Senior Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £65,775 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 401 464 595
Rank change year-on-year +63 +131 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 421 332 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.56% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.63% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 284 134 126
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,111
25th Percentile £56,809 £65,688 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,775 £80,000 £75,250
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +6.31% +0.33%
75th Percentile £80,063 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,500 £94,375
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Architect 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 23 May 2024.

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 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
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
Scotland -54 44 £80,000 -4.66% 3
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
Wales +8 8 £53,500 -15.75% 1
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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Architect in the job title.

1 98 (23.28%) Degree
2 87 (20.67%) Agile
3 85 (20.19%) Finance
4 84 (19.95%) Cybersecurity
5 83 (19.71%) Mentoring
5 83 (19.71%) Microsoft
6 80 (19.00%) Coaching
7 75 (17.81%) Roadmaps
8 74 (17.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 68 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (15.44%) Social Skills
11 63 (14.96%) Analytics
12 62 (14.73%) Architectural Patterns
12 62 (14.73%) AWS
13 59 (14.01%) Design Patterns
14 56 (13.30%) Azure
14 56 (13.30%) Public Cloud
15 54 (12.83%) Data Centre
16 53 (12.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 52 (12.35%) Cisco Certification
17 52 (12.35%) WAN
18 49 (11.64%) Data Modelling
19 48 (11.40%) Presales
19 48 (11.40%) DevOps
20 46 (10.93%) SD-WAN
21 45 (10.69%) Public Sector
22 44 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
23 43 (10.21%) CCNP
23 43 (10.21%) Cisco
23 43 (10.21%) Decision-Making

Senior Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (3.09%) CMS
2 6 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.43%) Simulink
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.19%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.24%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 62 (14.73%) AWS
2 56 (13.30%) Azure
3 30 (7.13%) Power Platform
4 27 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (4.75%) Power Automate
5 20 (4.75%) PowerApps
6 15 (3.56%) SaaS
7 13 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.14%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.14%) CloudFront
8 9 (2.14%) Route 53
8 9 (2.14%) Serverless
8 9 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (1.66%) GCP
10 6 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (12.35%) WAN
2 46 (10.93%) SD-WAN
3 24 (5.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (2.85%) Network Security
5 11 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.66%) Firewall
7 4 (0.95%) LAN
7 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.95%) Wireless
8 3 (0.71%) DMZ
8 3 (0.71%) Internet
8 3 (0.71%) Modbus
8 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.71%) VLAN
8 3 (0.71%) VPN
9 1 (0.24%) GPON
9 1 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.24%) VoIP
9 1 (0.24%) WLAN
9 1 (0.24%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.50%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.99%) Power BI
3 17 (4.04%) Metadata
4 12 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.43%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.95%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.71%) MySQL
10 2 (0.48%) Big Data
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.24%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 85 (20.19%) Finance
2 74 (17.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 65 (15.44%) Social Skills
4 45 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.50%) Law
6 37 (8.79%) Marketing
7 24 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (4.99%) Retail
9 19 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (3.56%) Banking
11 11 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.43%) Games
12 6 (1.43%) Military
13 5 (1.19%) Digital Health
13 5 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.71%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.85%) .NET
2 6 (1.43%) OAuth
2 6 (1.43%) SAML
3 5 (1.19%) .NET Framework
4 4 (0.95%) React
5 3 (0.71%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.71%) REST
5 3 (0.71%) SOAP
5 3 (0.71%) Web Services
5 3 (0.71%) YAML
6 1 (0.24%) EDI
6 1 (0.24%) Kafka
6 1 (0.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (13.30%) Public Cloud
2 54 (12.83%) Data Centre
3 29 (6.89%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.23%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.56%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.14%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.66%) PropTech
8 6 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.43%) FMCG
8 6 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.19%) NHS
9 5 (1.19%) Replication
10 4 (0.95%) SCADA
10 4 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.71%) PMI
11 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.24%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.09%) Linux
2 8 (1.90%) VME
3 3 (0.71%) Windows
4 2 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (20.67%) Agile
2 84 (19.95%) Cybersecurity
3 83 (19.71%) Mentoring
4 80 (19.00%) Coaching
5 75 (17.81%) Roadmaps
6 68 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (14.96%) Analytics
8 62 (14.73%) Architectural Patterns
9 59 (14.01%) Design Patterns
10 53 (12.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 49 (11.64%) Data Modelling
12 48 (11.40%) DevOps
12 48 (11.40%) Presales
13 44 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
14 43 (10.21%) Decision-Making
15 39 (9.26%) Business Strategy
15 39 (9.26%) Customer Engagement
15 39 (9.26%) Software Licensing
15 39 (9.26%) Time Management
16 38 (9.03%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 18 (4.28%) Python
2 13 (3.09%) SQL
3 12 (2.85%) C#
4 11 (2.61%) Java
5 8 (1.90%) COBOL
5 8 (1.90%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 7 (1.66%) C
6 7 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.43%) MATLAB
7 6 (1.43%) R
7 6 (1.43%) Scala
8 3 (0.71%) Bicep
8 3 (0.71%) C++
8 3 (0.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (23.28%) Degree
2 52 (12.35%) Cisco Certification
3 43 (10.21%) CCNP
4 39 (9.26%) CCNA
5 25 (5.94%) Security Cleared
6 23 (5.46%) CISSP
6 23 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (5.23%) SC Cleared
8 17 (4.04%) CISM
9 15 (3.56%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.66%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.43%) CCIE
13 6 (1.43%) CCSK
13 6 (1.43%) CCSP
14 5 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.46%) NIST
2 13 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.71%) HMG Infosec
4 3 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.71%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.71%) RMADS
5 2 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) Firmware
2 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (5.70%) Stealthwatch
2 22 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.56%) CASB
4 12 (2.85%) Terraform
5 7 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.21%) Cisco
2 43 (10.21%) Meraki
3 39 (9.26%) Adobe
3 39 (9.26%) Apple
4 8 (1.90%) Micro Focus
5 7 (1.66%) SAP
6 6 (1.43%) Databricks
6 6 (1.43%) Oracle
7 4 (0.95%) Google
8 3 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.71%) Splunk
8 3 (0.71%) Twitter
9 2 (0.48%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.48%) Workday
10 1 (0.24%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.24%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.24%) Symantec