Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 August 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 90 33
Rank change year-on-year +59 -57 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,381 1,104 3,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.23% 3.17% 5.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.49% 3.54% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 696 2,062
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £64,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £89,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 75,287 31,184 57,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 89.41% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 52,249 17,984 36,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +96 1,149 £80,000 +6.67% 391
North West +107 632 £80,000 - 225
South East +17 591 £85,000 +9.68% 386
South West +51 493 £80,000 -5.88% 220
Midlands +32 489 £82,500 +10.00% 184
West Midlands +31 393 £85,000 +13.33% 120
Yorkshire +54 324 £80,000 +6.67% 122
East of England +54 215 £80,150 +3.42% 114
North East +9 193 £85,000 +30.77% 44
Scotland +62 184 £85,000 +6.25% 160
Wales +24 161 £80,000 +11.89% 25
Northern Ireland -14 112 £80,000 -3.38% 70
East Midlands -1 96 £62,500 -16.11% 64
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 August 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.

1 624 (18.46%) Azure
2 489 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 479 (14.17%) Microsoft
4 427 (12.63%) Roadmaps
5 425 (12.57%) AI
6 393 (11.62%) AWS
7 297 (8.78%) Enterprise Architecture
8 289 (8.55%) Agile
9 288 (8.52%) SC Cleared
10 268 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
11 266 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
12 239 (7.07%) Data Architecture
13 238 (7.04%) TOGAF
14 227 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
15 225 (6.65%) Technical Architecture
16 222 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 216 (6.39%) CI/CD
18 208 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 205 (6.06%) Decision-Making
20 199 (5.89%) DV Cleared
21 195 (5.77%) Data Modelling
22 193 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
23 182 (5.38%) Technology Strategy
24 180 (5.32%) Business Strategy
25 175 (5.18%) DevOps
26 174 (5.15%) Microservices
26 174 (5.15%) Power Platform
27 172 (5.09%) Analytics
28 169 (5.00%) Security Architecture
29 168 (4.97%) Mentoring

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 19 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.27%) Apache
3 7 (0.21%) CMS
3 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.15%) Confluence
4 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.030%) JBoss
8 1 (0.030%) SAS
8 1 (0.030%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.030%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.30%) Revit
2 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.059%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.059%) Simulink
6 2 (0.059%) Weka
6 2 (0.059%) Windchill
7 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.030%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 42 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.089%) Lawson
6 3 (0.089%) Movex
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.089%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.059%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.059%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 624 (18.46%) Azure
2 393 (11.62%) AWS
3 174 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 131 (3.87%) SaaS
5 126 (3.73%) GCP
6 122 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.89%) Serverless
10 55 (1.63%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.24%) dbt
11 42 (1.24%) PaaS
12 40 (1.18%) IaaS
13 22 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (0.59%) GitHub
15 19 (0.56%) Amazon S3
16 18 (0.53%) iPaaS
16 18 (0.53%) Snowflake
17 17 (0.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.11%) WAN
2 87 (2.57%) LAN
3 68 (2.01%) Network Security
4 66 (1.95%) Firewall
5 46 (1.36%) VPN
6 40 (1.18%) DNS
7 29 (0.86%) Broadband
8 27 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.56%) MPLS
10 16 (0.47%) BGP
11 15 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.44%) VLAN
12 13 (0.38%) HTTP
12 13 (0.38%) SNMP
13 12 (0.35%) Wireless
14 11 (0.33%) DHCP
15 10 (0.30%) ICMP
15 10 (0.30%) IPsec
15 10 (0.30%) SSH
15 10 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (2.22%) Metadata
2 39 (1.15%) Power BI
3 37 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 31 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.35%) GIS
8 10 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (0.30%) Tableau
9 8 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.18%) MySQL
12 5 (0.15%) Big Data
12 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.15%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 27 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.65%) Snyk
3 20 (0.59%) GitLab
4 14 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.30%) JIRA
6 5 (0.15%) Git
6 5 (0.15%) MLflow
6 5 (0.15%) Toad
6 5 (0.15%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.089%) ERwin
8 2 (0.059%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.059%) JMeter
8 2 (0.059%) Postman
8 2 (0.059%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.059%) Selenium
9 1 (0.030%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.030%) Flyway
9 1 (0.030%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle Forms
General
1 468 (13.84%) Finance
2 434 (12.84%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 191 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.75%) Law
10 45 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.33%) Marketing
10 45 (1.33%) Retail
11 41 (1.21%) Banking
12 32 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 29 (0.86%) Games
13 29 (0.86%) Legal
14 18 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.47%) Military
17 13 (0.38%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.72%) Terraform
2 56 (1.66%) .NET
3 49 (1.45%) REST
4 48 (1.42%) Middleware
5 38 (1.12%) SOAP
6 37 (1.09%) OAuth
7 35 (1.04%) LDAP
8 31 (0.92%) SAML
9 30 (0.89%) Node.js
10 25 (0.74%) Kafka
11 24 (0.71%) ModSecurity
12 22 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (0.56%) OpenID
14 18 (0.53%) Regular Expression
15 17 (0.50%) XML
16 16 (0.47%) JSON
16 16 (0.47%) XMPP
17 14 (0.41%) Visualforce
18 11 (0.33%) PySpark
19 10 (0.30%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 165 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.48%) Data Centre
3 52 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (1.51%) Product Ownership
5 47 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.01%) Operational Technology
9 33 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 33 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 30 (0.89%) Cyberattack
11 27 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 22 (0.65%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.62%) Management Information System
13 21 (0.62%) Private Cloud
13 21 (0.62%) Social Media
14 18 (0.53%) AI Agents
15 17 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 16 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
17 15 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.48%) Linux
2 41 (1.21%) Windows
3 31 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.030%) AIX
5 1 (0.030%) CentOS
5 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.030%) Solaris
5 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (12.63%) Roadmaps
2 425 (12.57%) AI
3 297 (8.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 289 (8.55%) Agile
5 268 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
6 266 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
7 239 (7.07%) Data Architecture
8 238 (7.04%) TOGAF
9 227 (6.71%) Problem-Solving
10 225 (6.65%) Technical Architecture
11 222 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 216 (6.39%) CI/CD
13 208 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 205 (6.06%) Decision-Making
15 195 (5.77%) Data Modelling
16 193 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 182 (5.38%) Technology Strategy
18 180 (5.32%) Business Strategy
19 175 (5.18%) DevOps
20 174 (5.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 98 (2.90%) SQL
2 96 (2.84%) Python
3 65 (1.92%) C#
4 52 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.09%) Java
6 26 (0.77%) Bicep
7 17 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 16 (0.47%) C
9 15 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.41%) SOQL
10 14 (0.41%) SOSL
11 12 (0.35%) C++
12 8 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.24%) Scala
13 6 (0.18%) COBOL
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.18%) Go
13 6 (0.18%) R
13 6 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 489 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 288 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 199 (5.89%) DV Cleared
4 117 (3.46%) Degree
5 64 (1.89%) CISSP
6 56 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 50 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 43 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (1.15%) CISM
11 37 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 27 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.47%) CCNP
16 15 (0.44%) CCSP
17 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.27%) ICAEW
19 8 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.02%) NIST
2 97 (2.87%) GRC
3 96 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 68 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.66%) GDPR
6 44 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.65%) NCSC
8 17 (0.50%) QA
9 13 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.15%) MISRA
15 5 (0.15%) SLA
16 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (0.77%) Docker
3 26 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (0.77%) vSphere
4 15 (0.44%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.15%) NDS
7 3 (0.089%) KVM
8 1 (0.030%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.030%) vCloud
8 1 (0.030%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.47%) MOM
4 12 (0.35%) CASB
5 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.15%) Ansible
8 3 (0.089%) Grafana
9 2 (0.059%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.059%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.059%) SCCM
9 2 (0.059%) vRealize
10 1 (0.030%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.030%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 479 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.57%) SAP
3 82 (2.43%) Databricks
4 60 (1.77%) VMware
5 55 (1.63%) Oracle
6 47 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 43 (1.27%) Cisco
8 41 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 41 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 30 (0.89%) Google
10 24 (0.71%) Workday
11 23 (0.68%) Computacenter
12 22 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 22 (0.65%) Tenable
13 20 (0.59%) Okta
13 20 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 18 (0.53%) Adobe
16 16 (0.47%) Splunk