Senior Architect Jobs in the City of London

Senior Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Architect salary in the City of London is £122,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 163 198
Rank change year-on-year +54 +35 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 28 20 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.44% 0.60% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 0.62% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 21
10th Percentile £94,250 - £81,250
25th Percentile £118,750 £81,250 £91,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £88,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.42% -9.23% -
75th Percentile £126,250 £118,750 £110,000
90th Percentile - £133,750 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £122,500 £91,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +34.62% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,807 3,213 4,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,519 3,610
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the City of London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the City of London

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the City of London

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 30 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 City of London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 24 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 16 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 16 (57.14%) User Experience
2 16 (57.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 16 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 16 (57.14%) ITSM
2 16 (57.14%) CAD
2 16 (57.14%) Workflow
2 16 (57.14%) Law
2 16 (57.14%) Degree
2 16 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 16 (57.14%) Business Strategy
2 16 (57.14%) Business Agility
2 16 (57.14%) Thought Leadership
2 16 (57.14%) Product Roadmap
2 16 (57.14%) Product Strategy
3 12 (42.86%) Azure
4 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
5 9 (32.14%) TOGAF
6 8 (28.57%) SaaS
6 8 (28.57%) PaaS
6 8 (28.57%) Waterfall
6 8 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 8 (28.57%) IaaS
6 8 (28.57%) C#
6 8 (28.57%) .NET

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) IaaS
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (28.57%) PaaS
2 8 (28.57%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
1 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
General
1 16 (57.14%) Law
2 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 16 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 16 (57.14%) Business Agility
2 16 (57.14%) Business Strategy
2 16 (57.14%) CAD
2 16 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 16 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (57.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 16 (57.14%) ITSM
2 16 (57.14%) Product Roadmap
2 16 (57.14%) Product Strategy
2 16 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 16 (57.14%) Thought Leadership
2 16 (57.14%) User Experience
2 16 (57.14%) Workflow
3 9 (32.14%) TOGAF
4 8 (28.57%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
4 8 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
4 8 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) C#
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) Python
3 2 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 16 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Informatica
3 2 (7.14%) Talend
4 1 (3.57%) Teradata