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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 95 46
Rank change year-on-year +45 -49 +8
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,402 946 3,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.58% 3.34% 4.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.81% 3.76% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,756 672 2,176
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 62,970 25,190 67,231
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.98% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41,929 13,343 48,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +80 808 £85,000 +18.07% 224
North West +83 456 £90,000 +28.57% 124
South East +23 405 £85,000 +9.68% 217
Midlands +7 363 £80,000 +14.29% 100
South West +56 339 £80,000 - 127
West Midlands -5 273 £82,500 +13.79% 73
Yorkshire +28 235 £80,000 -3.03% 63
East of England +54 202 £80,000 +20.85% 53
Scotland +35 162 £90,000 +12.50% 67
North East +14 117 £80,000 +23.08% 40
Wales +27 99 £80,000 +15.59% 40
East Midlands -1 89 £60,000 -7.69% 27
Northern Ireland -20 31 £70,000 -18.84% 23
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 460 (19.15%) Azure
2 307 (12.78%) Security Cleared
3 269 (11.20%) Microsoft
4 268 (11.16%) AWS
5 255 (10.62%) Roadmaps
6 243 (10.12%) Agile
7 223 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
8 216 (8.99%) TOGAF
9 204 (8.49%) AI
10 191 (7.95%) Enterprise Architecture
11 185 (7.70%) SC Cleared
12 176 (7.33%) Data Modelling
13 171 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
14 161 (6.70%) DevOps
15 154 (6.41%) Data Architecture
16 151 (6.29%) CI/CD
17 147 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
18 146 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
19 132 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
20 130 (5.41%) Analytics
21 126 (5.25%) Data Governance
21 126 (5.25%) Degree
22 124 (5.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 122 (5.08%) Security Architecture
24 118 (4.91%) DV Cleared
25 117 (4.87%) Technology Strategy
26 116 (4.83%) Power Platform
27 113 (4.70%) IT Strategy
28 111 (4.62%) Migration
29 109 (4.54%) Architectural Design

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 18 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.50%) Confluence
3 11 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.25%) Apache
5 6 (0.25%) CMS
6 5 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.083%) JBoss
9 2 (0.083%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.042%) Camunda
10 1 (0.042%) IIS
10 1 (0.042%) Strapi
10 1 (0.042%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Revit
1 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.083%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.083%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.083%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.083%) Windchill
4 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.042%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.042%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.29%) SAP MM
3 7 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.25%) SAP CAR
4 6 (0.25%) SAP Retail
5 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.042%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.042%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.042%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.042%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.042%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.042%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 460 (19.15%) Azure
2 268 (11.16%) AWS
3 116 (4.83%) Power Platform
4 95 (3.96%) GCP
5 87 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
6 72 (3.00%) SaaS
7 61 (2.54%) Serverless
8 55 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
9 42 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (1.54%) PaaS
11 33 (1.37%) Entra ID
12 32 (1.33%) IaaS
13 30 (1.25%) Snowflake
14 27 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (0.62%) GitHub
16 13 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.54%) iPaaS
17 8 (0.33%) Amazon S3
18 7 (0.29%) Azure Logic Apps
18 7 (0.29%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.46%) Broadband
2 58 (2.41%) Firewall
3 42 (1.75%) Network Security
4 30 (1.25%) VPN
5 29 (1.21%) WAN
6 27 (1.12%) DNS
7 16 (0.67%) LAN
8 12 (0.50%) BGP
8 12 (0.50%) MPLS
8 12 (0.50%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.37%) Internet
9 9 (0.37%) NetScaler
9 9 (0.37%) SNMP
10 8 (0.33%) HTTP
10 8 (0.33%) SAN
10 8 (0.33%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.29%) WLAN
12 6 (0.25%) NAS
12 6 (0.25%) SSL
12 6 (0.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.50%) Metadata
2 40 (1.67%) Power BI
3 31 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 25 (1.04%) Tableau
6 21 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 15 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 13 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (0.50%) GIS
10 9 (0.37%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.33%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.29%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.25%) Data Vault
14 5 (0.21%) Big Data
15 4 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.17%) DB2
15 4 (0.17%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.17%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.50%) GitLab
3 34 (1.42%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.92%) Snyk
5 10 (0.42%) JIRA
6 5 (0.21%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.17%) Toad
8 3 (0.12%) Git
8 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.083%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.083%) JMeter
9 2 (0.083%) MLflow
9 2 (0.083%) Postman
9 2 (0.083%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.083%) Selenium
10 1 (0.042%) ERwin
10 1 (0.042%) Oracle APEX
General
1 283 (11.78%) Social Skills
2 243 (10.12%) Finance
3 191 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 124 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 118 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (3.00%) Games
7 68 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (2.79%) Marketing
9 53 (2.21%) Retail
10 30 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.12%) Legal
12 26 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.00%) Law
14 21 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.67%) Banking
16 15 (0.62%) Aerospace
17 14 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.33%) Local Government
18 8 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.29%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.54%) REST
2 55 (2.29%) SOAP
3 44 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (1.71%) Middleware
5 39 (1.62%) .NET
6 34 (1.42%) Visualforce
7 21 (0.87%) XML
8 19 (0.79%) Kafka
9 18 (0.75%) JSON
9 18 (0.75%) OAuth
10 17 (0.71%) Node.js
11 14 (0.58%) LDAP
11 14 (0.58%) Regular Expression
12 12 (0.50%) SAML
12 12 (0.50%) XMPP
13 11 (0.46%) OpenID
13 11 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (0.42%) NestJS
15 9 (0.37%) JWT
15 9 (0.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.58%) Cloud Native
2 67 (2.79%) Data Centre
3 58 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 52 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
5 39 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.42%) Cyberattack
8 32 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.00%) PKI
10 24 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 20 (0.83%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.71%) NHS
13 16 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (0.67%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.62%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.58%) Low-Code
15 14 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.50%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.12%) Windows
2 38 (1.58%) Windows Server
3 36 (1.50%) Linux
4 16 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.042%) AIX
5 1 (0.042%) CentOS
5 1 (0.042%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.042%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (10.62%) Roadmaps
2 243 (10.12%) Agile
3 223 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
4 216 (8.99%) TOGAF
5 204 (8.49%) AI
6 191 (7.95%) Enterprise Architecture
7 176 (7.33%) Data Modelling
8 171 (7.12%) Problem-Solving
9 161 (6.70%) DevOps
10 154 (6.41%) Data Architecture
11 151 (6.29%) CI/CD
12 147 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 146 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 132 (5.50%) Technical Leadership
15 130 (5.41%) Analytics
16 126 (5.25%) Data Governance
17 124 (5.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 122 (5.08%) Security Architecture
19 117 (4.87%) Technology Strategy
20 113 (4.70%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 88 (3.66%) SQL
2 86 (3.58%) Python
3 43 (1.79%) C#
4 41 (1.71%) Java
5 37 (1.54%) Apex Code
6 35 (1.46%) SOQL
7 34 (1.42%) SOSL
8 32 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 21 (0.87%) TypeScript
10 15 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.42%) Bicep
12 5 (0.21%) Bash
12 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.17%) C
13 4 (0.17%) C++
13 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.17%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.12%) R
15 2 (0.083%) Scala
15 2 (0.083%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 307 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 185 (7.70%) SC Cleared
3 126 (5.25%) Degree
4 118 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 52 (2.16%) CISSP
5 52 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 45 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 36 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.04%) CISM
11 22 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 21 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.79%) CCSP
13 19 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.79%) PMP
14 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.46%) CCNP
16 9 (0.37%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.54%) NIST
3 49 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (1.71%) GDPR
5 31 (1.29%) QA
6 28 (1.17%) GRC
7 19 (0.79%) NCSC
7 19 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.21%) WCAG
14 3 (0.12%) IFRS
14 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 2 (0.083%) SLA
15 2 (0.083%) Solvency II
System Software
1 67 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.71%) vSphere
5 15 (0.62%) Docker
6 11 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.042%) GPFS
7 1 (0.042%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.042%) Lustre
7 1 (0.042%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.042%) vCloud
7 1 (0.042%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (1.04%) Terraform
2 23 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.67%) MOM
4 14 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.37%) Netcool
5 9 (0.37%) vRealize
6 6 (0.25%) Endace
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.21%) Ansible
7 5 (0.21%) CASB
8 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.083%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.042%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.042%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.042%) Grafana
10 1 (0.042%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.042%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.042%) SCCM
Vendors
1 269 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 86 (3.58%) Databricks
3 76 (3.16%) SAP
4 66 (2.75%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 49 (2.04%) VMware
7 40 (1.67%) Oracle
8 36 (1.50%) Splunk
9 30 (1.25%) Cisco
10 29 (1.21%) Palo Alto
11 23 (0.96%) Anaplan
11 23 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.92%) Tenable
13 21 (0.87%) Google
13 21 (0.87%) Palantir
14 18 (0.75%) Genesys
14 18 (0.75%) Juniper
14 18 (0.75%) Verint
15 14 (0.58%) Sparx
16 13 (0.54%) Red Hat