Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 90 40
Rank change year-on-year +57 -50 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,782 1,126 3,594
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.93% 3.36% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.15% 3.76% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,069 791 2,371
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 66,980 29,954 70,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.39% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 46,383 17,034 49,843
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,214 £64,623
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 2026. 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 +84 956 £80,000 +6.67% 154
North West +93 556 £85,000 +13.33% 94
South East +17 468 £85,000 +9.68% 181
South West +44 407 £80,000 -4.48% 92
Midlands +17 397 £80,000 +10.34% 76
West Midlands +20 315 £82,500 +10.00% 61
Yorkshire +34 244 £80,000 - 33
East of England +51 176 £77,500 +12.73% 44
Scotland +42 170 £90,000 +12.50% 48
North East +12 156 £80,000 +23.08% 27
Wales +33 147 £80,000 +15.30% 19
East Midlands -16 81 £60,000 -11.11% 15
Northern Ireland -20 71 £74,830 -13.24% 10
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 July 2026, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 550 (19.77%) Azure
2 392 (14.09%) Microsoft
3 390 (14.02%) Security Cleared
4 345 (12.40%) Roadmaps
5 331 (11.90%) AWS
6 305 (10.96%) AI
7 266 (9.56%) Agile
8 261 (9.38%) Enterprise Architecture
9 254 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
10 245 (8.81%) TOGAF
11 241 (8.66%) SC Cleared
12 196 (7.05%) CI/CD
13 191 (6.87%) Data Architecture
14 181 (6.51%) DevOps
15 177 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
16 176 (6.33%) Data Modelling
17 175 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
18 170 (6.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 163 (5.86%) DV Cleared
20 158 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
21 155 (5.57%) Power Platform
22 153 (5.50%) Analytics
23 152 (5.46%) Technology Strategy
24 150 (5.39%) Technical Architecture
25 144 (5.18%) Stakeholder Management
26 137 (4.92%) IT Strategy
27 133 (4.78%) Security Architecture
28 131 (4.71%) Decision-Making
29 127 (4.57%) Cloud Security
30 126 (4.53%) Data Governance

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.25%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.25%) Confluence
4 6 (0.22%) CMS
5 5 (0.18%) Apache
5 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.036%) Camunda
9 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.036%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Revit
2 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.22%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.072%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.072%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.072%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.072%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.072%) Simulink
4 2 (0.072%) Windchill
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.036%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 4 (0.14%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.072%) Oracle Utilities
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.036%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.036%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.036%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.036%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 550 (19.77%) Azure
2 331 (11.90%) AWS
3 155 (5.57%) Power Platform
4 109 (3.92%) GCP
5 88 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
6 87 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 84 (3.02%) SaaS
8 62 (2.23%) Serverless
9 40 (1.44%) Entra ID
10 38 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
11 37 (1.33%) PaaS
12 32 (1.15%) IaaS
13 30 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (1.08%) dbt
14 29 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 29 (1.04%) Snowflake
15 22 (0.79%) GitHub
16 14 (0.50%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.73%) WAN
2 63 (2.26%) Firewall
3 53 (1.91%) Network Security
4 52 (1.87%) LAN
5 51 (1.83%) Broadband
6 45 (1.62%) VPN
7 42 (1.51%) DNS
8 24 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.79%) BGP
10 20 (0.72%) MPLS
11 19 (0.68%) SNMP
12 16 (0.58%) HTTP
13 15 (0.54%) VLAN
14 12 (0.43%) SSL
15 11 (0.40%) DHCP
15 11 (0.40%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.36%) FTP
16 10 (0.36%) ICMP
16 10 (0.36%) IPsec
16 10 (0.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (2.23%) Metadata
2 36 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 30 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.01%) Power BI
5 22 (0.79%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.54%) GIS
8 10 (0.36%) Tableau
9 9 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.18%) Big Data
12 5 (0.18%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.18%) MySQL
13 4 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 46 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.33%) GitLab
3 34 (1.22%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.79%) Snyk
5 6 (0.22%) JIRA
6 5 (0.18%) Toad
6 5 (0.18%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.11%) Git
7 3 (0.11%) MLflow
8 2 (0.072%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.072%) ERwin
8 2 (0.072%) JMeter
8 2 (0.072%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.072%) Postman
8 2 (0.072%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.072%) Selenium
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle Forms
General
1 336 (12.08%) Social Skills
2 312 (11.21%) Finance
3 216 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 150 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (2.26%) Marketing
8 53 (1.91%) Retail
9 52 (1.87%) Games
9 52 (1.87%) Law
10 48 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 25 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 22 (0.79%) Banking
14 21 (0.75%) Legal
15 20 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.43%) Automotive
16 12 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.43%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.40%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (2.37%) REST
2 55 (1.98%) SOAP
3 45 (1.62%) Lightning Web Components
4 42 (1.51%) .NET
5 36 (1.29%) Middleware
6 34 (1.22%) Visualforce
7 27 (0.97%) OAuth
8 23 (0.83%) Node.js
9 22 (0.79%) Kafka
10 21 (0.75%) SAML
11 18 (0.65%) LDAP
11 18 (0.65%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.61%) XML
13 16 (0.58%) JSON
13 16 (0.58%) XMPP
14 11 (0.40%) OpenID
15 10 (0.36%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.36%) NestJS
15 10 (0.36%) RESTful
15 10 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 123 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 76 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 66 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 41 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.33%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.19%) Cyberattack
8 33 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (0.90%) PKI
11 24 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 21 (0.75%) Onboarding
13 19 (0.68%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.61%) Management Information System
15 15 (0.54%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.54%) NHS
16 13 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
18 10 (0.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.83%) Windows
2 44 (1.58%) Linux
3 40 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.036%) AIX
5 1 (0.036%) CentOS
5 1 (0.036%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.036%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (12.40%) Roadmaps
2 305 (10.96%) AI
3 266 (9.56%) Agile
4 261 (9.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 254 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
6 245 (8.81%) TOGAF
7 196 (7.05%) CI/CD
8 191 (6.87%) Data Architecture
9 181 (6.51%) DevOps
10 177 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
11 176 (6.33%) Data Modelling
12 175 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
13 170 (6.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 158 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 153 (5.50%) Analytics
16 152 (5.46%) Technology Strategy
17 150 (5.39%) Technical Architecture
18 144 (5.18%) Stakeholder Management
19 137 (4.92%) IT Strategy
20 133 (4.78%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 93 (3.34%) SQL
2 86 (3.09%) Python
3 42 (1.51%) C#
4 38 (1.37%) Apex Code
5 35 (1.26%) JavaScript
5 35 (1.26%) SOQL
6 34 (1.22%) Java
6 34 (1.22%) SOSL
7 25 (0.90%) Bicep
8 16 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.40%) C
9 11 (0.40%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.36%) C++
11 6 (0.22%) Bash
11 6 (0.22%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.22%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.18%) COBOL
12 5 (0.18%) Ruby
13 4 (0.14%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 390 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 241 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 163 (5.86%) DV Cleared
4 102 (3.67%) Degree
5 50 (1.80%) CISSP
6 49 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 38 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 26 (0.93%) CISM
12 22 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (0.68%) CCSP
14 16 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.47%) CCNP
17 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.32%) ICAEW
19 7 (0.25%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.52%) NIST
3 60 (2.16%) GRC
4 59 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.65%) GDPR
6 35 (1.26%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.86%) QA
8 23 (0.83%) NCSC
9 14 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.18%) WCAG
16 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
17 3 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 76 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (0.83%) vSphere
4 21 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.68%) Docker
6 11 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.29%) Firmware
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.036%) GPFS
9 1 (0.036%) Lustre
9 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.036%) vCloud
9 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (1.76%) Terraform
2 43 (1.55%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.58%) MOM
3 16 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.36%) CASB
4 10 (0.36%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.25%) Ansible
7 6 (0.22%) Endace
7 6 (0.22%) vRealize
8 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.072%) Grafana
10 1 (0.036%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.036%) Netcool
10 1 (0.036%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.036%) SCCM
Vendors
1 392 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.98%) Databricks
3 72 (2.59%) SAP
4 65 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 55 (1.98%) VMware
6 50 (1.80%) Cisco
7 40 (1.44%) Oracle
8 39 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.29%) Splunk
10 33 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.97%) Google
12 22 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.79%) Tenable
13 17 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.58%) Juniper
15 15 (0.54%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.50%) Computacenter
17 12 (0.43%) McAfee
18 10 (0.36%) Citrix
19 9 (0.32%) Avaya