Service Architect
UK

The median Service Architect salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 799 941 1156
Rank change year-on-year +142 +215 -261
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Architect 78 37 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.036% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.039% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 35 29 46
10th Percentile £53,500 £65,500 £53,806
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £59,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £85,000 £70,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +21.00% -3.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £94,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £70,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -0.71% +2.55%

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 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 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 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

Service Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Service Architect over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Service Architect in the UK

Service Architect
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +53 69 £62,500 -10.71% 2
England +121 63 £62,500 -21.88% 4
Work from Home +108 35 £61,650 -27.47%
South East +38 23 £62,500 -21.88%
North of England +58 15 £80,000 -8.57% 1
North West - 12 £80,000 - 1
Midlands +17 10 £85,000 +50.44%
London +120 9 £80,000 -5.88% 2
West Midlands +32 8 £85,000 +50.44%
Wales - 6 £50,000 -
Scotland - 6 - -
South West -29 4 - - 1
Yorkshire +94 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East of England - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Service 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 Service Architect in the job title.

1 57 (73.08%) Service Management
1 57 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (62.82%) ITSM
3 48 (61.54%) SC Cleared
4 42 (53.85%) ITIL
5 39 (50.00%) Service Design
6 38 (48.72%) Service Delivery
7 36 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (46.15%) Degree
7 36 (46.15%) User Experience
8 34 (43.59%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (42.31%) Public Sector
9 33 (42.31%) Social Skills
10 32 (41.03%) Project Management
11 20 (25.64%) DV Cleared
12 14 (17.95%) Agile
13 13 (16.67%) ServiceNow
14 5 (6.41%) Waterfall
14 5 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (5.13%) Logistics
15 4 (5.13%) Mathematics
15 4 (5.13%) Computer Science
15 4 (5.13%) CAD
15 4 (5.13%) Business Process Improvement
15 4 (5.13%) Process Improvement
15 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
15 4 (5.13%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
15 4 (5.13%) IT Strategy
15 4 (5.13%) Architecture Governance

Service 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (1.28%) AWS
2 1 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) DHCP
1 1 (1.28%) DNS
1 1 (1.28%) HTTP
1 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
General
1 33 (42.31%) Public Sector
1 33 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.28%) Finance
3 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.28%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) HTML
1 1 (1.28%) OpenID
1 1 (1.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.28%) Cyberattack
1 1 (1.28%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (73.08%) Service Management
2 49 (62.82%) ITSM
3 42 (53.85%) ITIL
4 39 (50.00%) Service Design
5 38 (48.72%) Service Delivery
6 36 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (46.15%) User Experience
7 34 (43.59%) Actionable Insight
8 32 (41.03%) Project Management
9 14 (17.95%) Agile
10 5 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (6.41%) Waterfall
11 4 (5.13%) Business Process Improvement
11 4 (5.13%) Computer Science
11 4 (5.13%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (5.13%) IT Strategy
11 4 (5.13%) Logistics
11 4 (5.13%) Mathematics
11 4 (5.13%) Process Improvement
11 4 (5.13%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 57 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 36 (46.15%) Degree
4 20 (25.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.28%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) ServiceNow