Lead Architect Jobs in Yorkshire

Lead Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Architect salary in Yorkshire is £93,319 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 168 289
Rank change year-on-year +37 +121 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 16 54 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.58% 0.93% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.98% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12 48 15
10th Percentile £58,397 £71,370 £74,700
25th Percentile £74,556 £74,766 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,319 £81,216 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.90% -0.35% -1.21%
75th Percentile £101,980 £86,250 £126,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £91,250 -
England median annual salary £101,250 £80,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year +26.56% -14.67% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,580 5,526 7,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.21% 91.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,345 4,274 3,514
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £49,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -9.81% +9.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £80,000 £82,500
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Yorkshire

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Yorkshire +39 11 £92,000 +8.24% 5
South Yorkshire +26 1 £46,500 -43.64% 3
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (68.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 8 (50.00%) Analytics
3 8 (50.00%) Finance
3 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 8 (50.00%) Data Management
3 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (50.00%) GDPR
3 8 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 7 (43.75%) Risk Analytics
4 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
4 7 (43.75%) API Management
4 7 (43.75%) IFRS
4 7 (43.75%) IFRS 9
4 7 (43.75%) Scenario Testing
4 7 (43.75%) Data Science
4 7 (43.75%) Regulatory Compliance
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (43.75%) Data Encryption
4 7 (43.75%) Architecture Governance
4 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Credit Risk
4 7 (43.75%) Market Risk
4 7 (43.75%) Stress Testing
4 7 (43.75%) Basel II

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 7 (43.75%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
2 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Credit Risk
1 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Management Information System
1 7 (43.75%) Market Risk
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (50.00%) Analytics
2 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 8 (50.00%) Data Management
2 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) API Management
3 7 (43.75%) Architecture Governance
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
3 7 (43.75%) Data Science
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) ETL
3 7 (43.75%) Fraud Detection
3 7 (43.75%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) Predictive Analytics
3 7 (43.75%) Risk Management
3 7 (43.75%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) R
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) GDPR
2 7 (43.75%) Basel II
2 7 (43.75%) Basel III
2 7 (43.75%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (43.75%) IFRS
2 7 (43.75%) IFRS 9
2 7 (43.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality