Senior Architect Jobs in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £95,000 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 460 356 442
Rank change year-on-year -104 +86 +216
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 233 639 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.71% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.75% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 66 387 267
10th Percentile - £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £57,725 £69,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £74,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -12.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £126,250 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £83,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.33% -11.76% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,450 84,705 79,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.67% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 62,722 50,420
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,070 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,952 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in England

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

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 30 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
London +22 136 £110,000 +18.92% 59
North of England -83 31 £70,000 - 107
South East +49 24 £110,000 +62.96% 148
Midlands +1 19 £70,641 +13.03% 101
North West -66 16 £68,500 -2.14% 49
South West +87 15 £78,750 +8.62% 65
West Midlands -10 13 £70,641 +13.03% 53
Yorkshire -2 10 £70,000 -5.41% 45
East of England +49 6 - - 80
East Midlands +29 6 - - 40
North East +43 5 £70,000 +14.37% 13
Senior Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 101 (43.35%) Finance
2 98 (42.06%) Degree
3 80 (34.33%) Roadmaps
4 76 (32.62%) Azure
5 62 (26.61%) Agile
6 61 (26.18%) AWS
7 60 (25.75%) Management Information System
8 58 (24.89%) Social Skills
9 57 (24.46%) Mentoring
10 55 (23.61%) Project Management
11 54 (23.18%) GCP
12 53 (22.75%) Law
13 52 (22.32%) Business Strategy
14 51 (21.89%) Information Security
15 47 (20.17%) CISSP
16 45 (19.31%) BPSS Clearance
17 41 (17.60%) Microservices
18 40 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 40 (17.17%) Microsoft
19 39 (16.74%) TOGAF
20 38 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence
20 38 (16.31%) Analytics
20 38 (16.31%) Cloud Native
21 37 (15.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
22 36 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
22 36 (15.45%) Banking
23 33 (14.16%) Computer Science
23 33 (14.16%) Computer Science Degree
23 33 (14.16%) IT Strategy
24 31 (13.30%) Thought Leadership

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (6.44%) Maya
Business Applications
1 10 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.86%) SAP IBP
3 8 (3.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.62%) Azure
2 61 (26.18%) AWS
3 54 (23.18%) GCP
4 22 (9.44%) SaaS
5 13 (5.58%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.72%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.29%) IaaS
7 10 (4.29%) PaaS
8 8 (3.43%) Boomi
8 8 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.43%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 7 (3.00%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.72%) Serverless
12 3 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.29%) OCI
13 2 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
14 1 (0.43%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) Firewall
1 4 (1.72%) Network Security
2 2 (0.86%) BIG-IP
2 2 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.86%) DNS
2 2 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.73%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.72%) Power BI
3 10 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.86%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.43%) SAP BW
5 8 (3.43%) Tableau
6 3 (1.29%) Big Data
7 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.86%) DB2
7 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 101 (43.35%) Finance
2 58 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 53 (22.75%) Law
4 36 (15.45%) Banking
5 28 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (11.59%) Games
7 22 (9.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.72%) Marketing
9 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.43%) Retail
10 8 (3.43%) Retail Banking
11 7 (3.00%) Automotive
11 7 (3.00%) Dutch Language
11 7 (3.00%) French Language
12 4 (1.72%) Legal
13 3 (1.29%) Billing
13 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.29%) Middleware
2 8 (3.43%) .NET
3 7 (3.00%) Kafka
4 5 (2.15%) OpenAPI
4 5 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.15%) REST
5 1 (0.43%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.75%) Management Information System
2 38 (16.31%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.44%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.29%) Reinsurance
5 8 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.00%) PMI
7 6 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.15%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.15%) Mobile Games
9 4 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Smartphone
10 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.86%) IoT
11 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.43%) Linux
1 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.33%) Roadmaps
2 62 (26.61%) Agile
3 57 (24.46%) Mentoring
4 55 (23.61%) Project Management
5 52 (22.32%) Business Strategy
6 51 (21.89%) Information Security
7 41 (17.60%) Microservices
8 40 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (16.74%) TOGAF
10 38 (16.31%) Analytics
10 38 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence
11 37 (15.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 36 (15.45%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (14.16%) Computer Science
13 33 (14.16%) IT Strategy
14 31 (13.30%) Service Delivery
14 31 (13.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (13.30%) Thought Leadership
14 31 (13.30%) Translating Business Requirements
15 28 (12.02%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.01%) SQL
2 17 (7.30%) C#
3 15 (6.44%) Python
4 13 (5.58%) Java
5 2 (0.86%) Scala
5 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.43%) Bash
6 1 (0.43%) COBOL
6 1 (0.43%) JCL
6 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (42.06%) Degree
2 47 (20.17%) CISSP
3 45 (19.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (14.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.58%) AWS Certification
6 12 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.72%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.00%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.15%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.29%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.86%) CCNP
11 2 (0.86%) CEH
11 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.86%) CISM
11 2 (0.86%) CITP
12 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.01%) GDPR
2 12 (5.15%) NIST
3 11 (4.72%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.86%) COBIT
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (5.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.29%) Terraform
3 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 40 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.30%) ServiceNow
3 25 (10.73%) Google
4 21 (9.01%) SAP
5 19 (8.15%) Oracle
6 13 (5.58%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.86%) Ariba
8 8 (3.43%) Adobe
8 8 (3.43%) Dell
8 8 (3.43%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.58%) IBM
10 4 (1.72%) Databricks
11 3 (1.29%) Guidewire
11 3 (1.29%) Informatica
11 3 (1.29%) Talend
11 3 (1.29%) Workday
12 2 (0.86%) Cisco
12 2 (0.86%) F5
12 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.86%) Riverbed