Senior Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 435 428
Rank change year-on-year +74 -7 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 149 131 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.36% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 109 82 98
10th Percentile £67,600 £50,681 £52,325
25th Percentile £76,250 £59,168 £57,056
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,311 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% -3.84% -12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £81,938
90th Percentile - £97,250 £89,875
UK median annual salary £90,000 £76,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -4.38% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Senior Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Architect job vacancies 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 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
North of England +19 63 £80,000 +27.43% 32
North West +27 33 £80,000 +29.05% 15
Midlands +18 24 £87,500 +33.89% 17
Yorkshire -8 20 £80,000 +27.43% 12
South East +29 16 £100,000 +29.03% 32
South West +18 15 £75,000 - 12
West Midlands +16 15 £87,500 +33.89% 8
North East +11 10 £80,000 +29.05% 6
East of England - 10 £90,000 - 18
Northern Ireland -4 8 £100,000 - 2
Scotland +6 7 £100,000 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -8 7 £80,000 +6.67% 8
Wales +6 6 £80,000 +19.19% 6
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 38 (25.50%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (18.12%) Degree
4 25 (16.78%) Azure
4 25 (16.78%) Decision-Making
5 23 (15.44%) Migration
5 23 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (15.44%) Strategic Thinking
6 22 (14.77%) Translating Business Requirements
7 21 (14.09%) Mentoring
8 20 (13.42%) AWS
8 20 (13.42%) Time Management
9 19 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (12.75%) Enterprise Architecture
9 19 (12.75%) Power BI
9 19 (12.75%) Power Platform
10 18 (12.08%) Anaplan
10 18 (12.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 18 (12.08%) Genesys
10 18 (12.08%) Knowledge Transfer
10 18 (12.08%) Lean Six Sigma
10 18 (12.08%) PMI Certification
10 18 (12.08%) PMP
10 18 (12.08%) Project Management
10 18 (12.08%) Roadmaps
10 18 (12.08%) ServiceNow
10 18 (12.08%) Six Sigma
10 18 (12.08%) Tableau
10 18 (12.08%) Verint
10 18 (12.08%) WFM

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Maximo
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.78%) Azure
2 20 (13.42%) AWS
3 19 (12.75%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.07%) GCP
5 5 (3.36%) OCI
6 3 (2.01%) IaaS
6 3 (2.01%) PaaS
6 3 (2.01%) SaaS
6 3 (2.01%) Serverless
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.67%) GitHub
8 1 (0.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.01%) WAN
2 2 (1.34%) Firewall
2 2 (1.34%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.34%) VLAN
2 2 (1.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) Broadband
3 1 (0.67%) LAN
3 1 (0.67%) PCoIP
3 1 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.75%) Power BI
2 18 (12.08%) Tableau
3 7 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.01%) Metadata
5 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 24 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Games
3 18 (12.08%) Presentation Skills
3 18 (12.08%) Social Skills
4 12 (8.05%) Finance
5 6 (4.03%) Law
5 6 (4.03%) Marketing
6 4 (2.68%) Banking
6 4 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.01%) Legal
8 2 (1.34%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) Middleware
2 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.67%) CSS
2 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.67%) HTML
2 1 (0.67%) LDAP
2 1 (0.67%) OAuth
2 1 (0.67%) OpenID
2 1 (0.67%) React
2 1 (0.67%) REST
2 1 (0.67%) SAML
2 1 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.34%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.50%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (16.78%) Decision-Making
4 23 (15.44%) Migration
4 23 (15.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (15.44%) Strategic Thinking
5 22 (14.77%) Translating Business Requirements
6 21 (14.09%) Mentoring
7 20 (13.42%) Time Management
8 19 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (12.75%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (12.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 18 (12.08%) Knowledge Transfer
9 18 (12.08%) Lean Six Sigma
9 18 (12.08%) Project Management
9 18 (12.08%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.08%) Six Sigma
9 18 (12.08%) WFM
10 13 (8.72%) IT Strategy
11 12 (8.05%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.34%) C#
2 2 (1.34%) SQL
3 1 (0.67%) Bash
3 1 (0.67%) Bicep
3 1 (0.67%) Java
3 1 (0.67%) Python
3 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (18.12%) Degree
2 18 (12.08%) PMI Certification
2 18 (12.08%) PMP
3 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CCNP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CISM
6 1 (0.67%) CISSP
6 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.01%) NIST
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.67%) Docker
1 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Terraform
2 2 (1.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (12.08%) Anaplan
1 18 (12.08%) Genesys
1 18 (12.08%) ServiceNow
1 18 (12.08%) Verint
2 12 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.70%) Google
4 5 (3.36%) Oracle
5 1 (0.67%) Databricks
5 1 (0.67%) SAP
5 1 (0.67%) VMware