Senior Architect Job Trends in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 255 280
Rank change year-on-year +74 +25 +113
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 284 152 243
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.27% 1.21% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.32% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 147 34 111
10th Percentile £77,000 £79,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £84,000 £80,438 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £126,250 £127,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £132,125 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £86,250 £74,500
% change year-on-year -7.25% +15.77% -9.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 20,668 11,485 21,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 91.39% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14,215 7,420 16,017
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in London

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 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
Central London +19 53 £97,500 -20.41% 22
West London -12 6 £110,000 - 11
South London - 3 £82,500 -
East London - 2 - -
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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 London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 94 (33.10%) AWS
2 81 (28.52%) AI
3 68 (23.94%) Analytics
4 65 (22.89%) Azure
5 57 (20.07%) Roadmaps
6 50 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (15.49%) Mentoring
8 38 (13.38%) Machine Learning
8 38 (13.38%) Migration
9 34 (11.97%) Cloud Computing
9 34 (11.97%) Degree
10 33 (11.62%) Data Architecture
11 32 (11.27%) Systems Engineering
12 30 (10.56%) DevOps
12 30 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
13 29 (10.21%) Architectural Patterns
13 29 (10.21%) Internet
13 29 (10.21%) Microsoft
14 27 (9.51%) Data Governance
14 27 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
14 27 (9.51%) SaaS
14 27 (9.51%) SAP
15 26 (9.15%) Agile
15 26 (9.15%) GCP
15 26 (9.15%) Thought Leadership
16 25 (8.80%) Generative AI
16 25 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (8.45%) Data Modelling
17 24 (8.45%) Microservices
18 23 (8.10%) Computer Science

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.52%) SAS
2 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) CMS
4 2 (0.70%) JBoss
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (6.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.70%) SAP Retail
2 2 (0.70%) Shopify
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.35%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 94 (33.10%) AWS
2 65 (22.89%) Azure
3 34 (11.97%) Cloud Computing
4 27 (9.51%) SaaS
5 26 (9.15%) GCP
6 21 (7.39%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.99%) Serverless
8 13 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.87%) PaaS
10 8 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (2.11%) Azure AI
12 6 (2.11%) IaaS
13 5 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.76%) GitHub
13 5 (1.76%) OCI
14 4 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.41%) Azure Event Grid
14 4 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.21%) Internet
2 8 (2.82%) Broadband
3 7 (2.46%) WAN
4 3 (1.06%) LAN
4 3 (1.06%) MPLS
4 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.70%) DHCP
5 2 (0.70%) DNS
6 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.99%) SAP HANA
2 16 (5.63%) BusinessObjects
3 14 (4.93%) Data Lake
4 12 (4.23%) Metadata
5 7 (2.46%) Power BI
6 4 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.35%) Redis
9 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Git
2 4 (1.41%) Claude Code
3 3 (1.06%) MLflow
4 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
General
1 84 (29.58%) Finance
2 48 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (4.93%) Military
6 12 (4.23%) Law
7 11 (3.87%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.52%) Legal
8 10 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.17%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.17%) Public Speaking
9 9 (3.17%) Retail
10 6 (2.11%) Marketing
11 5 (1.76%) Aviation
11 5 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.41%) French Language
12 4 (1.41%) German Language
12 4 (1.41%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.41%) Spanish Language
13 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.17%) .NET
2 8 (2.82%) Model Context Protocol
3 6 (2.11%) YAML
4 5 (1.76%) A2A Protocol
4 5 (1.76%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.76%) Node.js
4 5 (1.76%) OAuth
4 5 (1.76%) OpenID
4 5 (1.76%) React Native
4 5 (1.76%) REST
4 5 (1.76%) SAML
4 5 (1.76%) SOAP
5 4 (1.41%) CSS
5 4 (1.41%) LangGraph
6 3 (1.06%) CrewAI
6 3 (1.06%) LDAP
6 3 (1.06%) Middleware
6 3 (1.06%) PySpark
6 3 (1.06%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.85%) Onboarding
2 40 (14.08%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.63%) Blog
4 15 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (4.58%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.82%) Reinsurance
8 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.46%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.46%) Fat Client
8 7 (2.46%) Thin Client
9 5 (1.76%) Autonomous Agent
9 5 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.06%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.06%) Hackathon
11 3 (1.06%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Linux
2 1 (0.35%) Unix
2 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.52%) AI
2 68 (23.94%) Analytics
3 57 (20.07%) Roadmaps
4 50 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (15.49%) Mentoring
6 38 (13.38%) Machine Learning
6 38 (13.38%) Migration
7 33 (11.62%) Data Architecture
8 32 (11.27%) Systems Engineering
9 30 (10.56%) DevOps
9 30 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
10 29 (10.21%) Architectural Patterns
11 27 (9.51%) Data Governance
11 27 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
12 26 (9.15%) Agile
12 26 (9.15%) Thought Leadership
13 25 (8.80%) Generative AI
13 25 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (8.45%) Data Modelling
14 24 (8.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.63%) Python
2 11 (3.87%) SQL
3 8 (2.82%) C#
3 8 (2.82%) TypeScript
4 6 (2.11%) Java
5 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.06%) Bash
6 3 (1.06%) Bicep
6 3 (1.06%) Go
6 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.70%) C++
7 2 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (11.97%) Degree
2 21 (7.39%) AWS Certification
3 20 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 7 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.46%) CISSP
9 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.76%) FFIEC
11 4 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.06%) CIPD
12 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (0.70%) GCIH
14 1 (0.35%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 14 (4.93%) NIST
2 13 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.76%) GDPR
3 5 (1.76%) GRC
3 5 (1.76%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.76%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.06%) NCSC
5 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 8 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.46%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.23%) Terraform
3 11 (3.87%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) CASB
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.51%) SAP
3 17 (5.99%) Databricks
4 12 (4.23%) Google
5 11 (3.87%) Oracle
6 8 (2.82%) Cisco
6 8 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.46%) Guidewire
7 7 (2.46%) Sage
8 6 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.11%) Workday
9 5 (1.76%) Avaya
9 5 (1.76%) Genesys
10 4 (1.41%) Concur
11 3 (1.06%) Meraki
11 3 (1.06%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.70%) Zerto
13 1 (0.35%) Teradata