Senior Architect Jobs in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 469 653
Rank change year-on-year +110 +184 -109
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 617 579 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.63% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.68% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 371 297 314
10th Percentile £56,809 £56,250 £61,625
25th Percentile £58,375 £67,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £117,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +110 254 £93,500 -0.27% 60
North of England +136 167 £70,000 -12.50% 16
Midlands +67 95 £62,500 -19.35% 6
North West +48 85 £70,000 -12.50% 9
Yorkshire +152 74 £74,000 -4.52% 4
West Midlands +68 73 £62,500 -17.22% 5
South East -54 49 £67,500 -9.09% 14
South West -8 42 £72,500 -19.44% 1
East Midlands +3 22 £50,000 -41.18% 1
North East +3 10 £61,206 -46.78% 3
East of England -5 4 £115,000 +43.75% 3
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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.

1 200 (32.41%) Agile
2 170 (27.55%) Azure
3 155 (25.12%) AWS
4 151 (24.47%) Microsoft
5 147 (23.82%) Finance
6 130 (21.07%) Roadmaps
7 128 (20.75%) Degree
8 120 (19.45%) Mentoring
9 107 (17.34%) Social Skills
10 99 (16.05%) Data Modelling
11 90 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
11 90 (14.59%) Presales
12 81 (13.13%) Coaching
12 81 (13.13%) Design Patterns
13 80 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 74 (11.99%) GCP
15 73 (11.83%) Analytics
16 70 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
17 68 (11.02%) IT Strategy
17 68 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
18 67 (10.86%) Data Strategy
18 67 (10.86%) Architectural Patterns
18 67 (10.86%) DevOps
19 63 (10.21%) Data Centre
20 62 (10.05%) Data Architecture
20 62 (10.05%) Business Strategy
20 62 (10.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
21 61 (9.89%) Migration
22 58 (9.40%) Microservices
22 58 (9.40%) Technical Leadership

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 23 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.27%) CMS
4 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.81%) Apache
5 5 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.97%) Simulink
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.81%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 170 (27.55%) Azure
2 155 (25.12%) AWS
3 74 (11.99%) GCP
4 49 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 45 (7.29%) Dynamics 365
6 37 (6.00%) SaaS
7 28 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.38%) Power Automate
9 25 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (3.57%) PaaS
11 21 (3.40%) PowerApps
12 20 (3.24%) Serverless
13 16 (2.59%) IaaS
14 12 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.46%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.94%) WAN
2 38 (6.16%) SD-WAN
3 27 (4.38%) Firewall
4 17 (2.76%) DNS
4 17 (2.76%) MPLS
5 15 (2.43%) Cisco Firepower
6 14 (2.27%) Network Security
7 13 (2.11%) DHCP
7 13 (2.11%) HTTP
8 12 (1.94%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (1.46%) LAN
11 8 (1.30%) VPN
12 6 (0.97%) IPsec
12 6 (0.97%) SSL
13 5 (0.81%) DMVPN
13 5 (0.81%) GLBP
13 5 (0.81%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.81%) Multicast
13 5 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.94%) Metadata
2 44 (7.13%) NoSQL
3 43 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.89%) Power BI
5 23 (3.73%) Data Lake
5 23 (3.73%) Data Mining
6 18 (2.92%) Apache Ignite
6 18 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (2.92%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.62%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.46%) Big Data
9 6 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.97%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.49%) MySQL
12 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.46%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.97%) Git
4 6 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.16%) ERwin
5 1 (0.16%) JIRA
General
1 147 (23.82%) Finance
2 107 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 80 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (9.08%) Public Sector
6 51 (8.27%) Banking
7 48 (7.78%) Retail
8 23 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (3.08%) Retail Banking
11 16 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.27%) Back Office
12 14 (2.27%) Marketing
13 13 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.11%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.11%) Law
14 8 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.97%) Military
16 4 (0.65%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.49%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.38%) .NET
2 23 (3.73%) Kafka
3 15 (2.43%) HTML
4 9 (1.46%) OpenID
4 9 (1.46%) SAML
5 6 (0.97%) .NET Core
5 6 (0.97%) ASP.NET
5 6 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (0.97%) Entity Framework
5 6 (0.97%) Hibernate
5 6 (0.97%) Spring
5 6 (0.97%) Spring MVC
5 6 (0.97%) Web Services
6 5 (0.81%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.81%) 802.1X
6 5 (0.81%) Apache Beam
6 5 (0.81%) XML
7 4 (0.65%) React
8 3 (0.49%) RESTful
8 3 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.21%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.43%) Public Cloud
3 39 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 33 (5.35%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.40%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.92%) PMI
7 16 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.59%) Reinsurance
8 12 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.62%) Cyberattack
11 9 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (1.30%) FMCG
13 7 (1.13%) NHS
13 7 (1.13%) PKI
13 7 (1.13%) PropTech
14 6 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.21%) Linux
2 9 (1.46%) Windows
3 5 (0.81%) Unix
3 5 (0.81%) VME
4 3 (0.49%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (32.41%) Agile
2 130 (21.07%) Roadmaps
3 120 (19.45%) Mentoring
4 99 (16.05%) Data Modelling
5 90 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
5 90 (14.59%) Presales
6 81 (13.13%) Coaching
6 81 (13.13%) Design Patterns
7 73 (11.83%) Analytics
8 68 (11.02%) IT Strategy
8 68 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (10.86%) Architectural Patterns
9 67 (10.86%) Data Strategy
9 67 (10.86%) DevOps
10 62 (10.05%) Business Strategy
10 62 (10.05%) Data Architecture
10 62 (10.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 61 (9.89%) Migration
12 58 (9.40%) Microservices
12 58 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.83%) SQL
2 33 (5.35%) Python
3 32 (5.19%) C#
4 25 (4.05%) Java
5 16 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.62%) C
7 6 (0.97%) MATLAB
7 6 (0.97%) Scala
8 5 (0.81%) Bicep
8 5 (0.81%) COBOL
8 5 (0.81%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.81%) R
9 3 (0.49%) C++
9 3 (0.49%) PHP
10 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (20.75%) Degree
2 56 (9.08%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (7.13%) AWS Certification
5 43 (6.97%) SC Cleared
6 36 (5.83%) CCNA
7 35 (5.67%) CCNP
8 31 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (4.05%) CISSP
9 25 (4.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (3.08%) Azure Certification
10 19 (3.08%) PMI Certification
11 17 (2.76%) DV Cleared
12 16 (2.59%) CISM
13 12 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.46%) CRISC
15 8 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
16 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.08%) NIST
3 11 (1.78%) QA
4 9 (1.46%) SLA
5 7 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.65%) COBIT
6 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.49%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.49%) PMO
7 3 (0.49%) RMADS
8 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) GDPR
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (3.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.30%) KVM
5 2 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Firmware
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) RACF
Systems Management
1 37 (6.00%) Terraform
2 24 (3.89%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.59%) CASB
4 15 (2.43%) Stealthwatch
5 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.97%) Ansible
6 6 (0.97%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.81%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 151 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 48 (7.78%) Cisco
3 46 (7.46%) Google
4 34 (5.51%) Meraki
5 30 (4.86%) Adobe
5 30 (4.86%) Apple
6 18 (2.92%) Databricks
6 18 (2.92%) Informatica
6 18 (2.92%) Juniper
7 12 (1.94%) VMware
8 10 (1.62%) Oracle
8 10 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.46%) Dell
10 8 (1.30%) SAP
11 7 (1.13%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.81%) Arista
12 5 (0.81%) Micro Focus
12 5 (0.81%) Tufin
12 5 (0.81%) Twitter
13 4 (0.65%) Alibaba