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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 278 375
Rank change year-on-year +14 +97 +184
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 137 251 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.05% 1.06% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.13% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 36 111 139
10th Percentile £79,750 £69,106 £65,000
25th Percentile £91,563 £81,750 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £92,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -3.16% -2.56%
75th Percentile £126,250 £113,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £131,875 £137,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £83,500 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +12.84% -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 11,742 22,276 32,688
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.14% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,310 16,685 24,119
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +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 13 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 13 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 +39 28 £122,500 +30.67% 14
West London +29 8 - - 3
Senior Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 61 (44.53%) Azure
2 59 (43.07%) Roadmaps
3 51 (37.23%) AWS
4 48 (35.04%) Agile
5 47 (34.31%) Law
5 47 (34.31%) GCP
5 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
6 45 (32.85%) Business Strategy
7 44 (32.12%) Degree
7 44 (32.12%) Finance
8 36 (26.28%) Analytics
8 36 (26.28%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (25.55%) Banking
10 33 (24.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 32 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (22.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 30 (21.90%) Microservices
14 29 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
14 29 (21.17%) Cloud Native
15 28 (20.44%) TOGAF
16 27 (19.71%) Games
16 27 (19.71%) Computer Science
16 27 (19.71%) IT Strategy
16 27 (19.71%) Computer Science Degree
16 27 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (18.98%) Customer Experience
17 26 (18.98%) Technology Strategy
17 26 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
18 25 (18.25%) Service Delivery
18 25 (18.25%) Thought Leadership

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 (1.46%) SAS
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Maya
Business Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (6.57%) SAP IBP
2 9 (6.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 61 (44.53%) Azure
2 51 (37.23%) AWS
3 47 (34.31%) GCP
4 18 (13.14%) SaaS
5 12 (8.76%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.30%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (5.84%) Boomi
7 8 (5.84%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 7 (5.11%) IaaS
8 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.11%) PaaS
9 6 (4.38%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.19%) Serverless
12 2 (1.46%) OCI
13 1 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.73%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) Firewall
1 4 (2.92%) Network Security
2 2 (1.46%) BIG-IP
2 2 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.46%) DNS
2 2 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (1.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.03%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.30%) Power BI
3 9 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.84%) Data Lake
4 8 (5.84%) SAP BW
4 8 (5.84%) Tableau
5 2 (1.46%) Big Data
5 2 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.73%) DB2
6 1 (0.73%) Hadoop
General
1 47 (34.31%) Law
1 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 44 (32.12%) Finance
3 35 (25.55%) Banking
4 29 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (19.71%) Games
6 17 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (9.49%) Marketing
8 12 (8.76%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (6.57%) Manufacturing
9 9 (6.57%) Retail
9 9 (6.57%) Telecoms
10 8 (5.84%) Retail Banking
11 7 (5.11%) Automotive
11 7 (5.11%) Dutch Language
11 7 (5.11%) French Language
12 4 (2.92%) Legal
12 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
13 3 (2.19%) Billing
13 3 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.84%) Middleware
2 7 (5.11%) .NET
3 6 (4.38%) Kafka
4 5 (3.65%) OpenAPI
4 5 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.73%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.06%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.30%) Reinsurance
4 9 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (5.11%) PMI
7 6 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.65%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (3.65%) IoT
8 5 (3.65%) Low-Code
8 5 (3.65%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.65%) Mobile Games
9 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.46%) Equities
11 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.07%) Roadmaps
2 48 (35.04%) Agile
3 45 (32.85%) Business Strategy
4 36 (26.28%) Analytics
4 36 (26.28%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (24.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 32 (23.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (22.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 30 (21.90%) Microservices
9 28 (20.44%) TOGAF
10 27 (19.71%) Computer Science
10 27 (19.71%) IT Strategy
10 27 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (18.98%) Customer Experience
11 26 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (18.98%) Technology Strategy
12 25 (18.25%) Integration Patterns
12 25 (18.25%) Service Delivery
12 25 (18.25%) Thought Leadership
13 24 (17.52%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.49%) SQL
2 9 (6.57%) C#
3 7 (5.11%) Python
4 6 (4.38%) Java
5 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.73%) COBOL
6 1 (0.73%) JCL
6 1 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (32.12%) Degree
2 27 (19.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.11%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.38%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.46%) CCNP
7 2 (1.46%) CEH
7 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.46%) CISM
7 2 (1.46%) CISSP
8 1 (0.73%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) GDPR
2 5 (3.65%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.46%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.79%) ServiceNow
3 22 (16.06%) SAP
4 18 (13.14%) Google
5 17 (12.41%) Oracle
6 13 (9.49%) Salesforce
7 9 (6.57%) Ariba
8 8 (5.84%) Adobe
8 8 (5.84%) Dell
8 8 (5.84%) MuleSoft
9 5 (3.65%) IBM
10 3 (2.19%) Guidewire
10 3 (2.19%) Workday
11 2 (1.46%) Cisco
11 2 (1.46%) Databricks
11 2 (1.46%) F5
11 2 (1.46%) Informatica
11 2 (1.46%) Meraki
11 2 (1.46%) Riverbed
11 2 (1.46%) Talend