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 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 90 49
Rank change year-on-year +38 -41 +11
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,352 1,017 3,232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.53% 3.47% 4.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.77% 3.88% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,719 743 2,104
10th Percentile £55,544 £59,168 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,375 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,750 £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 62,398 26,179 65,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 89.37% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 41,327 14,433 47,853
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +70 777 £85,000 +18.07% 175
North West +82 440 £90,000 +28.57% 96
South East +15 406 £85,000 +6.25% 190
Midlands +7 363 £80,000 +14.29% 88
South West +55 331 £77,500 -3.13% 94
West Midlands +2 275 £80,000 +10.34% 58
Yorkshire +27 226 £80,000 - 47
East of England +58 202 £83,500 +26.13% 61
Scotland +29 157 £90,000 +12.50% 41
North East +10 111 £80,000 +23.08% 34
Wales +20 91 £80,000 +18.29% 45
East Midlands +1 86 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Northern Ireland -18 33 £55,000 -36.23% 9
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 443 (18.84%) Azure
2 308 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 257 (10.93%) AWS
4 254 (10.80%) Microsoft
5 238 (10.12%) Roadmaps
6 229 (9.74%) Agile
7 211 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
8 203 (8.63%) TOGAF
9 191 (8.12%) AI
10 185 (7.87%) SC Cleared
11 180 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
12 171 (7.27%) Data Modelling
13 167 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
14 156 (6.63%) DevOps
15 153 (6.51%) Data Architecture
16 144 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 137 (5.82%) CI/CD
18 135 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 126 (5.36%) Analytics
20 123 (5.23%) Data Governance
20 123 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
21 118 (5.02%) Degree
22 116 (4.93%) IT Strategy
23 115 (4.89%) Technology Strategy
24 114 (4.85%) Power Platform
24 114 (4.85%) Security Architecture
25 113 (4.80%) DV Cleared
26 111 (4.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 109 (4.63%) Architectural Design
28 108 (4.59%) Migration

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 (0.81%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.55%) Confluence
3 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.30%) Apache
6 6 (0.26%) CMS
7 5 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) SAS
9 2 (0.085%) JBoss
9 2 (0.085%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.043%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.043%) Camunda
10 1 (0.043%) IIS
10 1 (0.043%) Strapi
10 1 (0.043%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.13%) Revit
3 2 (0.085%) ArchiCAD
4 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.043%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.043%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.043%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 6 (0.26%) SAP CAR
4 6 (0.26%) SAP Retail
4 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.043%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.043%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.043%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.043%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.043%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 443 (18.84%) Azure
2 257 (10.93%) AWS
3 114 (4.85%) Power Platform
4 92 (3.91%) GCP
5 84 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
6 69 (2.93%) SaaS
7 60 (2.55%) Serverless
8 57 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (1.66%) PaaS
11 34 (1.45%) IaaS
12 33 (1.40%) Snowflake
13 32 (1.36%) Entra ID
14 27 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (0.64%) GitHub
16 13 (0.55%) iPaaS
17 11 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
18 8 (0.34%) Amazon S3
19 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
19 7 (0.30%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.51%) Firewall
2 58 (2.47%) Broadband
3 40 (1.70%) Network Security
4 31 (1.32%) VPN
5 27 (1.15%) WAN
6 25 (1.06%) DNS
7 14 (0.60%) LAN
8 11 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.43%) BGP
9 10 (0.43%) MPLS
10 9 (0.38%) Internet
10 9 (0.38%) NetScaler
11 8 (0.34%) SAN
11 8 (0.34%) SNMP
12 7 (0.30%) HTTP
13 6 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.26%) NAS
13 6 (0.26%) Wireshark
14 5 (0.21%) SSL
14 5 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (2.47%) Metadata
2 39 (1.66%) Power BI
3 31 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.02%) Tableau
6 21 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 14 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 12 (0.51%) GIS
9 11 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.38%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.26%) Big Data
12 6 (0.26%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.17%) DB2
13 4 (0.17%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.13%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 41 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.53%) GitLab
3 34 (1.45%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.94%) Snyk
5 11 (0.47%) JIRA
6 5 (0.21%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.17%) Toad
8 3 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.085%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.085%) Git
9 2 (0.085%) JMeter
9 2 (0.085%) MLflow
9 2 (0.085%) Postman
9 2 (0.085%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.085%) Selenium
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle APEX
General
1 260 (11.05%) Social Skills
2 241 (10.25%) Finance
3 181 (7.70%) Public Sector
4 121 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (3.02%) Games
7 67 (2.85%) Marketing
8 58 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
9 51 (2.17%) Retail
10 32 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 25 (1.06%) Law
12 25 (1.06%) Legal
13 20 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.64%) Banking
15 13 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 13 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.38%) Electronics
17 8 (0.34%) Local Government
17 8 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.59%) REST
2 55 (2.34%) SOAP
3 44 (1.87%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (1.74%) Middleware
5 39 (1.66%) .NET
6 34 (1.45%) Visualforce
7 21 (0.89%) XML
8 20 (0.85%) Kafka
9 18 (0.77%) JSON
10 17 (0.72%) Node.js
11 16 (0.68%) OAuth
12 14 (0.60%) LDAP
12 14 (0.60%) Regular Expression
13 12 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (0.51%) XMPP
14 10 (0.43%) NestJS
14 10 (0.43%) OpenID
14 10 (0.43%) SAML
15 8 (0.34%) JWT
15 8 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 67 (2.85%) Data Centre
3 59 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 52 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (1.40%) Cyberattack
6 33 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 33 (1.40%) Operational Technology
7 26 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (1.06%) PKI
9 24 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 19 (0.81%) Management Information System
11 17 (0.72%) NHS
12 16 (0.68%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.60%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.55%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.47%) IoT
15 11 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.17%) Windows
2 37 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 34 (1.45%) Linux
4 16 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.043%) AIX
5 1 (0.043%) CentOS
5 1 (0.043%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (10.12%) Roadmaps
2 229 (9.74%) Agile
3 211 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
4 203 (8.63%) TOGAF
5 191 (8.12%) AI
6 180 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
7 171 (7.27%) Data Modelling
8 167 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (6.63%) DevOps
10 153 (6.51%) Data Architecture
11 144 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 137 (5.82%) CI/CD
13 135 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 126 (5.36%) Analytics
15 123 (5.23%) Data Governance
15 123 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
16 116 (4.93%) IT Strategy
17 115 (4.89%) Technology Strategy
18 114 (4.85%) Security Architecture
19 111 (4.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (3.57%) SQL
2 76 (3.23%) Python
3 38 (1.62%) C#
4 37 (1.57%) Apex Code
4 37 (1.57%) Java
5 35 (1.49%) SOQL
6 34 (1.45%) SOSL
7 26 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 17 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 10 (0.43%) Bicep
11 5 (0.21%) Bash
11 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.17%) C
12 4 (0.17%) C++
12 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.17%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.085%) R
13 2 (0.085%) Scala
13 2 (0.085%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 308 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 185 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 118 (5.02%) Degree
4 113 (4.80%) DV Cleared
5 50 (2.13%) CISSP
6 45 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
7 35 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 32 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (1.02%) CISM
11 21 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.81%) PMP
14 18 (0.77%) CCSP
15 13 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.47%) CCNP
17 8 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.12%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.23%) NIST
3 40 (1.70%) GDPR
3 40 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.36%) QA
5 27 (1.15%) GRC
6 19 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 18 (0.77%) NCSC
8 11 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.17%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.17%) WCAG
11 3 (0.13%) IFRS
11 3 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 3 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.085%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.085%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.72%) vSphere
5 13 (0.55%) Docker
6 11 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.043%) GPFS
7 1 (0.043%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.043%) Lustre
7 1 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.043%) vCloud
7 1 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (1.15%) Terraform
2 18 (0.77%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.68%) MOM
4 14 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.38%) Netcool
5 9 (0.38%) vRealize
6 7 (0.30%) Endace
6 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.21%) Ansible
8 4 (0.17%) CASB
9 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.043%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.043%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.043%) Grafana
10 1 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.043%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 254 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 86 (3.66%) Databricks
3 79 (3.36%) SAP
4 68 (2.89%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.08%) VMware
7 38 (1.62%) Oracle
8 36 (1.53%) Splunk
9 29 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 28 (1.19%) Cisco
11 24 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
12 23 (0.98%) Anaplan
13 22 (0.94%) Google
13 22 (0.94%) Tenable
14 21 (0.89%) Palantir
15 18 (0.77%) Genesys
15 18 (0.77%) Juniper
15 18 (0.77%) Verint
16 13 (0.55%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.51%) Sparx