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 £94,637 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 458 640
Rank change year-on-year -12 +182 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 115 326 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.46% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.49% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41 208 67
10th Percentile £57,670 £61,000 £64,850
25th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £74,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £79,842 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.53% -11.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile £98,474 £85,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,875 £119,000
UK median annual salary £97,500 £79,932 £92,500
% change year-on-year +21.98% -13.59% +5.71%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 15 May 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 15 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
North of England +16 83 £92,000 +15.10% 16
North West +16 67 £90,000 +12.72% 8
Yorkshire +27 16 £93,319 +14.90% 6
Scotland +101 14 £94,637 +19.79% 5
West Midlands +17 7 £78,700 -1.43% 5
Midlands +15 7 £78,700 +0.73% 7
South West +85 5 £100,000 +3.90% 22
South East +44 5 £58,835 -15.95% 17
Wales +26 1 £67,629 +0.19% 5
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 70 (60.87%) Agile
2 69 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 66 (57.39%) Business Strategy
4 59 (51.30%) Manufacturing
4 59 (51.30%) SAP
4 59 (51.30%) ERP
5 58 (50.43%) Siemens
5 58 (50.43%) CAD
5 58 (50.43%) PLM
5 58 (50.43%) Confluence
5 58 (50.43%) JIRA
6 56 (48.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (28.70%) Finance
8 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
9 26 (22.61%) Analytics
10 25 (21.74%) GCP
11 22 (19.13%) Banking
12 21 (18.26%) Azure
13 16 (13.91%) BigQuery
14 15 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
14 15 (13.04%) Data Architecture
14 15 (13.04%) TOGAF
15 14 (12.17%) Data Integration
15 14 (12.17%) AWS
15 14 (12.17%) NoSQL
15 14 (12.17%) GDPR
15 14 (12.17%) Roadmaps
16 13 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
16 13 (11.30%) Regulatory Compliance
16 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 58 (50.43%) Confluence
2 11 (9.57%) Umbraco
3 7 (6.09%) SAS
4 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.74%) GCP
2 21 (18.26%) Azure
3 14 (12.17%) AWS
4 10 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 6 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (4.35%) SaaS
7 4 (3.48%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (3.48%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) Collibra
9 1 (0.87%) Matillion
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.91%) BigQuery
2 14 (12.17%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.48%) Tableau
5 3 (2.61%) Metadata
5 3 (2.61%) Power BI
6 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.74%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (50.43%) JIRA
General
1 59 (51.30%) Manufacturing
2 33 (28.70%) Finance
3 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
4 22 (19.13%) Banking
5 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.74%) Back Office
9 2 (1.74%) French Language
9 2 (1.74%) Police
10 1 (0.87%) Advertising
10 1 (0.87%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.57%) Ajax
1 11 (9.57%) CSS
1 11 (9.57%) jQuery
1 11 (9.57%) OAuth
1 11 (9.57%) OpenID
1 11 (9.57%) React
1 11 (9.57%) SAML
2 5 (4.35%) Kafka
3 2 (1.74%) Leaflet
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.09%) Credit Risk
3 7 (6.09%) Market Risk
3 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.48%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.87%) FMCG
6 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Life Science
6 1 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.87%) Agile
2 69 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 66 (57.39%) Business Strategy
4 59 (51.30%) ERP
5 58 (50.43%) CAD
5 58 (50.43%) PLM
6 26 (22.61%) Analytics
7 15 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 15 (13.04%) TOGAF
8 14 (12.17%) Data Integration
8 14 (12.17%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.30%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (11.30%) Domain-Driven Design
9 13 (11.30%) ETL
9 13 (11.30%) Regulatory Compliance
9 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (10.43%) Data Analytics
10 12 (10.43%) Data Science
11 11 (9.57%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.43%) SQL
2 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
2 11 (9.57%) Python
3 7 (6.09%) R
4 1 (0.87%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (48.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (3.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (1.74%) CISMP
4 2 (1.74%) CISSP
4 2 (1.74%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.87%) MBA
5 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) GDPR
2 11 (9.57%) PCI DSS
3 7 (6.09%) Basel II
3 7 (6.09%) Basel III
3 7 (6.09%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (6.09%) IFRS
3 7 (6.09%) IFRS 9
4 5 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (9.57%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (51.30%) SAP
2 58 (50.43%) Siemens
3 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) Google
5 2 (1.74%) Computacenter
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.87%) Databricks
6 1 (0.87%) IFS
6 1 (0.87%) Informatica