Senior Architect Jobs in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect salary in London is £93,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 385 556
Rank change year-on-year +115 +171 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 255 274 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.09% 0.77% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.81% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 112 147 185
10th Percentile £69,106 £63,750 £75,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £80,625 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,500 £92,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -5.13% +18.18%
75th Percentile £113,125 £110,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £118,100 £129,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in London

Senior Architect
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London +34 21 £97,500 - 8
South London - 3 £125,000 - 1
West London +4 2 - - 4
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 116 (45.49%) Azure
2 99 (38.82%) Agile
3 84 (32.94%) Microsoft
4 82 (32.16%) Finance
5 79 (30.98%) AWS
6 65 (25.49%) GCP
7 61 (23.92%) Mentoring
8 60 (23.53%) Roadmaps
9 57 (22.35%) Degree
10 55 (21.57%) Migration
11 54 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
12 50 (19.61%) Social Skills
13 48 (18.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 48 (18.82%) Data Modelling
14 47 (18.43%) Data Strategy
15 42 (16.47%) Business Strategy
16 40 (15.69%) Project Management
16 40 (15.69%) Banking
17 39 (15.29%) Google
18 38 (14.90%) Data Architecture
18 38 (14.90%) Presales
19 37 (14.51%) Project Delivery
20 35 (13.73%) Technology Strategy
21 34 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
22 31 (12.16%) Metadata
22 31 (12.16%) Data Integration
23 30 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
24 29 (11.37%) Visualisation
24 29 (11.37%) Data Visualisation
24 29 (11.37%) Data Management

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 23 (9.02%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.96%) Apache
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Cognos Controller
2 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 116 (45.49%) Azure
2 79 (30.98%) AWS
3 65 (25.49%) GCP
4 22 (8.63%) SaaS
5 21 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 19 (7.45%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (6.67%) PaaS
9 11 (4.31%) IaaS
10 9 (3.53%) Serverless
11 8 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.14%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.75%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (1.96%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (1.96%) Stackdriver
15 3 (1.18%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.06%) Firewall
2 16 (6.27%) MPLS
3 9 (3.53%) DNS
4 5 (1.96%) BGP
4 5 (1.96%) DHCP
4 5 (1.96%) DMVPN
4 5 (1.96%) DWDM
4 5 (1.96%) EIGRP
4 5 (1.96%) GLBP
4 5 (1.96%) HTTP
4 5 (1.96%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.96%) IGRP
4 5 (1.96%) IPsec
4 5 (1.96%) LAN
4 5 (1.96%) Multicast
4 5 (1.96%) OSPF
4 5 (1.96%) SNMP
4 5 (1.96%) SSL
4 5 (1.96%) VPN
4 5 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.16%) Metadata
2 23 (9.02%) Data Mining
3 21 (8.24%) Data Lake
4 18 (7.06%) Apache Ignite
4 18 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.06%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (7.06%) Hadoop
5 8 (3.14%) Big Data
6 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.35%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.96%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.57%) Power BI
10 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.39%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.39%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.57%) Git
3 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.39%) ERwin
4 1 (0.39%) JIRA
4 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 82 (32.16%) Finance
2 54 (21.18%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (19.61%) Social Skills
4 48 (18.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (15.69%) Banking
6 24 (9.41%) Retail
7 19 (7.45%) Retail Banking
8 16 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (5.49%) Back Office
10 12 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (4.71%) Financial Institution
11 11 (4.31%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.35%) Marketing
13 5 (1.96%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.18%) Brand Awareness
14 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.18%) Law
15 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.39%) Front Office
16 1 (0.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.02%) Kafka
2 14 (5.49%) .NET
3 7 (2.75%) HTML
4 5 (1.96%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Beam
4 5 (1.96%) XML
5 4 (1.57%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.57%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (1.57%) Entity Framework
5 4 (1.57%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.57%) Spring
5 4 (1.57%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.78%) RESTful
6 2 (0.78%) Web Services
7 1 (0.39%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.39%) FHIR
7 1 (0.39%) Middleware
7 1 (0.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.27%) Reinsurance
3 15 (5.88%) PMI
4 9 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.75%) NHS
6 7 (2.75%) PKI
6 7 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.78%) FMCG
11 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.78%) Social Media
12 1 (0.39%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Linux
2 5 (1.96%) Unix
2 5 (1.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (38.82%) Agile
2 61 (23.92%) Mentoring
3 60 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 55 (21.57%) Migration
5 48 (18.82%) Data Modelling
6 47 (18.43%) Data Strategy
7 42 (16.47%) Business Strategy
8 40 (15.69%) Project Management
9 38 (14.90%) Data Architecture
9 38 (14.90%) Presales
10 37 (14.51%) Project Delivery
11 35 (13.73%) Technology Strategy
12 34 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
13 31 (12.16%) Data Integration
14 30 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
15 29 (11.37%) Data Management
15 29 (11.37%) Data Visualisation
15 29 (11.37%) Visualisation
16 28 (10.98%) Customer Experience
17 27 (10.59%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.24%) SQL
2 20 (7.84%) C#
3 16 (6.27%) Python
4 14 (5.49%) Java
5 10 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.78%) C
7 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.39%) Bicep
8 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (22.35%) Degree
2 21 (8.24%) AWS Certification
2 21 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.27%) PMI Certification
5 12 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.14%) CISSP
7 6 (2.35%) CCNA
7 6 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.96%) CISM
8 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.96%) GIAC
8 5 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.57%) CRISC
9 4 (1.57%) ISSMP
9 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.31%) QA
2 8 (3.14%) SLA
3 6 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) COBIT
5 3 (1.18%) PMO
6 2 (0.78%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 10 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.14%) KVM
3 5 (1.96%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (6.27%) Terraform
2 5 (1.96%) Ansible
2 5 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.96%) Progress Chef
2 5 (1.96%) Puppet
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.39%) CASB
Vendors
1 84 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.29%) Google
3 18 (7.06%) Informatica
4 16 (6.27%) Juniper
5 13 (5.10%) Cisco
6 12 (4.71%) Databricks
7 11 (4.31%) VMware
8 9 (3.53%) Dell
9 8 (3.14%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.75%) Oracle
11 5 (1.96%) Arista
11 5 (1.96%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.96%) Tufin
12 4 (1.57%) Alibaba
13 3 (1.18%) Sparx
13 3 (1.18%) Teradata
14 2 (0.78%) Facebook
14 2 (0.78%) Twitter
14 2 (0.78%) Veeam
15 1 (0.39%) SAP