Lead Architect Jobs in Central London

Lead Architect
London > Central London

The median Lead Architect salary in Central London is £130,000 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 159 225 285
Rank change year-on-year +66 +60 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Architect 33 11 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.87% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 23
10th Percentile £85,650 £73,750 £58,869
25th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £162,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +62.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £225,000 £125,000
90th Percentile - - £131,250
London median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,630 4,740 8,150
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 96.03% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,920 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £53,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £92,625
90th Percentile £110,250 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Lead Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Architect in Central London

Lead Architect
Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +63 33 £130,000 -20.00% 1
Lead Architect
London

Lead Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 Central London region featuring Lead Architect in the job title.

1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Product Requirements
2 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
2 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
2 8 (24.24%) Customer Requirements
2 8 (24.24%) Data Strategy
2 8 (24.24%) Creative Thinking
2 8 (24.24%) Thought Leadership
2 8 (24.24%) Technology Roadmap
3 6 (18.18%) Agile
3 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 6 (18.18%) Migration
3 6 (18.18%) Unisys
4 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
4 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Cost Reduction
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (12.12%) Microservices
5 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
5 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
5 4 (12.12%) SDLC
5 4 (12.12%) Re-Platforming
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.12%) Sparx
5 4 (12.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working

Lead Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (12.12%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) BGP
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) SSL
1 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Database
1 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
1 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Advertising
2 4 (12.12%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
1 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Creative Thinking
1 8 (24.24%) Customer Requirements
1 8 (24.24%) Data Strategy
1 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
1 8 (24.24%) Product Requirements
1 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
1 8 (24.24%) Technology Roadmap
1 8 (24.24%) Thought Leadership
2 6 (18.18%) Agile
2 6 (18.18%) Migration
2 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 5 (15.15%) Cost Reduction
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (12.12%) ArchiMate
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (12.12%) Microservices
4 4 (12.12%) Re-Platforming
4 4 (12.12%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
1 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) CCSK
4 1 (3.03%) CCSP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CISM
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
1 6 (18.18%) Unisys
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Sparx
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce