Lead Architect Jobs in England

Lead Architect
UK > England

The median Lead Architect salary in England is £82,500 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 482 681 778
Rank change year-on-year +199 +97 -223
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 401 245 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.32% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 281 146 254
10th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £54,537
25th Percentile £72,493 £78,691 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £91,250 £117,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £136,875
UK median annual salary £81,945 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -13.74% +8.57% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in England

Lead Architect
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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 of England +145 153 £79,932 -18.02% 17
London +55 83 £100,000 - 20
Midlands +40 65 £79,842 +3.02% 7
Yorkshire +111 63 £82,500 -26.67% 5
North West +28 62 £79,932 -11.19% 8
South East +15 57 £70,000 -12.50% 3
West Midlands +30 52 £79,842 +6.46% 4
South West +3 38 £96,250 +6.94%
North East +15 28 £80,000 -17.95% 4
East Midlands -5 12 £77,500 -3.13% 3
East of England -9 3 £100,000 +5.26% 3
Lead Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 118 (29.43%) Azure
2 98 (24.44%) AWS
3 95 (23.69%) Roadmaps
4 88 (21.95%) Mentoring
5 82 (20.45%) Finance
6 79 (19.70%) Social Skills
7 78 (19.45%) Coaching
8 74 (18.45%) Agile
9 62 (15.46%) Security Cleared
10 60 (14.96%) AWS Certification
10 60 (14.96%) Public Cloud
11 59 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
12 58 (14.46%) Azure Certification
13 53 (13.22%) Decision-Making
13 53 (13.22%) Oracle
14 51 (12.72%) Relational Database
15 47 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
16 46 (11.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 46 (11.47%) Degree
17 45 (11.22%) Migration
18 43 (10.72%) SC Cleared
19 42 (10.47%) TOGAF
20 40 (9.98%) IT Strategy
20 40 (9.98%) Security Architecture
21 38 (9.48%) Microsoft
21 38 (9.48%) SDLC
22 37 (9.23%) Application Security
22 37 (9.23%) Architectural Patterns
22 37 (9.23%) CISSP
22 37 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 28 (6.98%) WebLogic
2 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.25%) Appian
3 1 (0.25%) Drupal
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 28 (6.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.00%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.75%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 118 (29.43%) Azure
2 98 (24.44%) AWS
3 30 (7.48%) GCP
4 29 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
5 28 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (1.75%) OCI
6 7 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.50%) SaaS
8 5 (1.25%) Azure Stack
8 5 (1.25%) Serverless
9 4 (1.00%) dbt
9 4 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.00%) Matillion
9 4 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.50%) Boomi
11 2 (0.50%) IaaS
11 2 (0.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.23%) BGP
1 29 (7.23%) DNS
1 29 (7.23%) WAN
2 28 (6.98%) SSL
2 28 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 27 (6.73%) SD-WAN
4 9 (2.24%) CTI
5 8 (2.00%) Broadband
6 7 (1.75%) Network Security
7 5 (1.25%) 5G
8 4 (1.00%) Internet
9 2 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.50%) LAN
9 2 (0.50%) Wireless
10 1 (0.25%) CATAPAN
10 1 (0.25%) DAB
10 1 (0.25%) Firewall
10 1 (0.25%) FTP
10 1 (0.25%) NGN
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (12.72%) Relational Database
2 28 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (6.98%) Oracle Database
2 28 (6.98%) RDBMS
3 21 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 19 (4.74%) DB2
5 10 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.25%) Power BI
8 4 (1.00%) Metadata
9 3 (0.75%) Big Data
9 3 (0.75%) QualityStage
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.25%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.25%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.49%) Team Foundation Server
1 10 (2.49%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.24%) Git
General
1 82 (20.45%) Finance
2 79 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (4.99%) Legal
7 13 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (2.99%) Law
9 9 (2.24%) Marketing
9 9 (2.24%) Police
10 8 (2.00%) Automotive
11 6 (1.50%) Banking
11 6 (1.50%) Billing
11 6 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.25%) Back Office
12 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.00%) Local Government
13 4 (1.00%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
1 28 (6.98%) Spring Boot
2 17 (4.24%) .NET
3 6 (1.50%) HTML
4 4 (1.00%) CSS
4 4 (1.00%) Django
4 4 (1.00%) Node.js
4 4 (1.00%) React
5 3 (0.75%) EDI
5 3 (0.75%) Kafka
5 3 (0.75%) SAP TM
6 2 (0.50%) Spring
6 2 (0.50%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.50%) XML
7 1 (0.25%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.25%) FIXML
7 1 (0.25%) IDoc
7 1 (0.25%) Middleware
7 1 (0.25%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.25%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.96%) Public Cloud
2 59 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (7.98%) Management Information System
4 27 (6.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 14 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.00%) IoT
8 6 (1.50%) Robotics
9 5 (1.25%) Culture of Ownership
9 5 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.25%) Replication
10 4 (1.00%) Cyberattack
11 3 (0.75%) FMCG
11 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.50%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.23%) Linux
2 28 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (23.69%) Roadmaps
2 88 (21.95%) Mentoring
3 78 (19.45%) Coaching
4 74 (18.45%) Agile
5 53 (13.22%) Decision-Making
6 47 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (11.22%) Migration
8 42 (10.47%) TOGAF
9 40 (9.98%) IT Strategy
9 40 (9.98%) Security Architecture
10 38 (9.48%) SDLC
11 37 (9.23%) Application Security
11 37 (9.23%) Architectural Patterns
11 37 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture
12 35 (8.73%) Systems Engineering
12 35 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (8.48%) Information Security
13 34 (8.48%) Project Management
14 33 (8.23%) Open Source
14 33 (8.23%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 34 (8.48%) SQL
2 15 (3.74%) C#
2 15 (3.74%) Python
3 13 (3.24%) Java
4 7 (1.75%) Scala
5 6 (1.50%) C
5 6 (1.50%) R
6 4 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.50%) C++
8 2 (0.50%) SOQL
9 1 (0.25%) ABAP
9 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.96%) AWS Certification
3 58 (14.46%) Azure Certification
4 46 (11.47%) Degree
5 43 (10.72%) SC Cleared
6 37 (9.23%) CISSP
7 33 (8.23%) CISM
8 28 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (6.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 27 (6.73%) CCSK
9 27 (6.73%) CCSP
9 27 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.50%) CISA
11 6 (1.50%) SANS
12 5 (1.25%) CRISC
12 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.48%) NIST
2 5 (1.25%) GDPR
3 4 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.75%) NCSC
4 3 (0.75%) QA
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (6.73%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.73%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (13.22%) Oracle
2 38 (9.48%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.98%) Sparx
4 21 (5.24%) Google
4 21 (5.24%) Pega
5 19 (4.74%) IBM
6 11 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.74%) Unisys
7 7 (1.75%) Databricks
7 7 (1.75%) SAP
8 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.25%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.50%) Conga
10 2 (0.50%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.50%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.25%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.25%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (0.25%) Juniper
11 1 (0.25%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.25%) Reuters