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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 90 33
Rank change year-on-year +60 -57 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,392 1,104 3,242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.24% 3.17% 5.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.50% 3.54% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,398 694 2,059
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £64,750
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 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 75,311 31,166 56,985
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.41% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 52,253 17,936 36,555
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 28 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 28 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 +97 1,151 £80,000 +6.67% 382
North West +101 634 £80,000 - 223
South East +17 597 £85,000 +9.68% 359
South West +48 493 £80,000 -5.88% 214
Midlands +34 487 £82,500 +10.00% 176
West Midlands +31 395 £85,000 +13.33% 111
Yorkshire +53 325 £80,000 +6.67% 116
East of England +60 218 £80,000 +1.59% 110
North East +12 192 £85,000 +30.77% 43
Scotland +59 185 £85,000 +6.25% 155
Wales +21 163 £80,000 +11.89% 19
Northern Ireland -18 112 £80,000 -3.38% 70
East Midlands -8 92 £65,000 -12.75% 65
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 623 (18.37%) Azure
2 493 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 479 (14.12%) Microsoft
4 428 (12.62%) AI
5 427 (12.59%) Roadmaps
6 393 (11.59%) AWS
7 298 (8.79%) Enterprise Architecture
8 290 (8.55%) Agile
9 289 (8.52%) SC Cleared
10 270 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
11 267 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
12 240 (7.08%) Data Architecture
13 238 (7.02%) TOGAF
14 227 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
15 225 (6.63%) Technical Architecture
16 221 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 217 (6.40%) CI/CD
18 208 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 205 (6.04%) Decision-Making
20 201 (5.93%) DV Cleared
21 195 (5.75%) Data Modelling
22 193 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
23 183 (5.40%) Technology Strategy
24 180 (5.31%) Business Strategy
25 176 (5.19%) DevOps
25 176 (5.19%) Microservices
26 174 (5.13%) Analytics
26 174 (5.13%) Power Platform
27 170 (5.01%) Security Architecture
28 168 (4.95%) Mentoring

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 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.27%) Apache
3 7 (0.21%) CMS
3 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.15%) Confluence
5 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.029%) JBoss
9 1 (0.029%) SAS
9 1 (0.029%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.029%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.29%) Revit
2 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.059%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.059%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.059%) Simulink
6 2 (0.059%) Weka
6 2 (0.059%) Windchill
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.029%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 42 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.088%) Lawson
6 3 (0.088%) Movex
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.088%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.059%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 623 (18.37%) Azure
2 393 (11.59%) AWS
3 174 (5.13%) Power Platform
4 130 (3.83%) SaaS
5 126 (3.71%) GCP
6 122 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.89%) Serverless
10 55 (1.62%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.24%) dbt
11 42 (1.24%) PaaS
12 40 (1.18%) IaaS
13 22 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (0.59%) Amazon S3
14 20 (0.59%) GitHub
15 18 (0.53%) iPaaS
15 18 (0.53%) Snowflake
16 17 (0.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.10%) WAN
2 87 (2.56%) LAN
3 69 (2.03%) Network Security
4 66 (1.95%) Firewall
5 46 (1.36%) VPN
6 40 (1.18%) DNS
7 29 (0.85%) Broadband
8 27 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.56%) MPLS
10 16 (0.47%) BGP
11 15 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.44%) VLAN
12 13 (0.38%) HTTP
12 13 (0.38%) SNMP
12 13 (0.38%) Wireless
13 11 (0.32%) DHCP
14 10 (0.29%) FTP
14 10 (0.29%) ICMP
14 10 (0.29%) IPsec
14 10 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (2.21%) Metadata
2 39 (1.15%) Power BI
3 37 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 31 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.35%) GIS
8 10 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (0.29%) Tableau
9 8 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.18%) Big Data
11 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.18%) MySQL
12 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.15%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 28 (0.83%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.65%) Snyk
3 20 (0.59%) GitLab
4 14 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.15%) Git
6 5 (0.15%) MLflow
6 5 (0.15%) Toad
6 5 (0.15%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.088%) ERwin
8 2 (0.059%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.059%) JMeter
8 2 (0.059%) Postman
8 2 (0.059%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.059%) Selenium
9 1 (0.029%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.029%) Flyway
9 1 (0.029%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.029%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.029%) Oracle Forms
General
1 468 (13.80%) Finance
2 434 (12.79%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 191 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 76 (2.24%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.74%) Law
10 45 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.33%) Marketing
10 45 (1.33%) Retail
11 42 (1.24%) Banking
12 32 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 30 (0.88%) Legal
14 29 (0.85%) Games
15 18 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.47%) Military
18 13 (0.38%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.74%) Terraform
2 56 (1.65%) .NET
3 49 (1.44%) REST
4 48 (1.42%) Middleware
5 38 (1.12%) SOAP
6 37 (1.09%) OAuth
7 35 (1.03%) LDAP
8 31 (0.91%) SAML
9 30 (0.88%) Node.js
10 25 (0.74%) Kafka
11 24 (0.71%) ModSecurity
12 22 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (0.56%) OpenID
14 18 (0.53%) Regular Expression
15 17 (0.50%) XML
16 16 (0.47%) JSON
16 16 (0.47%) XMPP
17 14 (0.41%) Visualforce
18 12 (0.35%) PySpark
19 10 (0.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 165 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.48%) Data Centre
3 52 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (1.50%) Product Ownership
5 46 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 33 (0.97%) Onboarding
10 32 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (0.88%) Cyberattack
12 27 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 22 (0.65%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.62%) Management Information System
14 21 (0.62%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.62%) Social Media
15 18 (0.53%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 16 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
18 15 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.47%) Linux
2 41 (1.21%) Windows
3 31 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.029%) AIX
5 1 (0.029%) CentOS
5 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.029%) Solaris
5 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (12.62%) AI
2 427 (12.59%) Roadmaps
3 298 (8.79%) Enterprise Architecture
4 290 (8.55%) Agile
5 270 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
6 267 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
7 240 (7.08%) Data Architecture
8 238 (7.02%) TOGAF
9 227 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
10 225 (6.63%) Technical Architecture
11 221 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 217 (6.40%) CI/CD
13 208 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 205 (6.04%) Decision-Making
15 195 (5.75%) Data Modelling
16 193 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 183 (5.40%) Technology Strategy
18 180 (5.31%) Business Strategy
19 176 (5.19%) DevOps
19 176 (5.19%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 99 (2.92%) SQL
2 97 (2.86%) Python
3 65 (1.92%) C#
4 52 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.12%) Java
6 26 (0.77%) Bicep
7 17 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 16 (0.47%) C
9 15 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.41%) SOQL
10 14 (0.41%) SOSL
11 12 (0.35%) C++
12 9 (0.27%) Scala
13 8 (0.24%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.18%) COBOL
14 6 (0.18%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.18%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.18%) Go
14 6 (0.18%) R
14 6 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 493 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 289 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 201 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 117 (3.45%) Degree
5 64 (1.89%) CISSP
6 56 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 50 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 43 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (1.15%) CISM
11 37 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 28 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (0.47%) CCNP
16 15 (0.44%) CCSP
17 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.27%) ICAEW
19 8 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.01%) NIST
2 97 (2.86%) GRC
3 96 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 68 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.65%) GDPR
6 44 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.65%) NCSC
8 17 (0.50%) QA
9 13 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.15%) MISRA
15 5 (0.15%) SLA
16 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.80%) Docker
4 26 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.77%) vSphere
5 15 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.15%) NDS
8 3 (0.088%) KVM
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) vCloud
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.47%) MOM
4 12 (0.35%) CASB
5 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.15%) Ansible
8 3 (0.088%) Grafana
9 2 (0.059%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.059%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.059%) SCCM
9 2 (0.059%) vRealize
10 1 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.029%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 479 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.56%) SAP
3 83 (2.45%) Databricks
4 60 (1.77%) VMware
5 55 (1.62%) Oracle
6 47 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 43 (1.27%) Cisco
8 41 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 41 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 30 (0.88%) Google
10 25 (0.74%) Workday
11 23 (0.68%) Computacenter
12 22 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 22 (0.65%) Tenable
13 20 (0.59%) Okta
13 20 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 18 (0.53%) Adobe
16 16 (0.47%) Splunk