Lead Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £79,842 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 638 643
Rank change year-on-year +183 +5 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 328 113 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 208 70 112
10th Percentile £61,000 £64,985 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £63,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £86,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +15.00% +2.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £103,750 £89,500
90th Percentile £97,875 £119,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £79,932 £92,169 £90,000
% change year-on-year -13.28% +2.41% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
North of England +123 123 £79,932 -15.86% 8
South East +46 58 £70,000 -12.50% 2
Midlands +45 58 £78,126 -2.34% 6
Yorkshire +117 54 £81,216 -18.78% 3
North West +41 49 £79,842 -11.29% 3
West Midlands +51 46 £78,126 +2.46% 5
South West 0 40 £96,250 +37.88% 3
Scotland -47 27 £79,000 -14.29%
North East +15 20 £79,932 -18.02% 2
Wales +25 15 £67,500 +7.58%
East Midlands -7 11 £66,250 -17.19% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England +13 3 £100,000 +5.26% 1
Lead Architect
UK

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 133 (40.55%) Azure
2 106 (32.32%) AWS
3 83 (25.30%) Social Skills
4 76 (23.17%) Agile
5 74 (22.56%) Public Cloud
6 73 (22.26%) Finance
7 71 (21.65%) Enterprise Software
8 68 (20.73%) Security Cleared
9 66 (20.12%) Mentoring
10 65 (19.82%) Coaching
10 65 (19.82%) AWS Certification
10 65 (19.82%) Roadmaps
11 64 (19.51%) Azure Certification
12 63 (19.21%) Oracle
13 62 (18.90%) SDLC
14 60 (18.29%) Decision-Making
15 59 (17.99%) Relational Database
16 53 (16.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 51 (15.55%) SC Cleared
18 48 (14.63%) Migration
18 48 (14.63%) TOGAF
19 46 (14.02%) Microsoft
19 46 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
20 45 (13.72%) Project Management
20 45 (13.72%) Scrum
21 43 (13.11%) Data Migration
21 43 (13.11%) Collaborative Working
21 43 (13.11%) Systems Engineering
22 42 (12.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
22 42 (12.80%) BGP

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 40 (12.20%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.30%) Apache
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.30%) Appian
Business Applications
1 40 (12.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.22%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.91%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.30%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 133 (40.55%) Azure
2 106 (32.32%) AWS
3 41 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 40 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (7.01%) GCP
6 9 (2.74%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.83%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.83%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.52%) Azure Stack
8 5 (1.52%) Serverless
9 4 (1.22%) Azure API Management
9 4 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.22%) Matillion
10 3 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.91%) SaaS
11 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (12.80%) BGP
1 42 (12.80%) DNS
1 42 (12.80%) TCP/IP
2 40 (12.20%) SSL
3 23 (7.01%) SD-WAN
3 23 (7.01%) WAN
4 9 (2.74%) CTI
5 6 (1.83%) Network Security
6 4 (1.22%) Broadband
7 2 (0.61%) CATAPAN
7 2 (0.61%) DAB
7 2 (0.61%) DHCP
7 2 (0.61%) Firewall
7 2 (0.61%) HTTP
7 2 (0.61%) Internet
7 2 (0.61%) IPv4
7 2 (0.61%) IPv6
7 2 (0.61%) OSPF
7 2 (0.61%) VLAN
8 1 (0.30%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.99%) Relational Database
2 40 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (12.20%) Oracle Database
2 40 (12.20%) RDBMS
3 20 (6.10%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.79%) DB2
5 6 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.83%) Metadata
6 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.22%) Power BI
7 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.91%) QualityStage
8 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.30%) Big Data
9 1 (0.30%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Git
1 9 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
1 9 (2.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.26%) Finance
3 53 (16.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.23%) Law
6 20 (6.10%) Legal
7 19 (5.79%) Marketing
8 18 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Police
11 8 (2.44%) Automotive
12 6 (1.83%) Banking
12 6 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.83%) Games
13 5 (1.52%) Billing
13 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.22%) Wearables
15 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
1 40 (12.20%) Spring Boot
2 16 (4.88%) .NET
3 8 (2.44%) SAML
4 6 (1.83%) OAuth
5 3 (0.91%) EDI
5 3 (0.91%) HTML
5 3 (0.91%) Kafka
5 3 (0.91%) SAP TM
6 2 (0.61%) OpenID
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.30%) IDoc
7 1 (0.30%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.30%) SAP XI
7 1 (0.30%) SOAP
7 1 (0.30%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (22.56%) Public Cloud
2 71 (21.65%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (7.32%) Management Information System
4 23 (7.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.13%) IoT
7 6 (1.83%) Robotics
8 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.52%) Replication
9 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.91%) FMCG
10 2 (0.61%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.30%) CESG
11 1 (0.30%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.30%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.20%) Linux
1 40 (12.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (2.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (23.17%) Agile
2 66 (20.12%) Mentoring
3 65 (19.82%) Coaching
3 65 (19.82%) Roadmaps
4 62 (18.90%) SDLC
5 60 (18.29%) Decision-Making
6 48 (14.63%) Migration
6 48 (14.63%) TOGAF
7 46 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (13.72%) Project Management
8 45 (13.72%) Scrum
9 43 (13.11%) Collaborative Working
9 43 (13.11%) Data Migration
9 43 (13.11%) Systems Engineering
10 41 (12.50%) Kanban
10 41 (12.50%) Open Source
10 41 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
11 40 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
11 40 (12.20%) ArchiMate
11 40 (12.20%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 35 (10.67%) SQL
2 15 (4.57%) C#
3 13 (3.96%) Java
4 10 (3.05%) Python
5 7 (2.13%) Scala
6 6 (1.83%) C
6 6 (1.83%) R
7 4 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.30%) ABAP
9 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 68 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.82%) AWS Certification
3 64 (19.51%) Azure Certification
4 51 (15.55%) SC Cleared
5 42 (12.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 41 (12.50%) Degree
7 35 (10.67%) CISM
7 35 (10.67%) CISSP
8 23 (7.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 23 (7.01%) CCSK
8 23 (7.01%) CCSP
8 23 (7.01%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.83%) CISA
9 6 (1.83%) SANS
10 5 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.52%) CRISC
11 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.30%) CEH
12 1 (0.30%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.98%) NIST
2 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.52%) GDPR
4 3 (0.91%) QA
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (7.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.01%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (19.21%) Oracle
2 46 (14.02%) Microsoft
3 40 (12.20%) Sparx
4 19 (5.79%) Google
4 19 (5.79%) IBM
5 16 (4.88%) Pega
6 7 (2.13%) Databricks
6 7 (2.13%) SAP
7 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.52%) Unisys
8 3 (0.91%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco
9 2 (0.61%) Juniper
10 1 (0.30%) Conga
10 1 (0.30%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.30%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.30%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.30%) VMware