Senior Architect Jobs in England

Senior Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Architect salary in England is £74,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 444 659
Rank change year-on-year +75 +215 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 649 549 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.65% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.71% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 392 269 342
10th Percentile £55,000 £59,350 £62,500
25th Percentile £56,990 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +108 259 £92,500 -2.63% 44
North of England +128 176 £70,000 -12.50% 38
Midlands +55 106 £62,500 -21.88% 15
North West +32 92 £70,000 -12.30% 19
West Midlands +40 82 £62,500 -17.22% 11
Yorkshire +120 74 £74,000 -12.94% 13
South East -44 63 £67,500 -17.68% 9
South West -23 34 £72,500 -12.12% 9
East Midlands -4 24 £50,000 -47.37% 4
North East -3 10 £61,206 -46.78% 6
East of England -18 4 £90,750 +13.44% 2
Senior Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 189 (29.12%) Agile
2 170 (26.19%) Azure
3 160 (24.65%) Microsoft
4 154 (23.73%) Finance
5 150 (23.11%) Degree
6 141 (21.73%) Mentoring
7 131 (20.18%) AWS
8 118 (18.18%) Social Skills
9 114 (17.57%) Roadmaps
9 114 (17.57%) Cybersecurity
10 112 (17.26%) Coaching
11 111 (17.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 100 (15.41%) Data Modelling
13 96 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
14 85 (13.10%) Analytics
15 79 (12.17%) Presales
16 76 (11.71%) Data Centre
16 76 (11.71%) GCP
17 73 (11.25%) DevOps
18 69 (10.63%) Banking
18 69 (10.63%) Design Patterns
19 68 (10.48%) Architectural Patterns
20 64 (9.86%) Business Strategy
20 64 (9.86%) Migration
21 63 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
21 63 (9.71%) Data Strategy
22 61 (9.40%) Digital Transformation Programme
22 61 (9.40%) Data Architecture
22 61 (9.40%) Cisco Certification
23 60 (9.24%) WAN

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 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.85%) CMS
3 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.77%) Apache
4 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.92%) Simulink
3 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.77%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.15%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.15%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 170 (26.19%) Azure
2 131 (20.18%) AWS
3 76 (11.71%) GCP
4 54 (8.32%) Power Platform
5 51 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (5.39%) SaaS
7 32 (4.93%) Power Automate
8 24 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.39%) PowerApps
10 20 (3.08%) PaaS
11 17 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (2.62%) Serverless
12 14 (2.16%) IaaS
13 13 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 9 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.39%) CloudFront
15 9 (1.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.24%) WAN
2 49 (7.55%) SD-WAN
3 27 (4.16%) Cisco Firepower
4 26 (4.01%) Firewall
5 17 (2.62%) MPLS
6 14 (2.16%) Network Security
7 11 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.39%) DNS
8 9 (1.39%) LAN
9 8 (1.23%) VPN
10 5 (0.77%) BGP
10 5 (0.77%) DHCP
10 5 (0.77%) DWDM
10 5 (0.77%) EIGRP
10 5 (0.77%) HTTP
10 5 (0.77%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.77%) IGRP
10 5 (0.77%) OSPF
10 5 (0.77%) SNMP
10 5 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.17%) Metadata
2 44 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 28 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.85%) Power BI
5 24 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.62%) Data Mining
7 15 (2.31%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.85%) Apache Ignite
8 12 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.69%) RDBMS
9 11 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.08%) Big Data
12 6 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.92%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.77%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.46%) MySQL
15 2 (0.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 9 (1.39%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (0.92%) Git
4 6 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.15%) ERwin
5 1 (0.15%) JIRA
General
1 154 (23.73%) Finance
2 118 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 111 (17.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 69 (10.63%) Banking
5 63 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (8.32%) Public Sector
7 52 (8.01%) Retail
8 28 (4.31%) Retail Banking
9 26 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.77%) Financial Institution
12 17 (2.62%) Back Office
13 16 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (2.00%) Law
16 12 (1.85%) Marketing
17 7 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.92%) Military
19 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
20 3 (0.46%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.54%) .NET
2 17 (2.62%) Kafka
3 7 (1.08%) HTML
3 7 (1.08%) React
4 6 (0.92%) .NET Core
4 6 (0.92%) ASP.NET
4 6 (0.92%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (0.92%) Entity Framework
4 6 (0.92%) Hibernate
4 6 (0.92%) Spring
4 6 (0.92%) Spring MVC
5 5 (0.77%) .NET Framework
5 5 (0.77%) 802.1X
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Beam
5 5 (0.77%) Web Services
5 5 (0.77%) XML
6 3 (0.46%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.46%) Node.js
6 3 (0.46%) REST
6 3 (0.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.71%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.01%) Public Cloud
3 34 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.24%) Virtual Team
5 19 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.77%) PMI
7 16 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.31%) Reinsurance
9 14 (2.16%) Mobile App
9 14 (2.16%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.08%) FMCG
11 7 (1.08%) NHS
11 7 (1.08%) PKI
11 7 (1.08%) PropTech
12 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.16%) Linux
2 9 (1.39%) Windows
3 8 (1.23%) VME
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Android
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (29.12%) Agile
2 141 (21.73%) Mentoring
3 114 (17.57%) Cybersecurity
3 114 (17.57%) Roadmaps
4 112 (17.26%) Coaching
5 100 (15.41%) Data Modelling
6 96 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (13.10%) Analytics
8 79 (12.17%) Presales
9 73 (11.25%) DevOps
10 69 (10.63%) Design Patterns
11 68 (10.48%) Architectural Patterns
12 64 (9.86%) Business Strategy
12 64 (9.86%) Migration
13 63 (9.71%) Data Strategy
14 61 (9.40%) Data Architecture
14 61 (9.40%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 57 (8.78%) IT Strategy
16 52 (8.01%) Customer Experience
16 52 (8.01%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (5.55%) Python
1 36 (5.55%) SQL
2 32 (4.93%) C#
3 25 (3.85%) Java
4 18 (2.77%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.23%) C
5 8 (1.23%) COBOL
5 8 (1.23%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.92%) MATLAB
6 6 (0.92%) Scala
7 5 (0.77%) Bicep
7 5 (0.77%) R
8 3 (0.46%) PHP
9 2 (0.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 150 (23.11%) Degree
2 61 (9.40%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (7.40%) CCNA
4 47 (7.24%) CCNP
5 46 (7.09%) Security Cleared
6 41 (6.32%) AWS Certification
7 40 (6.16%) SC Cleared
8 30 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (3.85%) CISSP
10 24 (3.70%) Azure Certification
11 19 (2.93%) PMI Certification
12 17 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.47%) CISM
14 11 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (1.39%) CRISC
16 9 (1.39%) DV Cleared
17 8 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
18 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.77%) NIST
3 13 (2.00%) SLA
4 7 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.77%) PMO
6 4 (0.62%) COBIT
6 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.46%) HMG Infosec
7 3 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.46%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.46%) QA
7 3 (0.46%) RMADS
8 2 (0.31%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) GDPR
9 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (3.54%) Docker
2 14 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.23%) KVM
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (4.16%) Stealthwatch
1 27 (4.16%) Terraform
2 24 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.47%) CASB
4 7 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.92%) Ansible
5 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.77%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Consul
8 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 160 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.09%) Cisco
3 46 (7.09%) Meraki
4 42 (6.47%) Adobe
4 42 (6.47%) Apple
5 40 (6.16%) Google
6 18 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.62%) Databricks
7 17 (2.62%) Juniper
8 16 (2.47%) Informatica
9 15 (2.31%) Oracle
10 13 (2.00%) SAP
11 10 (1.54%) VMware
12 8 (1.23%) Micro Focus
13 6 (0.92%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.77%) Arista
14 5 (0.77%) Tufin
14 5 (0.77%) Twitter
15 4 (0.62%) Alibaba
16 3 (0.46%) Sparx