Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 95 31
Rank change year-on-year +65 -64 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,659 1,034 2,828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.24% 3.00% 5.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.58% 3.36% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,427 632 1,714
10th Percentile £62,721 £60,063 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 79,938 30,816 48,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 89.54% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 55,216 17,381 26,639
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +102 1,203 £80,000 +3.23% 451
South East +25 681 £90,000 +16.13% 456
North West +99 656 £80,000 - 228
South West +46 550 £85,000 +3.03% 182
Midlands +42 516 £82,500 +10.00% 239
West Midlands +44 410 £85,000 +13.33% 190
Yorkshire +58 350 £80,000 +4.92% 162
East of England +65 246 £80,150 -2.85% 138
North East +18 197 £80,500 +11.03% 61
Scotland +56 185 £85,000 +6.25% 209
Wales +19 163 £80,000 +6.79% 47
Northern Ireland -8 131 £80,000 +6.79% 50
East Midlands -3 106 £80,000 +3.23% 49
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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.

1 629 (17.19%) Azure
2 582 (15.91%) Security Cleared
3 485 (13.25%) Microsoft
4 457 (12.49%) Roadmaps
5 449 (12.27%) AI
6 405 (11.07%) AWS
7 368 (10.06%) SC Cleared
8 355 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
9 308 (8.42%) Agile
10 297 (8.12%) Enterprise Architecture
11 285 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
12 252 (6.89%) Data Architecture
13 249 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 242 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
15 230 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
16 228 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 219 (5.99%) Decision-Making
18 213 (5.82%) DV Cleared
18 213 (5.82%) TOGAF
19 209 (5.71%) CI/CD
20 207 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
21 203 (5.55%) Analytics
22 196 (5.36%) Data Modelling
23 191 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
24 188 (5.14%) IT Strategy
25 184 (5.03%) Mentoring
26 181 (4.95%) Microservices
27 173 (4.73%) Migration
28 172 (4.70%) Security Architecture
29 170 (4.65%) Architectural Patterns

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 (0.41%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.30%) Apache
3 8 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.16%) CMS
4 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.082%) Confluence
7 2 (0.055%) JBoss
7 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.055%) SAS
7 2 (0.055%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.055%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.027%) IIS
8 1 (0.027%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.027%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.33%) Revit
2 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.11%) Notion
7 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.055%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.055%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.055%) Simulink
7 2 (0.055%) Weka
7 2 (0.055%) Windchill
8 1 (0.027%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 42 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.082%) Lawson
6 3 (0.082%) Movex
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.082%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.082%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.055%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 629 (17.19%) Azure
2 405 (11.07%) AWS
3 167 (4.56%) Power Platform
4 134 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 117 (3.20%) SaaS
6 112 (3.06%) GCP
7 72 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 70 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
9 68 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 51 (1.39%) Serverless
11 42 (1.15%) dbt
12 37 (1.01%) IaaS
13 36 (0.98%) Azure Databricks
13 36 (0.98%) PaaS
14 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (0.60%) Amazon S3
16 20 (0.55%) OpenShift
16 20 (0.55%) PowerApps
17 17 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (0.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.84%) WAN
2 90 (2.46%) LAN
3 73 (2.00%) Network Security
4 55 (1.50%) Firewall
5 47 (1.28%) VPN
6 29 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 27 (0.74%) DNS
8 20 (0.55%) Wireless
9 19 (0.52%) MPLS
10 18 (0.49%) BGP
10 18 (0.49%) VLAN
11 16 (0.44%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.41%) 5G
12 15 (0.41%) SNMP
13 13 (0.36%) HTTP
14 12 (0.33%) Broadband
14 12 (0.33%) DHCP
14 12 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
15 11 (0.30%) Intelligent Network
16 10 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (2.46%) Metadata
2 42 (1.15%) Power BI
3 32 (0.87%) Data Lake
4 30 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.63%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 12 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
8 11 (0.30%) GIS
8 11 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (0.27%) Big Data
9 10 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.22%) Tableau
12 7 (0.19%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.16%) MySQL
13 6 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (0.41%) Snyk
2 12 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.30%) JIRA
4 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.14%) Git
4 5 (0.14%) MLflow
4 5 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.14%) Toad
5 4 (0.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
6 3 (0.082%) ERwin
7 1 (0.027%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.027%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.027%) Flyway
7 1 (0.027%) JMeter
7 1 (0.027%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.027%) Postman
7 1 (0.027%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.027%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.027%) Selenium
General
1 522 (14.27%) Finance
2 482 (13.17%) Social Skills
3 284 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 152 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (3.91%) Aerospace
6 142 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
7 99 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 93 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 57 (1.56%) Retail
10 56 (1.53%) Law
11 53 (1.45%) Banking
12 49 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.26%) Legal
14 30 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 25 (0.68%) Marketing
15 25 (0.68%) Military
16 19 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.41%) Local Government
19 14 (0.38%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (1.91%) .NET
2 56 (1.53%) Terraform
3 50 (1.37%) Middleware
4 37 (1.01%) LDAP
5 36 (0.98%) OAuth
6 34 (0.93%) REST
6 34 (0.93%) SAML
7 27 (0.74%) ModSecurity
8 25 (0.68%) Kafka
9 22 (0.60%) SOAP
10 21 (0.57%) OpenID
11 19 (0.52%) Node.js
12 13 (0.36%) SailPoint
13 12 (0.33%) JSON
13 12 (0.33%) XML
14 11 (0.30%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.27%) Regular Expression
15 10 (0.27%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.27%) XMPP
16 9 (0.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 176 (4.81%) Cloud Native
2 62 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 59 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (0.85%) AI Agents
10 30 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 29 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 29 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 27 (0.74%) Operational Technology
13 24 (0.66%) Private Cloud
14 23 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
14 23 (0.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 23 (0.63%) Public Cloud
15 21 (0.57%) Social Media
16 20 (0.55%) IoT
17 19 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.28%) Linux
2 32 (0.87%) Windows
3 18 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.055%) macOS
6 1 (0.027%) AIX
6 1 (0.027%) CentOS
6 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.027%) Solaris
6 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (12.49%) Roadmaps
2 449 (12.27%) AI
3 355 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
4 308 (8.42%) Agile
5 297 (8.12%) Enterprise Architecture
6 285 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
7 252 (6.89%) Data Architecture
8 249 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 242 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
10 230 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
11 228 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 219 (5.99%) Decision-Making
13 213 (5.82%) TOGAF
14 209 (5.71%) CI/CD
15 207 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
16 203 (5.55%) Analytics
17 196 (5.36%) Data Modelling
18 191 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
19 188 (5.14%) IT Strategy
20 184 (5.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (2.60%) C#
2 90 (2.46%) Python
3 85 (2.32%) SQL
4 51 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.04%) Java
6 25 (0.68%) Bicep
7 19 (0.52%) C
8 15 (0.41%) C++
9 14 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 11 (0.30%) Scala
12 8 (0.22%) Rust
13 6 (0.16%) COBOL
13 6 (0.16%) R
13 6 (0.16%) Ruby
14 5 (0.14%) Bash
14 5 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.14%) Go
15 3 (0.082%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.082%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 582 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 368 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 213 (5.82%) DV Cleared
4 143 (3.91%) Degree
5 70 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 69 (1.89%) CISSP
7 59 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 41 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.01%) CISM
12 32 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.57%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 18 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
16 15 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.41%) CCNP
17 12 (0.33%) CCSP
18 8 (0.22%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (2.62%) GRC
2 88 (2.41%) NIST
3 86 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 66 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.50%) GDPR
6 54 (1.48%) Accessibility
7 26 (0.71%) NCSC
8 16 (0.44%) QA
9 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 10 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.25%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.19%) MISRA
14 6 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) Def Stans
17 3 (0.082%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 29 (0.79%) Docker
3 25 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) Firmware
6 18 (0.49%) vSphere
7 10 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.25%) NDS
9 3 (0.082%) KVM
10 1 (0.027%) GPFS
10 1 (0.027%) Lustre
10 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.33%) CASB
4 10 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.055%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.055%) Grafana
7 2 (0.055%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.027%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.027%) Puppet
8 1 (0.027%) Salt
8 1 (0.027%) SCCM
8 1 (0.027%) vRealize
Vendors
1 485 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 84 (2.30%) SAP
3 81 (2.21%) Databricks
4 62 (1.69%) Oracle
5 50 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.31%) Cisco
6 48 (1.31%) VMware
7 42 (1.15%) Workday
8 34 (0.93%) Palo Alto
9 31 (0.85%) Google
9 31 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 30 (0.82%) Computacenter
11 25 (0.68%) ForgeRock
11 25 (0.68%) Okta
12 24 (0.66%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.60%) Thales
14 21 (0.57%) Adobe
15 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.44%) Tenable
16 16 (0.44%) YouTube