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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 94 34
Rank change year-on-year +61 -60 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,164 1,097 3,175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.09% 3.16% 5.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 3.53% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,239 708 2,062
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £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 £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 72,986 31,093 56,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 89.49% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50,398 17,818 37,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,122 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.10% -3.76% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 14 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 14 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 +91 1,056 £82,500 +10.00% 333
North West +112 588 £80,000 - 179
South East +16 553 £85,000 +9.68% 382
South West +53 473 £80,000 -5.88% 206
Midlands +28 450 £82,500 +10.00% 161
West Midlands +26 367 £82,500 +6.45% 112
Yorkshire +50 285 £81,250 +8.33% 115
East of England +54 197 £81,325 +4.94% 113
Scotland +55 186 £90,000 +12.50% 118
North East +11 183 £85,000 +30.77% 39
Wales +25 154 £80,000 +11.89% 25
Northern Ireland -16 107 £74,830 -9.63% 53
East Midlands -12 83 £60,000 -14.29% 49
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 617 (19.50%) Azure
2 467 (14.76%) Microsoft
3 462 (14.60%) Security Cleared
4 411 (12.99%) Roadmaps
5 400 (12.64%) AI
6 370 (11.69%) AWS
7 298 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
8 285 (9.01%) Agile
8 285 (9.01%) SC Cleared
9 262 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
10 243 (7.68%) TOGAF
11 236 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
12 215 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
13 214 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 213 (6.73%) Technical Architecture
15 208 (6.57%) CI/CD
16 207 (6.54%) Data Architecture
17 191 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
18 185 (5.85%) Data Modelling
18 185 (5.85%) DV Cleared
19 182 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
20 181 (5.72%) Decision-Making
21 177 (5.59%) DevOps
21 177 (5.59%) Power Platform
22 173 (5.47%) Business Strategy
23 170 (5.37%) Technology Strategy
24 168 (5.31%) Analytics
25 162 (5.12%) Microservices
26 157 (4.96%) Security Architecture
27 154 (4.87%) 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 15 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.22%) Apache
2 7 (0.22%) CMS
2 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.13%) Confluence
6 3 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.032%) JBoss
8 1 (0.032%) SAS
8 1 (0.032%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.28%) Revit
2 8 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.063%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.063%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.063%) Simulink
5 2 (0.063%) Windchill
6 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.032%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.032%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
4 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.095%) Infor M3
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.095%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.063%) Lawson
8 2 (0.063%) Movex
8 2 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.063%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 617 (19.50%) Azure
2 370 (11.69%) AWS
3 177 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 118 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (3.60%) GCP
5 114 (3.60%) SaaS
6 84 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
7 67 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
8 63 (1.99%) Serverless
9 56 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 43 (1.36%) PaaS
11 42 (1.33%) dbt
12 39 (1.23%) IaaS
13 29 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (0.66%) GitHub
15 20 (0.63%) Snowflake
16 18 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (0.57%) iPaaS
17 17 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (0.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.29%) WAN
2 83 (2.62%) LAN
3 62 (1.96%) Firewall
3 62 (1.96%) Network Security
4 45 (1.42%) VPN
5 40 (1.26%) DNS
6 35 (1.11%) Broadband
7 27 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.63%) MPLS
9 17 (0.54%) BGP
10 16 (0.51%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.47%) VLAN
12 14 (0.44%) HTTP
12 14 (0.44%) SNMP
13 11 (0.35%) DHCP
14 10 (0.32%) FTP
14 10 (0.32%) ICMP
14 10 (0.32%) IPsec
14 10 (0.32%) SSH
14 10 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (2.05%) Metadata
2 36 (1.14%) Data Lake
2 36 (1.14%) Power BI
3 31 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 17 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (0.44%) GIS
7 12 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.32%) Tableau
9 8 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (0.22%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.19%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.19%) MySQL
12 5 (0.16%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.13%) Big Data
13 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 26 (0.82%) GitLab
3 22 (0.70%) Snyk
4 20 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 8 (0.25%) JIRA
6 5 (0.16%) Git
6 5 (0.16%) MLflow
6 5 (0.16%) Toad
6 5 (0.16%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.095%) ERwin
8 2 (0.063%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.063%) JMeter
8 2 (0.063%) Postman
8 2 (0.063%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.063%) Selenium
9 1 (0.032%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.032%) Flyway
9 1 (0.032%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Forms
General
1 434 (13.72%) Finance
2 412 (13.02%) Social Skills
3 244 (7.71%) Public Sector
4 193 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
7 82 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (1.93%) Law
9 52 (1.64%) Aerospace
9 52 (1.64%) Marketing
10 48 (1.52%) Retail
11 47 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.11%) Games
13 32 (1.01%) Banking
14 31 (0.98%) Legal
15 30 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.41%) Advertising
17 13 (0.41%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (1.71%) REST
2 51 (1.61%) .NET
3 45 (1.42%) Middleware
4 44 (1.39%) SOAP
5 36 (1.14%) OAuth
6 34 (1.07%) LDAP
7 30 (0.95%) SAML
8 29 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
9 28 (0.88%) Node.js
10 25 (0.79%) Kafka
11 20 (0.63%) Visualforce
12 18 (0.57%) ModSecurity
12 18 (0.57%) OpenID
12 18 (0.57%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.54%) XML
14 16 (0.51%) JSON
14 16 (0.51%) XMPP
15 10 (0.32%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.32%) NestJS
15 10 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 157 (4.96%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 55 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (1.74%) Product Ownership
4 47 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (1.11%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 30 (0.95%) Cyberattack
9 30 (0.95%) Onboarding
10 27 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 21 (0.66%) Social Media
12 20 (0.63%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.60%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.57%) Private Cloud
15 17 (0.54%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.47%) Graphic Design
17 14 (0.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 14 (0.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.52%) Linux
2 44 (1.39%) Windows
3 31 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.032%) AIX
5 1 (0.032%) CentOS
5 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.032%) Solaris
5 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (12.99%) Roadmaps
2 400 (12.64%) AI
3 298 (9.42%) Enterprise Architecture
4 285 (9.01%) Agile
5 262 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
6 243 (7.68%) TOGAF
7 236 (7.46%) Technical Leadership
8 215 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
9 214 (6.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 213 (6.73%) Technical Architecture
11 208 (6.57%) CI/CD
12 207 (6.54%) Data Architecture
13 191 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
14 185 (5.85%) Data Modelling
15 182 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 181 (5.72%) Decision-Making
17 177 (5.59%) DevOps
18 173 (5.47%) Business Strategy
19 170 (5.37%) Technology Strategy
20 168 (5.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (3.10%) Python
2 97 (3.07%) SQL
3 63 (1.99%) C#
4 49 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.17%) Java
6 26 (0.82%) Bicep
7 24 (0.76%) Apex Code
8 21 (0.66%) SOQL
9 20 (0.63%) SOSL
10 16 (0.51%) C
11 15 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.38%) C++
13 8 (0.25%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.22%) Scala
15 6 (0.19%) COBOL
15 6 (0.19%) Embedded C
15 6 (0.19%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.19%) Go
15 6 (0.19%) R
15 6 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 462 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 285 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 185 (5.85%) DV Cleared
4 118 (3.73%) Degree
5 57 (1.80%) CISSP
6 53 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
7 48 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 37 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.01%) CISM
12 23 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.51%) CCNP
16 15 (0.47%) CCSP
17 13 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.28%) ICAEW
18 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
19 6 (0.19%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 93 (2.94%) GRC
3 92 (2.91%) NIST
4 56 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.61%) GDPR
6 39 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.66%) NCSC
8 19 (0.60%) QA
9 12 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.16%) MISRA
15 5 (0.16%) SLA
16 4 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.79%) Docker
4 24 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.76%) vSphere
5 14 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.16%) NDS
9 3 (0.095%) KVM
10 1 (0.032%) GPFS
10 1 (0.032%) Lustre
10 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.032%) vCloud
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.77%) Terraform
3 27 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.51%) MOM
5 10 (0.32%) CASB
5 10 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.095%) Grafana
9 2 (0.063%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.063%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.063%) vRealize
10 1 (0.032%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.032%) Endace
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 467 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.65%) Databricks
3 80 (2.53%) SAP
4 58 (1.83%) Salesforce
4 58 (1.83%) VMware
5 46 (1.45%) Oracle
6 44 (1.39%) Cisco
7 41 (1.30%) Palo Alto
8 33 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 25 (0.79%) Google
10 22 (0.70%) Computacenter
10 22 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.70%) Splunk
10 22 (0.70%) Tenable
11 21 (0.66%) Okta
12 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
12 20 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 18 (0.57%) ForgeRock
13 18 (0.57%) Workday
14 13 (0.41%) CyberArk