Senior Architect Jobs in the South West

Senior Architect
England > South West

The median Senior Architect salary in the South West is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 243 284
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 41 38 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.45% 0.54% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.61% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16 5 7
10th Percentile £60,313 £77,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,250 £83,750 £46,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +69.45% -18.29%
75th Percentile £125,000 £105,000 £79,375
90th Percentile - - £90,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,253 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.29% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,433 3,885 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,100 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the South West

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the South West

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the South West

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Bristol -1 12 £120,000 +33.33%
Wiltshire -6 10 £66,500 -30.00%
Dorset - 9 - -
Gloucestershire -30 8 - -
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 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 South West region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 22 (53.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
3 19 (46.34%) Cloud Native
4 18 (43.90%) Agile
5 17 (41.46%) Finance
6 16 (39.02%) AWS
7 15 (36.59%) SDLC
8 13 (31.71%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (31.71%) Roadmaps
9 12 (29.27%) Cloud Security
9 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (26.83%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (26.83%) Terraform
10 11 (26.83%) Line Management
10 11 (26.83%) Degree
10 11 (26.83%) DV Cleared
10 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
11 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (21.95%) Innovative Thinking
12 9 (21.95%) Azure
12 9 (21.95%) Law
12 9 (21.95%) Banking
13 8 (19.51%) Identity Management
13 8 (19.51%) SAML
13 8 (19.51%) HTML
13 8 (19.51%) DHCP
13 8 (19.51%) HTTP
13 8 (19.51%) TCP/IP
13 8 (19.51%) DNS
13 8 (19.51%) AWS Certification

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) AWS
2 9 (21.95%) Azure
3 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (9.76%) IaaS
4 4 (9.76%) SaaS
5 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) DHCP
1 8 (19.51%) DNS
1 8 (19.51%) HTTP
1 8 (19.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) MySQL
1 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Big Data
General
1 22 (53.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (41.46%) Finance
4 9 (21.95%) Banking
4 9 (21.95%) Law
5 6 (14.63%) Marketing
6 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Retail
7 3 (7.32%) Aerospace
7 3 (7.32%) German Language
7 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) HTML
1 8 (19.51%) OpenID
1 8 (19.51%) SAML
2 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (46.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (19.51%) Cyberattack
3 6 (14.63%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
5 4 (9.76%) Replication
6 3 (7.32%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
6 3 (7.32%) Taxonomies
7 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
7 2 (4.88%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Agile
2 15 (36.59%) SDLC
3 13 (31.71%) Roadmaps
3 13 (31.71%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (29.27%) Cloud Security
4 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (26.83%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (26.83%) Line Management
6 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.95%) Innovative Thinking
8 8 (19.51%) DevSecOps
8 8 (19.51%) Identity Management
8 8 (19.51%) Technology Roadmap
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (17.07%) Design Patterns
9 7 (17.07%) Security Architecture
10 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
10 6 (14.63%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (14.63%) TOGAF
11 5 (12.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Java
1 7 (17.07%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) C
2 4 (9.76%) R
2 4 (9.76%) Scala
2 4 (9.76%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Bicep
3 3 (7.32%) C#
3 3 (7.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Degree
1 11 (26.83%) DV Cleared
1 11 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) AWS Certification
2 8 (19.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.76%) CISA
3 4 (9.76%) CISM
3 4 (9.76%) CISSP
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.76%) CRISC
3 4 (9.76%) SANS
4 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.44%) CCIE
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) NIST
2 3 (7.32%) HMG Infosec
2 3 (7.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (7.32%) JSP 440
2 3 (7.32%) RMADS
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.32%) Splunk
1 3 (7.32%) Twitter
2 1 (2.44%) Cisco
2 1 (2.44%) Meraki
2 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
2 1 (2.44%) Salesforce