Senior Architect Jobs in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 450 658
Rank change year-on-year +98 +208 -119
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 692 533 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.71% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 422 267 344
10th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £58,375 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £112,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,043 75,204 138,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.22% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65,775 49,529 75,271
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +109 274 £92,500 - 39
North of England +129 198 £70,000 -12.10% 21
Midlands +47 110 £62,500 -19.35% 11
North West +26 103 £70,000 -12.10% 9
West Midlands +44 85 £62,500 -17.22% 6
Yorkshire +121 80 £70,000 -17.65% 8
South East -60 65 £67,500 -20.59% 4
South West -26 34 £72,500 -9.38% 4
East Midlands -20 25 £50,000 -52.38% 5
North East -6 15 £70,000 -28.21% 4
East of England -24 4 £90,750 +13.44% 3
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 187 (27.02%) Agile
2 173 (25.00%) Azure
3 163 (23.55%) Microsoft
4 162 (23.41%) Finance
5 155 (22.40%) Degree
6 146 (21.10%) AWS
7 141 (20.38%) Mentoring
8 122 (17.63%) Social Skills
9 121 (17.49%) Cybersecurity
10 112 (16.18%) Coaching
10 112 (16.18%) Roadmaps
11 111 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (14.45%) Data Modelling
13 97 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (13.29%) Analytics
15 85 (12.28%) Presales
16 82 (11.85%) Data Centre
17 81 (11.71%) DevOps
18 77 (11.13%) GCP
19 70 (10.12%) Banking
20 69 (9.97%) Design Patterns
21 67 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
22 66 (9.54%) WAN
22 66 (9.54%) Architectural Patterns
22 66 (9.54%) Business Strategy
23 65 (9.39%) Cisco
24 64 (9.25%) Migration
25 61 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
25 61 (8.82%) Data Strategy
26 60 (8.67%) Digital Transformation Programme

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.59%) CMS
5 7 (1.01%) Apache
5 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.87%) Simulink
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.72%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.29%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.14%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.14%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.14%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 173 (25.00%) Azure
2 146 (21.10%) AWS
3 77 (11.13%) GCP
4 54 (7.80%) Power Platform
5 53 (7.66%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (5.06%) SaaS
7 32 (4.62%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.18%) PowerApps
10 20 (2.89%) PaaS
11 18 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (2.46%) Serverless
13 14 (2.02%) IaaS
14 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.45%) Amazon S3
17 9 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.54%) WAN
2 55 (7.95%) SD-WAN
3 33 (4.77%) Cisco Firepower
4 26 (3.76%) Firewall
5 17 (2.46%) MPLS
6 14 (2.02%) Network Security
7 11 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.30%) DNS
8 9 (1.30%) LAN
9 8 (1.16%) VPN
10 5 (0.72%) BGP
10 5 (0.72%) DHCP
10 5 (0.72%) DWDM
10 5 (0.72%) EIGRP
10 5 (0.72%) HTTP
10 5 (0.72%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.72%) IGRP
10 5 (0.72%) OSPF
10 5 (0.72%) SNMP
10 5 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (7.23%) Metadata
2 46 (6.65%) NoSQL
3 28 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.61%) Power BI
5 23 (3.32%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.46%) Data Mining
7 15 (2.17%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.59%) RDBMS
8 11 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.45%) Apache Ignite
9 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.45%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.30%) Big Data
11 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.87%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.72%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.43%) MySQL
16 2 (0.29%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 13 (1.88%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.30%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.87%) Git
4 6 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 162 (23.41%) Finance
2 122 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 111 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (10.12%) Banking
5 61 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (8.09%) Retail
7 52 (7.51%) Public Sector
8 29 (4.19%) Retail Banking
9 26 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.60%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.46%) Back Office
13 16 (2.31%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (2.02%) Law
16 11 (1.59%) Marketing
17 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.87%) Military
19 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
20 3 (0.43%) Brand Awareness
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.32%) .NET
2 17 (2.46%) Kafka
2 17 (2.46%) React
3 13 (1.88%) Django
3 13 (1.88%) Node.js
4 7 (1.01%) Apache Beam
4 7 (1.01%) HTML
5 6 (0.87%) .NET Core
5 6 (0.87%) ASP.NET
5 6 (0.87%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (0.87%) Entity Framework
5 6 (0.87%) Hibernate
5 6 (0.87%) Spring
5 6 (0.87%) Spring MVC
6 5 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.72%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.72%) Web Services
6 5 (0.72%) XML
7 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 82 (11.85%) Data Centre
2 52 (7.51%) Public Cloud
3 33 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.18%) Virtual Team
5 19 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.60%) PMI
7 17 (2.46%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.17%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.01%) FMCG
13 7 (1.01%) NHS
13 7 (1.01%) PKI
13 7 (1.01%) PropTech
14 6 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.90%) Linux
2 9 (1.30%) Windows
3 8 (1.16%) VME
4 5 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (27.02%) Agile
2 141 (20.38%) Mentoring
3 121 (17.49%) Cybersecurity
4 112 (16.18%) Coaching
4 112 (16.18%) Roadmaps
5 100 (14.45%) Data Modelling
6 97 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (13.29%) Analytics
8 85 (12.28%) Presales
9 81 (11.71%) DevOps
10 69 (9.97%) Design Patterns
11 66 (9.54%) Architectural Patterns
11 66 (9.54%) Business Strategy
12 64 (9.25%) Migration
13 61 (8.82%) Data Strategy
14 60 (8.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 58 (8.38%) Data Architecture
16 57 (8.24%) IT Strategy
17 54 (7.80%) Customer Experience
18 52 (7.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.65%) Python
2 38 (5.49%) SQL
3 32 (4.62%) C#
4 25 (3.61%) Java
5 18 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.16%) C
6 8 (1.16%) COBOL
6 8 (1.16%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 8 (1.16%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.87%) MATLAB
7 6 (0.87%) Scala
8 5 (0.72%) Bicep
8 5 (0.72%) R
9 3 (0.43%) PHP
10 2 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 155 (22.40%) Degree
2 67 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (7.80%) CCNA
4 53 (7.66%) CCNP
5 45 (6.50%) Security Cleared
6 41 (5.92%) AWS Certification
7 38 (5.49%) SC Cleared
8 30 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.61%) CISSP
10 24 (3.47%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.75%) PMI Certification
12 17 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.31%) CISM
14 11 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (1.30%) CRISC
15 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
16 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
17 7 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.60%) NIST
3 12 (1.73%) SLA
4 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.01%) PMO
5 4 (0.58%) COBIT
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.58%) QA
6 3 (0.43%) HMG Infosec
6 3 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (0.43%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.43%) RMADS
7 2 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) GDPR
8 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (3.32%) Docker
2 14 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.16%) KVM
5 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (4.77%) Stealthwatch
2 29 (4.19%) Terraform
3 24 (3.47%) Kubernetes
4 16 (2.31%) CASB
5 7 (1.01%) Consul
5 7 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.87%) Ansible
6 6 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.72%) Puppet
8 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 163 (23.55%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.39%) Cisco
3 52 (7.51%) Meraki
4 48 (6.94%) Adobe
4 48 (6.94%) Apple
5 38 (5.49%) Google
6 19 (2.75%) Databricks
6 19 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.46%) Juniper
8 16 (2.31%) Informatica
8 16 (2.31%) SAP
9 15 (2.17%) Oracle
10 10 (1.45%) VMware
11 8 (1.16%) Micro Focus
12 6 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.72%) Arista
13 5 (0.72%) Tufin
13 5 (0.72%) Twitter
14 4 (0.58%) Alibaba
15 3 (0.43%) Palo Alto