Lead Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Architect salary in the West Midlands is £78,700 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 210 246
Rank change year-on-year +21 +36 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 8 47 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.64% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.68% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3 30 8
10th Percentile £66,190 £50,000 £60,500
25th Percentile £70,750 £51,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,700 £78,984 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +3.59% +38.64%
75th Percentile £79,050 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £85,500 £82,875
England median annual salary £100,000 £80,000 £92,169
% change year-on-year +25.00% -13.20% +2.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,981 6,945 5,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.14% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,810 5,217 3,269
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,485 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the West Midlands

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Solihull - 5 - -
Wolverhampton - 2 £78,700 - 1
Birmingham +4 1 £64,600 -19.09% 5
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 West Midlands region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
2 5 (62.50%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (62.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (62.50%) Co-Creation
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (62.50%) Thought Leadership
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Data Structures
2 5 (62.50%) BigQuery
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) Logical Data Model
2 5 (62.50%) Physical Data Model
2 5 (62.50%) ETL Development
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Presales
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Data Transformation
2 5 (62.50%) Data Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Data Integration

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (62.50%) BigQuery
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Police
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Structures
1 5 (62.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Co-Creation
1 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (62.50%) Data Analysis
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (62.50%) Data Transformation
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
1 5 (62.50%) ETL Development
1 5 (62.50%) Logical Data Model
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Optimisation
1 5 (62.50%) Physical Data Model
1 5 (62.50%) Presales
1 5 (62.50%) Regulatory Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
1 5 (62.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki