Lead Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 387 550
Rank change year-on-year +40 +163 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 70 204 127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.60% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.63% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 64 144 96
10th Percentile £63,150 £67,500 £65,758
25th Percentile £84,688 £72,493 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £79,842 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -13.37% +5.34%
75th Percentile £107,625 £85,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £97,500 £126,250
UK median annual salary £97,500 £79,932 £92,169
% change year-on-year +21.98% -13.28% +2.41%

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 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Lead Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Lead Architect over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 3 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 42 (60.00%) Finance
2 30 (42.86%) Azure
3 24 (34.29%) Analytics
3 24 (34.29%) Microsoft
4 22 (31.43%) Banking
4 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 22 (31.43%) GCP
5 18 (25.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (25.71%) Agile
5 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
6 17 (24.29%) Data Integration
6 17 (24.29%) Business Strategy
6 17 (24.29%) Mentoring
6 17 (24.29%) Decision-Making
7 16 (22.86%) Power Platform
7 16 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (21.43%) GDPR
9 13 (18.57%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (18.57%) OpenEdge
10 12 (17.14%) MVC
10 12 (17.14%) Data Analytics
10 12 (17.14%) DevOps
10 12 (17.14%) Roadmaps
11 11 (15.71%) BigQuery
11 11 (15.71%) React
11 11 (15.71%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (15.71%) Software Deployment
11 11 (15.71%) Domain-Driven Design
11 11 (15.71%) OpenID
11 11 (15.71%) jQuery

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 13 (18.57%) OpenEdge
2 11 (15.71%) Umbraco
3 7 (10.00%) SAS
4 1 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (42.86%) Azure
2 22 (31.43%) GCP
3 16 (22.86%) Power Platform
4 13 (18.57%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (12.86%) AWS
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Kong
7 1 (1.43%) PaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Internet
2 2 (2.86%) LAN
2 2 (2.86%) MPLS
2 2 (2.86%) WAN
2 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) BigQuery
2 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.29%) Power BI
4 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
General
1 42 (60.00%) Finance
2 22 (31.43%) Banking
2 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (12.86%) Law
5 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) Ajax
1 11 (15.71%) CSS
1 11 (15.71%) jQuery
1 11 (15.71%) OAuth
1 11 (15.71%) OpenID
1 11 (15.71%) React
1 11 (15.71%) SAML
2 2 (2.86%) Leaflet
2 2 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) RESTful
3 1 (1.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 7 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 7 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.00%) Market Risk
4 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Analytics
2 18 (25.71%) Agile
3 17 (24.29%) Business Strategy
3 17 (24.29%) Data Integration
3 17 (24.29%) Decision-Making
3 17 (24.29%) Mentoring
4 16 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (17.14%) Data Analytics
5 12 (17.14%) DevOps
5 12 (17.14%) MVC
5 12 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 11 (15.71%) Content Management
6 11 (15.71%) Data Management
6 11 (15.71%) Domain-Driven Design
6 11 (15.71%) Software Deployment
6 11 (15.71%) Web Development
7 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.86%) Microservices
8 9 (12.86%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.71%) JavaScript
2 9 (12.86%) SQL
3 8 (11.43%) Python
4 7 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (4.29%) CISSP
3 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.86%) CCIE
4 2 (2.86%) CCNA
4 2 (2.86%) CCNP
4 2 (2.86%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.86%) CISMP
4 2 (2.86%) CITP
5 1 (1.43%) CISM
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.43%) GDPR
2 9 (12.86%) PCI DSS
3 7 (10.00%) Basel II
3 7 (10.00%) Basel III
3 7 (10.00%) Dodd-Frank
3 7 (10.00%) IFRS
3 7 (10.00%) IFRS 9
4 6 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (5.71%) SOC 2
6 3 (4.29%) HIPAA
7 2 (2.86%) NIST
8 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.29%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Cisco
3 2 (2.86%) Databricks
3 2 (2.86%) Meraki
4 1 (1.43%) SAP