Senior Architect Jobs in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect salary in London is £110,000 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 257 279 361
Rank change year-on-year +22 +82 +212
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 136 255 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.07% 1.06% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.13% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 32 113 136
10th Percentile £79,550 £63,821 £65,000
25th Percentile £91,250 £81,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £92,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -2.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £126,250 £101,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £132,375 £137,250 £120,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +28.38% -12.94% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,455 22,637 31,177
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,909 16,798 22,986
10th Percentile £40,971 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 30 May 2025.

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 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
Central London +37 33 £122,500 +34.62% 6
West London +22 5 - - 16
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 66 (48.53%) Roadmaps
2 61 (44.85%) Azure
3 53 (38.97%) Law
4 52 (38.24%) AWS
5 51 (37.50%) Business Strategy
6 50 (36.76%) Degree
7 48 (35.29%) GCP
8 46 (33.82%) Agile
9 44 (32.35%) Finance
10 42 (30.88%) Social Skills
11 38 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (27.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 37 (27.21%) Artificial Intelligence
13 36 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (25.74%) Analytics
14 35 (25.74%) Banking
15 33 (24.26%) Computer Science
15 33 (24.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 31 (22.79%) Service Delivery
16 31 (22.79%) Thought Leadership
17 30 (22.06%) Cloud Native
18 29 (21.32%) ServiceNow
19 28 (20.59%) Product Strategy
19 28 (20.59%) Product Roadmap
19 28 (20.59%) Business Agility
19 28 (20.59%) User Experience
19 28 (20.59%) Microservices
19 28 (20.59%) ITSM
19 28 (20.59%) CAD
19 28 (20.59%) Workflow

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 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.74%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (11.03%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (6.62%) SAP IBP
1 9 (6.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.85%) Azure
2 52 (38.24%) AWS
3 48 (35.29%) GCP
4 20 (14.71%) SaaS
5 10 (7.35%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.62%) IaaS
6 9 (6.62%) PaaS
7 8 (5.88%) Boomi
7 8 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 7 (5.15%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.21%) Serverless
10 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.47%) OCI
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Firewall
1 4 (2.94%) Network Security
2 2 (1.47%) BIG-IP
2 2 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.47%) DNS
2 2 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (1.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.35%) Power BI
3 9 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 8 (5.88%) SAP BW
4 8 (5.88%) Tableau
5 3 (2.21%) Big Data
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) DB2
General
1 53 (38.97%) Law
2 44 (32.35%) Finance
3 42 (30.88%) Social Skills
4 35 (25.74%) Banking
5 27 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (19.85%) Games
6 17 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (8.09%) Marketing
8 9 (6.62%) Telecoms
9 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (5.88%) Retail
9 8 (5.88%) Retail Banking
10 7 (5.15%) Automotive
10 7 (5.15%) Dutch Language
10 7 (5.15%) French Language
11 4 (2.94%) Legal
12 3 (2.21%) Billing
12 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.88%) .NET
1 8 (5.88%) Middleware
2 7 (5.15%) Kafka
3 5 (3.68%) OpenAPI
3 5 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.74%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.18%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.35%) Reinsurance
4 9 (6.62%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (5.15%) PMI
7 6 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.68%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.68%) Low-Code
8 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.68%) Mobile Games
9 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.47%) Equities
11 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.47%) IoT
11 2 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.53%) Roadmaps
2 51 (37.50%) Business Strategy
3 46 (33.82%) Agile
4 38 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (27.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 37 (27.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 36 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (25.74%) Analytics
8 33 (24.26%) Computer Science
9 31 (22.79%) Service Delivery
9 31 (22.79%) Thought Leadership
10 28 (20.59%) Business Agility
10 28 (20.59%) CAD
10 28 (20.59%) ITSM
10 28 (20.59%) Microservices
10 28 (20.59%) Product Roadmap
10 28 (20.59%) Product Strategy
10 28 (20.59%) User Experience
10 28 (20.59%) Workflow
11 26 (19.12%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.29%) SQL
2 11 (8.09%) C#
3 8 (5.88%) Python
4 7 (5.15%) Java
5 2 (1.47%) Scala
5 2 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.74%) COBOL
6 1 (0.74%) JCL
Qualifications
1 50 (36.76%) Degree
2 33 (24.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.15%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.41%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CCNP
7 2 (1.47%) CEH
7 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CISM
7 2 (1.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.88%) GDPR
2 5 (3.68%) HIPAA
2 5 (3.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.47%) FortiGate
2 2 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (21.32%) ServiceNow
2 24 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 20 (14.71%) SAP
4 19 (13.97%) Google
5 17 (12.50%) Oracle
6 13 (9.56%) Salesforce
7 9 (6.62%) Ariba
8 8 (5.88%) Adobe
8 8 (5.88%) Dell
8 8 (5.88%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.68%) IBM
10 3 (2.21%) Databricks
10 3 (2.21%) Guidewire
10 3 (2.21%) Informatica
10 3 (2.21%) Talend
10 3 (2.21%) Workday
11 2 (1.47%) Cisco
11 2 (1.47%) F5
11 2 (1.47%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.47%) Riverbed