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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,504 1,764 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.40% 4.97% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.76% 5.38% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 974 1,062 1,369
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,800 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -7.62%

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 40,036 32,759 40,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.28% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 24,623 15,861 31,064
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,620 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,050 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +6.10% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.41%

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 January 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 January 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 0 410 £80,000 +14.29% 218
South East -28 334 £85,000 +9.68% 339
Midlands -19 241 £77,500 +3.33% 118
North West -5 207 £80,000 +18.52% 110
South West +22 193 £75,000 - 116
West Midlands -10 166 £77,500 +3.33% 54
East of England +42 158 £90,000 +20.81% 129
Yorkshire +8 143 £80,000 - 69
Scotland -32 96 £85,700 +7.13% 99
East Midlands -18 71 £77,500 +10.71% 61
North East +14 59 £75,000 +7.14% 39
Wales +22 50 £80,000 +19.19% 48
Northern Ireland +3 29 £80,000 - 16
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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.

1 355 (23.60%) Azure
2 236 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 198 (13.16%) AWS
4 197 (13.10%) Agile
5 191 (12.70%) Microsoft
6 184 (12.23%) Roadmaps
7 171 (11.37%) Enterprise Architecture
8 164 (10.90%) Data Modelling
9 144 (9.57%) SC Cleared
10 143 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 143 (9.51%) Degree
11 142 (9.44%) TOGAF
12 137 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
13 134 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 125 (8.31%) Analytics
15 124 (8.24%) DevOps
15 124 (8.24%) IT Strategy
16 122 (8.11%) Data Architecture
17 119 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
18 118 (7.85%) SAP
19 117 (7.78%) Mentoring
20 113 (7.51%) Project Management
21 104 (6.91%) Business Strategy
22 98 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 97 (6.45%) Migration
23 97 (6.45%) Python
24 94 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
25 91 (6.05%) DV Cleared
26 86 (5.72%) Data Governance
26 86 (5.72%) Strategic Thinking

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 (1.46%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.86%) Confluence
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.33%) Apache
4 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.20%) Appian
5 3 (0.20%) CMS
5 3 (0.20%) JBoss
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.066%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.066%) IIS
7 1 (0.066%) SAS
7 1 (0.066%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.066%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 70 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (3.26%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.46%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.47%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.27%) SAP CAR
6 4 (0.27%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.20%) Shopify
7 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.066%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 355 (23.60%) Azure
2 198 (13.16%) AWS
3 67 (4.45%) Power Platform
3 67 (4.45%) SaaS
4 66 (4.39%) GCP
5 47 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
7 45 (2.99%) Snowflake
8 43 (2.86%) Serverless
9 39 (2.59%) PaaS
10 36 (2.39%) IaaS
11 27 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (1.20%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.06%) OCI
14 13 (0.86%) GitHub
15 9 (0.60%) Amazon Bedrock
15 9 (0.60%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (0.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.26%) Firewall
2 29 (1.93%) Broadband
3 24 (1.60%) Network Security
3 24 (1.60%) VPN
4 18 (1.20%) WAN
5 17 (1.13%) LAN
6 6 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.33%) BGP
7 5 (0.33%) SAN
7 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.27%) OSPF
8 4 (0.27%) SSL
8 4 (0.27%) VLAN
8 4 (0.27%) WLAN
9 3 (0.20%) DNS
9 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.20%) VoIP
9 3 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (3.32%) Metadata
3 33 (2.19%) Power BI
4 20 (1.33%) Tableau
5 17 (1.13%) NoSQL
6 13 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 10 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.47%) Big Data
9 7 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.47%) GIS
9 7 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.33%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.33%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.20%) Airbyte
12 3 (0.20%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 18 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 17 (1.13%) GitLab
3 15 (1.00%) SonarQube
4 12 (0.80%) JIRA
5 5 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.20%) Git
6 3 (0.20%) MSI
6 3 (0.20%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.20%) Selenium
6 3 (0.20%) Snyk
7 1 (0.066%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 324 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 157 (10.44%) Finance
3 156 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 48 (3.19%) Games
6 47 (3.13%) Marketing
7 46 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (2.73%) Legal
10 35 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.73%) Retail
13 25 (1.66%) Law
14 20 (1.33%) Banking
14 20 (1.33%) Electronics
15 19 (1.26%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
17 13 (0.86%) Publishing
18 6 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (0.33%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.46%) Middleware
2 30 (1.99%) REST
3 27 (1.80%) SOAP
4 25 (1.66%) Node.js
4 25 (1.66%) React
5 20 (1.33%) Django
6 19 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 18 (1.20%) .NET
8 17 (1.13%) Kafka
9 16 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.00%) Visualforce
11 12 (0.80%) EDI
12 7 (0.47%) Web Services
13 6 (0.40%) XML
14 5 (0.33%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.33%) OAuth
15 4 (0.27%) JSON
15 4 (0.27%) PySpark
15 4 (0.27%) Spring
16 3 (0.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 62 (4.12%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (1.66%) Virtual Team
6 24 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 20 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.13%) Operational Technology
10 16 (1.06%) IoT
10 16 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 14 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.86%) PKI
13 11 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 11 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.66%) AI Agents
15 8 (0.53%) Reference Data
16 6 (0.40%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.40%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.60%) Windows
2 12 (0.80%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.60%) Linux
4 2 (0.13%) Android
4 2 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.066%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.066%) VMS
5 1 (0.066%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (13.10%) Agile
2 184 (12.23%) Roadmaps
3 171 (11.37%) Enterprise Architecture
4 164 (10.90%) Data Modelling
5 143 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 142 (9.44%) TOGAF
7 137 (9.11%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 125 (8.31%) Analytics
10 124 (8.24%) DevOps
10 124 (8.24%) IT Strategy
11 122 (8.11%) Data Architecture
12 119 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
13 117 (7.78%) Mentoring
14 113 (7.51%) Project Management
15 104 (6.91%) Business Strategy
16 98 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 97 (6.45%) Migration
18 94 (6.25%) Technology Strategy
19 86 (5.72%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 97 (6.45%) Python
2 48 (3.19%) SQL
3 47 (3.13%) Java
4 46 (3.06%) C#
5 28 (1.86%) JavaScript
5 28 (1.86%) TypeScript
6 16 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.00%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.00%) SOQL
7 15 (1.00%) SOSL
8 13 (0.86%) C++
9 12 (0.80%) Bicep
10 5 (0.33%) Bash
10 5 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.27%) PHP
12 3 (0.20%) ABAP
12 3 (0.20%) Go
13 2 (0.13%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.066%) C
14 1 (0.066%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 236 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 144 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 143 (9.51%) Degree
4 91 (6.05%) DV Cleared
5 67 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 54 (3.59%) AWS Certification
8 47 (3.13%) Azure Certification
9 43 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (1.80%) CISSP
13 20 (1.33%) Chartered Engineer
14 19 (1.26%) PMI Certification
14 19 (1.26%) PMP
15 15 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (0.93%) CISM
17 7 (0.47%) CCNP
18 6 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 5 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.39%) Accessibility
2 33 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 25 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 19 (1.26%) NIST
5 18 (1.20%) QA
6 17 (1.13%) GDPR
6 17 (1.13%) NCSC
7 13 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.27%) SEPA
8 4 (0.27%) TARGET2
9 3 (0.20%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.13%) GRC
10 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.13%) PMO
11 1 (0.066%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.066%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 25 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.06%) Docker
3 12 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.73%) Firmware
4 11 (0.73%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (1.66%) Terraform
2 24 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.60%) Ansible
3 9 (0.60%) Netcool
3 9 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (0.60%) vRealize
4 8 (0.53%) Endace
5 4 (0.27%) WMI
6 3 (0.20%) CASB
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.20%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.066%) Argo
8 1 (0.066%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.066%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.066%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.066%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.066%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.066%) VxRail
Vendors
1 191 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.85%) SAP
3 45 (2.99%) Databricks
4 43 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 38 (2.53%) Oracle
6 37 (2.46%) OpenText
7 33 (2.19%) VMware
8 28 (1.86%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.73%) Cisco
10 25 (1.66%) Google
11 23 (1.53%) Anaplan
12 20 (1.33%) Splunk
13 18 (1.20%) Genesys
13 18 (1.20%) Verint
14 17 (1.13%) Juniper
15 16 (1.06%) Palantir
15 16 (1.06%) Workday
16 14 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
17 13 (0.86%) Sparx
18 12 (0.80%) Ariba