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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 87 39
Rank change year-on-year +53 -48 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,917 1,151 3,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.00% 3.40% 5.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.22% 3.79% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 759 2,162
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £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 69,080 30,398 62,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.71% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,750 17,453 43,175
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,083
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
% change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%

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 24 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 24 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 +89 978 £82,500 +10.00% 241
North West +96 576 £85,000 +13.33% 123
South East +10 492 £85,000 +9.68% 278
South West +44 431 £80,000 -5.88% 126
Midlands +15 417 £80,000 +6.67% 135
West Midlands +21 334 £82,500 +10.00% 101
Yorkshire +34 243 £80,000 +6.67% 74
Scotland +56 180 £90,000 +12.50% 58
East of England +49 174 £80,000 +14.29% 65
North East +13 159 £80,000 +23.08% 45
Wales +34 153 £80,000 +15.30% 22
Northern Ireland -14 103 £74,830 -9.63% 25
East Midlands -23 82 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 587 (20.12%) Azure
2 435 (14.91%) Microsoft
3 421 (14.43%) Security Cleared
4 375 (12.86%) Roadmaps
5 347 (11.90%) AWS
6 333 (11.42%) AI
7 274 (9.39%) SC Cleared
8 272 (9.32%) Agile
9 271 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
10 259 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
11 245 (8.40%) TOGAF
12 201 (6.89%) CI/CD
13 195 (6.68%) Technical Leadership
14 194 (6.65%) Technical Architecture
15 192 (6.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 189 (6.48%) Data Architecture
17 186 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
18 182 (6.24%) DevOps
19 177 (6.07%) Data Modelling
20 169 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
21 165 (5.66%) DV Cleared
22 158 (5.42%) Power Platform
23 156 (5.35%) Business Strategy
24 155 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
25 154 (5.28%) Analytics
26 149 (5.11%) Technology Strategy
27 145 (4.97%) Decision-Making
28 142 (4.87%) Infrastructure as Code
29 138 (4.73%) Security Architecture
30 134 (4.59%) Cloud Security

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 10 (0.34%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.27%) CMS
2 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.21%) Apache
3 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.17%) Confluence
4 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.10%) SAS
7 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.034%) Camunda
8 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.034%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.34%) Revit
2 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.069%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.069%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.069%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.069%) Simulink
5 2 (0.069%) Windchill
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Utilities
8 2 (0.069%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.069%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.069%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 587 (20.12%) Azure
2 347 (11.90%) AWS
3 158 (5.42%) Power Platform
4 102 (3.50%) GCP
5 96 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (3.09%) SaaS
7 89 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
9 63 (2.16%) Serverless
10 49 (1.68%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.44%) dbt
12 37 (1.27%) PaaS
13 34 (1.17%) IaaS
14 29 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (0.93%) Snowflake
16 25 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (0.79%) GitHub
18 16 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.51%) Amazon S3
20 14 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.60%) WAN
2 81 (2.78%) LAN
3 60 (2.06%) Firewall
4 57 (1.95%) Network Security
5 49 (1.68%) Broadband
6 46 (1.58%) VPN
7 41 (1.41%) DNS
8 25 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.75%) BGP
10 21 (0.72%) MPLS
11 19 (0.65%) SNMP
12 17 (0.58%) HTTP
13 15 (0.51%) VLAN
14 13 (0.45%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.38%) DHCP
16 10 (0.34%) FTP
16 10 (0.34%) ICMP
16 10 (0.34%) IPsec
16 10 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.99%) Metadata
2 37 (1.27%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.06%) Power BI
4 26 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.55%) GIS
6 16 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.31%) Tableau
9 8 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.27%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.27%) Data Vault
9 8 (0.27%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.21%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.17%) MySQL
11 5 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (0.14%) Big Data
12 4 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 48 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 38 (1.30%) GitLab
3 34 (1.17%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.75%) Snyk
5 7 (0.24%) JIRA
6 5 (0.17%) Toad
6 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.14%) MLflow
8 3 (0.10%) Git
9 2 (0.069%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.069%) ERwin
9 2 (0.069%) JMeter
9 2 (0.069%) Postman
9 2 (0.069%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.069%) Selenium
10 1 (0.034%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Forms
General
1 378 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 358 (12.27%) Finance
3 217 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 169 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 63 (2.16%) Marketing
9 54 (1.85%) Law
10 49 (1.68%) Games
10 49 (1.68%) Retail
11 35 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 28 (0.96%) Aerospace
13 26 (0.89%) Legal
14 24 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 23 (0.79%) Banking
16 13 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.41%) Advertising
17 12 (0.41%) Automotive
17 12 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.30%) REST
2 55 (1.89%) SOAP
3 45 (1.54%) .NET
4 44 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (1.17%) Middleware
5 34 (1.17%) Visualforce
6 29 (0.99%) OAuth
7 27 (0.93%) Node.js
8 26 (0.89%) LDAP
9 23 (0.79%) Kafka
9 23 (0.79%) SAML
10 18 (0.62%) Regular Expression
11 16 (0.55%) XML
11 16 (0.55%) XMPP
12 15 (0.51%) JSON
13 11 (0.38%) GraphQL
13 11 (0.38%) OpenID
13 11 (0.38%) Spring Boot
14 10 (0.34%) NestJS
15 9 (0.31%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 135 (4.63%) Cloud Native
2 83 (2.85%) Data Centre
3 71 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 45 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (1.20%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 32 (1.10%) Cyberattack
10 26 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 26 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 22 (0.75%) PKI
12 15 (0.51%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.48%) Graphic Design
14 13 (0.45%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.45%) NHS
15 12 (0.41%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.41%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.61%) Windows
2 45 (1.54%) Linux
3 35 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.034%) AIX
5 1 (0.034%) CentOS
5 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (12.86%) Roadmaps
2 333 (11.42%) AI
3 272 (9.32%) Agile
4 271 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 259 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
6 245 (8.40%) TOGAF
7 201 (6.89%) CI/CD
8 195 (6.68%) Technical Leadership
9 194 (6.65%) Technical Architecture
10 192 (6.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 189 (6.48%) Data Architecture
12 186 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
13 182 (6.24%) DevOps
14 177 (6.07%) Data Modelling
15 169 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 156 (5.35%) Business Strategy
17 155 (5.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 154 (5.28%) Analytics
19 149 (5.11%) Technology Strategy
20 145 (4.97%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 91 (3.12%) SQL
2 85 (2.91%) Python
3 45 (1.54%) C#
4 40 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.30%) Apex Code
6 35 (1.20%) SOQL
7 34 (1.17%) SOSL
8 32 (1.10%) Java
9 26 (0.89%) Bicep
10 14 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 14 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.45%) C
12 10 (0.34%) C++
13 6 (0.21%) COBOL
13 6 (0.21%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.21%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.21%) Ruby
14 5 (0.17%) Bash
15 3 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 421 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 274 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 165 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 103 (3.53%) Degree
5 49 (1.68%) CISSP
5 49 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
6 38 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 25 (0.86%) CISM
11 20 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.58%) CCSP
13 17 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.51%) CCNP
15 14 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.31%) ICAEW
16 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.21%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.29%) NIST
3 88 (3.02%) GRC
4 57 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (1.61%) GDPR
6 37 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.86%) NCSC
8 21 (0.72%) QA
9 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.24%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.17%) SLA
14 5 (0.17%) WCAG
15 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 83 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (0.82%) vSphere
4 21 (0.72%) Docker
5 9 (0.31%) Firmware
5 9 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.17%) NDS
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) vCloud
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (1.85%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.82%) Terraform
3 18 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.55%) MOM
5 10 (0.34%) CASB
5 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.24%) Ansible
8 6 (0.21%) Endace
9 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.069%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.069%) Grafana
9 2 (0.069%) vRealize
10 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.034%) SCCM
Vendors
1 435 (14.91%) Microsoft
2 79 (2.71%) Databricks
3 70 (2.40%) SAP
4 66 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 57 (1.95%) VMware
6 51 (1.75%) Cisco
7 41 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 40 (1.37%) Oracle
9 36 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.23%) Splunk
10 22 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.75%) Tenable
11 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.62%) Google
13 17 (0.58%) Computacenter
13 17 (0.58%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.51%) Juniper
15 12 (0.41%) Citrix
15 12 (0.41%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.41%) McAfee