Senior Architect Jobs in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £73,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 455 631
Rank change year-on-year +96 +176 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 632 569 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.64% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.70% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 378 275 328
10th Percentile £55,917 £56,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £58,375 £68,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £94,313 £103,750 £106,563
90th Percentile £115,750 £114,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £74,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -12.94% -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 81,581 81,069 129,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,773 51,486 74,695
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 16 May 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 16 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
London +110 258 £92,500 -5.13% 46
North of England +131 168 £70,000 -12.50% 14
Midlands +54 100 £62,500 -19.35% 10
North West +37 87 £70,000 -7.59% 7
West Midlands +57 78 £62,500 -14.97% 7
Yorkshire +134 72 £74,000 -12.94% 5
South East -43 60 £67,500 -8.16% 11
South West -28 31 £72,500 -12.12% 2
East Midlands +6 22 £50,000 -47.37% 3
North East -1 9 £61,206 -46.78% 2
East of England -14 6 £90,750 +13.44% 4
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 across the England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 196 (31.01%) Agile
2 166 (26.27%) Azure
3 159 (25.16%) Microsoft
4 152 (24.05%) Degree
5 151 (23.89%) Finance
6 144 (22.78%) Mentoring
7 137 (21.68%) AWS
8 121 (19.15%) Social Skills
9 120 (18.99%) Roadmaps
10 112 (17.72%) Coaching
11 111 (17.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 102 (16.14%) Data Modelling
13 101 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
14 97 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
15 79 (12.50%) Analytics
16 78 (12.34%) GCP
17 76 (12.03%) Presales
18 71 (11.23%) Design Patterns
19 70 (11.08%) Architectural Patterns
19 70 (11.08%) DevOps
20 69 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
20 69 (10.92%) Data Centre
20 69 (10.92%) Business Strategy
21 66 (10.44%) Data Strategy
22 65 (10.28%) Data Architecture
22 65 (10.28%) Banking
23 64 (10.13%) Migration
24 63 (9.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
25 62 (9.81%) IT Strategy
26 57 (9.02%) Microservices

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 21 (3.32%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.22%) CMS
4 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.79%) Apache
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.95%) Simulink
3 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.79%) 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
1 166 (26.27%) Azure
2 137 (21.68%) AWS
3 78 (12.34%) GCP
4 53 (8.39%) Power Platform
5 50 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
6 37 (5.85%) SaaS
7 31 (4.91%) Power Automate
8 26 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.48%) PaaS
9 22 (3.48%) PowerApps
10 18 (2.85%) Serverless
11 17 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (2.53%) IaaS
13 13 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.42%) CloudFront
15 9 (1.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (8.54%) WAN
2 43 (6.80%) SD-WAN
3 26 (4.11%) Firewall
4 21 (3.32%) Cisco Firepower
5 17 (2.69%) MPLS
6 13 (2.06%) Network Security
7 11 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.42%) DNS
8 9 (1.42%) LAN
9 8 (1.27%) VPN
10 6 (0.95%) IPsec
10 6 (0.95%) SSL
11 5 (0.79%) BGP
11 5 (0.79%) DMVPN
11 5 (0.79%) DWDM
11 5 (0.79%) GLBP
11 5 (0.79%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.79%) Multicast
11 5 (0.79%) OSPF
11 5 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.39%) Metadata
2 44 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 28 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.96%) Power BI
5 24 (3.80%) Data Lake
6 21 (3.32%) Data Mining
7 16 (2.53%) Apache Ignite
7 16 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (2.53%) Hadoop
8 12 (1.90%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.42%) Big Data
10 8 (1.27%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.95%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.47%) MySQL
14 2 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.42%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.95%) Git
4 6 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.16%) ERwin
5 1 (0.16%) JIRA
General
1 151 (23.89%) Finance
2 121 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 111 (17.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 69 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (10.28%) Banking
6 56 (8.86%) Public Sector
7 49 (7.75%) Retail
8 28 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (3.96%) Retail Banking
10 24 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.53%) Back Office
11 16 (2.53%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.22%) Marketing
13 13 (2.06%) Law
14 9 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.95%) Military
16 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.47%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.80%) .NET
2 21 (3.32%) Kafka
3 7 (1.11%) HTML
4 6 (0.95%) .NET Core
4 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET
4 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (0.95%) Entity Framework
4 6 (0.95%) Hibernate
4 6 (0.95%) Spring
4 6 (0.95%) Spring MVC
4 6 (0.95%) Web Services
5 5 (0.79%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.79%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Beam
5 5 (0.79%) XML
6 4 (0.63%) React
7 3 (0.47%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.47%) REST
7 3 (0.47%) SOAP
7 3 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.92%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.23%) Public Cloud
3 34 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.32%) Virtual Team
5 19 (3.01%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.85%) PMI
7 17 (2.69%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.53%) Reinsurance
9 13 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 7 (1.11%) FMCG
13 7 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.11%) NHS
13 7 (1.11%) PKI
13 7 (1.11%) PropTech
14 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.59%) Linux
2 9 (1.42%) Windows
3 8 (1.27%) VME
4 5 (0.79%) Unix
5 3 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (31.01%) Agile
2 144 (22.78%) Mentoring
3 120 (18.99%) Roadmaps
4 112 (17.72%) Coaching
5 102 (16.14%) Data Modelling
6 101 (15.98%) Cybersecurity
7 97 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (12.50%) Analytics
9 76 (12.03%) Presales
10 71 (11.23%) Design Patterns
11 70 (11.08%) Architectural Patterns
11 70 (11.08%) DevOps
12 69 (10.92%) Business Strategy
13 66 (10.44%) Data Strategy
14 65 (10.28%) Data Architecture
15 64 (10.13%) Migration
16 63 (9.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 62 (9.81%) IT Strategy
18 57 (9.02%) Microservices
19 53 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (5.38%) SQL
2 33 (5.22%) Python
3 32 (5.06%) C#
4 25 (3.96%) Java
5 17 (2.69%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.58%) C
7 8 (1.27%) COBOL
7 8 (1.27%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 7 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.95%) MATLAB
9 6 (0.95%) Scala
10 5 (0.79%) Bicep
10 5 (0.79%) R
11 3 (0.47%) C++
11 3 (0.47%) PHP
12 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 152 (24.05%) Degree
2 55 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (7.59%) Security Cleared
4 43 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 42 (6.65%) CCNA
6 41 (6.49%) CCNP
7 39 (6.17%) AWS Certification
8 31 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.96%) CISSP
10 22 (3.48%) Azure Certification
11 19 (3.01%) PMI Certification
12 17 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.53%) CISM
14 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (1.42%) CRISC
16 9 (1.42%) DV Cleared
17 8 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
18 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.32%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.01%) NIST
3 12 (1.90%) SLA
4 7 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.79%) PMO
6 4 (0.63%) COBIT
6 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.63%) QA
7 3 (0.47%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.47%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.47%) 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 (3.64%) Docker
2 13 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.27%) KVM
5 3 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.32%) Firmware
6 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.16%) RACF
Systems Management
1 27 (4.27%) Terraform
2 24 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 21 (3.32%) Stealthwatch
4 16 (2.53%) CASB
5 8 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.95%) Ansible
6 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.79%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 159 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.39%) Cisco
3 44 (6.96%) Google
4 40 (6.33%) Meraki
5 36 (5.70%) Adobe
5 36 (5.70%) Apple
6 18 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.69%) Databricks
7 17 (2.69%) Informatica
7 17 (2.69%) Juniper
8 12 (1.90%) Oracle
8 12 (1.90%) VMware
9 8 (1.27%) Micro Focus
9 8 (1.27%) SAP
10 6 (0.95%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.79%) Arista
11 5 (0.79%) Tufin
11 5 (0.79%) Twitter
12 4 (0.63%) Alibaba
13 3 (0.47%) Palo Alto