Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £75,000 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 39 28 76
Rank change year-on-year -11 +48 -25
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 390 432 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.32% 7.72% 4.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.61% 8.62% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 139 153 169
10th Percentile £61,000 £61,625 £57,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £83,000 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,947 5,010 7,166
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 89.48% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,681 3,045 4,163
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -9 215 £75,000 - 35
Buckinghamshire -3 124 £72,500 -12.12% 15
Oxfordshire -9 51 £80,000 -15.79% 8
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 112 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 103 (26.41%) Degree
3 97 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 91 (23.33%) Azure
5 82 (21.03%) Security Cleared
6 75 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 74 (18.97%) Agile
8 69 (17.69%) AWS
9 64 (16.41%) Presales
10 63 (16.15%) TOGAF
11 56 (14.36%) Actionable Insight
12 51 (13.08%) Line Management
13 46 (11.79%) Coaching
14 45 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
15 43 (11.03%) Technical Architecture
16 41 (10.51%) SC Cleared
17 40 (10.26%) Prototyping
17 40 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 38 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
18 38 (9.74%) Network Management
19 37 (9.49%) Data Modelling
20 36 (9.23%) Finance
21 34 (8.72%) Migration
21 34 (8.72%) Network Architecture
21 34 (8.72%) Physics
22 33 (8.46%) Validation
22 33 (8.46%) WAN
23 32 (8.21%) Business Development
23 32 (8.21%) Requirements Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.28%) Drupal
4 4 (1.03%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.77%) WordPress
6 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (23.33%) Azure
2 69 (17.69%) AWS
3 28 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (6.92%) GCP
5 22 (5.64%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.33%) SaaS
7 12 (3.08%) PowerApps
8 9 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.05%) Serverless
10 7 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (1.28%) OCI
12 4 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.03%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.77%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.51%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.46%) WAN
2 32 (8.21%) VSAT
3 31 (7.95%) SD-WAN
4 21 (5.38%) Firewall
5 14 (3.59%) Wireless
6 12 (3.08%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (2.31%) Network Security
8 7 (1.79%) Intranet
9 6 (1.54%) VPN
10 5 (1.28%) Internet
10 5 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.03%) BGP
11 4 (1.03%) DNS
11 4 (1.03%) SSL
12 3 (0.77%) LAN
13 1 (0.26%) DMZ
13 1 (0.26%) MPLS
13 1 (0.26%) VLAN
13 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.10%) BigQuery
2 16 (4.10%) Looker
3 9 (2.31%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.05%) Power BI
5 7 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.03%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.03%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.77%) OLAP
9 3 (0.77%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.77%) Tableau
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (4.36%) GitLab
1 17 (4.36%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.51%) JIRA
General
1 112 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 45 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (9.23%) Finance
5 23 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.85%) Retail
7 11 (2.82%) Marketing
8 10 (2.56%) Billing
8 10 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.31%) Legal
10 8 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.54%) Automotive
12 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.77%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.26%) Games
15 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.54%) Web Services
2 4 (1.03%) .NET
2 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (1.03%) REST
2 4 (1.03%) SOAP
2 4 (1.03%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.51%) ADO
3 2 (0.51%) Kafka
3 2 (0.51%) React
4 1 (0.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.26%) EDI
4 1 (0.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.92%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 11 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.79%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.79%) PKI
7 7 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.03%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.51%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.51%) PMI
10 1 (0.26%) CMDB
10 1 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.26%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.28%) Kali Linux
1 5 (1.28%) Linux
2 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.51%) Windows
3 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (24.87%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (19.23%) Mentoring
3 74 (18.97%) Agile
4 64 (16.41%) Presales
5 63 (16.15%) TOGAF
6 56 (14.36%) Actionable Insight
7 51 (13.08%) Line Management
8 46 (11.79%) Coaching
9 43 (11.03%) Technical Architecture
10 40 (10.26%) Prototyping
11 38 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
11 38 (9.74%) Network Management
12 37 (9.49%) Data Modelling
13 34 (8.72%) Migration
13 34 (8.72%) Network Architecture
13 34 (8.72%) Physics
14 33 (8.46%) Validation
15 32 (8.21%) Business Development
15 32 (8.21%) Data Architecture
15 32 (8.21%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.92%) Python
1 27 (6.92%) SQL
2 21 (5.38%) C#
3 17 (4.36%) Fortran
4 13 (3.33%) C++
5 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.03%) Scala
7 3 (0.77%) Java
8 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (26.41%) Degree
2 82 (21.03%) Security Cleared
3 41 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.36%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.10%) CCNA
7 16 (4.10%) CCNP
8 13 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.08%) CISSP
10 10 (2.56%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.79%) CCSK
11 7 (1.79%) CCSP
11 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.26%) ISACA
15 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.41%) GDPR
2 24 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.85%) NIST
4 12 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 7 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.28%) COBIT
6 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (2.82%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (1.28%) CASB
2 5 (1.28%) Suricata
3 3 (0.77%) OpenView
3 3 (0.77%) Terraform
4 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.69%) Cisco
3 23 (5.90%) Google
4 17 (4.36%) Adobe
4 17 (4.36%) Apple
5 16 (4.10%) Meraki
6 14 (3.59%) Juniper
7 12 (3.08%) MuleSoft
8 11 (2.82%) Salesforce
9 10 (2.56%) Oracle
10 9 (2.31%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.79%) Databricks
12 5 (1.28%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.28%) Sparx
12 5 (1.28%) Splunk
13 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.77%) BMC
14 3 (0.77%) HP
14 3 (0.77%) Remedy
15 2 (0.51%) NetApp