Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 91 33
Rank change year-on-year +59 -58 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,277 1,096 3,208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.18% 3.16% 5.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.43% 3.53% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,309 702 2,055
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £89,750
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 73,974 31,043 56,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.48% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 51,194 17,818 36,855
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,712 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% -4.63% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +100 1,099 £80,000 +6.67% 156
North West +103 606 £80,000 - 76
South East +19 578 £85,000 +9.68% 178
South West +48 478 £80,000 -5.88% 80
Midlands +33 468 £82,500 +10.00% 57
West Midlands +33 379 £85,000 +13.33% 41
Yorkshire +54 307 £80,000 +6.67% 59
East of England +57 209 £80,150 +1.78% 21
Scotland +60 189 £87,500 +9.38% 21
North East +10 186 £85,000 +30.77% 21
Wales +24 158 £80,000 +11.89% 12
Northern Ireland -15 110 £74,830 -9.63% 8
East Midlands -5 89 £60,000 -16.38% 16
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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.

1 618 (18.86%) Azure
2 478 (14.59%) Security Cleared
3 472 (14.40%) Microsoft
4 425 (12.97%) Roadmaps
5 412 (12.57%) AI
6 378 (11.53%) AWS
7 299 (9.12%) Enterprise Architecture
8 289 (8.82%) Agile
9 285 (8.70%) SC Cleared
10 266 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
11 249 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
12 244 (7.45%) TOGAF
13 224 (6.84%) Data Architecture
14 223 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
15 220 (6.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 215 (6.56%) Technical Architecture
17 213 (6.50%) CI/CD
18 207 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
19 195 (5.95%) DV Cleared
20 194 (5.92%) Decision-Making
21 191 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
22 189 (5.77%) Data Modelling
23 180 (5.49%) Business Strategy
23 180 (5.49%) Technology Strategy
24 177 (5.40%) DevOps
25 176 (5.37%) Power Platform
26 171 (5.22%) Analytics
27 166 (5.07%) Microservices
28 163 (4.97%) Security Architecture
29 160 (4.88%) Infrastructure as Code

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 17 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.21%) Apache
2 7 (0.21%) CMS
2 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.15%) Confluence
3 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.092%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.031%) JBoss
7 1 (0.031%) SAS
7 1 (0.031%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.031%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.31%) Revit
2 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.061%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.061%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.061%) Simulink
6 2 (0.061%) Windchill
7 1 (0.031%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.031%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.031%) SketchUp
7 1 (0.031%) Weka
Business Applications
1 42 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.092%) Lawson
6 3 (0.092%) Movex
6 3 (0.092%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.092%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.092%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.092%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.061%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 618 (18.86%) Azure
2 378 (11.53%) AWS
3 176 (5.37%) Power Platform
4 125 (3.81%) SaaS
5 120 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
6 116 (3.54%) GCP
7 80 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
9 65 (1.98%) Serverless
10 55 (1.68%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.31%) PaaS
12 42 (1.28%) dbt
13 39 (1.19%) IaaS
14 25 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (0.64%) Snowflake
16 20 (0.61%) GitHub
17 18 (0.55%) iPaaS
17 18 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (0.52%) Amazon S3
18 17 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.23%) WAN
2 86 (2.62%) LAN
3 64 (1.95%) Firewall
4 63 (1.92%) Network Security
5 45 (1.37%) VPN
6 40 (1.22%) DNS
7 35 (1.07%) Broadband
8 27 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 20 (0.61%) MPLS
10 17 (0.52%) BGP
11 16 (0.49%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.46%) VLAN
13 14 (0.43%) HTTP
13 14 (0.43%) SNMP
14 11 (0.34%) DHCP
15 10 (0.31%) FTP
15 10 (0.31%) ICMP
15 10 (0.31%) IPsec
15 10 (0.31%) SSH
15 10 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (2.04%) Metadata
2 38 (1.16%) Data Lake
2 38 (1.16%) Power BI
3 32 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 17 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.37%) GIS
7 10 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.31%) Tableau
8 9 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (0.21%) Data Vault
10 6 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.18%) MySQL
11 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (1.07%) Jenkins
2 26 (0.79%) GitLab
3 22 (0.67%) Snyk
4 20 (0.61%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.27%) JIRA
6 5 (0.15%) Git
6 5 (0.15%) MLflow
6 5 (0.15%) Toad
6 5 (0.15%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.092%) ERwin
8 2 (0.061%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.061%) JMeter
8 2 (0.061%) Postman
8 2 (0.061%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.061%) Selenium
9 1 (0.031%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.031%) Flyway
9 1 (0.031%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.031%) Oracle Forms
General
1 456 (13.92%) Finance
2 426 (13.00%) Social Skills
3 249 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 195 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 60 (1.83%) Law
10 53 (1.62%) Marketing
11 48 (1.46%) Retail
12 47 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.13%) Banking
14 35 (1.07%) Games
15 31 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.92%) Legal
17 17 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.43%) Military
20 13 (0.40%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (1.74%) Terraform
2 54 (1.65%) REST
3 51 (1.56%) .NET
4 46 (1.40%) Middleware
5 44 (1.34%) SOAP
6 37 (1.13%) OAuth
7 35 (1.07%) LDAP
8 31 (0.95%) SAML
9 29 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
9 29 (0.88%) Node.js
10 25 (0.76%) Kafka
11 22 (0.67%) ModSecurity
12 20 (0.61%) Visualforce
13 19 (0.58%) OpenID
14 18 (0.55%) Regular Expression
15 17 (0.52%) XML
16 16 (0.49%) JSON
16 16 (0.49%) XMPP
17 11 (0.34%) NestJS
18 10 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 163 (4.97%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 55 (1.68%) Product Ownership
4 54 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.07%) Operational Technology
9 32 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 30 (0.92%) Cyberattack
11 27 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 22 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.64%) Social Media
14 20 (0.61%) Management Information System
15 19 (0.58%) Private Cloud
16 18 (0.55%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
18 15 (0.46%) Graphic Design
19 14 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.50%) Linux
2 43 (1.31%) Windows
3 31 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.031%) AIX
5 1 (0.031%) CentOS
5 1 (0.031%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.031%) Solaris
5 1 (0.031%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (12.97%) Roadmaps
2 412 (12.57%) AI
3 299 (9.12%) Enterprise Architecture
4 289 (8.82%) Agile
5 266 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
6 249 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
7 244 (7.45%) TOGAF
8 224 (6.84%) Data Architecture
9 223 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
10 220 (6.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 215 (6.56%) Technical Architecture
12 213 (6.50%) CI/CD
13 207 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 194 (5.92%) Decision-Making
15 191 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 189 (5.77%) Data Modelling
17 180 (5.49%) Business Strategy
17 180 (5.49%) Technology Strategy
18 177 (5.40%) DevOps
19 171 (5.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (3.02%) SQL
2 96 (2.93%) Python
3 64 (1.95%) C#
4 50 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.13%) Java
6 25 (0.76%) Bicep
7 23 (0.70%) Apex Code
8 20 (0.61%) SOQL
8 20 (0.61%) SOSL
9 16 (0.49%) C
10 15 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.37%) C++
12 8 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.24%) Scala
13 6 (0.18%) COBOL
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.18%) Go
13 6 (0.18%) R
13 6 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 478 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 285 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 195 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 115 (3.51%) Degree
5 61 (1.86%) CISSP
6 53 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
7 52 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 45 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 42 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.10%) CISM
11 25 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.46%) CCNP
14 15 (0.46%) CCSP
15 9 (0.27%) ICAEW
15 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (2.96%) GRC
1 97 (2.96%) NIST
2 93 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (1.62%) GDPR
5 40 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 21 (0.64%) NCSC
7 18 (0.55%) QA
8 12 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.34%) NIST 800
9 11 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.15%) MISRA
13 5 (0.15%) SLA
14 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.76%) Docker
3 25 (0.76%) vSphere
4 24 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.43%) Firmware
6 10 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.15%) NDS
9 3 (0.092%) KVM
10 1 (0.031%) GPFS
10 1 (0.031%) Lustre
10 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.031%) vCloud
10 1 (0.031%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 28 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.49%) MOM
4 11 (0.34%) CASB
5 10 (0.31%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.21%) Ansible
8 3 (0.092%) Grafana
9 2 (0.061%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.061%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.061%) SCCM
9 2 (0.061%) vRealize
10 1 (0.031%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.031%) Endace
10 1 (0.031%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 472 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.65%) SAP
3 85 (2.59%) Databricks
4 58 (1.77%) VMware
5 56 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 50 (1.53%) Oracle
7 43 (1.31%) Cisco
8 41 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 26 (0.79%) Google
11 22 (0.67%) Computacenter
11 22 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.67%) Splunk
11 22 (0.67%) Tenable
11 22 (0.67%) Workday
12 21 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.61%) Okta
13 20 (0.61%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.58%) ForgeRock
15 14 (0.43%) Adobe