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 £67,500 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 389 443 586
Rank change year-on-year +54 +143 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Architect 440 326 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.65% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 299 132 126
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,111
25th Percentile £56,809 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £75,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.31% +0.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £95,000
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
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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 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
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
Scotland -63 45 £80,000 -5.88% 9
South West -23 34 £72,500 -12.12% 9
East Midlands -4 24 £50,000 -47.37% 4
Wales +10 10 £53,500 -15.75% 4
North East -3 10 £61,206 -46.78% 6
East of England -18 4 £90,750 +13.44% 2
Northern Ireland +15 2 £90,000 - 2
Senior Architect
UK

Senior Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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

1 101 (22.95%) Degree
2 99 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (19.77%) Microsoft
4 86 (19.55%) Agile
5 83 (18.86%) Finance
6 82 (18.64%) Mentoring
7 79 (17.95%) Coaching
8 73 (16.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 72 (16.36%) Roadmaps
10 68 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (15.00%) Analytics
12 65 (14.77%) Social Skills
12 65 (14.77%) Azure
13 61 (13.86%) Architectural Patterns
14 59 (13.41%) AWS
15 58 (13.18%) Design Patterns
15 58 (13.18%) Data Centre
16 55 (12.50%) Public Cloud
16 55 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
16 55 (12.50%) WAN
17 53 (12.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 51 (11.59%) Presales
19 49 (11.14%) DevOps
19 49 (11.14%) SD-WAN
19 49 (11.14%) Data Modelling
20 46 (10.45%) CCNP
20 46 (10.45%) Cisco
20 46 (10.45%) Meraki
21 45 (10.23%) Public Sector
22 43 (9.77%) 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 12 (2.73%) CMS
2 6 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.36%) Simulink
3 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.14%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.23%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.23%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.23%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 65 (14.77%) Azure
2 59 (13.41%) AWS
3 30 (6.82%) Power Platform
4 27 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 20 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 16 (3.64%) SaaS
7 13 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.05%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.05%) CloudFront
8 9 (2.05%) Route 53
8 9 (2.05%) Serverless
8 9 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 55 (12.50%) WAN
2 49 (11.14%) SD-WAN
3 27 (6.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (2.95%) Network Security
5 11 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.59%) Firewall
7 4 (0.91%) LAN
7 4 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.91%) Wireless
8 3 (0.68%) DMZ
8 3 (0.68%) Internet
8 3 (0.68%) Modbus
8 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.68%) VLAN
8 3 (0.68%) VPN
9 1 (0.23%) GPON
9 1 (0.23%) MPLS
9 1 (0.23%) VoIP
9 1 (0.23%) WLAN
9 1 (0.23%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.77%) Power BI
3 17 (3.86%) Metadata
4 12 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.91%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.68%) MySQL
10 2 (0.45%) Big Data
11 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.23%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.23%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
1 6 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (1.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (18.86%) Finance
2 73 (16.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 65 (14.77%) Social Skills
4 45 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.86%) Law
6 37 (8.41%) Marketing
7 24 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (5.00%) Retail
9 17 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
10 14 (3.18%) Banking
11 11 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.36%) Games
12 6 (1.36%) Military
13 5 (1.14%) Digital Health
13 5 (1.14%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.68%) German Language
15 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.50%) .NET
2 9 (2.05%) React
3 6 (1.36%) OAuth
3 6 (1.36%) SAML
4 5 (1.14%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.14%) Django
4 5 (1.14%) Node.js
5 3 (0.68%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.68%) REST
5 3 (0.68%) SOAP
5 3 (0.68%) Web Services
5 3 (0.68%) YAML
6 1 (0.23%) EDI
6 1 (0.23%) Kafka
6 1 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.18%) Data Centre
2 55 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 28 (6.36%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.95%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.59%) PropTech
8 6 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.36%) FMCG
8 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.14%) NHS
9 5 (1.14%) Replication
10 4 (0.91%) SCADA
10 4 (0.91%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.68%) PMI
11 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.68%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.23%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.73%) Linux
2 8 (1.82%) VME
3 3 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (19.55%) Agile
3 82 (18.64%) Mentoring
4 79 (17.95%) Coaching
5 72 (16.36%) Roadmaps
6 68 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (15.00%) Analytics
8 61 (13.86%) Architectural Patterns
9 58 (13.18%) Design Patterns
10 53 (12.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 51 (11.59%) Presales
12 49 (11.14%) Data Modelling
12 49 (11.14%) DevOps
13 43 (9.77%) Artificial Intelligence
13 43 (9.77%) Decision-Making
14 42 (9.55%) Customer Engagement
14 42 (9.55%) Software Licensing
14 42 (9.55%) Time Management
15 39 (8.86%) Business Strategy
16 38 (8.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.23%) Python
2 13 (2.95%) SQL
3 12 (2.73%) C#
4 10 (2.27%) Java
5 8 (1.82%) COBOL
5 8 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.82%) Micro Focus COBOL
6 6 (1.36%) C
6 6 (1.36%) MATLAB
6 6 (1.36%) R
6 6 (1.36%) Scala
7 3 (0.68%) Bicep
7 3 (0.68%) PHP
8 2 (0.45%) C++
8 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 101 (22.95%) Degree
2 55 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (10.45%) CCNP
4 42 (9.55%) CCNA
5 25 (5.68%) Security Cleared
6 23 (5.23%) CISSP
6 23 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 17 (3.86%) CISM
9 15 (3.41%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.59%) Azure Certification
13 6 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (1.36%) CCIE
13 6 (1.36%) CCSK
13 6 (1.36%) CCSP
14 5 (1.14%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.23%) NIST
2 13 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.68%) HMG Infosec
4 3 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.68%) JSP 440
4 3 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.68%) RMADS
5 2 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (6.14%) Stealthwatch
2 22 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.41%) CASB
4 12 (2.73%) Terraform
5 7 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.45%) Cisco
2 46 (10.45%) Meraki
3 42 (9.55%) Adobe
3 42 (9.55%) Apple
4 8 (1.82%) Micro Focus
5 7 (1.59%) SAP
6 6 (1.36%) Databricks
6 6 (1.36%) Oracle
7 4 (0.91%) Google
8 3 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.68%) Splunk
8 3 (0.68%) Twitter
9 2 (0.45%) Cognizant
9 2 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.45%) Workday
10 1 (0.23%) Juniper
10 1 (0.23%) Nokia