Architect Jobs in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 24 71
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 -15
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,841 6,926 7,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.20% 8.38% 5.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.56% 9.19% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,393 3,227 3,832
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,625 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £101,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

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 89,103 75,397 137,915
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 91.21% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 65,080 49,497 75,489
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,402 £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 £70,250 £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%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in England

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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +5 2,029 £90,000 -2.53% 346
North of England +6 1,315 £78,126 -1.89% 145
South East -4 959 £75,000 -9.09% 130
Midlands -4 754 £75,000 - 100
North West 0 732 £75,000 - 93
South West -12 541 £75,000 +2.04% 68
Yorkshire +18 491 £79,966 -0.04% 41
West Midlands +18 468 £76,450 +1.93% 66
East Midlands -21 279 £70,000 -3.45% 34
East of England -29 198 £82,500 - 55
North East +14 92 £79,842 -6.07% 11
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 1,654 (28.32%) Azure
2 1,529 (26.18%) Agile
3 1,359 (23.27%) Social Skills
4 1,286 (22.02%) Finance
5 1,170 (20.03%) Roadmaps
6 1,114 (19.07%) AWS
7 1,057 (18.10%) Microsoft
8 1,049 (17.96%) TOGAF
9 822 (14.07%) Security Cleared
10 803 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
11 719 (12.31%) Enterprise Architecture
12 706 (12.09%) Degree
13 683 (11.69%) Mentoring
14 608 (10.41%) DevOps
15 533 (9.13%) Data Modelling
16 526 (9.01%) GCP
17 508 (8.70%) Data Architecture
18 504 (8.63%) SC Cleared
18 504 (8.63%) Strategic Roadmap
19 503 (8.61%) Data Management
20 481 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
21 473 (8.10%) Oracle
22 471 (8.06%) ERP
23 469 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
24 465 (7.96%) SAP
25 461 (7.89%) Presales
26 445 (7.62%) Migration
27 418 (7.16%) Technical Architecture
28 413 (7.07%) Analytics
28 413 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity

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
1 301 (5.15%) SAS
2 102 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 84 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 82 (1.40%) Apache
5 57 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 46 (0.79%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.60%) WebLogic
8 22 (0.38%) CMS
9 15 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.21%) IIS
11 11 (0.19%) Confluence
12 10 (0.17%) Drupal
13 8 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.12%) JBoss
14 7 (0.12%) WildFly
15 6 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
16 5 (0.086%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.068%) ArcGIS
17 4 (0.068%) Oracle Workflow
18 3 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 55 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.17%) Simulink
6 5 (0.086%) Revit
7 2 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 314 (5.38%) SAP ERP
2 83 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 77 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 67 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.34%) SAP BPC
6 20 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 15 (0.26%) Endur
8 13 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 10 (0.17%) SAP PP
10 9 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.12%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.12%) SAP MM
11 7 (0.12%) SAP SD
12 6 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
13 5 (0.086%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.086%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.086%) SAP WM
14 4 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
14 4 (0.068%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,654 (28.32%) Azure
2 1,114 (19.07%) AWS
3 526 (9.01%) GCP
4 351 (6.01%) Power Platform
5 339 (5.80%) SaaS
6 317 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
7 291 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
8 167 (2.86%) PaaS
9 142 (2.43%) IaaS
10 136 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 122 (2.09%) Snowflake
12 110 (1.88%) PowerApps
13 92 (1.58%) Power Automate
14 87 (1.49%) Serverless
15 81 (1.39%) dbt
16 79 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
17 43 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
18 42 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
19 41 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 36 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 310 (5.31%) Broadband
2 214 (3.66%) VSAT
3 182 (3.12%) Firewall
4 175 (3.00%) WAN
5 107 (1.83%) SD-WAN
6 98 (1.68%) Network Security
7 96 (1.64%) VPN
8 90 (1.54%) DNS
9 68 (1.16%) LAN
10 53 (0.91%) BGP
11 50 (0.86%) SSL
12 47 (0.80%) Wireless
13 43 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
14 41 (0.70%) Internet
14 41 (0.70%) TCP/IP
15 31 (0.53%) MPLS
16 28 (0.48%) DHCP
17 22 (0.38%) VLAN
17 22 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
18 21 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
2 190 (3.25%) Data Lake
3 173 (2.96%) Power BI
4 147 (2.52%) Metadata
5 134 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 131 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 126 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 116 (1.99%) Looker
9 106 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 80 (1.37%) Apache Ignite
11 74 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (1.18%) Apache Arrow
12 69 (1.18%) Dremio
13 67 (1.15%) Big Data
14 64 (1.10%) RDBMS
15 58 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
16 53 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
17 38 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
18 35 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 35 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (1.15%) Git
2 64 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 47 (0.80%) Visual Studio
4 38 (0.65%) GitLab
5 27 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
6 21 (0.36%) JIRA
7 19 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.14%) Maven
9 7 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.086%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.086%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.086%) JUnit
10 5 (0.086%) MLflow
10 5 (0.086%) Selenium
10 5 (0.086%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.068%) ERwin
11 4 (0.068%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.068%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.051%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.051%) Travis CI
General
1 1,359 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 1,286 (22.02%) Finance
3 469 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
4 413 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 295 (5.05%) Retail
6 293 (5.02%) Banking
7 284 (4.86%) Public Sector
8 191 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 140 (2.40%) Marketing
10 98 (1.68%) Legal
11 91 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
11 91 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 83 (1.42%) Law
13 80 (1.37%) Retail Banking
14 79 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 76 (1.30%) Front Office
16 64 (1.10%) Aerospace
17 53 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 42 (0.72%) Financial Institution
19 37 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (4.45%) .NET
2 85 (1.46%) Middleware
3 72 (1.23%) Kafka
4 69 (1.18%) gRPC
4 69 (1.18%) Protocol Buffers
5 66 (1.13%) NumPy
5 66 (1.13%) Pandas
5 66 (1.13%) SciPy
6 64 (1.10%) React
7 62 (1.06%) HTML
7 62 (1.06%) Web Services
8 59 (1.01%) REST
9 50 (0.86%) Spring Boot
10 45 (0.77%) XML
11 44 (0.75%) CSS
11 44 (0.75%) JSON
12 38 (0.65%) Node.js
13 37 (0.63%) .NET Core
14 34 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 346 (5.92%) Public Cloud
2 225 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 219 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 192 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 160 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 121 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 111 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 97 (1.66%) Cyberattack
10 92 (1.58%) PKI
11 73 (1.25%) IoT
12 71 (1.22%) Equities
13 70 (1.20%) Derivative
14 69 (1.18%) Fixed Income
14 69 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 69 (1.18%) Hedge funds
15 63 (1.08%) PMI
16 59 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
16 59 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
17 57 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 285 (4.88%) Linux
2 136 (2.33%) Windows
3 50 (0.86%) Android
4 44 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 38 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 31 (0.53%) Windows Server
7 30 (0.51%) Unix
8 23 (0.39%) VMS
9 16 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
10 11 (0.19%) Solaris
11 8 (0.14%) SUSE
11 8 (0.14%) VME
11 8 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.086%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.051%) CentOS
15 2 (0.034%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.017%) HPUX
16 1 (0.017%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,529 (26.18%) Agile
2 1,170 (20.03%) Roadmaps
3 1,049 (17.96%) TOGAF
4 803 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
5 719 (12.31%) Enterprise Architecture
6 683 (11.69%) Mentoring
7 608 (10.41%) DevOps
8 533 (9.13%) Data Modelling
9 508 (8.70%) Data Architecture
10 504 (8.63%) Strategic Roadmap
11 503 (8.61%) Data Management
12 481 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
13 471 (8.06%) ERP
14 461 (7.89%) Presales
15 445 (7.62%) Migration
16 418 (7.16%) Technical Architecture
17 413 (7.07%) Analytics
18 377 (6.45%) Change Management
19 363 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
19 363 (6.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 313 (5.36%) Python
2 300 (5.14%) SQL
3 265 (4.54%) Java
4 247 (4.23%) C#
5 236 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 84 (1.44%) PowerShell
7 79 (1.35%) TypeScript
8 72 (1.23%) C
9 54 (0.92%) C++
10 44 (0.75%) T-SQL
11 28 (0.48%) Scala
12 20 (0.34%) R
13 18 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.29%) Bicep
14 17 (0.29%) Fortran
14 17 (0.29%) Ruby
15 16 (0.27%) Bash
16 15 (0.26%) MATLAB
16 15 (0.26%) VB
17 14 (0.24%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 822 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 706 (12.09%) Degree
3 504 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 232 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 191 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 180 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 165 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 163 (2.79%) DV Cleared
9 160 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
10 157 (2.69%) CISSP
11 117 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 86 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 84 (1.44%) CISM
14 82 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 77 (1.32%) Master's Degree
16 74 (1.27%) CCNP
17 69 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 66 (1.13%) PMI Certification
19 64 (1.10%) CCNA
20 62 (1.06%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 173 (2.96%) GDPR
3 96 (1.64%) NIST
4 72 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (0.91%) QA
6 33 (0.56%) SLA
7 32 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 31 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.50%) COBIT
10 22 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 15 (0.26%) PMO
13 9 (0.15%) NCSC
14 7 (0.12%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.12%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.10%) GRC
16 3 (0.051%) HMG Infosec
16 3 (0.051%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.051%) ISO 26262
16 3 (0.051%) SOC 2
System Software
1 158 (2.71%) Docker
2 98 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.45%) vSphere
6 20 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 16 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.19%) KVM
10 8 (0.14%) Firmware
10 8 (0.14%) vCloud
11 3 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.051%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.034%) HDFS
12 2 (0.034%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.034%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.034%) Xen
13 1 (0.017%) LXC
Systems Management
1 226 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 188 (3.22%) Terraform
3 79 (1.35%) Ansible
4 45 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.68%) Puppet
6 33 (0.56%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.36%) OpenView
8 20 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.29%) CASB
10 15 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.15%) Grafana
11 9 (0.15%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.14%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.12%) Consul
14 6 (0.10%) Endace
14 6 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.10%) Kibana
15 5 (0.086%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (0.086%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,057 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 473 (8.10%) Oracle
3 465 (7.96%) SAP
4 325 (5.56%) Google
5 303 (5.19%) Anaplan
6 299 (5.12%) Hyperion
7 153 (2.62%) Cisco
8 116 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 116 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 114 (1.95%) Databricks
10 80 (1.37%) Sparx
11 74 (1.27%) Juniper
12 67 (1.15%) VMware
13 62 (1.06%) Apple
14 60 (1.03%) Adobe
15 54 (0.92%) Meraki
16 48 (0.82%) Citrix
17 46 (0.79%) IBM
18 36 (0.62%) HP
19 28 (0.48%) BMC