Senior Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £66,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 464 602
Rank change year-on-year +76 +138 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 422 315 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.53% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.59% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 278 133 123
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,111
25th Percentile £56,809 £61,885 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £80,000 £75,940
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +5.35% +1.25%
75th Percentile £80,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,295 53,381 68,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,638 30,425 42,515
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +134 168 £70,000 -12.50% 12
Midlands +53 99 £62,500 -17.22% 10
North West +44 87 £70,000 -12.50% 6
West Midlands +56 78 £62,500 -14.97% 7
Yorkshire +139 72 £74,000 -12.94% 4
South East -39 60 £67,500 -8.16% 10
Scotland -52 42 £80,000 -5.88% 2
South West -23 39 £72,500 -17.14% 1
East Midlands -3 21 £50,000 -41.18% 3
North East +2 9 £61,206 -46.78% 2
Wales +8 8 £53,500 -15.75% 1
East of England +2 6 £90,750 +13.44% 3
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 97 (22.99%) Agile
2 95 (22.51%) Degree
3 93 (22.04%) Finance
4 85 (20.14%) Roadmaps
5 83 (19.67%) Mentoring
6 82 (19.43%) Cybersecurity
6 82 (19.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (19.19%) Microsoft
8 80 (18.96%) Coaching
9 74 (17.54%) Social Skills
10 71 (16.82%) AWS
11 69 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (14.93%) Architectural Patterns
13 60 (14.22%) Design Patterns
14 59 (13.98%) Analytics
15 57 (13.51%) Azure
16 56 (13.27%) Public Cloud
17 53 (12.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 51 (12.09%) Data Centre
19 49 (11.61%) DevOps
19 49 (11.61%) WAN
19 49 (11.61%) Cisco Certification
19 49 (11.61%) Data Modelling
20 45 (10.66%) Presales
20 45 (10.66%) Decision-Making
21 44 (10.43%) Public Sector
21 44 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
22 43 (10.19%) SD-WAN
22 43 (10.19%) SDLC
23 40 (9.48%) Microservices

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (3.32%) CMS
2 6 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.42%) Simulink
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.18%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.24%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 71 (16.82%) AWS
2 57 (13.51%) Azure
3 30 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 27 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (4.74%) Power Automate
5 20 (4.74%) PowerApps
6 17 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (3.79%) SaaS
8 13 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.37%) Serverless
10 9 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.13%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.13%) CloudFront
10 9 (2.13%) Route 53
10 9 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.66%) GCP
12 6 (1.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 49 (11.61%) WAN
2 43 (10.19%) SD-WAN
3 21 (4.98%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (2.84%) Network Security
4 12 (2.84%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.90%) DHCP
6 8 (1.90%) DNS
6 8 (1.90%) HTTP
7 7 (1.66%) Firewall
8 4 (0.95%) LAN
8 4 (0.95%) Wireless
9 3 (0.71%) DMZ
9 3 (0.71%) Internet
9 3 (0.71%) Modbus
9 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.71%) VLAN
9 3 (0.71%) VPN
10 1 (0.24%) GPON
10 1 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.48%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.98%) Power BI
3 17 (4.03%) Metadata
4 12 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.42%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.95%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.71%) MySQL
10 2 (0.47%) Big Data
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.24%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (1.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (22.04%) Finance
2 82 (19.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 74 (17.54%) Social Skills
4 44 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.48%) Law
6 37 (8.77%) Marketing
7 24 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (4.50%) Retail
10 15 (3.55%) Banking
11 11 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.42%) Games
12 6 (1.42%) Military
13 5 (1.18%) Digital Health
13 5 (1.18%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.71%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.55%) SAML
2 12 (2.84%) .NET
3 9 (2.13%) OpenID
4 8 (1.90%) HTML
5 7 (1.66%) OAuth
6 5 (1.18%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.95%) React
7 4 (0.95%) Web Services
8 3 (0.71%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.71%) REST
8 3 (0.71%) SOAP
8 3 (0.71%) YAML
9 1 (0.24%) EDI
9 1 (0.24%) Kafka
9 1 (0.24%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.24%) RESTful
9 1 (0.24%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.27%) Public Cloud
2 51 (12.09%) Data Centre
3 37 (8.77%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.21%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.79%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.90%) Cyberattack
8 7 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (1.66%) PropTech
9 6 (1.42%) FMCG
9 6 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.18%) NHS
10 5 (1.18%) Replication
11 4 (0.95%) SCADA
11 4 (0.95%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.71%) PMI
12 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.32%) Linux
2 8 (1.90%) VME
3 3 (0.71%) Android
3 3 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (22.99%) Agile
2 85 (20.14%) Roadmaps
3 83 (19.67%) Mentoring
4 82 (19.43%) Cybersecurity
5 80 (18.96%) Coaching
6 69 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (14.93%) Architectural Patterns
8 60 (14.22%) Design Patterns
9 59 (13.98%) Analytics
10 53 (12.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 49 (11.61%) Data Modelling
11 49 (11.61%) DevOps
12 45 (10.66%) Decision-Making
12 45 (10.66%) Presales
13 44 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
14 43 (10.19%) SDLC
15 40 (9.48%) Microservices
16 39 (9.24%) Business Strategy
17 38 (9.00%) Machine Learning
17 38 (9.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.27%) Python
2 14 (3.32%) SQL
3 12 (2.84%) C#
4 11 (2.61%) Java
5 8 (1.90%) C
5 8 (1.90%) COBOL
5 8 (1.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 7 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.42%) MATLAB
7 6 (1.42%) R
7 6 (1.42%) Scala
8 4 (0.95%) C++
9 3 (0.71%) Bicep
9 3 (0.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 95 (22.51%) Degree
2 49 (11.61%) Cisco Certification
3 40 (9.48%) CCNP
4 36 (8.53%) CCNA
5 33 (7.82%) Security Cleared
6 23 (5.45%) AWS Certification
6 23 (5.45%) CISSP
6 23 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (5.21%) SC Cleared
8 17 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.03%) CISM
9 12 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.42%) CCIE
13 6 (1.42%) CCSK
13 6 (1.42%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.45%) NIST
2 13 (3.08%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.71%) HMG Infosec
4 3 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.71%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.71%) RMADS
5 2 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) RACF
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.98%) Stealthwatch
3 20 (4.74%) Terraform
4 15 (3.55%) CASB
5 8 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.48%) Cisco
2 40 (9.48%) Meraki
3 36 (8.53%) Adobe
3 36 (8.53%) Apple
4 8 (1.90%) Micro Focus
5 7 (1.66%) SAP
6 6 (1.42%) Databricks
6 6 (1.42%) Oracle
7 4 (0.95%) Google
8 3 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.71%) Splunk
8 3 (0.71%) Twitter
9 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Workday
10 1 (0.24%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.24%) Juniper
10 1 (0.24%) Nokia