Senior Architect Jobs in the North of England

Senior Architect
England > North of England

The median Senior Architect salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 227 359
Rank change year-on-year -89 +132 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 30 171 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.94% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.99% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 14 136 18
10th Percentile £67,000 - £68,550
25th Percentile - £56,809 £69,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,975 £100,000 £109,200
England median annual salary £95,000 £73,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +30.14% -14.12% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,559 17,213 14,859
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 95.07% 89.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,449 13,282 8,075
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,750
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 the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the North of England

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West -73 15 £68,500 -2.14% 71
Yorkshire -1 10 £70,000 -5.41% 62
North East +44 5 £70,000 +14.37% 22
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 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 North of England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 14 (46.67%) Management Information System
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Degree
3 10 (33.33%) Project Management
3 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 9 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (30.00%) CISSP
4 9 (30.00%) Information Security
5 8 (26.67%) TOGAF
5 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
6 7 (23.33%) Microservices
7 6 (20.00%) AWS
8 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
8 5 (16.67%) Azure
8 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (16.67%) GCP
8 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
8 5 (16.67%) Docker
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Data Privacy
8 5 (16.67%) GDPR
8 5 (16.67%) IT Strategy
8 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
8 5 (16.67%) Agile
8 5 (16.67%) Data Management
8 5 (16.67%) Google
8 5 (16.67%) HIPAA
8 5 (16.67%) Python

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 10 (33.33%) Project Management
2 9 (30.00%) Information Security
3 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 8 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (23.33%) Microservices
5 5 (16.67%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) Architectural Design
5 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (16.67%) Data Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 5 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (10.00%) Business Transformation
7 2 (6.67%) Low Latency
7 2 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) C#
1 5 (16.67%) Java
1 5 (16.67%) Python
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 9 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (30.00%) CISSP
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) GDPR
1 5 (16.67%) HIPAA
1 5 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow