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
5 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata Repository
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Biometrics
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security Management
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (22.22%) Security Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CESG Certified Professional
2 2 (22.22%) CISMP
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Computacenter
1 1 (11.11%) SAP