Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 26 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +40 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,419 8,421 8,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.48% 8.32% 5.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% 9.09% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,547 3,948 4,517
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,180 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £71,500 £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 £100,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +4.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -2 5,288 £80,000 -5.88% 1,017
UK excluding London -6 3,876 £75,000 -3.23% 590
Work from Home +4 2,483 £80,000 -5.88% 569
London +4 1,942 £90,000 -2.35% 449
North of England +22 1,090 £78,126 +0.81% 165
South East +2 873 £75,000 -11.76% 140
Midlands +3 642 £75,000 - 91
North West +8 581 £75,000 +1.80% 93
South West -8 509 £75,000 +3.45% 77
Yorkshire +29 448 £79,887 -0.14% 51
West Midlands +26 404 £77,500 +3.33% 45
Scotland -47 368 £75,200 -3.90% 39
East Midlands -15 231 £65,000 -10.34% 45
East of England -25 177 £82,500 -2.94% 47
Wales -19 125 £65,000 +3.60% 24
Northern Ireland +8 101 £95,000 +31.03% 21
North East +13 61 £79,842 -6.07% 21
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,863 (29.02%) Azure
2 1,568 (24.43%) Agile
3 1,561 (24.32%) Social Skills
4 1,404 (21.87%) Finance
5 1,370 (21.34%) Roadmaps
6 1,343 (20.92%) TOGAF
7 1,274 (19.85%) AWS
8 1,141 (17.78%) Microsoft
9 1,023 (15.94%) Security Cleared
10 829 (12.91%) Actionable Insight
11 794 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
12 768 (11.96%) Degree
13 753 (11.73%) Enterprise Architecture
14 663 (10.33%) SC Cleared
15 656 (10.22%) Mentoring
16 638 (9.94%) Technical Architecture
17 627 (9.77%) DevOps
18 588 (9.16%) GCP
19 577 (8.99%) Data Architecture
20 572 (8.91%) Presales
21 559 (8.71%) Data Modelling
21 559 (8.71%) Oracle
22 555 (8.65%) Strategic Roadmap
23 548 (8.54%) SAP
24 543 (8.46%) Migration
25 510 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
26 495 (7.71%) Data Management
27 488 (7.60%) ERP
28 478 (7.45%) Validation
28 478 (7.45%) Analytics

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.69%) SAS
2 103 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (0.97%) Apache
5 56 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.83%) WebLogic
7 51 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.36%) CMS
9 15 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.22%) IIS
11 10 (0.16%) Drupal
12 7 (0.11%) Confluence
12 7 (0.11%) JBoss
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.11%) WildFly
13 6 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.062%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.047%) Revit
7 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 318 (4.95%) SAP ERP
2 133 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 108 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 91 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 39 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.48%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.30%) SAP BPC
8 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.25%) Endur
9 16 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 13 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
12 12 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 9 (0.14%) SAP SD
14 9 (0.14%) SAP WM
15 8 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 7 (0.11%) Elite 3E
16 7 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,863 (29.02%) Azure
2 1,274 (19.85%) AWS
3 588 (9.16%) GCP
4 419 (6.53%) SaaS
5 358 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
6 341 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 295 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
8 244 (3.80%) PaaS
9 218 (3.40%) IaaS
10 149 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 109 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 108 (1.68%) Snowflake
13 105 (1.64%) PowerApps
14 95 (1.48%) Serverless
15 85 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 64 (1.00%) dbt
17 56 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
18 55 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
19 49 (0.76%) Entra ID
20 47 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 404 (6.29%) VSAT
2 306 (4.77%) Broadband
3 201 (3.13%) Firewall
4 178 (2.77%) WAN
5 116 (1.81%) SD-WAN
6 111 (1.73%) DNS
7 107 (1.67%) VPN
8 106 (1.65%) Network Security
9 89 (1.39%) LAN
10 73 (1.14%) TCP/IP
11 71 (1.11%) BGP
12 69 (1.07%) SSL
13 57 (0.89%) Wireless
14 41 (0.64%) Internet
15 32 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
16 30 (0.47%) MPLS
17 27 (0.42%) DHCP
17 27 (0.42%) VLAN
18 21 (0.33%) HTTP
18 21 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
2 220 (3.43%) Data Lake
3 177 (2.76%) Metadata
4 153 (2.38%) Power BI
5 148 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 133 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 132 (2.06%) BigQuery
9 114 (1.78%) Looker
10 101 (1.57%) Big Data
11 81 (1.26%) RDBMS
12 71 (1.11%) Apache Ignite
13 68 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
14 54 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
14 54 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 51 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
15 51 (0.79%) Dremio
16 46 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
17 45 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
18 41 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (1.11%) Git
2 70 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 52 (0.81%) Visual Studio
4 35 (0.55%) GitLab
5 26 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.26%) JIRA
8 14 (0.22%) Maven
9 10 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.093%) JUnit
12 5 (0.078%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.078%) MLflow
12 5 (0.078%) Subversion
12 5 (0.078%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.062%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.062%) ERwin
13 4 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.062%) Selenium
13 4 (0.062%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,561 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 1,404 (21.87%) Finance
3 510 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 446 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 363 (5.66%) Banking
6 344 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 275 (4.28%) Retail
8 247 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 195 (3.04%) Marketing
10 159 (2.48%) Law
11 115 (1.79%) Legal
12 104 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 101 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 90 (1.40%) Retail Banking
15 74 (1.15%) Aerospace
16 63 (0.98%) Investment Banking
17 58 (0.90%) Games
18 57 (0.89%) Front Office
19 49 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
20 45 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (4.77%) .NET
2 102 (1.59%) Kafka
3 88 (1.37%) Web Services
4 87 (1.36%) Spring Boot
5 84 (1.31%) Middleware
6 74 (1.15%) HTML
7 66 (1.03%) REST
8 58 (0.90%) React
9 57 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
10 55 (0.86%) JSON
11 53 (0.83%) XML
12 52 (0.81%) gRPC
12 52 (0.81%) Protocol Buffers
13 51 (0.79%) CSS
14 49 (0.76%) NumPy
14 49 (0.76%) Pandas
15 48 (0.75%) SciPy
16 47 (0.73%) OpenID
17 45 (0.70%) .NET Framework
18 44 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 438 (6.82%) Public Cloud
2 346 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 256 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 219 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 168 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
6 138 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.03%) PKI
8 98 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 80 (1.25%) IoT
10 74 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 64 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 63 (0.98%) PMI
13 59 (0.92%) Security Posture
14 53 (0.83%) Equities
15 52 (0.81%) Derivative
16 51 (0.79%) Fixed Income
16 51 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 51 (0.79%) Hedge funds
17 50 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 313 (4.88%) Linux
2 159 (2.48%) Windows
3 58 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (0.79%) Unix
5 42 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 39 (0.61%) Android
7 38 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.36%) VMS
10 12 (0.19%) SUSE
10 12 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.14%) Solaris
12 8 (0.12%) VME
13 6 (0.093%) Mesosphere
14 5 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.078%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.047%) CentOS
16 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 1 (0.016%) HPUX
17 1 (0.016%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,568 (24.43%) Agile
2 1,370 (21.34%) Roadmaps
3 1,343 (20.92%) TOGAF
4 829 (12.91%) Actionable Insight
5 794 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
6 753 (11.73%) Enterprise Architecture
7 656 (10.22%) Mentoring
8 638 (9.94%) Technical Architecture
9 627 (9.77%) DevOps
10 577 (8.99%) Data Architecture
11 572 (8.91%) Presales
12 559 (8.71%) Data Modelling
13 555 (8.65%) Strategic Roadmap
14 543 (8.46%) Migration
15 495 (7.71%) Data Management
16 488 (7.60%) ERP
17 478 (7.45%) Analytics
17 478 (7.45%) Validation
18 477 (7.43%) Microservices
19 462 (7.20%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 346 (5.39%) SQL
2 336 (5.23%) Python
3 322 (5.02%) Java
4 276 (4.30%) C#
5 239 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 95 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 84 (1.31%) C
8 66 (1.03%) C++
9 62 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 30 (0.47%) Scala
12 23 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.36%) R
13 20 (0.31%) Bicep
14 18 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.26%) Bash
16 16 (0.25%) Go
16 16 (0.25%) Ruby
17 15 (0.23%) VB
18 13 (0.20%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,023 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 768 (11.96%) Degree
3 663 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 277 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 215 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 210 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 194 (3.02%) CISSP
8 177 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 172 (2.68%) DV Cleared
10 167 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
11 126 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 116 (1.81%) CISM
13 110 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 102 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 97 (1.51%) Master's Degree
16 77 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 69 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 68 (1.06%) CCSP
19 67 (1.04%) CCNP
20 58 (0.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (3.38%) Data Quality
2 176 (2.74%) GDPR
3 127 (1.98%) QA
4 111 (1.73%) NIST
5 93 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.73%) COBIT
7 36 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (0.47%) SLA
10 21 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.17%) PMO
12 9 (0.14%) NCSC
13 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.093%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 186 (2.90%) Docker
2 123 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.53%) vSphere
6 26 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.19%) KVM
10 12 (0.19%) vCloud
11 10 (0.16%) Firmware
12 5 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.047%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.047%) Xen
14 2 (0.031%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.031%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.016%) HDFS
15 1 (0.016%) LXC
15 1 (0.016%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 275 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 206 (3.21%) Terraform
3 91 (1.42%) Ansible
4 46 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 45 (0.70%) Puppet
6 32 (0.50%) OpenView
7 23 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.33%) Stealthwatch
9 16 (0.25%) CASB
10 15 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.16%) Grafana
11 10 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.12%) Kiali
13 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.093%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.093%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.093%) Endace
14 6 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,141 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 559 (8.71%) Oracle
3 548 (8.54%) SAP
4 387 (6.03%) Google
5 300 (4.67%) Anaplan
5 300 (4.67%) Hyperion
6 155 (2.41%) Cisco
7 152 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 132 (2.06%) Databricks
9 124 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 111 (1.73%) Sparx
11 98 (1.53%) VMware
12 82 (1.28%) Juniper
13 65 (1.01%) IBM
14 64 (1.00%) Citrix
15 52 (0.81%) Apple
15 52 (0.81%) HP
16 50 (0.78%) Adobe
17 43 (0.67%) Meraki
18 41 (0.64%) BMC