Lead Architect Jobs in London

Lead Architect
England > London

The median Lead Architect salary in London is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 490 666
Rank change year-on-year +63 +176 -226
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 85 140 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.44% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 53 92 166
10th Percentile £72,500 £77,619 £69,000
25th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £81,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £120,000 £118,625 £126,250
90th Percentile £139,500 £137,500 £156,250
England median annual salary £82,500 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -13.16% +8.57% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,363 31,644 68,018
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 95.15% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,672 23,333 34,565
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,360 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Central London +76 34 £130,000 -20.00% 7
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 28 (32.94%) Roadmaps
2 26 (30.59%) Azure
3 24 (28.24%) Finance
4 22 (25.88%) Agile
5 19 (22.35%) Mentoring
6 15 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
6 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
7 14 (16.47%) AWS
7 14 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (16.47%) Thought Leadership
8 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
9 11 (12.94%) Product Requirements
9 11 (12.94%) Creative Thinking
9 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
10 10 (11.76%) DevOps
10 10 (11.76%) Data Strategy
10 10 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
10 10 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
10 10 (11.76%) TOGAF
10 10 (11.76%) Migration
10 10 (11.76%) Oracle
10 10 (11.76%) Azure Certification
11 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
11 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (10.59%) Public Cloud
12 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
12 8 (9.41%) Systems Engineering
12 8 (9.41%) IT Strategy
12 8 (9.41%) Degree

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (4.71%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Drupal
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.59%) Azure
2 14 (16.47%) AWS
3 6 (7.06%) GCP
4 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (4.71%) OCI
5 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.35%) PaaS
6 2 (2.35%) SaaS
6 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.18%) IaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.18%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) DNS
2 4 (4.71%) BGP
2 4 (4.71%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.71%) SSL
2 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.71%) WAN
3 3 (3.53%) 5G
3 3 (3.53%) Broadband
4 2 (2.35%) Internet
5 1 (1.18%) Network Security
5 1 (1.18%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.18%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.18%) Maven
1 1 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (28.24%) Finance
2 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.71%) Local Government
6 3 (3.53%) Back Office
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.35%) Advertising
7 2 (2.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Retail
7 2 (2.35%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.18%) French Language
8 1 (1.18%) German Language
8 1 (1.18%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.88%) HTML
1 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.71%) .NET
2 4 (4.71%) CSS
2 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (3.53%) Kafka
3 3 (3.53%) Spring
4 1 (1.18%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.18%) FIXML
4 1 (1.18%) HTML5
4 1 (1.18%) Middleware
4 1 (1.18%) Web Services
4 1 (1.18%) XBRL
4 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Product Ownership
1 9 (10.59%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.41%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.71%) Cyberattack
3 4 (4.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) PKI
6 1 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.94%) Roadmaps
2 22 (25.88%) Agile
3 19 (22.35%) Mentoring
4 15 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
5 14 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (16.47%) Thought Leadership
6 11 (12.94%) Creative Thinking
6 11 (12.94%) Product Requirements
7 10 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
7 10 (11.76%) Data Strategy
7 10 (11.76%) DevOps
7 10 (11.76%) Migration
7 10 (11.76%) TOGAF
8 9 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (9.41%) IT Strategy
9 8 (9.41%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (8.24%) Analytics
10 7 (8.24%) Coaching
10 7 (8.24%) Strategic Roadmap
10 7 (8.24%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.71%) Java
2 3 (3.53%) C#
3 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.35%) SQL
4 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.94%) AWS Certification
3 10 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.41%) CISSP
4 8 (9.41%) Degree
5 4 (4.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.71%) CCSK
5 4 (4.71%) CCSP
5 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.71%) CISM
5 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) NIST
2 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.76%) Oracle
2 8 (9.41%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.06%) Unisys
4 5 (5.88%) Pega
5 4 (4.71%) Sparx
6 3 (3.53%) Google
6 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.53%) Virgin Media
7 2 (2.35%) Databricks
8 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.18%) Reuters