Senior Architect Jobs in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £72,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 455 655
Rank change year-on-year +98 +200 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 630 562 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.64% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.70% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 380 270 335
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £62,847
25th Percentile £57,069 £69,188 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £94,500 £103,750 £106,250
90th Percentile £115,250 £112,750 £117,000
UK median annual salary £74,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -12.94% -2.86% +9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Architect in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Architect in England

Senior Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +114 255 £92,500 -2.63% 59
North of England +130 170 £70,000 -12.50% 13
Midlands +49 102 £62,500 -19.35% 10
North West +33 88 £70,000 -7.59% 7
West Midlands +55 79 £62,500 -14.97% 8
Yorkshire +136 73 £74,000 -12.94% 4
South East -35 60 £67,500 -14.56% 23
South West -15 32 £72,500 -12.12% 3
East Midlands +7 23 £50,000 -47.37% 2
North East 0 9 £61,206 -46.78% 2
East of England -10 5 £90,750 +13.44% 8
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 England region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 191 (30.32%) Agile
2 164 (26.03%) Azure
3 158 (25.08%) Microsoft
4 152 (24.13%) Finance
5 148 (23.49%) Degree
6 142 (22.54%) Mentoring
7 133 (21.11%) AWS
8 119 (18.89%) Social Skills
9 118 (18.73%) Roadmaps
10 114 (18.10%) Coaching
11 112 (17.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 102 (16.19%) Cybersecurity
13 100 (15.87%) Data Modelling
14 96 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
15 82 (13.02%) Analytics
16 76 (12.06%) GCP
16 76 (12.06%) Presales
17 72 (11.43%) Data Centre
18 70 (11.11%) Design Patterns
19 69 (10.95%) Architectural Patterns
19 69 (10.95%) DevOps
20 68 (10.79%) Banking
21 64 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
21 64 (10.16%) Business Strategy
22 62 (9.84%) Data Strategy
22 62 (9.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
22 62 (9.84%) Migration
23 61 (9.68%) Data Architecture
24 58 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
24 58 (9.21%) IT Strategy

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.06%) CMS
4 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.79%) Apache
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.95%) Simulink
3 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.79%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.16%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.16%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.16%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 164 (26.03%) Azure
2 133 (21.11%) AWS
3 76 (12.06%) GCP
4 54 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 51 (8.10%) Dynamics 365
6 36 (5.71%) SaaS
7 32 (5.08%) Power Automate
8 26 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.49%) PowerApps
10 21 (3.33%) PaaS
11 17 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (2.70%) Serverless
12 15 (2.38%) IaaS
13 13 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.43%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.43%) CloudFront
15 9 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (9.05%) WAN
2 46 (7.30%) SD-WAN
3 26 (4.13%) Firewall
4 24 (3.81%) Cisco Firepower
5 17 (2.70%) MPLS
6 13 (2.06%) Network Security
7 11 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.43%) DNS
8 9 (1.43%) LAN
9 8 (1.27%) VPN
10 5 (0.79%) BGP
10 5 (0.79%) DHCP
10 5 (0.79%) DWDM
10 5 (0.79%) EIGRP
10 5 (0.79%) HTTP
10 5 (0.79%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.79%) IGRP
10 5 (0.79%) OSPF
10 5 (0.79%) SNMP
10 5 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.41%) Metadata
2 44 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 28 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.97%) Power BI
5 23 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.70%) Data Mining
7 14 (2.22%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.90%) Apache Ignite
8 12 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.59%) RDBMS
9 10 (1.59%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.27%) Big Data
12 6 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.48%) MySQL
16 2 (0.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.43%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.95%) Git
4 6 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.16%) ERwin
5 1 (0.16%) JIRA
General
1 152 (24.13%) Finance
2 119 (18.89%) Social Skills
3 112 (17.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (10.79%) Banking
5 64 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (8.73%) Public Sector
7 49 (7.78%) Retail
8 27 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (4.29%) Retail Banking
9 24 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.70%) Back Office
10 17 (2.70%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.06%) Law
13 13 (2.06%) Marketing
14 8 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.95%) Military
16 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.48%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.81%) .NET
2 17 (2.70%) Kafka
3 7 (1.11%) HTML
4 6 (0.95%) .NET Core
4 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET
4 6 (0.95%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (0.95%) Entity Framework
4 6 (0.95%) Hibernate
4 6 (0.95%) Spring
4 6 (0.95%) Spring MVC
5 5 (0.79%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.79%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Beam
5 5 (0.79%) Web Services
5 5 (0.79%) XML
6 4 (0.63%) React
7 3 (0.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.48%) REST
7 3 (0.48%) SOAP
7 3 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.25%) Public Cloud
3 34 (5.40%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 19 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.86%) PMI
7 16 (2.54%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.54%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.54%) Reinsurance
8 13 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.11%) FMCG
11 7 (1.11%) NHS
11 7 (1.11%) PKI
11 7 (1.11%) PropTech
12 6 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.44%) Linux
2 9 (1.43%) Windows
3 8 (1.27%) VME
4 5 (0.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (30.32%) Agile
2 142 (22.54%) Mentoring
3 118 (18.73%) Roadmaps
4 114 (18.10%) Coaching
5 102 (16.19%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (15.87%) Data Modelling
7 96 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (13.02%) Analytics
9 76 (12.06%) Presales
10 70 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 69 (10.95%) Architectural Patterns
11 69 (10.95%) DevOps
12 64 (10.16%) Business Strategy
13 62 (9.84%) Data Strategy
13 62 (9.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 62 (9.84%) Migration
14 61 (9.68%) Data Architecture
15 58 (9.21%) IT Strategy
16 53 (8.41%) Customer Experience
16 53 (8.41%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 35 (5.56%) SQL
2 33 (5.24%) Python
3 32 (5.08%) C#
4 25 (3.97%) Java
5 17 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.43%) C
7 8 (1.27%) COBOL
7 8 (1.27%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 7 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.95%) MATLAB
9 6 (0.95%) Scala
10 5 (0.79%) Bicep
10 5 (0.79%) R
11 3 (0.48%) PHP
12 2 (0.32%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 148 (23.49%) Degree
2 58 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 45 (7.14%) CCNA
5 44 (6.98%) CCNP
6 41 (6.51%) SC Cleared
7 40 (6.35%) AWS Certification
8 31 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.97%) CISSP
10 23 (3.65%) Azure Certification
11 19 (3.02%) PMI Certification
12 17 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.54%) CISM
14 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (1.43%) CRISC
15 9 (1.43%) DV Cleared
16 8 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.02%) NIST
3 13 (2.06%) SLA
4 7 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.79%) PMO
6 4 (0.63%) COBIT
6 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.48%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.48%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.48%) QA
7 3 (0.48%) RMADS
8 2 (0.32%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) GDPR
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (3.65%) Docker
2 14 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.27%) KVM
5 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (4.29%) Terraform
2 24 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.81%) Stealthwatch
3 16 (2.54%) CASB
4 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.95%) Ansible
5 6 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.79%) Puppet
7 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 158 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.89%) Cisco
3 43 (6.83%) Meraki
4 40 (6.35%) Google
5 39 (6.19%) Adobe
5 39 (6.19%) Apple
6 18 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.70%) Databricks
7 17 (2.70%) Informatica
7 17 (2.70%) Juniper
8 14 (2.22%) Oracle
9 11 (1.75%) VMware
10 9 (1.43%) SAP
11 8 (1.27%) Micro Focus
12 6 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.79%) Arista
13 5 (0.79%) Tufin
13 5 (0.79%) Twitter
14 4 (0.63%) Alibaba
15 3 (0.48%) Palo Alto