Lead Architect Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £79,842 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 497 710
Rank change year-on-year +156 +213 -264
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 205 82 203
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 125 61 147
10th Percentile £66,000 £60,000 £67,000
25th Percentile £72,493 £78,691 £77,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £126,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -13.16% +8.57% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 26,891 31,453 76,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.84% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 19,582 23,849 44,441
10th Percentile £34,500 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,749 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,728 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Architect.

Lead Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Architect over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Lead Architect salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 114 (55.61%) Azure
2 109 (53.17%) AWS
3 78 (38.05%) Agile
4 75 (36.59%) AWS Certification
5 73 (35.61%) Public Cloud
5 73 (35.61%) Azure Certification
6 67 (32.68%) Social Skills
7 65 (31.71%) Security Cleared
8 63 (30.73%) Relational Database
9 58 (28.29%) Oracle
10 56 (27.32%) SC Cleared
11 55 (26.83%) Migration
12 54 (26.34%) Open Source
13 52 (25.37%) Mentoring
14 51 (24.88%) Systems Engineering
14 51 (24.88%) Roadmaps
15 49 (23.90%) Project Management
16 48 (23.41%) Scrum
16 48 (23.41%) TOGAF
16 48 (23.41%) SDLC
16 48 (23.41%) Collaborative Working
17 47 (22.93%) Cloud Operations
17 47 (22.93%) DNS
17 47 (22.93%) Amazon EKS
18 46 (22.44%) Sparx
18 46 (22.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
18 46 (22.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 46 (22.44%) WebLogic
18 46 (22.44%) Linux
18 46 (22.44%) RDBMS

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 46 (22.44%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) Appian
2 1 (0.49%) OpenEdge
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 46 (22.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.98%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (55.61%) Azure
2 109 (53.17%) AWS
3 47 (22.93%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (22.44%) Amazon SQS
5 31 (15.12%) GCP
6 10 (4.88%) OCI
7 9 (4.39%) Kong
8 7 (3.41%) dbt
9 4 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.46%) IaaS
10 3 (1.46%) PaaS
10 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.98%) SaaS
11 2 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.49%) GitHub
12 1 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (22.93%) DNS
2 46 (22.44%) BGP
2 46 (22.44%) SSL
2 46 (22.44%) TCP/IP
3 34 (16.59%) WAN
4 24 (11.71%) SD-WAN
5 10 (4.88%) Ethernet
5 10 (4.88%) LAN
5 10 (4.88%) Wireless
6 5 (2.44%) 5G
6 5 (2.44%) Broadband
7 4 (1.95%) CTI
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (30.73%) Relational Database
2 46 (22.44%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (22.44%) Oracle Database
2 46 (22.44%) RDBMS
3 12 (5.85%) DB2
3 12 (5.85%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.46%) Big Data
7 2 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.49%) Metadata
8 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (2.44%) Visual Studio
2 4 (1.95%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.00%) Finance
3 21 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (5.85%) Legal
5 6 (2.93%) Automotive
6 5 (2.44%) Back Office
6 5 (2.44%) Police
7 4 (1.95%) Advertising
7 4 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.95%) Local Government
7 4 (1.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.95%) Retail
7 4 (1.95%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.46%) Banking
9 2 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Law
9 2 (0.98%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Wearables
10 1 (0.49%) Welsh Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.44%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (22.44%) Spring Boot
2 10 (4.88%) .NET
3 8 (3.90%) Node.js
4 7 (3.41%) Django
4 7 (3.41%) React
5 5 (2.44%) Kafka
6 4 (1.95%) HTML
7 3 (1.46%) Spring
8 2 (0.98%) XBRL
8 2 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (35.61%) Public Cloud
2 46 (22.44%) Enterprise Software
3 28 (13.66%) Management Information System
4 24 (11.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 16 (7.80%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.39%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.44%) Culture of Ownership
7 5 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.95%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.98%) IoT
11 1 (0.49%) Blog
11 1 (0.49%) Podcast
11 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 46 (22.44%) Linux
1 46 (22.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (38.05%) Agile
2 55 (26.83%) Migration
3 54 (26.34%) Open Source
4 52 (25.37%) Mentoring
5 51 (24.88%) Roadmaps
5 51 (24.88%) Systems Engineering
6 49 (23.90%) Project Management
7 48 (23.41%) Collaborative Working
7 48 (23.41%) Scrum
7 48 (23.41%) SDLC
7 48 (23.41%) TOGAF
8 47 (22.93%) Cloud Operations
9 46 (22.44%) Actionable Insight
9 46 (22.44%) ArchiMate
9 46 (22.44%) Data Migration
9 46 (22.44%) Kanban
9 46 (22.44%) Load Balancing
9 46 (22.44%) Re-Platforming
10 42 (20.49%) Architectural Patterns
11 40 (19.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.32%) SQL
2 10 (4.88%) C#
3 9 (4.39%) Python
4 7 (3.41%) Java
5 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.49%) Scala
5 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 75 (36.59%) AWS Certification
2 73 (35.61%) Azure Certification
3 65 (31.71%) Security Cleared
4 56 (27.32%) SC Cleared
5 46 (22.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (13.66%) CISSP
7 24 (11.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 24 (11.71%) CCSK
7 24 (11.71%) CCSP
7 24 (11.71%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (11.71%) CISM
8 5 (2.44%) Degree
8 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.71%) NIST
2 2 (0.98%) ISO 20022
2 2 (0.98%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (11.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (28.29%) Oracle
2 46 (22.44%) Sparx
3 24 (11.71%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.83%) Google
5 12 (5.85%) IBM
6 5 (2.44%) SAP
6 5 (2.44%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.95%) Databricks
7 4 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) Capita
8 1 (0.49%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.49%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.49%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.49%) VMware