Senior Architect Jobs in Bristol

Senior Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Senior Architect salary in Bristol is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 157 153
Rank change year-on-year +65 -4 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 7 9 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.57% 0.29% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.30% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 1
10th Percentile £63,000 £58,375 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £120,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +33.33% +16.13%
75th Percentile £93,056 £125,000 -
90th Percentile £96,306 - -
South West median annual salary £78,750 £72,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +8.62% -17.14% +64.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,173 3,010 2,435
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 97.03% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 790 2,259 1,531
10th Percentile £34,350 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Bristol

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in Bristol

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Bristol region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Hyperion
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (14.29%) OCI
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
1 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Adaptive Web Design
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Hyperion
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow