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 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 27 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,427 6,949 7,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.15% 7.97% 5.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.50% 8.71% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,175 3,322 3,773
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 £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 83,455 79,786 132,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.48% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 62,071 51,010 74,787
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +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 26 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 26 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 1,948 £90,000 -2.53% 660
North of England +14 1,143 £77,500 - 151
South East +1 911 £75,000 -9.64% 357
Midlands -3 686 £75,000 - 112
North West +8 613 £74,271 +2.44% 86
South West -8 511 £75,000 +3.45% 81
Yorkshire +24 461 £79,932 -0.09% 46
West Midlands +22 432 £77,500 +3.33% 65
East Midlands -21 247 £67,500 -6.90% 43
East of England -23 185 £80,000 -3.03% 67
North East +13 69 £79,842 -6.07% 19
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 1,618 (29.81%) Azure
2 1,404 (25.87%) Agile
3 1,339 (24.67%) Social Skills
4 1,218 (22.44%) Finance
5 1,176 (21.67%) Roadmaps
6 1,066 (19.64%) AWS
7 1,062 (19.57%) TOGAF
8 1,007 (18.56%) Microsoft
9 817 (15.05%) Security Cleared
10 720 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
11 703 (12.95%) Enterprise Architecture
12 688 (12.68%) Degree
13 584 (10.76%) Mentoring
14 571 (10.52%) DevOps
15 523 (9.64%) Data Modelling
16 513 (9.45%) Strategic Roadmap
17 511 (9.42%) GCP
18 506 (9.32%) Actionable Insight
19 496 (9.14%) SC Cleared
20 494 (9.10%) Data Architecture
21 482 (8.88%) Data Management
22 476 (8.77%) Oracle
23 475 (8.75%) ERP
24 462 (8.51%) SAP
25 451 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
26 434 (8.00%) Presales
27 430 (7.92%) Migration
28 412 (7.59%) Technical Architecture
29 407 (7.50%) Analytics
30 379 (6.98%) Change Management

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 (5.53%) SAS
2 94 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 66 (1.22%) Apache
5 57 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 46 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.64%) WebLogic
8 23 (0.42%) CMS
9 15 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 13 (0.24%) IIS
11 10 (0.18%) 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 (0.092%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.074%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.074%) ArcGIS
16 3 (0.055%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.24%) Simulink
5 11 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.055%) Revit
7 2 (0.037%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 317 (5.84%) SAP ERP
2 82 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 78 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 66 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 20 (0.37%) Teamcenter
7 16 (0.29%) Endur
8 12 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 10 (0.18%) 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
13 5 (0.092%) Elite 3E
13 5 (0.092%) SAP WM
14 4 (0.074%) SAP APO
14 4 (0.074%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 1,618 (29.81%) Azure
2 1,066 (19.64%) AWS
3 511 (9.42%) GCP
4 343 (6.32%) SaaS
5 331 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 291 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 277 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
8 186 (3.43%) PaaS
9 163 (3.00%) IaaS
10 134 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (1.95%) Snowflake
12 102 (1.88%) PowerApps
13 88 (1.62%) Power Automate
14 83 (1.53%) Serverless
15 81 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
16 63 (1.16%) dbt
17 43 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 39 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
19 38 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 36 (0.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 309 (5.69%) Broadband
2 228 (4.20%) VSAT
3 182 (3.35%) Firewall
4 168 (3.10%) WAN
5 102 (1.88%) SD-WAN
6 99 (1.82%) VPN
7 97 (1.79%) Network Security
8 87 (1.60%) DNS
9 66 (1.22%) LAN
10 53 (0.98%) BGP
11 50 (0.92%) SSL
12 48 (0.88%) Wireless
13 41 (0.76%) TCP/IP
14 39 (0.72%) Internet
15 37 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
16 31 (0.57%) MPLS
17 26 (0.48%) DHCP
18 25 (0.46%) VLAN
19 22 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
20 21 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
2 190 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 166 (3.06%) Power BI
4 146 (2.69%) Metadata
5 130 (2.40%) BigQuery
6 129 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 126 (2.32%) SQL Server
8 115 (2.12%) Looker
9 110 (2.03%) NoSQL
10 72 (1.33%) Big Data
11 69 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
12 65 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 58 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
14 55 (1.01%) Apache Arrow
14 55 (1.01%) Dremio
15 48 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
16 44 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
17 39 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
18 34 (0.63%) Data Vault
18 34 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (1.22%) Git
2 65 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 46 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 38 (0.70%) GitLab
5 27 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.31%) JIRA
8 10 (0.18%) Maven
9 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.092%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.092%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.092%) MLflow
11 5 (0.092%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.074%) ERwin
12 4 (0.074%) Selenium
12 4 (0.074%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.055%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.055%) Subversion
13 3 (0.055%) TestNG
General
1 1,339 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 1,218 (22.44%) Finance
3 451 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 321 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 282 (5.20%) Banking
6 276 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 275 (5.07%) Retail
8 196 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 111 (2.05%) Marketing
10 95 (1.75%) Legal
11 94 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 87 (1.60%) Manufacturing
13 77 (1.42%) Law
14 73 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 67 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 65 (1.20%) Aerospace
17 62 (1.14%) Front Office
18 51 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 44 (0.81%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.66%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (4.88%) .NET
2 82 (1.51%) Middleware
3 72 (1.33%) Kafka
4 61 (1.12%) Web Services
5 57 (1.05%) Spring Boot
6 56 (1.03%) gRPC
6 56 (1.03%) HTML
6 56 (1.03%) Protocol Buffers
7 55 (1.01%) REST
8 52 (0.96%) NumPy
8 52 (0.96%) Pandas
8 52 (0.96%) SciPy
9 50 (0.92%) React
10 43 (0.79%) JSON
11 41 (0.76%) XML
12 39 (0.72%) .NET Core
12 39 (0.72%) CSS
13 34 (0.63%) YAML
14 33 (0.61%) .NET Framework
14 33 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 355 (6.54%) Public Cloud
2 234 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 214 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 180 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 163 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 119 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 97 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 97 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.77%) PKI
9 72 (1.33%) IoT
10 63 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 61 (1.12%) PMI
12 59 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 57 (1.05%) Equities
14 56 (1.03%) Derivative
14 56 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 55 (1.01%) Fixed Income
15 55 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 55 (1.01%) Hedge funds
16 44 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 274 (5.05%) Linux
2 139 (2.56%) Windows
3 42 (0.77%) Android
3 42 (0.77%) Ubuntu
4 38 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (0.68%) Unix
6 32 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.42%) VMS
9 11 (0.20%) Solaris
10 10 (0.18%) SUSE
10 10 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.15%) VME
13 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.055%) CentOS
15 1 (0.018%) HPUX
15 1 (0.018%) tvOS
15 1 (0.018%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.018%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,404 (25.87%) Agile
2 1,176 (21.67%) Roadmaps
3 1,062 (19.57%) TOGAF
4 720 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
5 703 (12.95%) Enterprise Architecture
6 584 (10.76%) Mentoring
7 571 (10.52%) DevOps
8 523 (9.64%) Data Modelling
9 513 (9.45%) Strategic Roadmap
10 506 (9.32%) Actionable Insight
11 494 (9.10%) Data Architecture
12 482 (8.88%) Data Management
13 475 (8.75%) ERP
14 434 (8.00%) Presales
15 430 (7.92%) Migration
16 412 (7.59%) Technical Architecture
17 407 (7.50%) Analytics
18 379 (6.98%) Change Management
19 378 (6.97%) Microservices
20 363 (6.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 292 (5.38%) SQL
2 284 (5.23%) Python
3 252 (4.64%) Java
4 248 (4.57%) C#
5 221 (4.07%) JavaScript
6 83 (1.53%) PowerShell
7 68 (1.25%) C
8 65 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 50 (0.92%) C++
10 44 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 26 (0.48%) Scala
12 22 (0.41%) R
13 18 (0.33%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.31%) Bicep
15 16 (0.29%) Bash
15 16 (0.29%) Fortran
15 16 (0.29%) Ruby
15 16 (0.29%) VB
16 14 (0.26%) Apex Code
16 14 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 817 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 688 (12.68%) Degree
3 496 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 229 (4.22%) Azure Certification
5 184 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 177 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 166 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 161 (2.97%) DV Cleared
9 158 (2.91%) CISSP
10 152 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
11 114 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 86 (1.58%) CISM
13 84 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
14 83 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 79 (1.46%) Master's Degree
16 68 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 67 (1.23%) CCNP
18 64 (1.18%) PMI Certification
19 61 (1.12%) CCSP
20 58 (1.07%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 172 (3.17%) GDPR
3 97 (1.79%) NIST
4 73 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (0.98%) QA
6 33 (0.61%) SLA
7 32 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 30 (0.55%) COBIT
8 30 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.20%) NCSC
11 11 (0.20%) PMO
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 3 (0.055%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.055%) SOC 2
System Software
1 162 (2.99%) Docker
2 97 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (0.55%) vSphere
5 21 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
7 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.18%) KVM
8 10 (0.18%) vCloud
9 9 (0.17%) Firmware
10 4 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.055%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.037%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.018%) HDFS
13 1 (0.018%) LXC
13 1 (0.018%) Xen
Systems Management
1 237 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 180 (3.32%) Terraform
3 77 (1.42%) Ansible
4 44 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 38 (0.70%) Puppet
6 27 (0.50%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.39%) OpenView
8 17 (0.31%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.29%) CASB
10 12 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.17%) Grafana
11 9 (0.17%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.15%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.11%) Endace
13 6 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.11%) Kibana
14 5 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.092%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,007 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 476 (8.77%) Oracle
3 462 (8.51%) SAP
4 325 (5.99%) Google
5 301 (5.55%) Anaplan
6 299 (5.51%) Hyperion
7 146 (2.69%) Cisco
8 117 (2.16%) Databricks
9 110 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 108 (1.99%) Salesforce
11 81 (1.49%) Sparx
12 74 (1.36%) Juniper
12 74 (1.36%) VMware
13 58 (1.07%) Apple
14 56 (1.03%) Adobe
15 54 (1.00%) Citrix
16 48 (0.88%) Meraki
17 44 (0.81%) IBM
18 38 (0.70%) HP
19 28 (0.52%) BMC