Lead Architect Jobs in Wales

Lead Architect
UK > Wales

The median Lead Architect salary in Wales is £68,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 132 141
Rank change year-on-year +22 +9 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 16 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.71% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64,750 £56,289 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,742 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.58% -16.34% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £69,196 £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,500 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -15.26% +8.57% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 2,088 1,447 1,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 85.98% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,433 811 1,154
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £31,075
25th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,665
Median % change year-on-year - -5.59% +12.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Wales

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Wales

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Wales over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Wales

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Architect within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales - 15 £70,000 - 1
West Wales +11 1 £63,823 +1.72% 1
Lead Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Wales region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 6 (37.50%) AWS
5 5 (31.25%) Open Source
5 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
6 4 (25.00%) Azure API Management
6 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (25.00%) Sparx
6 4 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (25.00%) SDLC
6 4 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
6 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (25.00%) ArchiMate
6 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (25.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) BGP
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
1 4 (25.00%) SSL
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) Django
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 5 (31.25%) Open Source
4 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (25.00%) ArchiMate
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
4 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (6.25%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
1 4 (25.00%) Sparx