Lead Architect Jobs in the South West

Lead Architect
England > South West

The median Lead Architect salary in the South West is £96,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 262 286
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 37 10 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.40% 0.14% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.16% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 20 8 23
10th Percentile £64,812 £63,020 £51,250
25th Percentile £85,625 £64,850 £62,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £69,805 £71,640
Median % change year-on-year +37.88% -2.56% +15.55%
75th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £76,520
90th Percentile - £97,500 £82,304
England median annual salary £79,966 £92,169 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.24% +2.41% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,284 7,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,903 5,084
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the South West

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Bristol +13 13 £64,059 -8.23% 3
Dorset - 12 £95,000 -
Wiltshire -3 5 £100,000 +5.26%
Gloucestershire -15 2 - - 1
Somerset - 2 £65,000 -
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 South West region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 19 (51.35%) Finance
2 15 (40.54%) Azure
3 12 (32.43%) SDLC
3 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
4 11 (29.73%) Agile
5 10 (27.03%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (27.03%) Roadmaps
6 9 (24.32%) AWS
7 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
7 8 (21.62%) Data Architecture
7 8 (21.62%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (21.62%) Architecture Roadmap
8 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (18.92%) Public Cloud
9 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
9 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) Degree
9 6 (16.22%) Law
9 6 (16.22%) Financial Institution
9 6 (16.22%) Java
9 6 (16.22%) Python
9 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
9 6 (16.22%) DNS
9 6 (16.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
10 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineering
10 5 (13.51%) Azure Stack
10 5 (13.51%) Pega

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (10.81%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Stack
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
1 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.81%) BGP
2 4 (10.81%) SSL
3 3 (8.11%) Broadband
3 3 (8.11%) Network Security
4 2 (5.41%) DHCP
4 2 (5.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database
1 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
1 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
General
1 19 (51.35%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (16.22%) Financial Institution
4 6 (16.22%) Law
5 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
6 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
6 3 (8.11%) Marketing
6 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.41%) HTML
2 2 (5.41%) OpenID
2 2 (5.41%) SAML
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Public Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.11%) Replication
5 2 (5.41%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.70%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
1 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) SDLC
2 11 (29.73%) Agile
3 10 (27.03%) Roadmaps
3 10 (27.03%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (21.62%) Architecture Roadmap
4 8 (21.62%) Data Architecture
4 8 (21.62%) Thought Leadership
5 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
7 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) Re-Platforming
7 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineering
8 4 (10.81%) ArchiMate
8 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
8 4 (10.81%) Kanban
8 4 (10.81%) Load Balancing
8 4 (10.81%) Open Source
8 4 (10.81%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) Java
1 6 (16.22%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) C
2 3 (8.11%) R
2 3 (8.11%) Scala
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
2 6 (16.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Degree
3 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.81%) CISA
4 4 (10.81%) CISM
4 4 (10.81%) CISSP
5 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.11%) CRISC
5 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.11%) SANS
6 1 (2.70%) CEH
6 1 (2.70%) CISMP
6 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.70%) ISACA
6 1 (2.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Pega
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Sparx
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft