Lead Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Lead Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Lead Architect salary in Birmingham is £79,842 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 128 187
Rank change year-on-year +10 +59 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 35 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.16% 0.17% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35 3 9
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,000 £52,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £57,971
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £74,000 £87,000
West Midlands median annual salary £79,842 £75,000 £57,070
% change year-on-year +6.46% +31.42% -18.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,844 1,680 2,999
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 92.92% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,293 1,329 2,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,600 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Birmingham

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Birmingham

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
2 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (17.14%) Coaching
3 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (11.43%) Information Security
5 4 (11.43%) Agile
5 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
5 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
5 4 (11.43%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
6 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (8.57%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (8.57%) Business Case
6 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
6 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.57%) NIST
6 3 (8.57%) Application Security
6 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (2.86%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) Boomi
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
1 3 (8.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) DB2
1 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Billing
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) HTML
1 2 (5.71%) Visualforce
1 2 (5.71%) XML
2 1 (2.86%) Django
2 1 (2.86%) EDI
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
2 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
2 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 6 (17.14%) Coaching
3 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
4 5 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (11.43%) Agile
5 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
5 4 (11.43%) Information Security
5 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (8.57%) Application Security
6 3 (8.57%) Business Case
6 3 (8.57%) Design Patterns
6 3 (8.57%) Microservices
6 3 (8.57%) OWASP
6 3 (8.57%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (8.57%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) Apex Code
2 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.71%) SOQL
3 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.57%) CCSK
1 3 (8.57%) CCSP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (8.57%) CISM
1 3 (8.57%) CISSP
2 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) NIST
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) IBM
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Conga
3 2 (5.71%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.86%) Guidewire