Senior Architect Jobs in London

Senior Architect
England > London

The median Senior Architect salary in London is £93,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 387 556
Rank change year-on-year +122 +169 -139
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 257 285 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.09% 0.79% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.83% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 112 152 189
10th Percentile £69,106 £63,750 £75,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £92,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -5.13% +18.18%
75th Percentile £116,250 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £117,500 £130,000
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 22,145 34,385 62,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.08% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 25,122 34,959
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 24 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 24 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 +41 21 £97,500 - 6
South London - 4 £125,000 - 1
West London -5 2 - - 4
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 (45.14%) Azure
2 99 (38.52%) Agile
3 85 (33.07%) Microsoft
4 82 (31.91%) Finance
5 79 (30.74%) AWS
6 65 (25.29%) GCP
7 64 (24.90%) Mentoring
8 62 (24.12%) Degree
9 61 (23.74%) Roadmaps
10 56 (21.79%) Migration
11 55 (21.40%) Analytical Skills
12 53 (20.62%) Social Skills
13 48 (18.68%) Data Strategy
14 46 (17.90%) Data Modelling
15 45 (17.51%) Project Management
15 45 (17.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 44 (17.12%) Business Strategy
17 41 (15.95%) Presales
17 41 (15.95%) Google
18 39 (15.18%) Project Delivery
19 37 (14.40%) Technology Strategy
19 37 (14.40%) Banking
20 36 (14.01%) Data Architecture
21 33 (12.84%) Technical Leadership
22 32 (12.45%) Data Integration
23 31 (12.06%) Visualisation
23 31 (12.06%) Data Visualisation
23 31 (12.06%) Technology Roadmap
24 30 (11.67%) Metadata
25 27 (10.51%) IT Strategy

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 25 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.95%) Apache
4 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Cognos Controller
2 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 116 (45.14%) Azure
2 79 (30.74%) AWS
3 65 (25.29%) GCP
4 23 (8.95%) SaaS
5 22 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.39%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.00%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (7.00%) PaaS
8 12 (4.67%) IaaS
9 9 (3.50%) Serverless
10 8 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.72%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.33%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.95%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (1.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.95%) Stackdriver
14 3 (1.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.00%) Firewall
2 16 (6.23%) MPLS
3 9 (3.50%) DNS
4 5 (1.95%) BGP
4 5 (1.95%) DHCP
4 5 (1.95%) DMVPN
4 5 (1.95%) DWDM
4 5 (1.95%) EIGRP
4 5 (1.95%) GLBP
4 5 (1.95%) HTTP
4 5 (1.95%) HTTPS
4 5 (1.95%) IGRP
4 5 (1.95%) IPsec
4 5 (1.95%) LAN
4 5 (1.95%) Multicast
4 5 (1.95%) OSPF
4 5 (1.95%) SNMP
4 5 (1.95%) SSL
4 5 (1.95%) VPN
4 5 (1.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.67%) Metadata
2 25 (9.73%) Data Mining
3 21 (8.17%) Data Lake
4 20 (7.78%) Apache Ignite
4 20 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (7.78%) Hadoop
5 17 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.11%) Big Data
7 7 (2.72%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.33%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.56%) Power BI
11 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.39%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
12 1 (0.39%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.56%) Git
3 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.39%) ERwin
4 1 (0.39%) JIRA
4 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 82 (31.91%) Finance
2 55 (21.40%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (20.62%) Social Skills
4 45 (17.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (14.40%) Banking
6 24 (9.34%) Retail
7 17 (6.61%) Retail Banking
8 16 (6.23%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (5.06%) Back Office
10 12 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.28%) Financial Institution
11 11 (4.28%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.33%) Marketing
13 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.17%) Brand Awareness
14 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.17%) Law
15 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.39%) Billing
16 1 (0.39%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.73%) Kafka
2 15 (5.84%) .NET
3 7 (2.72%) HTML
4 5 (1.95%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.95%) Apache Beam
4 5 (1.95%) XML
5 4 (1.56%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.56%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (1.56%) Entity Framework
5 4 (1.56%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.56%) Spring
5 4 (1.56%) 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 (7.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.23%) Reinsurance
3 15 (5.84%) PMI
4 9 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.72%) NHS
6 7 (2.72%) PKI
6 7 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.17%) 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%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Unix
2 5 (1.95%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (38.52%) Agile
2 64 (24.90%) Mentoring
3 61 (23.74%) Roadmaps
4 56 (21.79%) Migration
5 48 (18.68%) Data Strategy
6 46 (17.90%) Data Modelling
7 45 (17.51%) Project Management
8 44 (17.12%) Business Strategy
9 41 (15.95%) Presales
10 39 (15.18%) Project Delivery
11 37 (14.40%) Technology Strategy
12 36 (14.01%) Data Architecture
13 33 (12.84%) Technical Leadership
14 32 (12.45%) Data Integration
15 31 (12.06%) Data Visualisation
15 31 (12.06%) Technology Roadmap
15 31 (12.06%) Visualisation
16 27 (10.51%) Data Governance
16 27 (10.51%) Data Management
16 27 (10.51%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.17%) C#
1 21 (8.17%) SQL
2 16 (6.23%) Python
3 14 (5.45%) Java
4 10 (3.89%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.78%) C
6 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.39%) Bicep
7 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (24.12%) Degree
2 21 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.78%) AWS Certification
4 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.23%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.28%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.11%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.11%) CISSP
9 6 (2.33%) CCNA
9 6 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.95%) CISM
10 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.95%) GIAC
10 5 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.56%) CRISC
11 4 (1.56%) ISSMP
11 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.45%) QA
2 7 (2.72%) SLA
3 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.56%) COBIT
5 3 (1.17%) 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 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.11%) KVM
3 7 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.95%) Docker
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (6.23%) Terraform
2 5 (1.95%) Ansible
2 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.95%) Progress Chef
2 5 (1.95%) Puppet
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.39%) CASB
Vendors
1 85 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.95%) Google
3 18 (7.00%) Informatica
4 16 (6.23%) Juniper
5 13 (5.06%) Cisco
6 12 (4.67%) Databricks
6 12 (4.67%) Dell
7 11 (4.28%) VMware
8 8 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.72%) Oracle
10 5 (1.95%) Arista
10 5 (1.95%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.95%) Tufin
11 4 (1.56%) Alibaba
12 3 (1.17%) Sparx
12 3 (1.17%) Teradata
13 2 (0.78%) Facebook
13 2 (0.78%) Twitter
13 2 (0.78%) Veeam
14 1 (0.39%) Concur