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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 94 41
Rank change year-on-year +57 -53 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,546 1,003 3,818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.77% 3.34% 4.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.99% 3.75% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,903 705 2,483
10th Percentile £60,000 £59,850 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
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 63,831 26,733 75,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 89.00% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,234 14,486 53,948
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,296 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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 19 June 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 June 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 +100 883 £85,000 +19.73% 174
North West +91 500 £88,000 +25.71% 90
South East +23 418 £85,000 +9.68% 199
Midlands +22 371 £80,000 +14.29% 79
South West +52 369 £80,000 -1.54% 82
West Midlands +20 280 £82,500 +13.79% 65
Yorkshire +40 247 £80,000 +6.67% 50
East of England +58 193 £75,000 +11.11% 39
Scotland +44 165 £90,000 +12.50% 28
North East +21 136 £80,000 +23.08% 35
Wales +32 126 £80,000 +13.57% 23
East Midlands -3 90 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Northern Ireland -21 28 £62,500 -25.51% 7
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 492 (19.32%) Azure
2 335 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 322 (12.65%) Microsoft
4 292 (11.47%) AWS
5 289 (11.35%) Roadmaps
6 243 (9.54%) Agile
7 242 (9.51%) AI
8 230 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
9 227 (8.92%) TOGAF
10 208 (8.17%) SC Cleared
11 201 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
12 178 (6.99%) Data Architecture
13 177 (6.95%) Data Modelling
14 174 (6.83%) Problem-Solving
15 173 (6.79%) CI/CD
16 167 (6.56%) DevOps
17 149 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
18 140 (5.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 139 (5.46%) Analytics
20 134 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
20 134 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
21 131 (5.15%) Data Governance
22 130 (5.11%) DV Cleared
22 130 (5.11%) Technology Strategy
23 129 (5.07%) Security Architecture
24 117 (4.60%) IT Strategy
25 116 (4.56%) Architectural Design
26 114 (4.48%) Power Platform
27 111 (4.36%) Cloud Security
27 111 (4.36%) Data Quality

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 12 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.35%) Confluence
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.24%) Apache
6 5 (0.20%) CMS
6 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.039%) Camunda
10 1 (0.039%) IIS
10 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.039%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.35%) Revit
2 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.079%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.079%) Simulink
4 2 (0.079%) Windchill
5 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.24%) SAP CAR
5 6 (0.24%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.039%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.039%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.039%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.039%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 492 (19.32%) Azure
2 292 (11.47%) AWS
3 114 (4.48%) Power Platform
4 103 (4.05%) GCP
5 95 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
6 79 (3.10%) SaaS
7 62 (2.44%) Serverless
8 52 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 36 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (1.37%) PaaS
12 30 (1.18%) IaaS
13 29 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.14%) Snowflake
14 20 (0.79%) GitHub
15 14 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.51%) iPaaS
17 11 (0.43%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.32%) Broadband
2 58 (2.28%) Firewall
3 46 (1.81%) Network Security
4 37 (1.45%) DNS
5 35 (1.37%) VPN
6 34 (1.34%) WAN
7 18 (0.71%) BGP
8 17 (0.67%) MPLS
8 17 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 15 (0.59%) LAN
9 15 (0.59%) SNMP
10 13 (0.51%) HTTP
11 10 (0.39%) VLAN
12 9 (0.35%) NetScaler
12 9 (0.35%) SSL
12 9 (0.35%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.31%) SAN
14 7 (0.27%) DHCP
14 7 (0.27%) ICMP
14 7 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (2.59%) Metadata
2 32 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.10%) Power BI
5 24 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.63%) GIS
7 16 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.39%) Tableau
9 9 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.31%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.27%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.24%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.20%) Big Data
13 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.41%) GitLab
3 34 (1.34%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.86%) Snyk
5 8 (0.31%) JIRA
6 5 (0.20%) Toad
6 5 (0.20%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.12%) Git
7 3 (0.12%) MLflow
7 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.079%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.079%) ERwin
8 2 (0.079%) JMeter
8 2 (0.079%) Postman
8 2 (0.079%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.079%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle Forms
General
1 281 (11.04%) Social Skills
2 258 (10.13%) Finance
3 200 (7.86%) Public Sector
4 125 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
7 64 (2.51%) Marketing
8 55 (2.16%) Games
9 53 (2.08%) Retail
10 30 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 21 (0.82%) Law
12 20 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 20 (0.79%) Legal
12 20 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.67%) Banking
14 13 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.43%) Automotive
15 11 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.43%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.39%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (2.44%) REST
2 54 (2.12%) SOAP
3 44 (1.73%) Lightning Web Components
4 40 (1.57%) .NET
5 36 (1.41%) Middleware
6 34 (1.34%) Visualforce
7 23 (0.90%) OAuth
8 19 (0.75%) LDAP
8 19 (0.75%) Node.js
8 19 (0.75%) XML
9 18 (0.71%) JSON
9 18 (0.71%) Kafka
9 18 (0.71%) Regular Expression
10 17 (0.67%) SAML
11 16 (0.63%) XMPP
12 11 (0.43%) OpenID
13 10 (0.39%) NestJS
13 10 (0.39%) RESTful
14 9 (0.35%) JWT
14 9 (0.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 102 (4.01%) Cloud Native
2 70 (2.75%) Data Centre
3 63 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 42 (1.65%) Operational Technology
5 38 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.34%) Cyberattack
8 28 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (0.94%) PKI
9 24 (0.94%) Virtual Team
10 22 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 16 (0.63%) NHS
14 15 (0.59%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.59%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.59%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.92%) Windows
2 43 (1.69%) Linux
3 39 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.039%) AIX
5 1 (0.039%) CentOS
5 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (11.35%) Roadmaps
2 243 (9.54%) Agile
3 242 (9.51%) AI
4 230 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
5 227 (8.92%) TOGAF
6 201 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
7 178 (6.99%) Data Architecture
8 177 (6.95%) Data Modelling
9 174 (6.83%) Problem-Solving
10 173 (6.79%) CI/CD
11 167 (6.56%) DevOps
12 149 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
13 140 (5.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 139 (5.46%) Analytics
15 134 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 134 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 131 (5.15%) Data Governance
17 130 (5.11%) Technology Strategy
18 129 (5.07%) Security Architecture
19 117 (4.60%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 96 (3.77%) SQL
2 87 (3.42%) Python
3 42 (1.65%) C#
4 37 (1.45%) Apex Code
5 36 (1.41%) Java
6 35 (1.37%) SOQL
7 34 (1.34%) SOSL
8 32 (1.26%) JavaScript
9 20 (0.79%) Bicep
10 16 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.55%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.31%) C
12 8 (0.31%) C++
13 6 (0.24%) Bash
13 6 (0.24%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.24%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.12%) R
15 3 (0.12%) Scala
16 2 (0.079%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 335 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 208 (8.17%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.11%) DV Cleared
4 101 (3.97%) Degree
5 52 (2.04%) CISSP
6 51 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 38 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.10%) CISM
11 22 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.75%) CCSP
13 16 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.47%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.39%) CCNP
17 9 (0.35%) ICAEW
18 7 (0.27%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.77%) NIST
3 58 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (1.77%) GDPR
5 29 (1.14%) GRC
6 26 (1.02%) QA
7 21 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 20 (0.79%) NCSC
9 18 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.27%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.20%) WCAG
15 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.12%) IFRS
17 2 (0.079%) IFRS 17
17 2 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (0.82%) vSphere
4 16 (0.63%) Docker
5 8 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.12%) Firmware
7 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.039%) GPFS
8 1 (0.039%) Lustre
8 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.039%) vCloud
8 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (1.53%) Terraform
2 30 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.63%) MOM
4 14 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.31%) CASB
6 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.24%) Ansible
7 6 (0.24%) Endace
7 6 (0.24%) vRealize
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.16%) Netcool
10 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.079%) Grafana
12 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.039%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.039%) SCCM
Vendors
1 322 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.53%) Databricks
3 74 (2.91%) SAP
4 62 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 52 (2.04%) VMware
6 42 (1.65%) Oracle
7 36 (1.41%) Cisco
7 36 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.41%) Splunk
8 33 (1.30%) Palo Alto
9 25 (0.98%) Google
10 22 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.86%) Tenable
11 19 (0.75%) Juniper
12 17 (0.67%) Red Hat
13 12 (0.47%) McAfee
14 10 (0.39%) Palantir
15 9 (0.35%) HP
15 9 (0.35%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.35%) Sparx