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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 62 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,246 1,087 3,092
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.49% 4.04% 4.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.75% 4.58% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,595 811 2,007
10th Percentile £55,088 £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 £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 59,834 23,734 64,068
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 88.24% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 38,126 14,698 46,931
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +27 682 £85,000 +21.43% 126
South East -4 443 £85,000 +6.25% 145
North West +30 370 £90,000 +28.57% 70
Midlands -3 358 £80,000 +10.34% 103
South West +46 307 £76,742 +6.60% 84
West Midlands 0 265 £80,000 +6.67% 73
Yorkshire +6 211 £82,500 +3.13% 38
East of England +30 201 £90,000 +28.57% 56
Scotland +14 158 £90,000 +12.50% 7
North East -2 101 £80,000 +23.08% 18
East Midlands -23 91 £65,000 - 30
Wales +12 70 £80,000 +19.74% 22
Northern Ireland -11 37 £80,000 -8.57% 9
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 425 (18.92%) Azure
2 313 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 240 (10.69%) Microsoft
3 240 (10.69%) Roadmaps
4 227 (10.11%) AWS
5 214 (9.53%) Agile
6 199 (8.86%) TOGAF
7 197 (8.77%) Enterprise Architecture
8 191 (8.50%) Data Modelling
9 178 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
10 170 (7.57%) SC Cleared
11 164 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
12 163 (7.26%) Data Architecture
13 155 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 155 (6.90%) DevOps
14 149 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 144 (6.41%) Analytics
16 140 (6.23%) AI
17 139 (6.19%) IT Strategy
18 132 (5.88%) Degree
19 127 (5.65%) Technology Strategy
20 118 (5.25%) DV Cleared
21 114 (5.08%) Data Governance
22 112 (4.99%) Technical Leadership
23 110 (4.90%) CI/CD
24 107 (4.76%) Architectural Design
25 105 (4.67%) Mentoring
26 101 (4.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 98 (4.36%) Decision-Making
28 97 (4.32%) Strategic Thinking

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 20 (0.89%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.67%) Confluence
3 13 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.22%) Apache
5 5 (0.22%) CMS
6 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.13%) SAS
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.089%) JBoss
8 2 (0.089%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.045%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.045%) Camunda
9 1 (0.045%) IIS
9 1 (0.045%) Strapi
9 1 (0.045%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.089%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.089%) Revit
2 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.045%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 33 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.27%) SAP MM
5 5 (0.22%) SAP CAR
5 5 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.22%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.089%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.089%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.089%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.045%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.045%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.045%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.045%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 425 (18.92%) Azure
2 227 (10.11%) AWS
3 95 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.87%) GCP
5 76 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
6 71 (3.16%) SaaS
7 59 (2.63%) Snowflake
8 55 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (2.45%) Serverless
9 45 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (1.74%) PaaS
11 35 (1.56%) IaaS
12 30 (1.34%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (0.58%) iPaaS
15 12 (0.53%) GitHub
16 9 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
18 7 (0.31%) Mimecast
18 7 (0.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.49%) Broadband
2 53 (2.36%) Firewall
3 33 (1.47%) Network Security
4 26 (1.16%) VPN
5 22 (0.98%) DNS
6 19 (0.85%) WAN
7 11 (0.49%) LAN
8 9 (0.40%) Internet
9 8 (0.36%) NetScaler
9 8 (0.36%) SAN
10 7 (0.31%) MPLS
11 6 (0.27%) BGP
11 6 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.27%) HTTP
11 6 (0.27%) SNMP
12 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.22%) NAS
12 5 (0.22%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.18%) SSL
13 4 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (2.49%) Metadata
3 39 (1.74%) Power BI
4 21 (0.93%) Tableau
5 20 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 18 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 15 (0.67%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.45%) GIS
8 10 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.27%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.22%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.18%) Big Data
13 4 (0.18%) DB2
14 3 (0.13%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (1.83%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.60%) GitLab
3 34 (1.51%) SonarQube
4 13 (0.58%) JIRA
4 13 (0.58%) Snyk
5 4 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.13%) Git
7 2 (0.089%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.089%) JMeter
7 2 (0.089%) Postman
7 2 (0.089%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.089%) Selenium
8 1 (0.045%) MLflow
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.045%) Yeoman
General
1 278 (12.38%) Social Skills
2 222 (9.88%) Finance
3 169 (7.52%) Public Sector
4 110 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (3.21%) Games
7 68 (3.03%) Marketing
8 54 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 48 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (1.91%) Retail
11 40 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 32 (1.42%) Legal
13 28 (1.25%) Law
14 20 (0.89%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.76%) Banking
16 13 (0.58%) Electronics
17 11 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.36%) Aerospace
19 8 (0.36%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.54%) REST
2 51 (2.27%) SOAP
3 44 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
4 42 (1.87%) Middleware
5 38 (1.69%) .NET
6 34 (1.51%) Visualforce
7 33 (1.47%) Node.js
8 20 (0.89%) React
9 19 (0.85%) XML
10 16 (0.71%) JSON
11 15 (0.67%) Kafka
12 14 (0.62%) Django
13 13 (0.58%) LDAP
14 12 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (0.53%) Regular Expression
15 11 (0.49%) OAuth
16 10 (0.45%) EDI
16 10 (0.45%) NestJS
16 10 (0.45%) XMPP
17 8 (0.36%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 78 (3.47%) Cloud Native
2 53 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
2 53 (2.36%) Product Ownership
3 49 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 37 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (1.42%) Operational Technology
7 31 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.29%) Cyberattack
9 28 (1.25%) PKI
10 25 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 21 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (0.76%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.62%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.58%) IoT
16 10 (0.45%) Taxonomies
17 9 (0.40%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.40%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 46 (2.05%) Windows
2 34 (1.51%) Windows Server
3 24 (1.07%) Linux
4 14 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.045%) AIX
5 1 (0.045%) Android
5 1 (0.045%) CentOS
5 1 (0.045%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (10.69%) Roadmaps
2 214 (9.53%) Agile
3 199 (8.86%) TOGAF
4 197 (8.77%) Enterprise Architecture
5 191 (8.50%) Data Modelling
6 178 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
7 164 (7.30%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (7.26%) Data Architecture
9 155 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 155 (6.90%) DevOps
10 149 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 144 (6.41%) Analytics
12 140 (6.23%) AI
13 139 (6.19%) IT Strategy
14 127 (5.65%) Technology Strategy
15 114 (5.08%) Data Governance
16 112 (4.99%) Technical Leadership
17 110 (4.90%) CI/CD
18 107 (4.76%) Architectural Design
19 105 (4.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 79 (3.52%) Python
2 74 (3.29%) SQL
3 37 (1.65%) Apex Code
3 37 (1.65%) Java
4 35 (1.56%) SOQL
5 34 (1.51%) C#
5 34 (1.51%) SOSL
6 20 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 19 (0.85%) PowerShell
8 18 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.49%) Bicep
10 6 (0.27%) Bash
11 5 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.18%) C
12 4 (0.18%) C++
12 4 (0.18%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.18%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.089%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.089%) PHP
13 2 (0.089%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 313 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 170 (7.57%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.88%) Degree
4 118 (5.25%) DV Cleared
5 48 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
6 41 (1.83%) CISSP
7 39 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 36 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.02%) CISM
12 19 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.85%) PMP
13 16 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 14 (0.62%) CCSP
15 10 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
16 9 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 62 (2.76%) NIST
3 44 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 32 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.34%) GDPR
6 27 (1.20%) QA
7 21 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.76%) NCSC
9 14 (0.62%) GRC
10 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.13%) WCAG
13 2 (0.089%) IFRS
13 2 (0.089%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.089%) PMO
13 2 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.089%) SLA
14 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.045%) NIST 800
System Software
1 58 (2.58%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.67%) vSphere
5 12 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.45%) Docker
7 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.045%) GPFS
8 1 (0.045%) Lustre
8 1 (0.045%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.045%) vCloud
8 1 (0.045%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (1.16%) Terraform
2 16 (0.71%) MOM
3 11 (0.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.45%) vRealize
5 9 (0.40%) Netcool
6 8 (0.36%) Endace
7 6 (0.27%) Ansible
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.13%) CASB
10 1 (0.045%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.045%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.045%) Grafana
10 1 (0.045%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.045%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.045%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 78 (3.47%) SAP
3 68 (3.03%) Databricks
4 66 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 62 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.27%) VMware
7 34 (1.51%) Oracle
7 34 (1.51%) Splunk
8 24 (1.07%) Google
9 23 (1.02%) Anaplan
9 23 (1.02%) Cisco
10 20 (0.89%) Palantir
11 18 (0.80%) Genesys
11 18 (0.80%) Palo Alto
11 18 (0.80%) Verint
12 17 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
12 17 (0.76%) Sparx
13 14 (0.62%) Juniper
14 13 (0.58%) Tenable
15 12 (0.53%) Fortinet