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 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 28 26 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 +38 -12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,288 6,984 7,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.17% 7.75% 5.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.53% 8.47% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,103 3,456 3,846
10th Percentile £57,160 £61,421 £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 80,982 82,462 128,831
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,404 52,476 75,206
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £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 13 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 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
London +4 1,942 £90,000 -2.35% 460
North of England +22 1,090 £78,126 +0.81% 159
South East +2 873 £75,000 -11.76% 144
Midlands +3 642 £75,000 - 92
North West +8 581 £75,000 +1.80% 91
South West -8 509 £75,000 +3.45% 80
Yorkshire +29 448 £79,887 -0.14% 49
West Midlands +26 404 £77,500 +3.33% 44
East Midlands -15 231 £65,000 -10.34% 47
East of England -25 177 £82,500 -2.94% 53
North East +13 61 £79,842 -6.07% 19
Architect
UK

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

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 across the England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,574 (29.77%) Azure
2 1,394 (26.36%) Agile
3 1,327 (25.09%) Social Skills
4 1,217 (23.01%) Roadmaps
5 1,216 (23.00%) Finance
6 1,061 (20.06%) TOGAF
7 1,032 (19.52%) AWS
8 996 (18.84%) Microsoft
9 830 (15.70%) Security Cleared
10 708 (13.39%) Enterprise Architecture
11 701 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 682 (12.90%) Degree
13 582 (11.01%) Mentoring
14 538 (10.17%) DevOps
15 533 (10.08%) Strategic Roadmap
16 531 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
17 524 (9.91%) Data Modelling
18 509 (9.63%) GCP
19 497 (9.40%) SC Cleared
20 493 (9.32%) Data Architecture
21 478 (9.04%) Oracle
22 477 (9.02%) ERP
23 476 (9.00%) Data Management
24 464 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
25 458 (8.66%) SAP
26 423 (8.00%) Technical Architecture
27 418 (7.90%) Presales
28 414 (7.83%) Migration
29 406 (7.68%) Microservices
30 391 (7.39%) Analytics

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 (5.67%) SAS
2 94 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (1.17%) Apache
5 56 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 50 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.66%) WebLogic
8 23 (0.43%) CMS
9 15 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.26%) IIS
11 10 (0.19%) Drupal
12 7 (0.13%) Confluence
12 7 (0.13%) JBoss
12 7 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.13%) WildFly
13 6 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.095%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.076%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.076%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.25%) Simulink
5 9 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.057%) Revit
7 2 (0.038%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 318 (6.01%) SAP ERP
2 81 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 80 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 65 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 28 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.36%) SAP BPC
8 15 (0.28%) Endur
9 12 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 10 (0.19%) SAP PP
11 8 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
12 7 (0.13%) Elite 3E
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
14 5 (0.095%) SAP CX
14 5 (0.095%) SAP WM
15 4 (0.076%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 1,574 (29.77%) Azure
2 1,032 (19.52%) AWS
3 509 (9.63%) GCP
4 342 (6.47%) SaaS
5 304 (5.75%) Power Platform
6 299 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
7 262 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
8 202 (3.82%) PaaS
9 178 (3.37%) IaaS
10 140 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
11 102 (1.93%) Snowflake
12 95 (1.80%) PowerApps
13 84 (1.59%) Serverless
14 83 (1.57%) Power Automate
15 81 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
16 59 (1.12%) dbt
17 48 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 43 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
19 38 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
20 36 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 305 (5.77%) Broadband
2 235 (4.44%) VSAT
3 176 (3.33%) Firewall
4 159 (3.01%) WAN
5 103 (1.95%) VPN
6 93 (1.76%) SD-WAN
7 92 (1.74%) Network Security
8 86 (1.63%) DNS
9 65 (1.23%) LAN
10 53 (1.00%) BGP
11 51 (0.96%) SSL
12 48 (0.91%) TCP/IP
13 47 (0.89%) Wireless
14 38 (0.72%) Internet
15 31 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
16 30 (0.57%) MPLS
17 27 (0.51%) DHCP
17 27 (0.51%) VLAN
18 21 (0.40%) OSPF
18 21 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 199 (3.76%) Data Lake
3 149 (2.82%) Metadata
4 144 (2.72%) Power BI
5 129 (2.44%) BigQuery
6 128 (2.42%) SQL Server
7 125 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 114 (2.16%) Looker
9 113 (2.14%) NoSQL
10 74 (1.40%) Big Data
11 71 (1.34%) Apache Ignite
12 62 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 53 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
14 51 (0.96%) Apache Arrow
14 51 (0.96%) Dremio
15 48 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
16 40 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
16 40 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
17 34 (0.64%) Oracle Database
18 30 (0.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 65 (1.23%) Git
2 64 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 41 (0.78%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.64%) GitLab
5 26 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.32%) JIRA
8 10 (0.19%) Maven
9 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.095%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.095%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.095%) MLflow
11 5 (0.095%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.076%) ERwin
12 4 (0.076%) Selenium
12 4 (0.076%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.057%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.057%) Subversion
13 3 (0.057%) TestNG
General
1 1,327 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 1,216 (23.00%) Finance
3 464 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 318 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (5.52%) Banking
6 273 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 258 (4.88%) Retail
8 183 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
9 103 (1.95%) Marketing
10 101 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 99 (1.87%) Legal
12 88 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 77 (1.46%) Law
14 67 (1.27%) Retail Banking
15 64 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 63 (1.19%) Investment Banking
17 57 (1.08%) Front Office
18 49 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
19 42 (0.79%) Financial Institution
20 39 (0.74%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (5.07%) .NET
2 77 (1.46%) Kafka
3 76 (1.44%) Middleware
4 67 (1.27%) HTML
5 66 (1.25%) Web Services
6 59 (1.12%) Spring Boot
7 56 (1.06%) REST
8 52 (0.98%) gRPC
8 52 (0.98%) Protocol Buffers
9 51 (0.96%) React
10 49 (0.93%) JSON
11 48 (0.91%) NumPy
11 48 (0.91%) Pandas
11 48 (0.91%) SciPy
12 44 (0.83%) XML
13 41 (0.78%) OpenID
14 40 (0.76%) CSS
15 39 (0.74%) .NET Core
16 37 (0.70%) YAML
17 34 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 356 (6.73%) Public Cloud
2 233 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 212 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 177 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 163 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 98 (1.85%) PKI
7 98 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 76 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 69 (1.30%) IoT
10 64 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (1.15%) PMI
12 59 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 55 (1.04%) Security Posture
14 53 (1.00%) Equities
15 52 (0.98%) Derivative
16 51 (0.96%) Fixed Income
16 51 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 51 (0.96%) Hedge funds
17 46 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 268 (5.07%) Linux
2 141 (2.67%) Windows
3 44 (0.83%) Unix
4 42 (0.79%) Ubuntu
5 39 (0.74%) Android
6 38 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 29 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.43%) VMS
10 12 (0.23%) SUSE
10 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.17%) Solaris
12 8 (0.15%) VME
13 5 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.095%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.019%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.019%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,394 (26.36%) Agile
2 1,217 (23.01%) Roadmaps
3 1,061 (20.06%) TOGAF
4 708 (13.39%) Enterprise Architecture
5 701 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
6 582 (11.01%) Mentoring
7 538 (10.17%) DevOps
8 533 (10.08%) Strategic Roadmap
9 531 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
10 524 (9.91%) Data Modelling
11 493 (9.32%) Data Architecture
12 477 (9.02%) ERP
13 476 (9.00%) Data Management
14 423 (8.00%) Technical Architecture
15 418 (7.90%) Presales
16 414 (7.83%) Migration
17 406 (7.68%) Microservices
18 391 (7.39%) Analytics
19 375 (7.09%) Change Management
20 367 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 289 (5.47%) SQL
2 277 (5.24%) Python
3 249 (4.71%) C#
4 241 (4.56%) Java
5 221 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 89 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 65 (1.23%) C
8 61 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 44 (0.83%) C++
10 43 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 25 (0.47%) Scala
12 22 (0.42%) R
13 18 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.32%) Bicep
15 16 (0.30%) Bash
15 16 (0.30%) Ruby
16 15 (0.28%) VB
17 14 (0.26%) Go
18 12 (0.23%) Perl
18 12 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 830 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 682 (12.90%) Degree
3 497 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 223 (4.22%) Azure Certification
5 181 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 170 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 166 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 164 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
9 157 (2.97%) CISSP
10 143 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
11 118 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 88 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 86 (1.63%) CISM
14 83 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 78 (1.48%) Master's Degree
16 67 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 64 (1.21%) PMI Certification
18 60 (1.13%) CCSP
19 59 (1.12%) CCNP
20 52 (0.98%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.23%) GDPR
3 94 (1.78%) NIST
4 76 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.08%) QA
6 32 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.57%) COBIT
7 30 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 30 (0.57%) SLA
8 20 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 10 (0.19%) PMO
11 9 (0.17%) NCSC
12 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
12 7 (0.13%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.11%) GRC
13 6 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.076%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.057%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 157 (2.97%) Docker
2 92 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.64%) vSphere
5 33 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.23%) vCloud
11 10 (0.19%) Firmware
11 10 (0.19%) KVM
12 5 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.038%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) HDFS
15 1 (0.019%) LXC
15 1 (0.019%) OpenAM
15 1 (0.019%) RACF
Systems Management
1 237 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 190 (3.59%) Terraform
3 77 (1.46%) Ansible
4 44 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 39 (0.74%) Puppet
6 21 (0.40%) OpenView
6 21 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
7 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.30%) CASB
9 11 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.17%) Grafana
10 9 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.11%) Endace
12 6 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.11%) Kibana
13 5 (0.095%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (0.095%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.095%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 996 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 478 (9.04%) Oracle
3 458 (8.66%) SAP
4 327 (6.18%) Google
5 300 (5.67%) Anaplan
5 300 (5.67%) Hyperion
6 136 (2.57%) Cisco
7 124 (2.34%) Databricks
8 115 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 103 (1.95%) Salesforce
10 84 (1.59%) Sparx
11 79 (1.49%) VMware
12 72 (1.36%) Juniper
13 61 (1.15%) Citrix
14 52 (0.98%) Apple
15 50 (0.95%) Adobe
16 42 (0.79%) IBM
16 42 (0.79%) Meraki
17 41 (0.78%) HP
18 30 (0.57%) BMC