Senior Architect Job Trends in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 462 371
Rank change year-on-year +211 -91 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 748 177 423
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.41% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.45% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 441 35 226
10th Percentile £63,744 £67,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +23.38% -9.41%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £99,688
90th Percentile £107,500 £126,250 £131,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -4.66%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 96,140 39,294 61,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 90.57% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,276 23,232 35,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,019 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,828 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -8.33%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in England

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in England

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
London +95 347 £100,000 -9.09% 731
North of England +93 197 £80,000 +16.79% 136
North West +53 96 £80,000 +16.79% 76
Midlands +30 77 £80,000 -36.00% 65
Yorkshire +35 71 £80,000 +27.52% 42
West Midlands - 67 £80,000 - 45
South West -30 48 £80,000 -3.03% 60
South East -40 37 £97,500 - 107
North East - 30 £80,000 - 19
East of England - 27 £90,000 - 55
East Midlands -25 10 £60,000 -20.00% 20
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 9 October 2026, Senior Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 158 (21.12%) AI
2 149 (19.92%) Azure
3 143 (19.12%) AWS
4 107 (14.30%) Data Architecture
5 106 (14.17%) Analytics
6 105 (14.04%) Roadmaps
7 82 (10.96%) CI/CD
8 79 (10.56%) Microsoft
9 75 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
10 74 (9.89%) Decision-Making
11 73 (9.76%) Mentoring
12 72 (9.63%) Security Cleared
13 68 (9.09%) Agile
14 67 (8.96%) SaaS
15 66 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
16 65 (8.69%) Migration
17 64 (8.56%) Data Modelling
18 58 (7.75%) Architecture Governance
19 57 (7.62%) DevOps
20 54 (7.22%) Architectural Patterns
20 54 (7.22%) SC Cleared
21 53 (7.09%) Data Governance
22 52 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
22 52 (6.95%) GCP
23 49 (6.55%) Degree
24 47 (6.28%) Cloud Security
24 47 (6.28%) Metadata
24 47 (6.28%) Security Architecture
25 46 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
25 46 (6.15%) Integration Patterns

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.34%) SAS
2 6 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 20 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.27%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 149 (19.92%) Azure
2 143 (19.12%) AWS
3 67 (8.96%) SaaS
4 52 (6.95%) GCP
5 41 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
6 36 (4.81%) Serverless
7 25 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.41%) GitHub
9 16 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 14 (1.87%) Power Platform
11 13 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (1.60%) IaaS
12 12 (1.60%) OCI
13 11 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.07%) Amazon Bedrock
16 7 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
16 7 (0.94%) Azure API Management
16 7 (0.94%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.01%) Internet
2 10 (1.34%) Network Security
3 8 (1.07%) Firewall
3 8 (1.07%) VPN
4 6 (0.80%) LAN
4 6 (0.80%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.80%) WAN
5 5 (0.67%) Broadband
5 5 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (0.67%) DNS
5 5 (0.67%) NGFW
6 3 (0.40%) DHCP
7 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.13%) SMS
8 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.28%) Metadata
2 17 (2.27%) SAP HANA
3 16 (2.14%) BusinessObjects
4 12 (1.60%) Metadata Repository
5 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.34%) Star Schema
6 9 (1.20%) Power BI
7 6 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.80%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.67%) Big Data
8 5 (0.67%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.53%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.27%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.27%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.41%) Snyk
2 7 (0.94%) Claude Code
3 5 (0.67%) Git
3 5 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.40%) MLflow
5 2 (0.27%) ERwin
5 2 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 154 (20.59%) Finance
2 108 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 82 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.88%) Legal
7 27 (3.61%) Retail
8 23 (3.07%) Banking
9 22 (2.94%) Law
10 21 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.27%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.01%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.01%) Military
13 14 (1.87%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.87%) French Language
14 12 (1.60%) Back Office
15 11 (1.47%) Marketing
16 9 (1.20%) Public Speaking
17 6 (0.80%) Police
18 5 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.14%) Middleware
2 13 (1.74%) RESTful
2 13 (1.74%) Terraform
3 12 (1.60%) OpenAPI
3 12 (1.60%) Swagger
4 11 (1.47%) REST
5 10 (1.34%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (0.94%) A2A Protocol
7 5 (0.67%) .NET
7 5 (0.67%) JSON
7 5 (0.67%) Node.js
7 5 (0.67%) XML
8 4 (0.53%) Hugging Face
8 4 (0.53%) Kafka
8 4 (0.53%) OAuth
8 4 (0.53%) OpenID
8 4 (0.53%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.53%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.40%) CrewAI
9 3 (0.40%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.35%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.14%) Blog
7 11 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.07%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 7 (0.94%) Fat Client
9 7 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 7 (0.94%) Thin Client
10 6 (0.80%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.80%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (21.12%) AI
2 107 (14.30%) Data Architecture
3 106 (14.17%) Analytics
4 105 (14.04%) Roadmaps
5 82 (10.96%) CI/CD
6 75 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 74 (9.89%) Decision-Making
8 73 (9.76%) Mentoring
9 68 (9.09%) Agile
10 66 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
11 65 (8.69%) Migration
12 64 (8.56%) Data Modelling
13 58 (7.75%) Architecture Governance
14 57 (7.62%) DevOps
15 54 (7.22%) Architectural Patterns
16 53 (7.09%) Data Governance
17 52 (6.95%) Cybersecurity
18 47 (6.28%) Cloud Security
18 47 (6.28%) Security Architecture
19 46 (6.15%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (2.54%) Python
2 9 (1.20%) Java
3 8 (1.07%) SQL
3 8 (1.07%) TypeScript
4 6 (0.80%) Bicep
4 6 (0.80%) C#
4 6 (0.80%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.53%) C++
6 3 (0.40%) Go
6 3 (0.40%) Scala
7 2 (0.27%) R
8 1 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 72 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 54 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.55%) Degree
4 26 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.87%) Chartered Engineer
8 12 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (1.20%) CIPD
12 8 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.67%) CCNP
15 4 (0.53%) ACCA
15 4 (0.53%) CIMA
15 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.01%) GRC
3 18 (2.41%) NIST
4 16 (2.14%) GDPR
4 16 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.94%) NCSC
8 5 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.40%) QA
10 2 (0.27%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 21 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (2.01%) Docker
3 8 (1.07%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.40%) vSphere
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.94%) Grafana
3 3 (0.40%) Ansible
3 3 (0.40%) Istio
4 2 (0.27%) CASB
4 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 79 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.55%) Google
3 31 (4.14%) Oracle
4 26 (3.48%) SAP
5 23 (3.07%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
7 21 (2.81%) Databricks
8 18 (2.41%) Tenable
9 15 (2.01%) Cisco
10 12 (1.60%) Guidewire
11 11 (1.47%) Workday
12 9 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.20%) VMware
13 7 (0.94%) Adobe
13 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.94%) YouTube
14 6 (0.80%) Genesys
15 5 (0.67%) Avaya
15 5 (0.67%) ServiceNow
16 4 (0.53%) Sage