Lead Architect Jobs in the South West

Lead Architect
England > South West

The median Lead Architect salary in the South West is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 248 261
Rank change year-on-year +74 +13 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 7 38 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.39% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.40% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 5
10th Percentile £74,000 £64,000 -
25th Percentile £86,250 £85,625 £64,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £96,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +6.94% +25.63%
75th Percentile - £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,100 - -
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
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 3,296 9,393 5,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 96.17% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 6,889 3,677
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,945 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
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 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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Bristol +46 5 £100,000 +14.29% 12
Somerset +8 1 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 South West region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) GDPR
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Power BI
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Collibra
4 1 (14.29%) Matillion
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
1 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
1 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
1 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 2 (28.57%) Microservices
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
1 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MBA
2 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) IFS
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft