Lead Architect Jobs in the North of England

Lead Architect
England > North of England

The median Lead Architect salary in the North of England is £79,966 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 385 406
Rank change year-on-year +138 +21 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 155 37 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 136 26 48
10th Percentile £71,784 £72,750 £50,709
25th Percentile £74,766 £75,313 £52,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,966 £97,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% +34.48% +3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £118,938 £88,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £126,250 £95,750
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
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 18,108 14,310 17,849
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 89.32% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,776 7,988 10,999
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,247 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the North of England

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
North West +30 64 £79,932 -11.19% 9
Yorkshire +112 63 £82,500 -26.67% 5
North East +13 28 £80,000 -17.95% 4
Lead Architect
England

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 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 North of England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 58 (37.42%) Azure
2 56 (36.13%) AWS
3 49 (31.61%) Roadmaps
4 41 (26.45%) Coaching
5 40 (25.81%) Mentoring
6 38 (24.52%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (21.29%) Decision-Making
8 32 (20.65%) Azure Certification
8 32 (20.65%) AWS Certification
9 30 (19.35%) Public Cloud
10 29 (18.71%) Oracle
11 28 (18.06%) Relational Database
12 27 (17.42%) Finance
13 24 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (15.48%) Application Security
14 23 (14.84%) Security Architecture
15 22 (14.19%) WAN
15 22 (14.19%) CI/CD
15 22 (14.19%) Public Sector
15 22 (14.19%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (14.19%) IT Strategy
16 20 (12.90%) Secure Coding
16 20 (12.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 20 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
16 20 (12.90%) NIST
16 20 (12.90%) Design Patterns
16 20 (12.90%) SD-WAN
16 20 (12.90%) Social Skills
16 20 (12.90%) CCSK
16 20 (12.90%) Technology Strategy

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (7.74%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.94%) SAP IBP
2 3 (1.94%) SAP PP
2 3 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (37.42%) Azure
2 56 (36.13%) AWS
3 19 (12.26%) GCP
4 12 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (7.74%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (1.94%) OCI
6 2 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.29%) dbt
6 2 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.29%) Kong
7 1 (0.65%) IaaS
7 1 (0.65%) PaaS
7 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.19%) WAN
2 20 (12.90%) SD-WAN
3 12 (7.74%) BGP
3 12 (7.74%) DNS
3 12 (7.74%) SSL
3 12 (7.74%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.29%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.29%) LAN
4 2 (1.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.06%) Relational Database
2 16 (10.32%) DB2
2 16 (10.32%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.74%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (7.74%) Oracle Database
3 12 (7.74%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.94%) QualityStage
General
1 27 (17.42%) Finance
2 22 (14.19%) Public Sector
3 20 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.32%) Legal
5 15 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.74%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (7.74%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.94%) .NET
2 3 (1.94%) SAP TM
3 2 (1.29%) Django
3 2 (1.29%) EDI
3 2 (1.29%) Node.js
3 2 (1.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.52%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (19.35%) Public Cloud
3 20 (12.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 20 (12.90%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.87%) Robotics
5 5 (3.23%) IoT
6 3 (1.94%) FMCG
7 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.74%) Linux
1 12 (7.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.61%) Roadmaps
2 41 (26.45%) Coaching
3 40 (25.81%) Mentoring
4 33 (21.29%) Decision-Making
5 24 (15.48%) Application Security
5 24 (15.48%) Enterprise Architecture
6 23 (14.84%) Security Architecture
7 22 (14.19%) Architectural Patterns
7 22 (14.19%) CI/CD
7 22 (14.19%) IT Strategy
8 20 (12.90%) Business Strategy
8 20 (12.90%) Design Patterns
8 20 (12.90%) Identity Management
8 20 (12.90%) Information Security
8 20 (12.90%) OWASP
8 20 (12.90%) Secure Coding
8 20 (12.90%) Technology Strategy
9 19 (12.26%) ERP
9 19 (12.26%) Migration
10 17 (10.97%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.26%) SQL
2 2 (1.29%) C#
2 2 (1.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (20.65%) AWS Certification
1 32 (20.65%) Azure Certification
2 20 (12.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 20 (12.90%) CCSK
2 20 (12.90%) CCSP
2 20 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (12.90%) CISM
2 20 (12.90%) CISSP
3 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.03%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.90%) NIST
2 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.94%) QA
System Software
1 20 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (12.90%) Kubernetes
1 20 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (18.71%) Oracle
2 17 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.32%) Google
3 16 (10.32%) IBM
4 12 (7.74%) Sparx
5 5 (3.23%) SAP