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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 32 36
Rank change year-on-year -37 +4 +23
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,215 2,581 2,010
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.42% 5.41% 6.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.80% 5.69% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 765 1,583 1,084
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,150 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -0.53% -2.51%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £97,212
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 31,957 45,324 29,491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 95.00% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 19,741 24,554 22,230
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £40,000 £37,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,038 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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
South East -25 340 £77,500 - 1,027
North of England -59 293 £79,500 +6.00% 274
Midlands -19 236 £78,750 +5.00% 178
North West -66 150 £80,000 +6.67% 178
West Midlands -15 148 £75,750 -2.26% 94
South West -22 144 £80,000 +6.67% 191
Yorkshire -32 99 £80,000 +6.67% 74
East Midlands -8 85 £80,000 +14.29% 71
East of England -28 81 £87,500 +2.94% 124
Scotland -48 73 £80,000 - 99
North East -17 43 £75,000 -0.20% 22
Wales -16 29 £75,000 +36.36% 37
Northern Ireland -9 24 £75,000 -6.25% 20
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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.

1 356 (29.30%) Azure
2 243 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 229 (18.85%) AWS
4 226 (18.60%) Roadmaps
5 225 (18.52%) Agile
6 194 (15.97%) TOGAF
7 188 (15.47%) Microsoft
8 187 (15.39%) Enterprise Architecture
9 172 (14.16%) Mentoring
10 163 (13.42%) DevOps
11 158 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 156 (12.84%) SC Cleared
13 144 (11.85%) Analytics
14 132 (10.86%) AI
15 131 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
16 124 (10.21%) Data Modelling
17 123 (10.12%) GCP
17 123 (10.12%) Python
18 121 (9.96%) Degree
19 111 (9.14%) DV Cleared
19 111 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
20 110 (9.05%) SaaS
21 108 (8.89%) Data Architecture
22 104 (8.56%) Business Strategy
23 103 (8.48%) Migration
24 98 (8.07%) Architectural Design
24 98 (8.07%) CI/CD
25 97 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
26 96 (7.90%) Technical Leadership
27 94 (7.74%) Project Management

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 (1.56%) CMS
2 13 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.91%) Appian
4 10 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.49%) Apache
7 3 (0.25%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.082%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.082%) JBoss
8 1 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.082%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.082%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.082%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 61 (5.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (4.03%) SAP MDG
3 37 (3.05%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.41%) Shopify
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.16%) Maximo
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.082%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.082%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.082%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.082%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 356 (29.30%) Azure
2 229 (18.85%) AWS
3 123 (10.12%) GCP
4 110 (9.05%) SaaS
5 72 (5.93%) PaaS
6 59 (4.86%) IaaS
7 57 (4.69%) Power Platform
8 43 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 41 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (2.96%) OCI
11 34 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
12 30 (2.47%) Serverless
13 29 (2.39%) Snowflake
14 24 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
14 24 (1.98%) Entra ID
15 17 (1.40%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.32%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
17 15 (1.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.62%) WAN
2 43 (3.54%) VPN
3 41 (3.37%) Firewall
4 37 (3.05%) Network Security
5 32 (2.63%) LAN
6 19 (1.56%) DNS
7 18 (1.48%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.40%) Broadband
9 15 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.07%) Junos
11 10 (0.82%) ATM
11 10 (0.82%) Frame Relay
11 10 (0.82%) SDH
12 8 (0.66%) VoIP
13 6 (0.49%) BGP
14 5 (0.41%) SSL
15 4 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (0.33%) Ethernet
15 4 (0.33%) OSPF
15 4 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (2.55%) Metadata
3 28 (2.30%) Power BI
4 23 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 22 (1.81%) BigQuery
6 20 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.40%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.15%) MySQL
9 8 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.58%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.49%) Airbyte
11 6 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.49%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.41%) Big Data
12 5 (0.41%) Data Vault
12 5 (0.41%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (1.81%) Git
1 22 (1.81%) GitLab
1 22 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.23%) SonarQube
3 13 (1.07%) MSI
4 11 (0.91%) Robot Framework
4 11 (0.91%) Selenium
4 11 (0.91%) Snyk
5 10 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.58%) JIRA
6 7 (0.58%) MSBuild
6 7 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.25%) ERwin
8 1 (0.082%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.082%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 313 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 154 (12.67%) Finance
3 145 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (7.00%) Marketing
5 77 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 69 (5.68%) Law
7 62 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (4.03%) Legal
9 34 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.22%) Retail
12 24 (1.98%) Banking
12 24 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.40%) Electronics
14 16 (1.32%) Games
15 14 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.91%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.74%) Advertising
18 9 (0.74%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.80%) REST
2 32 (2.63%) .NET
3 29 (2.39%) Kafka
4 28 (2.30%) Middleware
5 22 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
5 22 (1.81%) React
6 21 (1.73%) Node.js
6 21 (1.73%) SOAP
7 20 (1.65%) Django
8 19 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
9 15 (1.23%) Visualforce
10 11 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (0.91%) gRPC
10 11 (0.91%) Web Services
11 10 (0.82%) XML
12 9 (0.74%) CSS
12 9 (0.74%) HTML
13 8 (0.66%) ASP.NET
13 8 (0.66%) JSON
14 7 (0.58%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 35 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.39%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.23%) NHS
9 14 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.07%) Low-Code
10 13 (1.07%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 12 (0.99%) IoT
12 11 (0.91%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.58%) Reference Data
14 6 (0.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.14%) Windows
2 19 (1.56%) Linux
3 4 (0.33%) AIX
4 3 (0.25%) Android
5 2 (0.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.082%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.082%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.082%) VMS
6 1 (0.082%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (18.60%) Roadmaps
2 225 (18.52%) Agile
3 194 (15.97%) TOGAF
4 187 (15.39%) Enterprise Architecture
5 172 (14.16%) Mentoring
6 163 (13.42%) DevOps
7 158 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 144 (11.85%) Analytics
9 132 (10.86%) AI
10 131 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
11 124 (10.21%) Data Modelling
12 111 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 108 (8.89%) Data Architecture
14 104 (8.56%) Business Strategy
15 103 (8.48%) Migration
16 98 (8.07%) Architectural Design
16 98 (8.07%) CI/CD
17 97 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
18 96 (7.90%) Technical Leadership
19 94 (7.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (10.12%) Python
2 76 (6.26%) SQL
3 71 (5.84%) C#
4 62 (5.10%) Java
5 35 (2.88%) PowerShell
6 24 (1.98%) C++
6 24 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.89%) Bicep
7 23 (1.89%) Go
8 19 (1.56%) Apex Code
9 17 (1.40%) SOQL
10 15 (1.23%) SOSL
10 15 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.74%) PHP
12 3 (0.25%) ABAP
12 3 (0.25%) Bash
12 3 (0.25%) C
12 3 (0.25%) R
12 3 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 243 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 156 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 121 (9.96%) Degree
4 111 (9.14%) DV Cleared
5 75 (6.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 61 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 54 (4.44%) Azure Certification
8 46 (3.79%) AWS Certification
9 38 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 38 (3.13%) CISSP
9 38 (3.13%) DBS Check
10 36 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (2.55%) CISM
13 24 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 23 (1.89%) CCNP
14 23 (1.89%) Chartered Engineer
15 19 (1.56%) CCNA
16 13 (1.07%) JNCIA
17 7 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.63%) GDPR
3 32 (2.63%) NIST
4 26 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.14%) GRC
5 23 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 22 (1.81%) NCSC
7 15 (1.23%) QA
8 12 (0.99%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.66%) SLA
10 4 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.33%) SEPA
10 4 (0.33%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.25%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.082%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 37 (3.05%) Docker
2 28 (2.30%) Firmware
3 21 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.66%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.96%) Terraform
3 20 (1.65%) Ansible
4 17 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.15%) WMI
6 7 (0.58%) Endace
7 3 (0.25%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.16%) VxRail
9 1 (0.082%) Argo
9 1 (0.082%) Netcool
9 1 (0.082%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.082%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 188 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.16%) SAP
3 51 (4.20%) Oracle
4 50 (4.12%) Google
5 37 (3.05%) OpenText
5 37 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 33 (2.72%) Cisco
6 33 (2.72%) Databricks
7 29 (2.39%) Juniper
8 24 (1.98%) VMware
9 23 (1.89%) Adobe
10 22 (1.81%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.65%) Splunk
11 20 (1.65%) Workday
12 18 (1.48%) Apple
13 17 (1.40%) BiZZdesign
14 16 (1.32%) Meraki
15 13 (1.07%) Ariba
16 12 (0.99%) UiPath
17 11 (0.91%) Black Duck