Lead Architect
UK

The median Lead Architect salary in the UK is £79,932 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 697 785
Rank change year-on-year +177 +88 -221
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 432 268 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 271 164 290
10th Percentile £62,250 £70,150 £52,493
25th Percentile £70,125 £78,691 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,932 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.86% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £110,938
90th Percentile £112,500 £131,875 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £79,842 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +20.00% +2.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 94,634 91,081 154,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,599 57,631 84,466
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,974 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in the UK

Lead Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +170 367 £80,250 -15.53% 59
UK excluding London +195 328 £79,842 -11.29% 27
Work from Home +141 209 £79,842 -13.37% 29
North of England +129 125 £79,932 -11.19% 7
London +45 83 £105,000 +5.00% 28
Midlands +46 59 £78,126 +0.81% 8
South East +21 57 £70,000 -12.50% 7
Yorkshire +122 54 £81,216 -16.27%
North West +31 51 £79,842 -11.29% 2
West Midlands +49 47 £79,842 +6.46% 5
South West +21 38 £96,250 +20.46% 4
Scotland -54 27 £79,000 -14.29%
North East +16 20 £79,932 -18.02% 5
Wales +17 15 £67,500 +7.58%
East Midlands -2 11 £66,250 -17.19% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
East of England -2 3 £100,000 +5.26% 2

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 163 (37.73%) Azure
2 118 (27.31%) AWS
3 102 (23.61%) Social Skills
4 97 (22.45%) Agile
5 96 (22.22%) Finance
6 89 (20.60%) Roadmaps
7 87 (20.14%) Mentoring
8 86 (19.91%) Public Cloud
9 85 (19.68%) Security Cleared
10 79 (18.29%) Oracle
11 77 (17.82%) Enterprise Software
11 77 (17.82%) Azure Certification
12 74 (17.13%) AWS Certification
13 71 (16.44%) Coaching
14 70 (16.20%) Relational Database
15 68 (15.74%) SDLC
16 66 (15.28%) SC Cleared
17 65 (15.05%) Decision-Making
18 62 (14.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 61 (14.12%) TOGAF
20 60 (13.89%) Migration
21 56 (12.96%) Microsoft
22 53 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
22 53 (12.27%) Systems Engineering
23 52 (12.04%) Scrum
24 51 (11.81%) Project Management
25 50 (11.57%) Degree
26 49 (11.34%) Collaborative Working
26 49 (11.34%) Data Migration
27 48 (11.11%) Oracle Database

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 46 (10.65%) WebLogic
2 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) Appian
3 1 (0.23%) Drupal
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 46 (10.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.93%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.69%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.23%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 163 (37.73%) Azure
2 118 (27.31%) AWS
3 47 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (10.65%) Amazon SQS
5 27 (6.25%) GCP
6 12 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 7 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.62%) OCI
8 6 (1.39%) Azure API Management
8 6 (1.39%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.39%) PaaS
8 6 (1.39%) SaaS
8 6 (1.39%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.16%) Azure Stack
9 5 (1.16%) Serverless
10 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.93%) IaaS
10 4 (0.93%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 47 (10.88%) BGP
1 47 (10.88%) DNS
2 46 (10.65%) SSL
2 46 (10.65%) TCP/IP
3 27 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 27 (6.25%) WAN
4 9 (2.08%) CTI
5 7 (1.62%) Network Security
6 5 (1.16%) Broadband
7 4 (0.93%) Internet
8 1 (0.23%) 5G
8 1 (0.23%) CATAPAN
8 1 (0.23%) DAB
8 1 (0.23%) Firewall
8 1 (0.23%) FTP
8 1 (0.23%) IPv4
8 1 (0.23%) IPv6
8 1 (0.23%) NGN
8 1 (0.23%) OSPF
8 1 (0.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (16.20%) Relational Database
2 48 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 46 (10.65%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (10.65%) RDBMS
4 21 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.40%) DB2
6 14 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.62%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.39%) Metadata
9 5 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.16%) Power BI
10 3 (0.69%) Big Data
10 3 (0.69%) QualityStage
11 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.23%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
1 10 (2.31%) Visual Studio
2 9 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) Maven
General
1 102 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.22%) Finance
3 62 (14.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 46 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.25%) Law
6 23 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (4.86%) Marketing
8 20 (4.63%) Legal
9 13 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (2.78%) Police
11 9 (2.08%) Banking
12 8 (1.85%) Automotive
13 6 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.39%) Games
13 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.16%) Billing
14 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.93%) Local Government
15 4 (0.93%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.88%) Spring Boot
2 46 (10.65%) RabbitMQ
3 21 (4.86%) .NET
4 7 (1.62%) HTML
5 6 (1.39%) OAuth
5 6 (1.39%) SAML
6 5 (1.16%) Kafka
7 4 (0.93%) CSS
7 4 (0.93%) Spring
8 3 (0.69%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.69%) EDI
8 3 (0.69%) Middleware
8 3 (0.69%) SAP TM
8 3 (0.69%) Web Services
9 2 (0.46%) HTML5
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.46%) YAML
10 1 (0.23%) Node.js
10 1 (0.23%) SAP PI
10 1 (0.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 86 (19.91%) Public Cloud
2 77 (17.82%) Enterprise Software
3 32 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 27 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 14 (3.24%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.85%) IoT
8 6 (1.39%) Robotics
9 5 (1.16%) Replication
10 4 (0.93%) Cyberattack
10 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.69%) FMCG
11 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.46%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.46%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.88%) Linux
2 46 (10.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (2.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (22.45%) Agile
2 89 (20.60%) Roadmaps
3 87 (20.14%) Mentoring
4 71 (16.44%) Coaching
5 68 (15.74%) SDLC
6 65 (15.05%) Decision-Making
7 61 (14.12%) TOGAF
8 60 (13.89%) Migration
9 53 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (12.27%) Systems Engineering
10 52 (12.04%) Scrum
11 51 (11.81%) Project Management
12 49 (11.34%) Collaborative Working
12 49 (11.34%) Data Migration
13 47 (10.88%) Cloud Operations
13 47 (10.88%) Kanban
13 47 (10.88%) Open Source
13 47 (10.88%) Re-Platforming
14 46 (10.65%) Actionable Insight
14 46 (10.65%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.80%) SQL
2 19 (4.40%) C#
3 17 (3.94%) Java
4 11 (2.55%) Python
5 7 (1.62%) Scala
6 6 (1.39%) C
6 6 (1.39%) R
7 4 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) ABAP
9 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 85 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.82%) Azure Certification
3 74 (17.13%) AWS Certification
4 66 (15.28%) SC Cleared
5 50 (11.57%) Degree
6 46 (10.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 43 (9.95%) CISSP
8 39 (9.03%) CISM
9 27 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 27 (6.25%) CCSK
9 27 (6.25%) CCSP
9 27 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.39%) CISA
11 6 (1.39%) SANS
12 5 (1.16%) CRISC
12 5 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.26%) NIST
2 7 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.16%) GDPR
3 5 (1.16%) QA
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (6.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 79 (18.29%) Oracle
2 56 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 46 (10.65%) Sparx
4 22 (5.09%) Google
5 21 (4.86%) Pega
6 19 (4.40%) IBM
7 17 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.94%) Unisys
8 9 (2.08%) Databricks
8 9 (2.08%) SAP
9 5 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.69%) VMware
11 2 (0.46%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco
12 1 (0.23%) DocuSign
12 1 (0.23%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (0.23%) Juniper
12 1 (0.23%) Reuters
12 1 (0.23%) Virgin Media