Senior Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 417 590
Rank change year-on-year +74 +173 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 419 278 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.64% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 270 112 164
10th Percentile £54,750 £56,250 £58,000
25th Percentile £56,809 £66,063 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,940
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £81,875 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £93,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 of England +100 176 £70,000 -12.10% 9
North West +31 94 £70,000 -12.10% 4
Midlands +24 81 £62,500 -19.35% 1
Yorkshire +107 64 £70,000 -17.65% 3
West Midlands +33 63 £62,500 -17.22% 1
Scotland -34 54 £80,000 -4.66% 2
South East -9 52 £70,000 -20.00% 9
South West 0 31 £95,000 +18.75% 3
North East +4 18 £70,000 -28.21% 2
East Midlands -19 18 £55,000 -47.62%
Wales +32 13 £64,325 -2.54% 2
Northern Ireland +18 7 £80,000 - 4
East of England -9 5 £66,500 +5.56%
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 98 (23.39%) Degree
2 92 (21.96%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (20.05%) Agile
4 81 (19.33%) Microsoft
5 79 (18.85%) Mentoring
6 74 (17.66%) Coaching
7 72 (17.18%) Finance
8 67 (15.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 66 (15.75%) Architectural Patterns
10 61 (14.56%) Analytics
11 60 (14.32%) Design Patterns
11 60 (14.32%) Public Cloud
12 59 (14.08%) Data Centre
12 59 (14.08%) Presales
13 55 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
14 54 (12.89%) CCNP
14 54 (12.89%) WAN
15 52 (12.41%) Azure
15 52 (12.41%) Roadmaps
16 51 (12.17%) SD-WAN
16 51 (12.17%) Software Licensing
16 51 (12.17%) Meraki
16 51 (12.17%) Time Management
16 51 (12.17%) Customer Engagement
16 51 (12.17%) Adobe
16 51 (12.17%) CCNA
16 51 (12.17%) Apple
16 51 (12.17%) Cisco
17 50 (11.93%) AWS

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.19%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.24%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 52 (12.41%) Azure
2 50 (11.93%) AWS
3 26 (6.21%) SaaS
4 17 (4.06%) Power Platform
5 16 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.15%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.15%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.95%) CloudFront
10 4 (0.95%) dbt
10 4 (0.95%) Route 53
10 4 (0.95%) Serverless
10 4 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.89%) WAN
2 51 (12.17%) SD-WAN
3 36 (8.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 11 (2.63%) Network Security
5 7 (1.67%) Firewall
6 4 (0.95%) Internet
6 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.95%) VPN
7 3 (0.72%) DMZ
7 3 (0.72%) LAN
7 3 (0.72%) Modbus
7 3 (0.72%) VLAN
7 3 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.86%) Metadata
3 11 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.39%) Power BI
5 5 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.72%) Big Data
7 3 (0.72%) MySQL
8 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (1.43%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.24%) JIRA
General
1 72 (17.18%) Finance
2 67 (15.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (11.22%) Social Skills
4 40 (9.55%) Law
5 37 (8.83%) Public Sector
6 36 (8.59%) Marketing
7 23 (5.49%) Retail
8 17 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (3.34%) Banking
10 9 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.43%) Games
11 6 (1.43%) Military
12 5 (1.19%) Digital Health
12 5 (1.19%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.72%) German Language
15 2 (0.48%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.88%) React
2 29 (6.92%) Django
2 29 (6.92%) Node.js
3 7 (1.67%) OAuth
3 7 (1.67%) SAML
4 6 (1.43%) .NET
5 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.72%) REST
5 3 (0.72%) SOAP
5 3 (0.72%) Web Services
5 3 (0.72%) YAML
6 1 (0.24%) EDI
6 1 (0.24%) Kafka
6 1 (0.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.32%) Public Cloud
2 59 (14.08%) Data Centre
3 28 (6.68%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.43%) FMCG
8 5 (1.19%) NHS
8 5 (1.19%) Replication
9 4 (0.95%) SCADA
10 3 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.24%) IoT
11 1 (0.24%) PKI
11 1 (0.24%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.24%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.24%) Smart City
11 1 (0.24%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.86%) Linux
2 8 (1.91%) VME
3 3 (0.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (21.96%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (20.05%) Agile
3 79 (18.85%) Mentoring
4 74 (17.66%) Coaching
5 66 (15.75%) Architectural Patterns
6 61 (14.56%) Analytics
7 60 (14.32%) Design Patterns
8 59 (14.08%) Presales
9 55 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (12.41%) Roadmaps
11 51 (12.17%) Customer Engagement
11 51 (12.17%) Software Licensing
11 51 (12.17%) Time Management
12 49 (11.69%) Microservices
13 45 (10.74%) DevOps
13 45 (10.74%) Technical Architecture
14 42 (10.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 39 (9.31%) Business Strategy
16 36 (8.59%) Open Source
17 34 (8.11%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.26%) Python
2 14 (3.34%) SQL
3 12 (2.86%) C#
4 10 (2.39%) Java
5 8 (1.91%) COBOL
5 8 (1.91%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.91%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 6 (1.43%) C
6 6 (1.43%) MATLAB
6 6 (1.43%) R
6 6 (1.43%) Scala
7 3 (0.72%) Bicep
7 3 (0.72%) PHP
8 2 (0.48%) C++
8 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (23.39%) Degree
2 55 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (12.89%) CCNP
4 51 (12.17%) CCNA
5 21 (5.01%) Security Cleared
6 18 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 15 (3.58%) CISSP
8 11 (2.63%) CISM
9 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.19%) CISA
10 5 (1.19%) CRISC
10 5 (1.19%) SANS
11 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.72%) CCIE
12 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.82%) NIST
2 14 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.72%) GDPR
4 3 (0.72%) GRC
4 3 (0.72%) HMG Infosec
4 3 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (0.72%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.72%) RMADS
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (8.59%) Stealthwatch
2 15 (3.58%) CASB
3 11 (2.63%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.67%) Terraform
5 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 81 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 51 (12.17%) Adobe
2 51 (12.17%) Apple
2 51 (12.17%) Cisco
2 51 (12.17%) Meraki
3 8 (1.91%) Databricks
3 8 (1.91%) Micro Focus
4 7 (1.67%) SAP
5 5 (1.19%) Oracle
6 4 (0.95%) Cognizant
7 3 (0.72%) Google
7 3 (0.72%) Splunk
7 3 (0.72%) Twitter
8 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.48%) Workday
9 1 (0.24%) Duck Creek
9 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.24%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.24%) Pega
9 1 (0.24%) Rapid7