Lead Enterprise Architect Jobs

Lead Enterprise Architect
UK

The median Lead Enterprise Architect salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 865 955
Rank change year-on-year +178 +90 +299
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Enterprise Architect 15 42 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.041% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.043% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 6 42 10
10th Percentile £79,371 - £106,250
25th Percentile £97,500 £74,901 £108,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £85,000 £117,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -27.66% +23.68%
75th Percentile £123,750 - £138,438
90th Percentile £136,375 £112,750 £143,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £105,000 £79,932 £117,500
% change year-on-year +31.36% -31.97% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,444 98,297 87,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.81% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,384 69,991 55,965
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.49%

Lead Enterprise Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect.

Salary trend for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Enterprise Architect in the UK

Lead Enterprise Architect
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Enterprise Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
UK excluding London +158 12 £105,000 +31.36% 6
England +141 12 £105,000 +23.53% 21
London +106 6 £105,000 -4.55% 15
North of England +16 5 £105,000 +31.36% 1
Work from Home +90 4 £96,314 +20.50% 11
South East +77 3 £125,000 +47.06%
Yorkshire +49 3 £105,000 +31.36%
North West -8 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
South West - 1 £143,500 - 5
Wales - 1 £67,629 -

Lead Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Lead Enterprise 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 featuring Lead Enterprise Architect in the job title.

1 13 (86.67%) TOGAF
2 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (73.33%) Roadmaps
3 9 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 9 (60.00%) Data Architecture
4 8 (53.33%) Business Strategy
4 8 (53.33%) Architecture Roadmap
5 7 (46.67%) Data Science
5 7 (46.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (46.67%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (46.67%) AWS
5 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
5 7 (46.67%) GDPR
6 6 (40.00%) Personalization
6 6 (40.00%) Adaptive Web Design
6 6 (40.00%) Deep Learning
6 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
6 6 (40.00%) Kafka
6 6 (40.00%) ArchiMate
6 6 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
6 6 (40.00%) Tableau
6 6 (40.00%) Neural Network
6 6 (40.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 6 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (40.00%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) Python

Lead Enterprise Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Collibra
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Tableau
2 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.67%) FMCG
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) TOGAF
2 11 (73.33%) Roadmaps
3 9 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 9 (60.00%) Data Architecture
4 8 (53.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 8 (53.33%) Business Strategy
5 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (46.67%) Data Science
5 7 (46.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (46.67%) Machine Learning
6 6 (40.00%) Adaptive Web Design
6 6 (40.00%) Agile
6 6 (40.00%) ArchiMate
6 6 (40.00%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (40.00%) DAMA
6 6 (40.00%) Deep Learning
6 6 (40.00%) Neural Network
6 6 (40.00%) Personalization
6 6 (40.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) MBA
3 1 (6.67%) Postgraduate
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (46.67%) GDPR
2 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Databricks
1 1 (6.67%) Informatica
1 1 (6.67%) SAP