Senior Architect Jobs in Birmingham

Senior Architect
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Architect salary in Birmingham is £61,206 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 117 181
Rank change year-on-year +19 +64 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 51 14 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.73% 0.75% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 0.81% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 29 10 15
10th Percentile £50,750 £65,000 £53,344
25th Percentile £56,809 £68,364 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £78,734 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +1.59% +10.71%
75th Percentile £97,500 £101,375 £81,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £75,500 £75,940
% change year-on-year -17.22% -0.58% +1.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,783 1,730 2,996
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 93.06% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,247 1,343 2,269
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in Birmingham

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Senior Architect in Birmingham

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in Birmingham

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 Birmingham region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 21 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (35.29%) Presales
2 18 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (31.37%) WAN
3 16 (31.37%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (31.37%) Cisco
3 16 (31.37%) Meraki
4 15 (29.41%) CCNP
4 15 (29.41%) Degree
4 15 (29.41%) SD-WAN
5 14 (27.45%) CCNA
5 14 (27.45%) Apple
5 14 (27.45%) Adobe
5 14 (27.45%) Analytics
5 14 (27.45%) Time Management
5 14 (27.45%) Customer Engagement
5 14 (27.45%) Data Centre
5 14 (27.45%) Software Licensing
6 13 (25.49%) Architectural Patterns
7 10 (19.61%) Agile
8 9 (17.65%) Stealthwatch
8 9 (17.65%) Cisco Firepower
9 8 (15.69%) Design Patterns
10 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.73%) Coaching
10 7 (13.73%) Data Modelling
11 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
11 6 (11.76%) Azure
11 6 (11.76%) Data Architecture
11 6 (11.76%) Data Design

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) WAN
2 15 (29.41%) SD-WAN
3 9 (17.65%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (3.92%) Wireless
6 1 (1.96%) Broadband
6 1 (1.96%) Firewall
6 1 (1.96%) GPON
6 1 (1.96%) LAN
6 1 (1.96%) MPLS
6 1 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.96%) VoIP
6 1 (1.96%) WLAN
6 1 (1.96%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Metadata
1 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Marketing
4 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.88%) FMCG
5 2 (3.92%) PropTech
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (35.29%) Presales
3 14 (27.45%) Analytics
3 14 (27.45%) Customer Engagement
3 14 (27.45%) Software Licensing
3 14 (27.45%) Time Management
4 13 (25.49%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (19.61%) Agile
6 8 (15.69%) Design Patterns
7 7 (13.73%) Coaching
7 7 (13.73%) Data Modelling
7 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
8 6 (11.76%) Data Architecture
8 6 (11.76%) Data Design
9 5 (9.80%) Data Management
9 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.80%) Information Management
9 5 (9.80%) Open Source
10 4 (7.84%) DevOps
10 4 (7.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.88%) C#
2 2 (3.92%) COBOL
2 2 (3.92%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (29.41%) CCNP
2 15 (29.41%) Degree
3 14 (27.45%) CCNA
4 1 (1.96%) CCIE
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) CWNA
4 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (9.80%) CASB
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (31.37%) Cisco
2 16 (31.37%) Meraki
3 14 (27.45%) Adobe
3 14 (27.45%) Apple
4 2 (3.92%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.96%) Aruba
5 1 (1.96%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.96%) Ekahau
5 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) MikroTik
5 1 (1.96%) Nokia
5 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.96%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) VMware