Senior Systems Architect Job Trends in London

Senior System Architect
England > London

As of 30 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior System Architect salary in London.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 - 491
Rank change year-on-year - - +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Architect 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.005% - 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £80,250
25th Percentile - - £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £85,000
75th Percentile - - £87,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £55,000 £84,375
% change year-on-year +81.82% -34.81% -

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 18,376 11,496 21,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 90.16% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,389 7,474 16,717
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,482
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

Senior Systems Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Systems Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Systems Architect job vacancy trend in London

Senior Systems Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Architect job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2026, Senior Systems 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 Systems Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Senior Systems 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM