Senior Architect Jobs in Central London

Senior Architect
London > Central London

The median Senior Architect salary in Central London is £122,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 168 212
Rank change year-on-year +35 +44 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 28 20 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.12% 0.53% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 23
10th Percentile £93,700 £81,450 £81,250
25th Percentile £118,750 £82,500 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £95,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -2.56% -
75th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £113,750
90th Percentile - £135,000 £125,500
London median annual salary £110,000 £92,250 £95,000
% change year-on-year +19.24% -2.89% -2.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,283 3,585 4,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 95.14% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,627 2,795 4,134
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,250 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.33% +1.35%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Central London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in Central London

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in Central London

Senior Architect
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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
City of London +40 23 £122,500 +28.95% 7
City of Westminster - 12 - -
Camden -5 5 - - 3
Senior Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Central London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 18 (64.29%) Roadmaps
2 17 (60.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (60.71%) Degree
2 17 (60.71%) Computer Science
3 16 (57.14%) Azure
4 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (42.86%) ServiceNow
4 12 (42.86%) CAD
4 12 (42.86%) Service Delivery
4 12 (42.86%) ITSM
4 12 (42.86%) Workflow
4 12 (42.86%) Law
4 12 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 12 (42.86%) Business Agility
4 12 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
4 12 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
4 12 (42.86%) Product Strategy
4 12 (42.86%) User Experience
4 12 (42.86%) Business Strategy
5 11 (39.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 11 (39.29%) SaaS
6 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
7 8 (28.57%) TOGAF
8 7 (25.00%) Agile
8 7 (25.00%) SQL
8 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 7 (25.00%) AWS
8 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (25.00%) GCP

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (7.14%) SAS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) SaaS
3 7 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (21.43%) IaaS
4 6 (21.43%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
General
1 12 (42.86%) Law
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Front Office
4 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) .NET
1 6 (21.43%) Kafka
2 5 (17.86%) OpenAPI
2 5 (17.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Mobile App
2 5 (17.86%) Mobile Games
3 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Roadmaps
2 17 (60.71%) Computer Science
3 12 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (42.86%) Business Agility
3 12 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 12 (42.86%) CAD
3 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 12 (42.86%) ITSM
3 12 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
3 12 (42.86%) Product Strategy
3 12 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 12 (42.86%) Thought Leadership
3 12 (42.86%) User Experience
3 12 (42.86%) Workflow
4 11 (39.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 8 (28.57%) TOGAF
6 7 (25.00%) Agile
6 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (60.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) ServiceNow
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (21.43%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Teradata
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) Talend