Senior Architect Job Trends in the South West

Senior Architect
England > South West

The median Senior Architect salary in the South West is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 165 219
Rank change year-on-year -24 +54 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 44 6 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.48% 0.17% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.19% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 41 4 15
10th Percentile - £63,000 £57,900
25th Percentile £50,000 £67,500 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -15.28% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £125,000
90th Percentile - £89,750 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% -4.48%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 8,590 3,169 7,680
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 91.46% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,862 2,135 5,466
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,100 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in the South West

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the South West

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the South West

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Bristol -12 25 £80,000 +4.92% 12
Gloucestershire - 13 £50,000 - 15
Wiltshire -11 5 £80,000 -
Somerset -36 1 - -
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, Senior 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 South West region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) Data Architecture
2 10 (22.73%) Decision-Making
3 9 (20.45%) Architecture Governance
3 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) Data Strategy
4 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.09%) Data Governance
5 4 (9.09%) Data Management
5 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
5 4 (9.09%) Metadata
5 4 (9.09%) Metadata Management
5 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 4 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 3 (6.82%) Agile
6 3 (6.82%) AI
6 3 (6.82%) CIPD
6 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (6.82%) PRINCE2
6 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.82%) SEO
6 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (6.82%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (6.82%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (4.55%) ArchiMate
7 2 (4.55%) Building Information Modelling
7 2 (4.55%) Business Strategy
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
3 1 (2.27%) IaaS
3 1 (2.27%) PaaS
3 1 (2.27%) SaaS
3 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
General
1 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) PKI
2 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Data Architecture
1 10 (22.73%) Decision-Making
2 9 (20.45%) Architecture Governance
2 9 (20.45%) Data Strategy
3 5 (11.36%) Data Modelling
4 4 (9.09%) Data Governance
4 4 (9.09%) Data Management
4 4 (9.09%) Metadata Management
4 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 4 (9.09%) TOGAF
5 3 (6.82%) Agile
5 3 (6.82%) AI
5 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (6.82%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.82%) SEO
5 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (6.82%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (4.55%) Migration
6 2 (4.55%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) CIPD
2 3 (6.82%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.55%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Vectorworks
2 1 (2.27%) Google
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft