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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 471 695
Rank change year-on-year +45 +224 -237
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 84 132 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.45% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 47 84 161
10th Percentile £70,695 £75,750 £69,000
25th Percentile £78,396 £85,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £115,000 £121,875 £122,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £141,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £83,750 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.84% +8.57% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 12 June 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 12 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
Central London +66 33 £130,000 -20.00% 1
Lead Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 26 (30.95%) Roadmaps
2 24 (28.57%) Finance
3 23 (27.38%) Azure
4 20 (23.81%) Mentoring
4 20 (23.81%) Agile
5 17 (20.24%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (19.05%) Technology Roadmap
7 15 (17.86%) AWS
7 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
8 14 (16.67%) DevOps
9 13 (15.48%) AWS Certification
9 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
10 12 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (14.29%) Migration
11 11 (13.10%) Thought Leadership
12 10 (11.90%) Azure Certification
12 10 (11.90%) Public Cloud
12 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
13 9 (10.71%) TOGAF
13 9 (10.71%) Oracle
13 9 (10.71%) Coaching
13 9 (10.71%) Product Requirements
13 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
14 8 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
14 8 (9.52%) Data Strategy
14 8 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
14 8 (9.52%) Creative Thinking
14 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
14 8 (9.52%) GCP
14 8 (9.52%) CISSP

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 (4.76%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Drupal
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.38%) Azure
2 15 (17.86%) AWS
3 8 (9.52%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (4.76%) OCI
5 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.19%) dbt
7 1 (1.19%) IaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.19%) PaaS
7 1 (1.19%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) 5G
1 5 (5.95%) Broadband
1 5 (5.95%) DNS
2 4 (4.76%) BGP
2 4 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 4 (4.76%) SSL
2 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.76%) WAN
3 2 (2.38%) Internet
4 1 (1.19%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 4 (4.76%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.38%) Big Data
6 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.19%) Power BI
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (28.57%) Finance
2 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.95%) Back Office
4 5 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Advertising
5 4 (4.76%) Local Government
6 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Retail
7 2 (2.38%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.19%) French Language
8 1 (1.19%) German Language
8 1 (1.19%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.19%) Marketing
8 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) CSS
1 4 (4.76%) HTML
1 4 (4.76%) Kafka
1 4 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.57%) .NET
3 2 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (1.19%) Django
4 1 (1.19%) FIXML
4 1 (1.19%) Node.js
4 1 (1.19%) React
4 1 (1.19%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 8 (9.52%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.95%) Culture of Ownership
4 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.76%) Cyberattack
5 4 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) IoT
7 1 (1.19%) PKI
7 1 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.95%) Roadmaps
2 20 (23.81%) Agile
2 20 (23.81%) Mentoring
3 17 (20.24%) Technical Leadership
4 16 (19.05%) Technology Roadmap
5 14 (16.67%) DevOps
6 12 (14.29%) Migration
7 11 (13.10%) Thought Leadership
8 9 (10.71%) Coaching
8 9 (10.71%) Product Requirements
8 9 (10.71%) TOGAF
9 8 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (9.52%) Creative Thinking
9 8 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (9.52%) Data Strategy
9 8 (9.52%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (8.33%) IT Strategy
11 6 (7.14%) Analytics
11 6 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 6 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.95%) Java
2 2 (2.38%) C#
2 2 (2.38%) Python
3 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) AWS Certification
3 10 (11.90%) Azure Certification
3 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) CISSP
4 8 (9.52%) Degree
5 4 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.76%) CCSK
5 4 (4.76%) CCSP
5 4 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.76%) CISM
5 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.19%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.19%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Oracle
2 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 6 (7.14%) Unisys
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.95%) Pega
3 5 (5.95%) Virgin Media
4 4 (4.76%) Sparx
5 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (1.19%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.19%) Cognizant
7 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.19%) Reuters