Senior Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 212 227
Rank change year-on-year +31 +15 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 3 30 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.088% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.47% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 10
10th Percentile £102,750 - £53,750
25th Percentile £103,125 £68,750 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.28% -9.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £113,125 £76,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £104,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £107,500 £67,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +59.26% -8.16% +1.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,913 6,361 5,297
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.05% 94.66% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 4,426 3,110
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,225
25th Percentile £37,671 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,938 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the Thames Valley

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Berkshire +33 1 £110,000 +57.14% 11
Buckinghamshire +7 1 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £105,000 - 6
Senior Architect
South East

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 17 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Informatics
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) VMware