Senior Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Senior Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Architect salary in Birmingham is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 97 122
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +60
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 11 48 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 1.74% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.84% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 11
10th Percentile £58,460 £50,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £71,979 £56,357 £69,061
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £61,206 £72,468
Median % change year-on-year +63.38% -15.54% -6.49%
75th Percentile £105,000 £78,169 £97,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £105,000
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -14.97% -3.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,352 2,603 1,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 94.28% 93.27%
Number of salaries quoted 792 2,117 1,385
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,625 £84,964 £81,650
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Birmingham

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in Birmingham

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Azure
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
4 5 (45.45%) API Management
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (45.45%) REST
4 5 (45.45%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Presales
5 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (27.27%) Software Licensing
5 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (27.27%) Time Management
5 3 (27.27%) Adobe
5 3 (27.27%) Apple
5 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
6 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) Digital Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
7 1 (9.09%) User Experience
7 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) API Management
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
1 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
1 5 (45.45%) SDLC
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Presales
2 3 (27.27%) Software Licensing
2 3 (27.27%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) Coaching
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Runbook
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Adobe
2 3 (27.27%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle