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 £92,319 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 425 628
Rank change year-on-year -51 +203 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 112 374 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.48% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.50% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 42 254 60
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,375 £64,850
25th Percentile £64,509 £71,075 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,319 £79,932 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -11.19% +24.14%
75th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £113,125
90th Percentile £118,000 £97,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% -13.16% +8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,966 74,777 49,495
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 95.01% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,509 52,252 29,313
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +5.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 9 June 2025.

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 9 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
North of England -19 72 £87,500 +7.69% 20
North West +1 64 £105,000 +31.36% 18
Scotland +89 13 £94,637 +25.93% 4
South East +41 9 £72,500 +3.57% 59
Midlands +30 8 £60,000 -24.85% 11
West Midlands +20 8 £60,000 -24.89% 6
South West +80 7 £100,000 +5.26% 35
Yorkshire -5 6 £89,819 +8.87% 2
Wales +28 2 £68,506 -0.35% 5
North East +24 2 £64,692 -19.14%
Northern Ireland +39 1 £69,384 -7.67% 2
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 64 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
2 63 (56.25%) Agile
3 60 (53.57%) Business Strategy
4 57 (50.89%) Manufacturing
4 57 (50.89%) SAP
4 57 (50.89%) ERP
5 56 (50.00%) Siemens
5 56 (50.00%) CAD
5 56 (50.00%) PLM
5 56 (50.00%) JIRA
5 56 (50.00%) Confluence
5 56 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (25.00%) Finance
7 23 (20.54%) Analytics
7 23 (20.54%) GCP
7 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
8 21 (18.75%) Azure
9 19 (16.96%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (16.07%) Banking
11 16 (14.29%) TOGAF
11 16 (14.29%) BigQuery
12 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
13 13 (11.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (10.71%) GDPR
14 12 (10.71%) Mentoring
14 12 (10.71%) AWS
14 12 (10.71%) Data Analytics
14 12 (10.71%) Data Architecture
14 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
15 11 (9.82%) SAML

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 56 (50.00%) Confluence
2 11 (9.82%) Umbraco
3 4 (3.57%) SAS
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) GCP
2 21 (18.75%) Azure
3 12 (10.71%) AWS
4 8 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.79%) Serverless
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.89%) Collibra
8 1 (0.89%) Matillion
8 1 (0.89%) SaaS
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.68%) Power BI
5 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.79%) Metadata
5 2 (1.79%) Tableau
6 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 57 (50.89%) Manufacturing
2 28 (25.00%) Finance
3 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
4 18 (16.07%) Banking
5 13 (11.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (8.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.79%) French Language
10 1 (0.89%) Advertising
10 1 (0.89%) Back Office
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.82%) Ajax
1 11 (9.82%) CSS
1 11 (9.82%) jQuery
1 11 (9.82%) OAuth
1 11 (9.82%) OpenID
1 11 (9.82%) React
1 11 (9.82%) SAML
2 4 (3.57%) Kafka
3 3 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.79%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.46%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.57%) Credit Risk
4 4 (3.57%) Market Risk
4 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.89%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.89%) FMCG
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.89%) Life Science
6 1 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
2 63 (56.25%) Agile
3 60 (53.57%) Business Strategy
4 57 (50.89%) ERP
5 56 (50.00%) CAD
5 56 (50.00%) PLM
6 23 (20.54%) Analytics
7 19 (16.96%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (14.29%) TOGAF
9 12 (10.71%) Data Analytics
9 12 (10.71%) Data Architecture
9 12 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.82%) Content Management
10 11 (9.82%) Data Integration
10 11 (9.82%) Domain-Driven Design
10 11 (9.82%) MVC
10 11 (9.82%) Regulatory Compliance
10 11 (9.82%) Roadmaps
10 11 (9.82%) Software Deployment
10 11 (9.82%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.82%) JavaScript
2 9 (8.04%) SQL
3 6 (5.36%) Python
4 4 (3.57%) R
5 2 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) Degree
4 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.79%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (1.79%) CISMP
5 2 (1.79%) CISSP
5 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) MBA
6 1 (0.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) GDPR
2 9 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.36%) NCSC
3 6 (5.36%) NIST
3 6 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.57%) Basel II
4 4 (3.57%) Basel III
4 4 (3.57%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (3.57%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.57%) IFRS
4 4 (3.57%) IFRS 9
5 3 (2.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.68%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.89%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (9.82%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (50.89%) SAP
2 56 (50.00%) Siemens
3 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.46%) Google
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle
6 2 (1.79%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.89%) Databricks
7 1 (0.89%) IFS
7 1 (0.89%) Informatica