Lead Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £79,932 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 440 628 663
Rank change year-on-year +188 +35 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 364 105 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 247 62 110
10th Percentile £61,750 £64,865 £50,709
25th Percentile £70,538 £75,000 £57,618
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £90,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.19% +22.03% +1.72%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £119,900 £97,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the UK excluding London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -50 27 £75,150 -18.46% 1
Wales +18 16 £68,750 +9.58% 1
East Midlands -5 12 £77,500 -3.13% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £75,150 -
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 132 (36.26%) Azure
2 111 (30.49%) AWS
3 82 (22.53%) Social Skills
4 80 (21.98%) Agile
5 75 (20.60%) Mentoring
6 74 (20.33%) Public Cloud
7 73 (20.05%) Finance
8 72 (19.78%) Roadmaps
9 71 (19.51%) Enterprise Software
9 71 (19.51%) Security Cleared
10 68 (18.68%) Coaching
11 64 (17.58%) Azure Certification
12 63 (17.31%) AWS Certification
12 63 (17.31%) Oracle
13 60 (16.48%) SDLC
13 60 (16.48%) Decision-Making
14 59 (16.21%) Relational Database
15 57 (15.66%) SC Cleared
16 55 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 49 (13.46%) Migration
18 48 (13.19%) TOGAF
19 47 (12.91%) Open Source
20 46 (12.64%) Project Management
20 46 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
21 45 (12.36%) Scrum
22 44 (12.09%) Microsoft
23 43 (11.81%) Data Migration
23 43 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
23 43 (11.81%) Systems Engineering
24 42 (11.54%) Kanban

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 40 (10.99%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.27%) Apache
2 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.27%) Appian
Business Applications
1 40 (10.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.10%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.82%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.27%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 132 (36.26%) Azure
2 111 (30.49%) AWS
3 41 (11.26%) Amazon EKS
4 40 (10.99%) Amazon SQS
5 24 (6.59%) GCP
6 9 (2.47%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.65%) dbt
7 6 (1.65%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (1.65%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.37%) Azure Stack
8 5 (1.37%) Serverless
9 4 (1.10%) Azure API Management
9 4 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.10%) Matillion
9 4 (1.10%) SaaS
10 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.82%) OCI
11 2 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (11.26%) BGP
2 40 (10.99%) DNS
2 40 (10.99%) SSL
2 40 (10.99%) TCP/IP
3 25 (6.87%) WAN
4 23 (6.32%) SD-WAN
5 9 (2.47%) CTI
6 6 (1.65%) Network Security
7 4 (1.10%) Broadband
8 2 (0.55%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.55%) Internet
8 2 (0.55%) LAN
8 2 (0.55%) Wireless
9 1 (0.27%) DAB
9 1 (0.27%) Firewall
9 1 (0.27%) FTP
9 1 (0.27%) IPv4
9 1 (0.27%) IPv6
9 1 (0.27%) OSPF
9 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.21%) Relational Database
2 40 (10.99%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (10.99%) Oracle Database
2 40 (10.99%) RDBMS
3 20 (5.49%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.22%) DB2
5 6 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.65%) Metadata
6 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.10%) Power BI
7 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.82%) QualityStage
8 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Git
1 9 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
1 9 (2.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 73 (20.05%) Finance
3 55 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.14%) Law
6 20 (5.49%) Legal
6 20 (5.49%) Marketing
7 18 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.47%) Police
10 8 (2.20%) Automotive
11 6 (1.65%) Billing
11 6 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.65%) Games
12 5 (1.37%) Banking
12 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.10%) Wearables
14 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.99%) RabbitMQ
1 40 (10.99%) Spring Boot
2 16 (4.40%) .NET
3 6 (1.65%) Django
3 6 (1.65%) Node.js
3 6 (1.65%) OAuth
3 6 (1.65%) React
3 6 (1.65%) SAML
4 3 (0.82%) EDI
4 3 (0.82%) Kafka
4 3 (0.82%) SAP TM
5 2 (0.55%) HTML
5 2 (0.55%) Visualforce
5 2 (0.55%) XML
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.27%) IDoc
6 1 (0.27%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.27%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.27%) SOAP
6 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.33%) Public Cloud
2 71 (19.51%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (6.59%) Management Information System
4 23 (6.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.92%) IoT
7 6 (1.65%) Robotics
8 5 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.37%) Replication
9 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.82%) FMCG
11 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.27%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.27%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.27%) Reference Data
12 1 (0.27%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.99%) Linux
1 40 (10.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (21.98%) Agile
2 75 (20.60%) Mentoring
3 72 (19.78%) Roadmaps
4 68 (18.68%) Coaching
5 60 (16.48%) Decision-Making
5 60 (16.48%) SDLC
6 49 (13.46%) Migration
7 48 (13.19%) TOGAF
8 47 (12.91%) Open Source
9 46 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (12.64%) Project Management
10 45 (12.36%) Scrum
11 43 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
11 43 (11.81%) Data Migration
11 43 (11.81%) Systems Engineering
12 42 (11.54%) Kanban
13 41 (11.26%) Re-Platforming
14 40 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
14 40 (10.99%) ArchiMate
14 40 (10.99%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.89%) SQL
2 16 (4.40%) Python
3 15 (4.12%) C#
4 12 (3.30%) Java
5 7 (1.92%) Scala
6 6 (1.65%) C
6 6 (1.65%) R
7 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.55%) C++
8 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.55%) SOQL
9 1 (0.27%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 71 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.58%) Azure Certification
3 63 (17.31%) AWS Certification
4 57 (15.66%) SC Cleared
5 41 (11.26%) Degree
6 40 (10.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 35 (9.62%) CISM
7 35 (9.62%) CISSP
8 23 (6.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 23 (6.32%) CCSK
8 23 (6.32%) CCSP
8 23 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.65%) CISA
9 6 (1.65%) SANS
10 5 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.37%) CRISC
11 1 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.27%) ISACA
11 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.89%) NIST
2 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.37%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) QA
5 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (6.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.32%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (17.31%) Oracle
2 44 (12.09%) Microsoft
3 40 (10.99%) Sparx
4 19 (5.22%) Google
4 19 (5.22%) IBM
5 16 (4.40%) Pega
6 7 (1.92%) Databricks
6 7 (1.92%) SAP
7 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.37%) Unisys
8 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.55%) Conga
9 2 (0.55%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.55%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.27%) Cisco
10 1 (0.27%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.27%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.27%) Juniper
10 1 (0.27%) VMware