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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 26 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,343 6,929 7,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.18% 7.83% 5.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.53% 8.55% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 3,376 3,822
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 £96,250 £100,000 £100,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 20 May 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 20 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
London +4 1,944 £90,000 -2.70% 499
North of England +21 1,117 £77,500 - 149
South East 0 886 £75,000 -11.76% 213
Midlands +3 660 £75,000 - 110
North West +8 597 £75,000 +2.62% 73
South West -8 507 £75,000 +3.45% 96
Yorkshire +22 455 £79,842 -0.20% 54
West Midlands +24 414 £76,750 +2.33% 69
East Midlands -18 239 £65,025 -10.31% 40
East of England -27 181 £82,500 - 64
North East +18 65 £79,842 -6.07% 22
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 1,594 (29.83%) Azure
2 1,401 (26.22%) Agile
3 1,335 (24.99%) Social Skills
4 1,215 (22.74%) Finance
5 1,196 (22.38%) Roadmaps
6 1,076 (20.14%) TOGAF
7 1,060 (19.84%) AWS
8 994 (18.60%) Microsoft
9 822 (15.38%) Security Cleared
10 708 (13.25%) Enterprise Architecture
10 708 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
11 685 (12.82%) Degree
12 584 (10.93%) Mentoring
13 557 (10.42%) DevOps
14 531 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
15 527 (9.86%) Strategic Roadmap
16 522 (9.77%) Data Modelling
17 516 (9.66%) GCP
18 494 (9.25%) Data Architecture
18 494 (9.25%) SC Cleared
19 476 (8.91%) Oracle
19 476 (8.91%) Data Management
20 473 (8.85%) ERP
21 458 (8.57%) SAP
22 454 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
23 433 (8.10%) Presales
24 427 (7.99%) Migration
25 424 (7.94%) Technical Architecture
26 400 (7.49%) Analytics
27 394 (7.37%) Microservices

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
1 300 (5.61%) SAS
2 92 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.24%) Apache
5 59 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 50 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.66%) WebLogic
8 24 (0.45%) CMS
9 15 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.26%) IIS
11 10 (0.19%) Drupal
12 8 (0.15%) Confluence
13 7 (0.13%) JBoss
13 7 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) WildFly
14 6 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.094%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.075%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.24%) Simulink
4 10 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.056%) Revit
6 2 (0.037%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 317 (5.93%) SAP ERP
2 80 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 79 (1.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 65 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.37%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.36%) SAP BPC
8 17 (0.32%) Endur
9 12 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 10 (0.19%) SAP PP
11 8 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.13%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.13%) SAP SD
13 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
13 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
14 5 (0.094%) SAP WM
15 4 (0.075%) Oracle Applications
15 4 (0.075%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,594 (29.83%) Azure
2 1,060 (19.84%) AWS
3 516 (9.66%) GCP
4 335 (6.27%) SaaS
5 312 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 287 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
7 264 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
8 193 (3.61%) PaaS
9 170 (3.18%) IaaS
10 136 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (1.98%) Snowflake
12 96 (1.80%) PowerApps
13 84 (1.57%) Power Automate
14 82 (1.53%) Serverless
15 81 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
16 63 (1.18%) dbt
17 44 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 38 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
19 37 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 35 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 307 (5.75%) Broadband
2 242 (4.53%) VSAT
3 179 (3.35%) Firewall
4 163 (3.05%) WAN
5 100 (1.87%) VPN
6 97 (1.82%) SD-WAN
7 95 (1.78%) Network Security
8 83 (1.55%) DNS
9 65 (1.22%) LAN
10 53 (0.99%) BGP
11 51 (0.95%) SSL
12 48 (0.90%) Wireless
13 41 (0.77%) TCP/IP
14 39 (0.73%) Internet
15 34 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
16 30 (0.56%) MPLS
17 26 (0.49%) VLAN
18 23 (0.43%) DHCP
19 21 (0.39%) OSPF
19 21 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
2 197 (3.69%) Data Lake
3 155 (2.90%) Power BI
4 147 (2.75%) Metadata
5 130 (2.43%) BigQuery
5 130 (2.43%) Relational Database
6 128 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 115 (2.15%) Looker
7 115 (2.15%) NoSQL
8 74 (1.38%) Big Data
9 72 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
10 65 (1.22%) RDBMS
11 58 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (1.03%) Apache Arrow
12 55 (1.03%) Dremio
13 48 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 39 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
15 37 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
16 36 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
17 33 (0.62%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (1.24%) Git
1 66 (1.24%) Jenkins
2 43 (0.80%) Visual Studio
3 36 (0.67%) GitLab
4 26 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.34%) JIRA
5 18 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
6 10 (0.19%) Maven
7 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.11%) JUnit
9 5 (0.094%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.094%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.094%) MLflow
9 5 (0.094%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.075%) ERwin
10 4 (0.075%) Selenium
10 4 (0.075%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.056%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.056%) Subversion
11 3 (0.056%) TestNG
General
1 1,335 (24.99%) Social Skills
2 1,215 (22.74%) Finance
3 454 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 320 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 294 (5.50%) Banking
6 274 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 264 (4.94%) Retail
8 191 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 106 (1.98%) Marketing
10 98 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 97 (1.82%) Legal
12 89 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 74 (1.38%) Law
14 71 (1.33%) Retail Banking
15 67 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 65 (1.22%) Aerospace
17 61 (1.14%) Front Office
18 51 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
19 43 (0.80%) Financial Institution
20 40 (0.75%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (4.85%) .NET
2 80 (1.50%) Middleware
3 75 (1.40%) Kafka
4 65 (1.22%) Web Services
5 60 (1.12%) HTML
6 58 (1.09%) Spring Boot
7 56 (1.05%) gRPC
7 56 (1.05%) Protocol Buffers
8 55 (1.03%) REST
9 52 (0.97%) NumPy
9 52 (0.97%) Pandas
9 52 (0.97%) React
9 52 (0.97%) SciPy
10 45 (0.84%) JSON
11 42 (0.79%) XML
12 41 (0.77%) CSS
13 39 (0.73%) .NET Core
14 34 (0.64%) YAML
15 33 (0.62%) .NET Framework
15 33 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 355 (6.64%) Public Cloud
2 231 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 214 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 180 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 162 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 97 (1.82%) PKI
7 97 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 91 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 71 (1.33%) IoT
10 65 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (1.14%) PMI
12 59 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 57 (1.07%) Equities
14 56 (1.05%) Derivative
14 56 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 55 (1.03%) Fixed Income
15 55 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 55 (1.03%) Hedge funds
16 44 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 272 (5.09%) Linux
2 141 (2.64%) Windows
3 42 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 42 (0.79%) Unix
4 41 (0.77%) Android
5 38 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.43%) VMS
9 11 (0.21%) SUSE
9 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (0.19%) Solaris
11 8 (0.15%) VME
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.094%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.056%) CentOS
15 1 (0.019%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.019%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (26.22%) Agile
2 1,196 (22.38%) Roadmaps
3 1,076 (20.14%) TOGAF
4 708 (13.25%) Enterprise Architecture
4 708 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
5 584 (10.93%) Mentoring
6 557 (10.42%) DevOps
7 531 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
8 527 (9.86%) Strategic Roadmap
9 522 (9.77%) Data Modelling
10 494 (9.25%) Data Architecture
11 476 (8.91%) Data Management
12 473 (8.85%) ERP
13 433 (8.10%) Presales
14 427 (7.99%) Migration
15 424 (7.94%) Technical Architecture
16 400 (7.49%) Analytics
17 394 (7.37%) Microservices
18 378 (7.07%) Change Management
19 365 (6.83%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 289 (5.41%) SQL
2 283 (5.30%) Python
3 251 (4.70%) Java
4 245 (4.59%) C#
5 224 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 84 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 67 (1.25%) C
8 65 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 47 (0.88%) C++
10 44 (0.82%) T-SQL
11 26 (0.49%) Scala
12 22 (0.41%) R
13 18 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.32%) Bicep
14 17 (0.32%) VB
15 16 (0.30%) Bash
15 16 (0.30%) Ruby
16 14 (0.26%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.26%) Fortran
16 14 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 822 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 685 (12.82%) Degree
3 494 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 224 (4.19%) Azure Certification
5 181 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 169 (3.16%) AWS Certification
7 168 (3.14%) TOGAF Certification
8 163 (3.05%) DV Cleared
9 158 (2.96%) CISSP
10 149 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
11 115 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 86 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 86 (1.61%) CISM
13 79 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 77 (1.44%) Master's Degree
15 68 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 64 (1.20%) CCNP
16 64 (1.20%) PMI Certification
17 61 (1.14%) CCSP
18 55 (1.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.20%) GDPR
3 95 (1.78%) NIST
4 74 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (0.94%) QA
6 32 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 31 (0.58%) SLA
8 30 (0.56%) COBIT
8 30 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.21%) PMO
12 10 (0.19%) NCSC
13 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 26262
14 6 (0.11%) GRC
14 6 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.056%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 160 (2.99%) Docker
2 94 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (0.58%) vSphere
6 21 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.21%) vCloud
11 10 (0.19%) Firmware
11 10 (0.19%) KVM
12 5 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.037%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) HDFS
15 1 (0.019%) LXC
15 1 (0.019%) RACF
15 1 (0.019%) Xen
Systems Management
1 238 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 182 (3.41%) Terraform
3 78 (1.46%) Ansible
4 46 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 39 (0.73%) Puppet
6 24 (0.45%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.39%) OpenView
8 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.30%) CASB
10 10 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.17%) Grafana
11 9 (0.17%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.11%) Endace
13 6 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.11%) Kibana
14 5 (0.094%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.094%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (0.094%) Suricata
Vendors
1 994 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 476 (8.91%) Oracle
3 458 (8.57%) SAP
4 327 (6.12%) Google
5 300 (5.61%) Anaplan
6 299 (5.60%) Hyperion
7 142 (2.66%) Cisco
8 120 (2.25%) Databricks
9 113 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 111 (2.08%) Salesforce
11 82 (1.53%) Sparx
12 76 (1.42%) VMware
13 73 (1.37%) Juniper
14 56 (1.05%) Citrix
15 55 (1.03%) Apple
16 54 (1.01%) Adobe
17 45 (0.84%) Meraki
18 43 (0.80%) IBM
19 39 (0.73%) HP
20 29 (0.54%) BMC