Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -63 0 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,034 2,769 2,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.03% 5.57% 6.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.38% 5.84% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 638 1,697 1,138
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,000 £63,661
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -1.96% -1.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
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 30,603 47,448 30,841
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.75% 95.39% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,462 26,033 23,096
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.73% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -44 316 £77,500 - 385
North of England -85 246 £77,500 +3.33% 207
Midlands -46 192 £75,000 - 92
North West -91 132 £80,000 +6.67% 131
West Midlands -32 113 £75,000 -3.23% 61
South West -37 110 £80,000 +6.67% 101
Yorkshire -44 82 £79,000 +9.35% 59
East Midlands -24 76 £77,500 +10.71% 28
Scotland -54 71 £80,000 +6.67% 39
East of England -54 64 £83,750 -1.47% 35
North East -21 31 £72,500 -3.85% 19
Northern Ireland -9 19 £74,915 -6.36% 17
Wales -24 19 £74,915 +24.86% 36
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 309 (29.88%) Azure
2 283 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 242 (23.40%) Agile
4 217 (20.99%) AWS
5 214 (20.70%) Security Cleared
6 212 (20.50%) Roadmaps
7 182 (17.60%) TOGAF
8 163 (15.76%) Mentoring
9 159 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
10 155 (14.99%) DevOps
11 146 (14.12%) Microsoft
12 141 (13.64%) Finance
13 140 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 139 (13.44%) SC Cleared
15 133 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
16 112 (10.83%) GCP
17 110 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
18 109 (10.54%) DV Cleared
19 107 (10.35%) Degree
20 105 (10.15%) Python
21 104 (10.06%) AI
22 102 (9.86%) Migration
23 101 (9.77%) Analytics
24 99 (9.57%) SaaS
25 98 (9.48%) CI/CD
26 97 (9.38%) Business Strategy
26 97 (9.38%) Data Modelling
27 96 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
28 95 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
28 95 (9.19%) Technical Leadership

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 22 (2.13%) CMS
2 14 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.06%) Appian
4 10 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.58%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) nginx
8 2 (0.19%) Confluence
8 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.097%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.097%) JBoss
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.097%) SAS
9 1 (0.097%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.097%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.097%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 56 (5.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (4.74%) SAP MDG
3 37 (3.58%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 9 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.48%) Shopify
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.097%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.097%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.097%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 309 (29.88%) Azure
2 217 (20.99%) AWS
3 112 (10.83%) GCP
4 99 (9.57%) SaaS
5 71 (6.87%) PaaS
6 53 (5.13%) IaaS
7 52 (5.03%) Power Platform
8 43 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (3.29%) OCI
10 31 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (2.61%) Serverless
14 24 (2.32%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.74%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.55%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (1.55%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
17 15 (1.45%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.45%) VPN
2 45 (4.35%) WAN
3 43 (4.16%) Firewall
4 40 (3.87%) Network Security
5 32 (3.09%) LAN
6 20 (1.93%) SD-WAN
7 18 (1.74%) DNS
8 17 (1.64%) Broadband
9 16 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.26%) Junos
11 11 (1.06%) SDH
12 10 (0.97%) ATM
12 10 (0.97%) Frame Relay
13 8 (0.77%) VoIP
14 7 (0.68%) BGP
15 5 (0.48%) OSPF
15 5 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
15 5 (0.48%) SSL
16 4 (0.39%) Ethernet
16 4 (0.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (2.42%) Data Lake
2 25 (2.42%) Power BI
3 24 (2.32%) Metadata
4 23 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 23 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 21 (2.03%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.35%) MySQL
7 10 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (0.58%) Airbyte
11 6 (0.58%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.58%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.48%) Data Vault
12 5 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (2.42%) Git
2 22 (2.13%) GitLab
3 21 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.03%) MSI
4 15 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 12 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 11 (1.06%) Robot Framework
6 11 (1.06%) Selenium
6 11 (1.06%) Snyk
7 10 (0.97%) MSBuild
7 10 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.97%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.58%) JIRA
9 3 (0.29%) ERwin
10 1 (0.097%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.097%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 283 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 141 (13.64%) Finance
3 133 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (8.70%) Marketing
5 69 (6.67%) Law
6 59 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (5.03%) Public Sector
8 44 (4.26%) Legal
9 31 (3.00%) Retail
10 26 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.42%) Banking
12 23 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.74%) Electronics
14 16 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.45%) Games
15 15 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.16%) Advertising
16 12 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.77%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.68%) REST
2 37 (3.58%) .NET
3 29 (2.80%) Kafka
4 28 (2.71%) Middleware
5 21 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (2.03%) SOAP
6 19 (1.84%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (1.45%) Visualforce
8 14 (1.35%) gRPC
9 13 (1.26%) XML
10 12 (1.16%) CSS
10 12 (1.16%) HTML
11 11 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (1.06%) ASP.NET
11 11 (1.06%) JSON
11 11 (1.06%) Web Services
12 10 (0.97%) Bootstrap
13 9 (0.87%) Django
13 9 (0.87%) React
14 7 (0.68%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 85 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.93%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
3 31 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 30 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.45%) NHS
7 15 (1.45%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.06%) IoT
10 10 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.77%) PKI
13 7 (0.68%) Operational Technology
13 7 (0.68%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.87%) Windows
2 18 (1.74%) Linux
3 4 (0.39%) AIX
4 2 (0.19%) Unix
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.097%) Android
5 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.097%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.097%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.097%) VMS
5 1 (0.097%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (23.40%) Agile
2 212 (20.50%) Roadmaps
3 182 (17.60%) TOGAF
4 163 (15.76%) Mentoring
5 159 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 155 (14.99%) DevOps
7 140 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (10.06%) AI
10 102 (9.86%) Migration
11 101 (9.77%) Analytics
12 98 (9.48%) CI/CD
13 97 (9.38%) Business Strategy
13 97 (9.38%) Data Modelling
14 96 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
15 95 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 95 (9.19%) Technical Leadership
16 94 (9.09%) Architectural Design
17 92 (8.90%) Risk Management
18 87 (8.41%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (10.15%) Python
2 87 (8.41%) SQL
3 70 (6.77%) C#
4 57 (5.51%) Java
5 48 (4.64%) PowerShell
6 24 (2.32%) C++
7 23 (2.22%) Go
7 23 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 22 (2.13%) Bicep
9 19 (1.84%) Apex Code
10 17 (1.64%) SOQL
11 15 (1.45%) SOSL
12 11 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.77%) PHP
14 3 (0.29%) C
14 3 (0.29%) R
15 2 (0.19%) Bash
15 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.19%) Scala
15 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 214 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 139 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 109 (10.54%) DV Cleared
4 107 (10.35%) Degree
5 66 (6.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 59 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 44 (4.26%) AWS Certification
9 39 (3.77%) CISSP
10 38 (3.68%) DBS Check
11 36 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 32 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (3.00%) CISM
14 25 (2.42%) CCNP
15 22 (2.13%) Chartered Engineer
16 21 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (1.93%) CCNA
18 13 (1.26%) JNCIA
19 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.77%) GDPR
2 36 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (3.09%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.00%) NIST
5 27 (2.61%) GRC
6 23 (2.22%) NCSC
7 22 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 17 (1.64%) QA
9 15 (1.45%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.97%) SLA
11 8 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.39%) SEPA
12 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.39%) TARGET2
13 3 (0.29%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.097%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 40 (3.87%) Docker
2 29 (2.80%) Firmware
3 20 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 10 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.097%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.29%) Terraform
3 24 (2.32%) WMI
4 18 (1.74%) Ansible
5 15 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.58%) Endace
7 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.19%) Grafana
8 2 (0.19%) VxRail
8 2 (0.19%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.097%) CASB
9 1 (0.097%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.097%) Netcool
9 1 (0.097%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.097%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 76 (7.35%) SAP
3 51 (4.93%) Oracle
4 47 (4.55%) Google
5 37 (3.58%) OpenText
6 35 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 33 (3.19%) Cisco
8 31 (3.00%) Databricks
9 28 (2.71%) Juniper
10 25 (2.42%) VMware
11 22 (2.13%) Palo Alto
12 21 (2.03%) Adobe
13 19 (1.84%) Splunk
13 19 (1.84%) Workday
14 18 (1.74%) Apple
15 16 (1.55%) BiZZdesign
15 16 (1.55%) Meraki
16 13 (1.26%) Ariba
17 12 (1.16%) UiPath
18 11 (1.06%) Black Duck