Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 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 36 30 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 4,021 4,528 3,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.54% 7.71% 4.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.84% 8.64% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,156 1,523 1,678
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,418
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,245 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.58%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK excluding London

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 Architect within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +17 1,137 £77,500 - 140
South East +2 903 £75,000 -9.09% 132
Midlands -2 680 £75,000 - 96
North West +6 610 £75,000 +3.45% 78
South West -9 506 £75,000 +3.45% 74
Yorkshire +24 459 £79,842 -0.20% 45
West Midlands +22 430 £77,500 +3.33% 56
Scotland -46 376 £75,000 -5.06% 36
East Midlands -17 243 £65,025 -10.31% 39
East of England -30 183 £80,000 -3.03% 49
Wales -17 136 £60,000 -4.37% 25
Northern Ireland +9 113 £90,000 +24.14% 20
North East +7 68 £79,842 -6.07% 17
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -
Architect
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,080 (26.86%) Azure
2 881 (21.91%) TOGAF
3 873 (21.71%) Agile
4 827 (20.57%) AWS
5 797 (19.82%) Social Skills
6 727 (18.08%) Security Cleared
7 711 (17.68%) Roadmaps
8 672 (16.71%) Actionable Insight
9 652 (16.21%) Microsoft
10 599 (14.90%) Finance
11 543 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
12 482 (11.99%) Technical Architecture
13 467 (11.61%) Degree
14 449 (11.17%) SC Cleared
15 419 (10.42%) Mentoring
16 401 (9.97%) DevOps
17 398 (9.90%) Validation
18 387 (9.62%) Requirements Management
19 383 (9.52%) Network Management
20 376 (9.35%) Data Architecture
21 373 (9.28%) Network Architecture
22 371 (9.23%) Presales
23 367 (9.13%) Model Validation
24 357 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
25 344 (8.56%) VSAT
26 339 (8.43%) Migration
27 326 (8.11%) Data Modelling
28 321 (7.98%) Public Cloud
28 321 (7.98%) Analytics
29 315 (7.83%) GCP

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 77 (1.91%) SAS
2 51 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.99%) WebLogic
4 18 (0.45%) CMS
5 15 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.15%) Apache
7 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.12%) Drupal
9 4 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.099%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.075%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.075%) Confluence
10 3 (0.075%) WordPress
11 2 (0.050%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.050%) NetWeaver
11 2 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.025%) Appian
12 1 (0.025%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.025%) Umbraco
Applications
1 28 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.45%) Simulink
5 3 (0.075%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.050%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.050%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.025%) Revit
Business Applications
1 86 (2.14%) SAP ERP
2 83 (2.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 36 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.25%) SAP PP
8 9 (0.22%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.17%) SAP MM
9 7 (0.17%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.15%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.12%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.099%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.099%) SAP APO
13 3 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
13 3 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
14 2 (0.050%) SAP SCM
15 1 (0.025%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,080 (26.86%) Azure
2 827 (20.57%) AWS
3 315 (7.83%) GCP
4 266 (6.62%) SaaS
5 224 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
6 217 (5.40%) Power Platform
7 151 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
8 103 (2.56%) PaaS
9 93 (2.31%) IaaS
10 85 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (1.44%) Serverless
13 56 (1.39%) PowerApps
14 49 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (1.07%) Snowflake
16 41 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (0.75%) Power Automate
18 25 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
19 23 (0.57%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 344 (8.56%) VSAT
2 119 (2.96%) WAN
3 97 (2.41%) Firewall
4 94 (2.34%) SD-WAN
5 82 (2.04%) Broadband
6 78 (1.94%) DNS
6 78 (1.94%) Network Security
7 62 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 56 (1.39%) BGP
9 52 (1.29%) SSL
10 48 (1.19%) VPN
11 35 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
12 30 (0.75%) Wireless
13 26 (0.65%) LAN
14 16 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (0.35%) Internet
15 14 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
15 14 (0.35%) VLAN
16 12 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
16 12 (0.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (2.71%) BigQuery
3 108 (2.69%) Power BI
4 100 (2.49%) NoSQL
5 98 (2.44%) Looker
6 88 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 87 (2.16%) Metadata
8 77 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 59 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
10 56 (1.39%) SQL Server
11 55 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 55 (1.37%) RDBMS
12 51 (1.27%) Big Data
13 41 (1.02%) Oracle Database
14 38 (0.95%) Data Vault
15 30 (0.75%) Tableau
16 22 (0.55%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (0.47%) DB2
18 16 (0.40%) GIS
Development Applications
1 46 (1.14%) Visual Studio
2 43 (1.07%) Git
3 26 (0.65%) GitLab
4 21 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 20 (0.50%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.17%) JIRA
7 7 (0.17%) Maven
8 4 (0.099%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.075%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.075%) JUnit
9 3 (0.075%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.075%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.050%) CANoe
10 2 (0.050%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.050%) ERwin
10 2 (0.050%) MLflow
10 2 (0.050%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.025%) MSI
General
1 797 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 599 (14.90%) Finance
3 293 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 191 (4.75%) Public Sector
6 167 (4.15%) Retail
7 165 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
8 119 (2.96%) Marketing
9 113 (2.81%) Banking
10 112 (2.79%) Law
11 88 (2.19%) Legal
12 72 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 69 (1.72%) Aerospace
14 55 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 37 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
16 30 (0.75%) Games
17 27 (0.67%) Automotive
18 26 (0.65%) Telecoms
19 24 (0.60%) Military
20 21 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (4.70%) .NET
2 61 (1.52%) Spring Boot
3 53 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
4 46 (1.14%) Kafka
5 37 (0.92%) REST
6 36 (0.90%) Web Services
7 35 (0.87%) Middleware
7 35 (0.87%) OAuth
8 33 (0.82%) JSON
8 33 (0.82%) OpenID
9 32 (0.80%) Node.js
9 32 (0.80%) React
10 30 (0.75%) .NET Framework
11 28 (0.70%) SAML
12 26 (0.65%) YAML
13 23 (0.57%) RESTful
14 22 (0.55%) AngularJS
15 21 (0.52%) XML
16 20 (0.50%) .NET Core
16 20 (0.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 321 (7.98%) Public Cloud
2 264 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 145 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 130 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 124 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 87 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 85 (2.11%) PKI
8 84 (2.09%) Product Ownership
9 73 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 61 (1.52%) IoT
11 44 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 37 (0.92%) PMI
14 33 (0.82%) Mobile App
14 33 (0.82%) Private Cloud
15 30 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 28 (0.70%) Credit Risk
17 22 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
18 20 (0.50%) FMCG
18 20 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 184 (4.58%) Linux
2 82 (2.04%) Windows
3 41 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (0.80%) Unix
5 21 (0.52%) Android
6 18 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.22%) Solaris
9 8 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.20%) VME
10 6 (0.15%) Mesosphere
11 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.050%) CentOS
13 1 (0.025%) HPUX
13 1 (0.025%) VMS
13 1 (0.025%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (21.91%) TOGAF
2 873 (21.71%) Agile
3 711 (17.68%) Roadmaps
4 672 (16.71%) Actionable Insight
5 543 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
6 482 (11.99%) Technical Architecture
7 419 (10.42%) Mentoring
8 401 (9.97%) DevOps
9 398 (9.90%) Validation
10 387 (9.62%) Requirements Management
11 383 (9.52%) Network Management
12 376 (9.35%) Data Architecture
13 373 (9.28%) Network Architecture
14 371 (9.23%) Presales
15 367 (9.13%) Model Validation
16 357 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
17 339 (8.43%) Migration
18 326 (8.11%) Data Modelling
19 321 (7.98%) Analytics
20 295 (7.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 191 (4.75%) SQL
2 177 (4.40%) Python
3 149 (3.71%) Java
4 148 (3.68%) C#
5 99 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 54 (1.34%) C++
7 52 (1.29%) C
8 42 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 41 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 23 (0.57%) MATLAB
11 18 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.37%) Fortran
13 12 (0.30%) Ruby
14 11 (0.27%) R
14 11 (0.27%) Scala
15 10 (0.25%) Go
16 8 (0.20%) COBOL
16 8 (0.20%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.20%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 7 (0.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 727 (18.08%) Security Cleared
2 467 (11.61%) Degree
3 449 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 148 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 123 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 122 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 121 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 113 (2.81%) DV Cleared
9 99 (2.46%) CISSP
10 88 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 79 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 73 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.62%) CISM
14 60 (1.49%) CCNP
15 52 (1.29%) CCNA
16 48 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 44 (1.09%) CCSP
18 43 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
19 40 (0.99%) PMI Certification
20 37 (0.92%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (3.76%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.73%) GDPR
3 77 (1.91%) NIST
4 52 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (1.02%) QA
6 32 (0.80%) COBIT
7 23 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 21 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 21 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.50%) SLA
10 19 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 7 (0.17%) ISO 26262
12 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.099%) GRC
13 4 (0.099%) NCSC
14 3 (0.075%) HMG Infosec
14 3 (0.075%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.075%) PMO
14 3 (0.075%) SEPA
System Software
1 100 (2.49%) Docker
2 38 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.70%) Active Directory
5 22 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 12 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.27%) vSphere
9 9 (0.22%) Firmware
10 4 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.050%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.050%) KVM
11 2 (0.050%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.050%) Xen
12 1 (0.025%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 167 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.21%) Terraform
3 38 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (0.72%) OpenView
5 28 (0.70%) Ansible
6 25 (0.62%) Puppet
7 24 (0.60%) Stealthwatch
8 15 (0.37%) CASB
9 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.22%) Grafana
10 9 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.15%) Endace
11 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 5 (0.12%) Suricata
12 5 (0.12%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.075%) MOM
13 3 (0.075%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 652 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.54%) Google
3 182 (4.53%) Oracle
4 162 (4.03%) SAP
5 119 (2.96%) Cisco
6 83 (2.06%) Sparx
7 75 (1.87%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.87%) Hyperion
8 67 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 53 (1.32%) Apple
10 51 (1.27%) Databricks
11 50 (1.24%) Juniper
11 50 (1.24%) VMware
12 46 (1.14%) Adobe
13 45 (1.12%) Meraki
14 38 (0.95%) Salesforce
15 31 (0.77%) HP
16 29 (0.72%) BMC
16 29 (0.72%) Remedy
17 28 (0.70%) IBM