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 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 28 26 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,389 6,966 7,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.17% 7.95% 5.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.52% 8.69% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,149 3,320 3,775
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,622 £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 £101,250
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 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 23 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 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
London +4 1,936 £90,000 -2.35% 391
North of England +17 1,137 £77,500 - 139
South East +2 903 £75,000 -9.09% 132
Midlands -2 680 £75,000 - 96
North West +6 610 £75,000 +3.45% 77
South West -9 506 £75,000 +3.45% 73
Yorkshire +24 459 £79,842 -0.20% 45
West Midlands +22 430 £77,500 +3.33% 56
East Midlands -17 243 £65,025 -10.31% 39
East of England -30 183 £80,000 -3.03% 48
North East +7 68 £79,842 -6.07% 17
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 1,611 (29.89%) Azure
2 1,416 (26.28%) Agile
3 1,341 (24.88%) Social Skills
4 1,219 (22.62%) Finance
5 1,187 (22.03%) Roadmaps
6 1,071 (19.87%) TOGAF
6 1,071 (19.87%) AWS
7 1,002 (18.59%) Microsoft
8 819 (15.20%) Security Cleared
9 712 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 708 (13.14%) Enterprise Architecture
11 681 (12.64%) Degree
12 585 (10.86%) Mentoring
13 571 (10.60%) DevOps
14 525 (9.74%) Data Modelling
15 522 (9.69%) Strategic Roadmap
16 518 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
17 515 (9.56%) GCP
18 496 (9.20%) SC Cleared
18 496 (9.20%) Data Architecture
19 483 (8.96%) Data Management
20 477 (8.85%) Oracle
21 474 (8.80%) ERP
22 457 (8.48%) SAP
23 454 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
24 432 (8.02%) Migration
25 431 (8.00%) Presales
26 416 (7.72%) Technical Architecture
27 405 (7.52%) Analytics
28 383 (7.11%) 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 (5.57%) SAS
2 93 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.22%) Apache
5 58 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 46 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.65%) WebLogic
8 23 (0.43%) 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 (0.093%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.074%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.074%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.24%) Simulink
5 11 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.056%) Revit
7 2 (0.037%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 317 (5.88%) SAP ERP
2 81 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 78 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 64 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 27 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 20 (0.37%) Teamcenter
7 16 (0.30%) Endur
8 12 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 10 (0.19%) SAP PP
10 8 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.15%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.13%) SAP MM
11 7 (0.13%) SAP SD
12 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.11%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.093%) SAP WM
14 4 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
14 4 (0.074%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,611 (29.89%) Azure
2 1,071 (19.87%) AWS
3 515 (9.56%) GCP
4 344 (6.38%) SaaS
5 323 (5.99%) Power Platform
6 288 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
7 271 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
8 187 (3.47%) PaaS
9 165 (3.06%) IaaS
10 134 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (1.97%) Snowflake
12 99 (1.84%) PowerApps
13 87 (1.61%) Power Automate
14 82 (1.52%) Serverless
15 81 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
16 63 (1.17%) dbt
17 44 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 38 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
19 37 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 36 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 308 (5.72%) Broadband
2 235 (4.36%) VSAT
3 180 (3.34%) Firewall
4 164 (3.04%) WAN
5 98 (1.82%) SD-WAN
5 98 (1.82%) VPN
6 96 (1.78%) Network Security
7 87 (1.61%) DNS
8 65 (1.21%) LAN
9 53 (0.98%) BGP
10 49 (0.91%) SSL
11 48 (0.89%) Wireless
12 41 (0.76%) TCP/IP
13 39 (0.72%) Internet
14 34 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
15 30 (0.56%) MPLS
16 26 (0.48%) DHCP
17 25 (0.46%) VLAN
18 21 (0.39%) OSPF
18 21 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
2 192 (3.56%) Data Lake
3 163 (3.02%) Power BI
4 148 (2.75%) Metadata
5 130 (2.41%) BigQuery
5 130 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 128 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 115 (2.13%) Looker
8 113 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 72 (1.34%) Big Data
10 69 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
11 65 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 58 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
13 55 (1.02%) Apache Arrow
13 55 (1.02%) Dremio
14 48 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
15 44 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
16 39 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
17 34 (0.63%) Data Vault
17 34 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (1.22%) Git
2 65 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 44 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 37 (0.69%) GitLab
5 26 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.33%) JIRA
6 18 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.19%) Maven
8 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.11%) JUnit
10 5 (0.093%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.093%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.093%) MLflow
10 5 (0.093%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.074%) ERwin
11 4 (0.074%) Selenium
11 4 (0.074%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.056%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.056%) Subversion
12 3 (0.056%) TestNG
General
1 1,341 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 1,219 (22.62%) Finance
3 454 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (5.42%) Banking
6 276 (5.12%) Public Sector
7 272 (5.05%) Retail
8 199 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
9 114 (2.12%) Marketing
10 97 (1.80%) Legal
11 96 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 87 (1.61%) Manufacturing
13 77 (1.43%) Law
14 74 (1.37%) Retail Banking
15 67 (1.24%) Investment Banking
16 65 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 62 (1.15%) Front Office
18 51 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
19 44 (0.82%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (4.97%) .NET
2 82 (1.52%) Middleware
3 72 (1.34%) Kafka
4 62 (1.15%) Web Services
5 57 (1.06%) HTML
5 57 (1.06%) Spring Boot
6 56 (1.04%) gRPC
6 56 (1.04%) Protocol Buffers
6 56 (1.04%) REST
7 52 (0.96%) NumPy
7 52 (0.96%) Pandas
7 52 (0.96%) SciPy
8 50 (0.93%) React
9 44 (0.82%) JSON
10 42 (0.78%) XML
11 39 (0.72%) .NET Core
11 39 (0.72%) CSS
12 34 (0.63%) YAML
13 33 (0.61%) .NET Framework
13 33 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 354 (6.57%) Public Cloud
2 231 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 215 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 177 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 163 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
6 119 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 98 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 97 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 96 (1.78%) PKI
10 72 (1.34%) IoT
11 63 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 61 (1.13%) PMI
13 59 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 57 (1.06%) Equities
15 56 (1.04%) Derivative
15 56 (1.04%) Security Posture
16 55 (1.02%) Fixed Income
16 55 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 55 (1.02%) Hedge funds
17 44 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 273 (5.07%) Linux
2 140 (2.60%) Windows
3 42 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 41 (0.76%) Android
5 40 (0.74%) Unix
6 38 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 32 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.43%) VMS
10 11 (0.20%) Solaris
11 10 (0.19%) SUSE
11 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.15%) VME
13 5 (0.093%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.056%) CentOS
15 1 (0.019%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) tvOS
15 1 (0.019%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.019%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,416 (26.28%) Agile
2 1,187 (22.03%) Roadmaps
3 1,071 (19.87%) TOGAF
4 712 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 708 (13.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 585 (10.86%) Mentoring
7 571 (10.60%) DevOps
8 525 (9.74%) Data Modelling
9 522 (9.69%) Strategic Roadmap
10 518 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
11 496 (9.20%) Data Architecture
12 483 (8.96%) Data Management
13 474 (8.80%) ERP
14 432 (8.02%) Migration
15 431 (8.00%) Presales
16 416 (7.72%) Technical Architecture
17 405 (7.52%) Analytics
18 383 (7.11%) Microservices
19 379 (7.03%) Change Management
20 363 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 291 (5.40%) SQL
2 284 (5.27%) Python
3 252 (4.68%) Java
4 248 (4.60%) C#
5 223 (4.14%) JavaScript
6 83 (1.54%) PowerShell
7 67 (1.24%) C
8 65 (1.21%) TypeScript
9 48 (0.89%) C++
10 44 (0.82%) T-SQL
11 26 (0.48%) Scala
12 22 (0.41%) R
13 18 (0.33%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.32%) Bicep
15 16 (0.30%) Bash
15 16 (0.30%) Ruby
15 16 (0.30%) VB
16 15 (0.28%) Fortran
17 14 (0.26%) Apex Code
17 14 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 819 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 681 (12.64%) Degree
3 496 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 227 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 182 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 175 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 167 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 159 (2.95%) DV Cleared
9 158 (2.93%) CISSP
10 149 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 115 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 86 (1.60%) CISM
13 84 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 82 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 78 (1.45%) Master's Degree
16 68 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 64 (1.19%) CCNP
17 64 (1.19%) PMI Certification
18 61 (1.13%) CCSP
19 55 (1.02%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.19%) GDPR
3 96 (1.78%) NIST
4 74 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (0.98%) QA
6 33 (0.61%) SLA
7 32 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 30 (0.56%) COBIT
8 30 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.20%) 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
1 162 (3.01%) Docker
2 97 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.56%) vSphere
6 21 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 21 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.19%) KVM
9 10 (0.19%) vCloud
10 9 (0.17%) Firmware
11 4 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.037%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) HDFS
14 1 (0.019%) LXC
14 1 (0.019%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 179 (3.32%) Terraform
3 77 (1.43%) Ansible
4 44 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.71%) Puppet
6 24 (0.45%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.39%) OpenView
8 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.30%) CASB
10 12 (0.22%) 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 (0.093%) Kiali
14 5 (0.093%) Suricata
14 5 (0.093%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,002 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 477 (8.85%) Oracle
3 457 (8.48%) SAP
4 324 (6.01%) Google
5 301 (5.59%) Anaplan
6 299 (5.55%) Hyperion
7 143 (2.65%) Cisco
8 118 (2.19%) Databricks
9 111 (2.06%) ServiceNow
10 108 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 81 (1.50%) Sparx
12 74 (1.37%) Juniper
12 74 (1.37%) VMware
13 55 (1.02%) Apple
14 54 (1.00%) Citrix
15 53 (0.98%) Adobe
16 45 (0.84%) Meraki
17 44 (0.82%) IBM
18 39 (0.72%) HP
19 29 (0.54%) BMC