Senior Architect Jobs in the South East

Senior Architect
England > South East

The median Senior Architect salary in the South East 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 288 337 294
Rank change year-on-year +49 -43 +151
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 24 63 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.36% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.38% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1 33 62
10th Percentile - £60,000 -
25th Percentile £105,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £67,500 £82,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.96% -17.68% +14.69%
75th Percentile £115,000 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £86,500 £95,000
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,376 16,502 12,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.09% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,469 11,730 7,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,613 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the South East

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the South East 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
Middlesex - 8 - -
Hampshire +68 6 - - 21
Isle of Wight - 6 - -
Kent +37 3 - - 12
Thames Valley +43 1 £110,000 +51.72% 55
Berkshire +39 1 £110,000 +57.14% 35
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Mentoring
1 23 (95.83%) Finance
2 15 (62.50%) Information Security
2 15 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 15 (62.50%) CISSP
2 15 (62.50%) Project Management
2 15 (62.50%) Degree
2 15 (62.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 9 (37.50%) Migration
4 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 8 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
4 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 8 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 8 (33.33%) Coaching
4 8 (33.33%) People Management
5 1 (4.17%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.17%) Visualisation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
General
1 23 (95.83%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 15 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 8 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Mentoring
2 15 (62.50%) Information Security
2 15 (62.50%) Project Management
3 9 (37.50%) Migration
3 9 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 8 (33.33%) Coaching
4 8 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
4 8 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 8 (33.33%) People Management
4 8 (33.33%) Performance Management
4 8 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (4.17%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.17%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 15 (62.50%) CISSP
1 15 (62.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft