Senior Architect
UK

The median Senior Architect salary in the UK is £74,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 456 659
Rank change year-on-year +87 +203 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 732 658 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.71% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 426 316 366
10th Percentile £55,070 £56,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,182 £67,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £92,875 £100,313 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £116,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,500 £80,000 £75,940
% change year-on-year -16.88% +5.35% +1.25%

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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +118 635 £73,500 -13.53% 77
UK excluding London +73 432 £66,500 -16.88% 39
London +89 248 £92,250 -2.89% 39
Work from Home +47 247 £70,000 -17.65% 61
North of England +153 171 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Midlands +49 100 £62,500 -19.35% 9
North West +54 89 £70,000 -12.50% 7
West Midlands +56 78 £62,500 -17.22% 7
Yorkshire +149 73 £74,000 -12.94% 3
South East -45 61 £67,500 -8.16% 10
Scotland -57 44 £80,000 -5.88% 2
South West -15 40 £72,500 -17.14% 1
East Midlands -1 22 £50,000 -41.18% 2
Wales +6 9 £53,500 -15.75% 1
North East +2 9 £61,206 -46.78% 2
East of England +2 6 £90,750 +13.44% 4
Northern Ireland +22 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 224 (30.60%) Agile
2 209 (28.55%) Azure
3 186 (25.41%) Finance
4 176 (24.04%) AWS
5 165 (22.54%) Microsoft
6 160 (21.86%) Roadmaps
7 154 (21.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 150 (20.49%) Degree
9 141 (19.26%) Mentoring
10 134 (18.31%) Social Skills
11 115 (15.71%) Coaching
11 115 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
12 102 (13.93%) Data Modelling
13 98 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (12.43%) Design Patterns
15 85 (11.61%) Presales
16 84 (11.48%) Architectural Patterns
17 83 (11.34%) GCP
18 81 (11.07%) Data Architecture
18 81 (11.07%) Business Strategy
19 80 (10.93%) Analytics
20 77 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
21 76 (10.38%) DevOps
22 74 (10.11%) Data Centre
23 71 (9.70%) Security Cleared
23 71 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
24 70 (9.56%) Public Sector
25 69 (9.43%) Microservices
26 66 (9.02%) Migration
27 65 (8.88%) Data Strategy

Senior 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 22 (3.01%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.91%) CMS
4 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.82%) Simulink
3 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.14%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 209 (28.55%) Azure
2 176 (24.04%) AWS
3 83 (11.34%) GCP
4 52 (7.10%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
6 42 (5.74%) SaaS
7 33 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (4.10%) Power Automate
9 26 (3.55%) PaaS
10 25 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (3.01%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.73%) IaaS
13 19 (2.60%) Serverless
14 16 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.23%) CloudFront
16 9 (1.23%) Route 53
16 9 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (7.51%) WAN
2 44 (6.01%) SD-WAN
3 29 (3.96%) Firewall
4 21 (2.87%) Cisco Firepower
5 17 (2.32%) DNS
5 17 (2.32%) MPLS
6 14 (1.91%) LAN
6 14 (1.91%) Network Security
7 13 (1.78%) DHCP
7 13 (1.78%) HTTP
8 12 (1.64%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.09%) VPN
11 6 (0.82%) IPsec
11 6 (0.82%) SSL
12 5 (0.68%) BGP
12 5 (0.68%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.68%) OSPF
12 5 (0.68%) SNMP
12 5 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.10%) Metadata
2 45 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 41 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.42%) Power BI
5 23 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 21 (2.87%) Data Mining
7 17 (2.32%) Hadoop
8 16 (2.19%) Apache Ignite
8 16 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.64%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.37%) Big Data
11 9 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.09%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.96%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.41%) MySQL
17 2 (0.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.23%) Git
2 9 (1.23%) Visual Studio
3 7 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 186 (25.41%) Finance
2 154 (21.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 134 (18.31%) Social Skills
4 77 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 61 (8.33%) Banking
7 51 (6.97%) Marketing
8 43 (5.87%) Law
9 41 (5.60%) Retail
10 24 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (3.14%) Retail Banking
12 16 (2.19%) Back Office
12 16 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.96%) Games
17 6 (0.82%) Military
17 6 (0.82%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.10%) .NET
2 22 (3.01%) Kafka
3 15 (2.05%) HTML
3 15 (2.05%) SAML
4 9 (1.23%) .NET Core
4 9 (1.23%) ASP.NET
4 9 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (1.23%) Entity Framework
4 9 (1.23%) Hibernate
4 9 (1.23%) OpenID
4 9 (1.23%) Spring
4 9 (1.23%) Spring MVC
5 7 (0.96%) OAuth
6 6 (0.82%) Web Services
7 5 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.68%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.68%) Apache Beam
7 5 (0.68%) XML
8 4 (0.55%) React
9 3 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (10.11%) Data Centre
2 61 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 59 (8.06%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.74%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.46%) PMI
7 17 (2.32%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.19%) Reinsurance
9 15 (2.05%) Cyberattack
10 13 (1.78%) Product Ownership
11 12 (1.64%) NHS
11 12 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (0.96%) FMCG
14 7 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.96%) PKI
14 7 (0.96%) PropTech
15 6 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.96%) Linux
2 9 (1.23%) Windows
3 8 (1.09%) VME
4 5 (0.68%) Unix
5 3 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (30.60%) Agile
2 160 (21.86%) Roadmaps
3 141 (19.26%) Mentoring
4 115 (15.71%) Coaching
4 115 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
5 102 (13.93%) Data Modelling
6 98 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (12.43%) Design Patterns
8 85 (11.61%) Presales
9 84 (11.48%) Architectural Patterns
10 81 (11.07%) Business Strategy
10 81 (11.07%) Data Architecture
11 80 (10.93%) Analytics
12 76 (10.38%) DevOps
13 71 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
14 69 (9.43%) Microservices
15 66 (9.02%) Migration
16 65 (8.88%) Data Strategy
16 65 (8.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 62 (8.47%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.05%) C#
2 35 (4.78%) SQL
3 34 (4.64%) Python
4 30 (4.10%) Java
5 17 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.37%) C
7 8 (1.09%) COBOL
7 8 (1.09%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 7 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.96%) Scala
9 6 (0.82%) MATLAB
9 6 (0.82%) R
10 5 (0.68%) Bicep
11 4 (0.55%) C++
12 3 (0.41%) PHP
13 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 150 (20.49%) Degree
2 71 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 60 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (7.92%) SC Cleared
5 51 (6.97%) AWS Certification
6 42 (5.74%) CCNA
7 41 (5.60%) CCNP
8 36 (4.92%) CISSP
9 34 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (3.69%) Azure Certification
10 27 (3.69%) CISM
11 25 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (3.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 19 (2.60%) PMI Certification
14 17 (2.32%) DV Cleared
15 12 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (1.50%) CCSP
17 10 (1.37%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.42%) NIST
2 22 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.50%) SLA
4 9 (1.23%) QA
5 7 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.68%) IASME
8 4 (0.55%) COBIT
8 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.55%) PMO
9 3 (0.41%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.41%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.41%) RMADS
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (3.55%) Docker
2 19 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.09%) KVM
5 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Firmware
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 38 (5.19%) Terraform
2 33 (4.51%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.87%) Stealthwatch
4 16 (2.19%) CASB
5 8 (1.09%) Ansible
5 8 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.82%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.68%) Puppet
8 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 165 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.38%) Cisco
3 50 (6.83%) Google
4 40 (5.46%) Meraki
5 36 (4.92%) Adobe
5 36 (4.92%) Apple
6 26 (3.55%) Oracle
7 18 (2.46%) Databricks
7 18 (2.46%) Juniper
8 17 (2.32%) Informatica
9 12 (1.64%) VMware
10 9 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.09%) Micro Focus
11 8 (1.09%) SAP
12 7 (0.96%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.68%) Arista
13 5 (0.68%) Tufin
13 5 (0.68%) Twitter
14 4 (0.55%) Alibaba
15 3 (0.41%) Sparx