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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 62 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,766 1,283 2,539
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.42% 4.28% 4.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.73% 4.71% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 846 1,729
10th Percentile £56,750 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 47,355 27,266 52,720
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 90.97% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 29,890 14,438 40,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,958 £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 7 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 7 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 +14 512 £80,000 +10.34% 128
South East -11 368 £85,000 +6.25% 242
North West +14 279 £82,500 +17.86% 78
Midlands -4 266 £80,000 +6.67% 89
South West +41 231 £77,500 - 94
West Midlands -11 180 £80,000 +6.67% 54
East of England +46 174 £90,000 +21.62% 52
Yorkshire -4 153 £80,000 -1.54% 34
Scotland +1 139 £90,000 +6.19% 38
East Midlands -14 83 £75,300 +9.53% 33
North East +21 80 £78,500 +20.77% 18
Wales +24 53 £80,000 +26.23% 25
Northern Ireland -1 34 £80,000 -5.88% 3
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 398 (22.54%) Azure
2 286 (16.19%) Security Cleared
3 224 (12.68%) AWS
4 222 (12.57%) Agile
5 212 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 204 (11.55%) Microsoft
7 183 (10.36%) Enterprise Architecture
8 178 (10.08%) Data Modelling
8 178 (10.08%) TOGAF
9 170 (9.63%) SC Cleared
10 155 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 145 (8.21%) Analytics
12 144 (8.15%) Degree
12 144 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
13 143 (8.10%) DevOps
14 141 (7.98%) Data Architecture
15 137 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 132 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
17 127 (7.19%) IT Strategy
18 117 (6.63%) Mentoring
19 109 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
20 108 (6.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 106 (6.00%) DV Cleared
22 102 (5.78%) Data Governance
23 100 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
24 99 (5.61%) Architectural Design
24 99 (5.61%) Migration
25 98 (5.55%) Python
26 96 (5.44%) AI
27 93 (5.27%) Technology Roadmap

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 19 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.85%) Confluence
3 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.34%) Apache
4 6 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.28%) CMS
6 4 (0.23%) SAS
7 3 (0.17%) Appian
7 3 (0.17%) JBoss
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.057%) Camunda
9 1 (0.057%) IIS
9 1 (0.057%) Strapi
9 1 (0.057%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.11%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.11%) Revit
2 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 32 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 11 (0.62%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.34%) SAP MM
4 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.23%) SAP CAR
5 4 (0.23%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.057%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.057%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 398 (22.54%) Azure
2 224 (12.68%) AWS
3 70 (3.96%) GCP
3 70 (3.96%) Power Platform
3 70 (3.96%) SaaS
4 63 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 60 (3.40%) Snowflake
6 53 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (2.83%) Serverless
8 42 (2.38%) PaaS
9 40 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (2.10%) IaaS
11 26 (1.47%) Entra ID
12 22 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.74%) GitHub
13 13 (0.74%) OCI
14 7 (0.40%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.40%) Azure Stack
15 6 (0.34%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.83%) Broadband
2 43 (2.43%) Firewall
3 24 (1.36%) Network Security
4 22 (1.25%) VPN
5 18 (1.02%) WAN
6 10 (0.57%) LAN
7 8 (0.45%) BGP
8 7 (0.40%) DNS
8 7 (0.40%) MPLS
8 7 (0.40%) SAN
8 7 (0.40%) SNMP
9 6 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.34%) HTTP
10 5 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.23%) Internet
11 4 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.23%) SSL
11 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.23%) VLAN
11 4 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (3.06%) Metadata
3 34 (1.93%) Power BI
4 19 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.08%) Tableau
5 16 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.62%) GIS
8 9 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.40%) Big Data
9 7 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.28%) DB2
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.17%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 39 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 34 (1.93%) GitLab
3 33 (1.87%) SonarQube
4 14 (0.79%) JIRA
5 6 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.17%) Git
6 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.17%) Selenium
6 3 (0.17%) Snyk
7 1 (0.057%) MSI
7 1 (0.057%) Yeoman
General
1 300 (16.99%) Social Skills
2 177 (10.02%) Finance
3 145 (8.21%) Public Sector
4 117 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (3.85%) Games
6 61 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.40%) Marketing
8 50 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 34 (1.93%) Legal
12 32 (1.81%) Retail
13 24 (1.36%) Law
14 21 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.13%) Banking
16 17 (0.96%) Electronics
17 16 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.79%) Publishing
19 10 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
20 6 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.94%) REST
2 47 (2.66%) SOAP
3 38 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 37 (2.10%) Middleware
5 33 (1.87%) Visualforce
6 30 (1.70%) Node.js
7 24 (1.36%) React
8 22 (1.25%) .NET
9 20 (1.13%) Django
9 20 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
10 18 (1.02%) Kafka
11 10 (0.57%) EDI
12 8 (0.45%) Web Services
13 7 (0.40%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.40%) OAuth
13 7 (0.40%) XML
14 6 (0.34%) A2A Protocol
15 5 (0.28%) JSON
15 5 (0.28%) LDAP
15 5 (0.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 70 (3.96%) Cloud Native
2 63 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 35 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 25 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 24 (1.36%) PKI
8 21 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.13%) Operational Technology
10 15 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 14 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.74%) IoT
13 12 (0.68%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.45%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.40%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.40%) Reference Data
17 6 (0.34%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.93%) Windows
2 19 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.74%) Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Android
4 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.057%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (12.57%) Agile
2 212 (12.00%) Roadmaps
3 183 (10.36%) Enterprise Architecture
4 178 (10.08%) Data Modelling
4 178 (10.08%) TOGAF
5 155 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 145 (8.21%) Analytics
7 144 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (8.10%) DevOps
9 141 (7.98%) Data Architecture
10 137 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 132 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
12 127 (7.19%) IT Strategy
13 117 (6.63%) Mentoring
14 109 (6.17%) Technical Leadership
15 108 (6.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 102 (5.78%) Data Governance
17 100 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
18 99 (5.61%) Architectural Design
18 99 (5.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 98 (5.55%) Python
2 59 (3.34%) SQL
3 45 (2.55%) Java
4 43 (2.43%) C#
5 35 (1.98%) Apex Code
6 34 (1.93%) SOQL
7 33 (1.87%) SOSL
8 31 (1.76%) JavaScript
9 28 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 20 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 11 (0.62%) Bicep
12 9 (0.51%) C++
13 7 (0.40%) Bash
13 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.11%) ABAP
14 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.11%) PHP
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.057%) R
Qualifications
1 286 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 170 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 144 (8.15%) Degree
4 106 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 65 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 55 (3.11%) AWS Certification
8 45 (2.55%) Azure Certification
9 44 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 43 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.47%) CISSP
13 19 (1.08%) PMI Certification
13 19 (1.08%) PMP
14 17 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
15 16 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (0.85%) CISM
17 8 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.40%) CCNP
19 6 (0.34%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 42 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.30%) NIST
5 22 (1.25%) GDPR
6 20 (1.13%) NCSC
7 19 (1.08%) QA
8 16 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 13 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.23%) SEPA
10 4 (0.23%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
11 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.057%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.057%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.057%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.79%) Docker
4 12 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.40%) Firmware
6 5 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.23%) vSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (1.36%) Terraform
2 22 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.62%) Ansible
4 10 (0.57%) Netcool
4 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.51%) vRealize
6 8 (0.45%) Endace
7 3 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.17%) CASB
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.17%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) WMI
9 1 (0.057%) Argo
9 1 (0.057%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.057%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.057%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.057%) VxRail
Vendors
1 204 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.64%) SAP
3 59 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 56 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 51 (2.89%) Databricks
6 40 (2.27%) Oracle
6 40 (2.27%) VMware
7 37 (2.10%) Splunk
8 25 (1.42%) Google
9 23 (1.30%) Anaplan
9 23 (1.30%) Cisco
10 18 (1.02%) Genesys
10 18 (1.02%) Verint
11 16 (0.91%) Palantir
11 16 (0.91%) Sparx
11 16 (0.91%) Workday
12 15 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
13 13 (0.74%) Juniper
14 12 (0.68%) Siemens
15 11 (0.62%) OpenText