Architect Jobs in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect salary in the South East is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 32 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 -9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 954 921 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.25% 6.76% 4.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.57% 7.52% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 486 431 447
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £85,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 17,122 12,247 20,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.87% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,094 7,910 12,463
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,255 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +0.43% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Thames Valley -11 388 £75,000 -6.25% 53
Hampshire +4 249 £70,000 -6.67% 28
Berkshire -5 215 £75,000 - 31
Buckinghamshire -5 122 £72,500 -12.12% 14
Surrey -35 116 £85,000 - 11
East Sussex +58 68 £90,000 -12.20% 5
Middlesex -6 55 - -
Oxfordshire -2 51 £80,000 -15.79% 8
West Sussex +44 42 £67,500 -25.00% 4
Kent -24 17 £97,500 +30.00%
Sussex - 8 £75,000 - 1
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 277 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 276 (28.93%) Agile
3 265 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 261 (27.36%) Azure
5 194 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (20.13%) Finance
7 189 (19.81%) Microsoft
8 180 (18.87%) Roadmaps
9 175 (18.34%) TOGAF
10 171 (17.92%) SC Cleared
11 164 (17.19%) Degree
11 164 (17.19%) AWS
12 113 (11.84%) Mentoring
13 109 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
14 102 (10.69%) Data Management
15 99 (10.38%) Presales
16 97 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
17 92 (9.64%) Change Management
18 87 (9.12%) Oracle
18 87 (9.12%) Strategic Roadmap
19 85 (8.91%) ERP
20 84 (8.81%) Data Architecture
21 79 (8.28%) Data Modelling
22 77 (8.07%) SAP
23 76 (7.97%) Performance Management
23 76 (7.97%) DevOps
24 75 (7.86%) Anaplan
24 75 (7.86%) SAP ERP
24 75 (7.86%) SAS
24 75 (7.86%) Broadband

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 75 (7.86%) SAS
2 16 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.52%) Drupal
5 4 (0.42%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.31%) WordPress
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.21%) Confluence
8 1 (0.10%) Apache
8 1 (0.10%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (7.86%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.10%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 261 (27.36%) Azure
2 164 (17.19%) AWS
3 71 (7.44%) Power Platform
4 56 (5.87%) GCP
4 56 (5.87%) SaaS
5 39 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.25%) Serverless
7 29 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (3.04%) PowerApps
7 29 (3.04%) Snowflake
8 22 (2.31%) Matillion
9 19 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (1.05%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (0.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 75 (7.86%) Broadband
2 54 (5.66%) Firewall
3 39 (4.09%) WAN
4 36 (3.77%) SD-WAN
5 33 (3.46%) VSAT
6 29 (3.04%) Network Security
7 21 (2.20%) DNS
8 19 (1.99%) Cisco Firepower
8 19 (1.99%) VPN
9 18 (1.89%) BGP
10 14 (1.47%) SSL
10 14 (1.47%) VLAN
10 14 (1.47%) Wireless
11 9 (0.94%) CTI
12 8 (0.84%) OSPF
13 7 (0.73%) Intranet
13 7 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.73%) MPLS
13 7 (0.73%) Multicast
14 5 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (5.45%) Power BI
3 35 (3.67%) Data Lake
4 32 (3.35%) BigQuery
4 32 (3.35%) Looker
5 25 (2.62%) Metadata
6 16 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.94%) SQL Server
11 7 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.63%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.42%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.42%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (2.83%) GitLab
2 26 (2.73%) Visual Studio
3 10 (1.05%) Git
3 10 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.31%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.21%) JIRA
7 1 (0.10%) MSI
General
1 277 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 192 (20.13%) Finance
3 97 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (4.40%) Retail
6 33 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 18 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 16 (1.68%) Billing
9 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 14 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.26%) Marketing
12 10 (1.05%) Publishing
13 9 (0.94%) Law
13 9 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.94%) Police
14 6 (0.63%) Automotive
15 5 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.56%) .NET
2 23 (2.41%) OAuth
2 23 (2.41%) REST
3 17 (1.78%) OpenID
3 17 (1.78%) SAML
4 14 (1.47%) Middleware
5 12 (1.26%) Kafka
5 12 (1.26%) React
6 11 (1.15%) Web Services
7 10 (1.05%) Node.js
8 6 (0.63%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.63%) SOAP
9 4 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.42%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.31%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.31%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.21%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.21%) ADO
11 2 (0.21%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 40 (4.19%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.94%) PMI
6 23 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.20%) PKI
8 21 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.89%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (0.73%) IoT
12 7 (0.73%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.52%) CMDB
14 4 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.42%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.42%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.14%) Linux
2 37 (3.88%) Windows
3 13 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.05%) Unix
5 5 (0.52%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Android
6 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (28.93%) Agile
2 194 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (18.87%) Roadmaps
4 175 (18.34%) TOGAF
5 113 (11.84%) Mentoring
6 109 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
7 102 (10.69%) Data Management
8 99 (10.38%) Presales
9 92 (9.64%) Change Management
10 87 (9.12%) Strategic Roadmap
11 85 (8.91%) ERP
12 84 (8.81%) Data Architecture
13 79 (8.28%) Data Modelling
14 76 (7.97%) DevOps
14 76 (7.97%) Performance Management
15 74 (7.76%) Actionable Insight
16 66 (6.92%) ETL
17 65 (6.81%) Data Security
18 64 (6.71%) Coaching
19 60 (6.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (7.76%) SQL
2 58 (6.08%) C#
3 57 (5.97%) Python
4 48 (5.03%) Java
5 24 (2.52%) PowerShell
6 23 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.31%) T-SQL
8 18 (1.89%) C++
9 17 (1.78%) Fortran
10 14 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.05%) Go
12 8 (0.84%) C
13 4 (0.42%) Scala
14 2 (0.21%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.10%) Gremlin
15 1 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 265 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 171 (17.92%) SC Cleared
3 164 (17.19%) Degree
4 61 (6.39%) DV Cleared
5 36 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.94%) PMI Certification
8 25 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.78%) CCNA
11 17 (1.78%) CCNP
12 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.36%) CISSP
14 9 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.73%) CCSK
16 7 (0.73%) CCSP
17 5 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.18%) GDPR
2 45 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.99%) NIST
4 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 10 (1.05%) QA
6 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.73%) ISO 13485
7 5 (0.52%) COBIT
7 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (3.35%) Docker
2 17 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
3 13 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.10%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 35 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.62%) Terraform
3 10 (1.05%) Stealthwatch
4 6 (0.63%) Endace
5 5 (0.52%) CASB
5 5 (0.52%) Suricata
6 3 (0.31%) Grafana
6 3 (0.31%) OpenView
6 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.10%) Ansible
8 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) WMI
Vendors
1 189 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 87 (9.12%) Oracle
3 77 (8.07%) SAP
4 75 (7.86%) Anaplan
4 75 (7.86%) Hyperion
5 57 (5.97%) Cisco
6 51 (5.35%) Google
7 42 (4.40%) Juniper
8 30 (3.14%) Databricks
9 26 (2.73%) Apple
10 16 (1.68%) Adobe
11 15 (1.57%) Meraki
11 15 (1.57%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.05%) F5
14 9 (0.94%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.73%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.63%) VMware
17 5 (0.52%) Splunk