Senior Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 230 247
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 22 30 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.49% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.54% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 26
10th Percentile - £43,805 £56,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £97,250 £86,250
South East median annual salary £67,500 £73,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.16% +1.38% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,394 5,552 6,562
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 89.90% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,570 3,238 4,178
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,986 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,801 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 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
Buckinghamshire -13 15 £72,500 -19.44% 1
Berkshire +12 7 £76,250 +32.61% 1
Senior Architect
South East

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 24 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 14 (63.64%) Presales
2 13 (59.09%) Degree
2 13 (59.09%) Customer Engagement
3 11 (50.00%) WAN
3 11 (50.00%) Cisco
3 11 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 10 (45.45%) Data Centre
4 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (45.45%) Meraki
4 10 (45.45%) Software Licensing
4 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 10 (45.45%) Adobe
4 10 (45.45%) CCNP
4 10 (45.45%) CCNA
4 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (45.45%) Apple
4 10 (45.45%) Time Management
5 6 (27.27%) Analytics
6 5 (22.73%) Stealthwatch
6 5 (22.73%) CASB
6 5 (22.73%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.64%) Coaching
8 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
8 3 (13.64%) Agile
8 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (13.64%) Azure
9 2 (9.09%) AWS

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 11 (50.00%) WAN
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (4.55%) DMZ
4 1 (4.55%) Modbus
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) SOAP
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Presales
2 13 (59.09%) Customer Engagement
3 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (45.45%) Software Licensing
3 10 (45.45%) Time Management
4 6 (27.27%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Coaching
6 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 2 (9.09%) Design Patterns
7 2 (9.09%) Machine Learning
7 2 (9.09%) Project Management
7 2 (9.09%) Scrum
7 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Degree
2 10 (45.45%) CCNA
2 10 (45.45%) CCNP
2 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) CASB
1 5 (22.73%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco
2 10 (45.45%) Adobe
2 10 (45.45%) Apple
2 10 (45.45%) Meraki
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Dell
3 2 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) Juniper
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce