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 19 March 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 63 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,839 1,165 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.42% 4.28% 4.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.71% 4.76% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 809 1,814
10th Percentile £55,534 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -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 49,507 24,477 56,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 89.98% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31,410 14,315 42,596
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,304 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,294
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% -8.33%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +8 519 £80,000 +11.13% 151
South East -10 388 £85,000 +6.25% 232
North West +25 289 £85,000 +26.87% 79
Midlands +2 281 £77,500 +6.90% 62
South West +42 243 £77,500 - 83
West Midlands -9 190 £80,000 +6.67% 48
East of England +33 181 £90,000 +22.03% 46
Yorkshire -3 151 £80,000 -3.03% 55
Scotland +7 149 £90,000 +6.51% 26
East Midlands -14 88 £74,600 +14.77% 14
North East +18 79 £80,000 +23.08% 20
Wales +18 55 £80,000 +26.23% 19
Northern Ireland -5 34 £80,000 -5.88% 2
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 March 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.

1 397 (21.59%) Azure
2 293 (15.93%) Security Cleared
3 228 (12.40%) Roadmaps
4 225 (12.23%) Agile
5 213 (11.58%) Microsoft
6 212 (11.53%) AWS
7 191 (10.39%) TOGAF
8 177 (9.62%) Data Modelling
8 177 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
9 170 (9.24%) SC Cleared
10 163 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 147 (7.99%) DevOps
12 146 (7.94%) Data Architecture
13 145 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
14 144 (7.83%) Analytics
15 141 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 137 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
16 137 (7.45%) Degree
17 125 (6.80%) IT Strategy
18 113 (6.14%) DV Cleared
19 112 (6.09%) Mentoring
20 109 (5.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 108 (5.87%) Architectural Design
22 107 (5.82%) Technical Leadership
22 107 (5.82%) Technology Roadmap
23 106 (5.76%) Technology Strategy
24 103 (5.60%) Data Governance
25 99 (5.38%) AI
26 95 (5.17%) Python
27 93 (5.06%) Migration

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 21 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.87%) Confluence
3 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.33%) Apache
5 5 (0.27%) CMS
6 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.22%) SAS
7 3 (0.16%) JBoss
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) Appian
8 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.054%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.054%) Camunda
9 1 (0.054%) IIS
9 1 (0.054%) Strapi
9 1 (0.054%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.11%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.11%) Revit
2 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.054%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.33%) SAP MM
3 6 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.22%) SAP CAR
4 4 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.054%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.054%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.054%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 397 (21.59%) Azure
2 212 (11.53%) AWS
3 77 (4.19%) SaaS
4 74 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 71 (3.86%) GCP
6 67 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
7 60 (3.26%) Snowflake
8 54 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 46 (2.50%) Serverless
10 42 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (2.28%) PaaS
11 36 (1.96%) IaaS
12 27 (1.47%) Entra ID
13 22 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (0.71%) GitHub
15 7 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.38%) SuccessFactors
16 6 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (0.33%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (0.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.26%) Broadband
2 44 (2.39%) Firewall
3 24 (1.31%) Network Security
4 20 (1.09%) VPN
5 18 (0.98%) WAN
6 13 (0.71%) DNS
7 10 (0.54%) LAN
8 8 (0.44%) SAN
9 7 (0.38%) BGP
9 7 (0.38%) MPLS
10 6 (0.33%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.33%) HTTP
10 6 (0.33%) Internet
10 6 (0.33%) SNMP
11 5 (0.27%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.27%) NetScaler
12 4 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.22%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.22%) VLAN
12 4 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (2.94%) Metadata
3 36 (1.96%) Power BI
4 19 (1.03%) Tableau
5 18 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.54%) GIS
9 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.33%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.27%) Big Data
12 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.27%) DB2
12 5 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.22%) Metadata Repository
14 3 (0.16%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.16%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.16%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 48 (2.61%) Jenkins
2 42 (2.28%) GitLab
3 41 (2.23%) SonarQube
4 15 (0.82%) JIRA
5 6 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.16%) Git
7 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.11%) Selenium
7 2 (0.11%) Snyk
8 1 (0.054%) MSI
8 1 (0.054%) Yeoman
General
1 287 (15.61%) Social Skills
2 185 (10.06%) Finance
3 147 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 104 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (4.19%) Games
7 70 (3.81%) Marketing
8 51 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 35 (1.90%) Retail
12 34 (1.85%) Legal
13 24 (1.31%) Law
14 18 (0.98%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.92%) Banking
15 17 (0.92%) Electronics
16 15 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.76%) Publishing
18 10 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (3.26%) REST
2 54 (2.94%) SOAP
3 47 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (2.23%) Visualforce
5 36 (1.96%) Node.js
6 31 (1.69%) .NET
6 31 (1.69%) Middleware
7 24 (1.31%) React
8 20 (1.09%) Django
9 19 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (0.76%) Kafka
11 10 (0.54%) EDI
12 9 (0.49%) NestJS
13 8 (0.44%) LDAP
13 8 (0.44%) OAuth
13 8 (0.44%) Web Services
13 8 (0.44%) XML
14 7 (0.38%) GraphQL
15 6 (0.33%) JSON
15 6 (0.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 72 (3.92%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 36 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (1.47%) PKI
7 26 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 25 (1.36%) Operational Technology
8 25 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 14 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.71%) IoT
13 10 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.49%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.38%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.38%) NHS
16 6 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.18%) Windows
2 24 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 19 (1.03%) Linux
4 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.054%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (12.40%) Roadmaps
2 225 (12.23%) Agile
3 191 (10.39%) TOGAF
4 177 (9.62%) Data Modelling
4 177 (9.62%) Enterprise Architecture
5 163 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 147 (7.99%) DevOps
7 146 (7.94%) Data Architecture
8 145 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
9 144 (7.83%) Analytics
10 141 (7.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 137 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
12 125 (6.80%) IT Strategy
13 112 (6.09%) Mentoring
14 109 (5.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 108 (5.87%) Architectural Design
16 107 (5.82%) Technical Leadership
16 107 (5.82%) Technology Roadmap
17 106 (5.76%) Technology Strategy
18 103 (5.60%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 95 (5.17%) Python
2 58 (3.15%) SQL
3 43 (2.34%) Apex Code
4 42 (2.28%) C#
4 42 (2.28%) Java
4 42 (2.28%) SOQL
5 41 (2.23%) SOSL
6 29 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 24 (1.31%) TypeScript
8 20 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.60%) Bicep
10 8 (0.44%) C++
11 7 (0.38%) Bash
11 7 (0.38%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.11%) ABAP
12 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.11%) PHP
12 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.054%) Go
Qualifications
1 293 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 170 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.45%) Degree
4 113 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 61 (3.32%) TOGAF Certification
6 54 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (2.88%) AWS Certification
8 43 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 42 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.58%) CISSP
11 29 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.03%) PMI Certification
12 19 (1.03%) PMP
13 18 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.98%) CISM
14 14 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
15 10 (0.54%) CCNP
16 8 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 43 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.63%) NIST
4 28 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.25%) GDPR
6 20 (1.09%) QA
7 19 (1.03%) NCSC
8 16 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
11 2 (0.11%) SEPA
11 2 (0.11%) TARGET2
12 1 (0.054%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.054%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.65%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.60%) Docker
5 9 (0.49%) vSphere
6 6 (0.33%) Firmware
7 4 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (1.31%) Terraform
2 19 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.54%) Ansible
3 10 (0.54%) Netcool
3 10 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.49%) vRealize
5 8 (0.44%) Endace
6 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.16%) CASB
7 3 (0.16%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) WMI
9 1 (0.054%) Argo
9 1 (0.054%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.054%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.054%) MOM
9 1 (0.054%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.054%) VxRail
Vendors
1 213 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 73 (3.97%) SAP
3 63 (3.43%) Salesforce
4 61 (3.32%) ServiceNow
5 55 (2.99%) Databricks
6 45 (2.45%) Splunk
7 43 (2.34%) VMware
8 34 (1.85%) Oracle
9 27 (1.47%) Google
10 23 (1.25%) Anaplan
11 22 (1.20%) Cisco
12 18 (0.98%) Genesys
12 18 (0.98%) Verint
13 16 (0.87%) Palantir
13 16 (0.87%) Sparx
13 16 (0.87%) Workday
14 14 (0.76%) Juniper
15 12 (0.65%) BiZZdesign
15 12 (0.65%) Siemens
16 10 (0.54%) Informatica