Senior Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Architect salary in the West Midlands is £70,641 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 171 228
Rank change year-on-year -13 +57 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 13 82 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 1.04% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 1.10% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 13 56 18
10th Percentile - £53,663 £55,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,990 £67,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,641 £62,500 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% -17.22% -0.58%
75th Percentile £105,000 £80,250 £87,188
90th Percentile - £97,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £95,000 £74,000 £86,000
% change year-on-year +28.38% -13.95% -4.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,788 7,459 5,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 94.50% 89.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 5,519 3,228
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in the West Midlands

Senior Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Birmingham -6 6 £100,000 +63.38% 2
Shropshire - 5 £70,000 - 4
Staffordshire - 2 £68,171 - 2
Senior Architect
England

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (38.46%) Microservices
2 5 (38.46%) SDLC
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (38.46%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (38.46%) API Management
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Smartphone
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) COBIT
5 2 (15.38%) CITP
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Police
5 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (7.69%) NCSC
6 1 (7.69%) NIST
6 1 (7.69%) Architecture Governance
6 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) Runbook
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Police
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) API Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microservices
1 5 (38.46%) SDLC
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 3 (23.08%) TOGAF
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Application Security
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CITP
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) COBIT
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle