Senior Architect
UK

The median Senior Architect salary in the UK is £75,000 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 368 461 664
Rank change year-on-year +93 +203 -119
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 713 668 667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.64% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.70% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 411 331 357
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £58,375 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £116,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,500 £80,000 £75,940
% change year-on-year -16.88% +5.35% +4.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the UK

Senior Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +110 613 £75,000 -11.76% 91
UK excluding London +72 407 £66,500 -16.88% 35
London +115 255 £93,500 +1.08% 56
Work from Home +66 255 £70,000 -17.65% 38
North of England +152 164 £70,000 -12.50% 13
Midlands +59 94 £62,500 -19.35% 5
North West +52 83 £70,000 -12.50% 8
Yorkshire +154 73 £74,000 -4.52% 4
West Midlands +62 72 £62,500 -17.22% 4
South East -32 49 £67,500 -10.00% 13
Scotland -51 45 £80,000 -5.88% 1
South West +2 41 £72,500 -19.44% 1
East Midlands +2 22 £50,000 -41.18% 1
Wales +17 10 £53,500 -15.75% 1
North East +5 10 £61,206 -46.78% 1
East of England -7 4 £115,000 +43.75% 4
Northern Ireland +28 2 - -

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

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 featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 223 (31.28%) Agile
2 213 (29.87%) Azure
3 185 (25.95%) AWS
4 184 (25.81%) Finance
5 158 (22.16%) Microsoft
6 154 (21.60%) Roadmaps
7 132 (18.51%) Degree
8 125 (17.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 124 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 122 (17.11%) Social Skills
11 104 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
12 102 (14.31%) Presales
13 99 (13.88%) Data Modelling
14 95 (13.32%) Design Patterns
15 84 (11.78%) Business Strategy
16 83 (11.64%) Coaching
17 81 (11.36%) GCP
18 77 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
18 77 (10.80%) Data Architecture
18 77 (10.80%) Architectural Patterns
19 76 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
20 72 (10.10%) Analytics
21 70 (9.82%) Security Cleared
21 70 (9.82%) Enterprise Architecture
21 70 (9.82%) IT Strategy
22 69 (9.68%) Public Sector
22 69 (9.68%) Microservices
22 69 (9.68%) DevOps
22 69 (9.68%) Cloud Native
23 68 (9.54%) Data Centre

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.96%) CMS
4 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.70%) Apache
5 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.84%) Simulink
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.14%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 213 (29.87%) Azure
2 185 (25.95%) AWS
3 81 (11.36%) GCP
4 49 (6.87%) Power Platform
5 45 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
6 39 (5.47%) SaaS
7 34 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (3.37%) PaaS
11 21 (2.95%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.81%) Serverless
13 18 (2.52%) IaaS
14 15 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.26%) CloudFront
16 9 (1.26%) Route 53
16 9 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.01%) WAN
2 39 (5.47%) SD-WAN
3 30 (4.21%) Firewall
4 17 (2.38%) DNS
4 17 (2.38%) MPLS
5 15 (2.10%) Cisco Firepower
6 14 (1.96%) LAN
7 13 (1.82%) DHCP
7 13 (1.82%) HTTP
7 13 (1.82%) Network Security
8 12 (1.68%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (1.12%) VPN
11 6 (0.84%) IPsec
11 6 (0.84%) SSL
11 6 (0.84%) Wireless
12 5 (0.70%) BGP
12 5 (0.70%) DWDM
12 5 (0.70%) EIGRP
12 5 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (6.59%) Metadata
3 45 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.37%) Power BI
5 23 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 23 (3.23%) Data Mining
6 19 (2.66%) Hadoop
7 18 (2.52%) Apache Ignite
7 18 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.54%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.40%) Big Data
10 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.98%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.84%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.42%) MySQL
15 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.26%) Git
2 9 (1.26%) Visual Studio
3 7 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.14%) JIRA
General
1 184 (25.81%) Finance
2 125 (17.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 122 (17.11%) Social Skills
4 77 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 55 (7.71%) Banking
7 50 (7.01%) Marketing
8 49 (6.87%) Retail
9 42 (5.89%) Law
10 25 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.66%) Retail Banking
13 16 (2.24%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.96%) Back Office
15 13 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.82%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.98%) Games
18 6 (0.84%) Military
18 6 (0.84%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.35%) .NET
2 24 (3.37%) Kafka
3 15 (2.10%) HTML
3 15 (2.10%) SAML
4 9 (1.26%) .NET Core
4 9 (1.26%) ASP.NET
4 9 (1.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (1.26%) Entity Framework
4 9 (1.26%) Hibernate
4 9 (1.26%) OpenID
4 9 (1.26%) Spring
4 9 (1.26%) Spring MVC
5 7 (0.98%) OAuth
6 6 (0.84%) Web Services
7 5 (0.70%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.70%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.70%) Apache Beam
7 5 (0.70%) XML
8 4 (0.56%) React
9 3 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.54%) Data Centre
3 58 (8.13%) Public Cloud
4 39 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 31 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.52%) PMI
7 16 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.24%) Reinsurance
8 15 (2.10%) Cyberattack
9 12 (1.68%) NHS
9 12 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
10 11 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 8 (1.12%) FMCG
12 7 (0.98%) PKI
12 7 (0.98%) PropTech
13 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.23%) Linux
2 9 (1.26%) Windows
3 5 (0.70%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.28%) VME
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (31.28%) Agile
2 154 (21.60%) Roadmaps
3 124 (17.39%) Mentoring
4 104 (14.59%) Cybersecurity
5 102 (14.31%) Presales
6 99 (13.88%) Data Modelling
7 95 (13.32%) Design Patterns
8 84 (11.78%) Business Strategy
9 83 (11.64%) Coaching
10 77 (10.80%) Architectural Patterns
10 77 (10.80%) Data Architecture
11 76 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (10.10%) Analytics
13 70 (9.82%) Enterprise Architecture
13 70 (9.82%) IT Strategy
14 69 (9.68%) DevOps
14 69 (9.68%) Microservices
15 68 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
16 65 (9.12%) Data Strategy
16 65 (9.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.05%) C#
1 36 (5.05%) SQL
2 33 (4.63%) Python
3 29 (4.07%) Java
4 16 (2.24%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.26%) C
6 6 (0.84%) MATLAB
6 6 (0.84%) Scala
7 5 (0.70%) Bicep
7 5 (0.70%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.70%) R
8 4 (0.56%) C++
9 3 (0.42%) PHP
10 2 (0.28%) COBOL
10 2 (0.28%) Micro Focus COBOL
10 2 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 132 (18.51%) Degree
2 70 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 57 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 54 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (6.87%) AWS Certification
6 36 (5.05%) CCNA
7 35 (4.91%) CCNP
7 35 (4.91%) CISSP
7 35 (4.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 33 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (3.65%) CISM
10 25 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (3.37%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.66%) PMI Certification
13 17 (2.38%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 11 (1.54%) CCSP
16 10 (1.40%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.37%) NIST
2 20 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.52%) QA
4 9 (1.26%) SLA
5 7 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.70%) IASME
8 4 (0.56%) COBIT
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.42%) HMG Infosec
9 3 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.42%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.42%) PMO
9 3 (0.42%) RMADS
10 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (3.65%) Docker
2 16 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.12%) KVM
5 2 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 39 (5.47%) Terraform
2 33 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.24%) CASB
4 15 (2.10%) Stealthwatch
5 8 (1.12%) Ansible
6 7 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.70%) Puppet
9 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 158 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.29%) Google
3 49 (6.87%) Cisco
4 34 (4.77%) Meraki
5 30 (4.21%) Adobe
5 30 (4.21%) Apple
6 25 (3.51%) Oracle
7 19 (2.66%) Databricks
7 19 (2.66%) Juniper
8 18 (2.52%) Informatica
9 12 (1.68%) VMware
10 11 (1.54%) Dell
11 10 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.12%) SAP
13 5 (0.70%) Arista
13 5 (0.70%) Tufin
13 5 (0.70%) Twitter
14 4 (0.56%) Alibaba
14 4 (0.56%) Teradata