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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 93 42
Rank change year-on-year +56 -51 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,457 988 3,737
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.73% 3.35% 4.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.94% 3.76% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,822 692 2,431
10th Percentile £59,250 £59,231 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,690 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £88,750
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 62,304 26,244 73,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 89.12% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 43,012 14,181 52,598
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £34,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,310 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,325
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 10 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 10 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 +91 846 £85,000 +21.43% 195
North West +100 482 £90,000 +29.14% 94
South East +21 401 £85,000 +9.68% 164
South West +55 352 £80,000 -3.03% 64
Midlands +21 350 £80,000 +14.79% 63
West Midlands +13 264 £82,500 +13.79% 53
Yorkshire +41 238 £80,000 +3.23% 53
East of England +55 196 £75,000 +13.29% 37
Scotland +38 171 £90,000 +12.50% 25
North East +19 126 £80,000 +23.08% 49
Wales +35 118 £80,000 +15.30% 21
East Midlands +1 85 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Northern Ireland -19 29 £70,000 -16.57% 7
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 477 (19.41%) Azure
2 323 (13.15%) Security Cleared
3 304 (12.37%) Microsoft
4 283 (11.52%) AWS
5 266 (10.83%) Roadmaps
6 233 (9.48%) Agile
7 227 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
8 225 (9.16%) AI
9 218 (8.87%) TOGAF
10 200 (8.14%) SC Cleared
11 188 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
12 174 (7.08%) Data Modelling
12 174 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
13 167 (6.80%) CI/CD
14 166 (6.76%) Data Architecture
15 162 (6.59%) DevOps
16 144 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 138 (5.62%) Analytics
18 137 (5.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 136 (5.54%) Technical Leadership
20 135 (5.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 131 (5.33%) Security Architecture
22 128 (5.21%) Data Governance
23 122 (4.97%) DV Cleared
24 120 (4.88%) Technology Strategy
25 117 (4.76%) Power Platform
26 113 (4.60%) IT Strategy
27 111 (4.52%) Architectural Design
28 110 (4.48%) Data Quality
29 106 (4.31%) Degree

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 14 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.45%) Confluence
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.28%) 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 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.041%) Camunda
10 1 (0.041%) IIS
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Revit
2 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.081%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.081%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.081%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.081%) Windchill
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 37 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.28%) 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 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.041%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.041%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.041%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 477 (19.41%) Azure
2 283 (11.52%) AWS
3 117 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 101 (4.11%) GCP
5 94 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
6 77 (3.13%) SaaS
7 60 (2.44%) Serverless
8 55 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (1.51%) Entra ID
11 33 (1.34%) PaaS
12 29 (1.18%) Snowflake
13 28 (1.14%) IaaS
14 27 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (0.73%) GitHub
16 13 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.53%) iPaaS
17 10 (0.41%) Amazon S3
17 10 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
18 9 (0.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.52%) Firewall
2 60 (2.44%) Broadband
3 47 (1.91%) Network Security
4 36 (1.47%) DNS
5 35 (1.42%) VPN
5 35 (1.42%) WAN
6 17 (0.69%) LAN
6 17 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 16 (0.65%) BGP
7 16 (0.65%) MPLS
8 13 (0.53%) SNMP
9 12 (0.49%) HTTP
10 10 (0.41%) SSL
10 10 (0.41%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.37%) Internet
11 9 (0.37%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.37%) WLAN
12 8 (0.33%) SAN
12 8 (0.33%) VLAN
13 6 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (2.60%) Metadata
2 33 (1.34%) Power BI
3 32 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 23 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.73%) Tableau
7 17 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 15 (0.61%) GIS
8 15 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.33%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.28%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.24%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.20%) Big Data
13 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.20%) MySQL
14 4 (0.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.47%) GitLab
3 34 (1.38%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.90%) Snyk
5 9 (0.37%) JIRA
6 5 (0.20%) Toad
6 5 (0.20%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.12%) MLflow
7 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.081%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.081%) ERwin
8 2 (0.081%) Git
8 2 (0.081%) JMeter
8 2 (0.081%) Postman
8 2 (0.081%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.081%) Selenium
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
General
1 277 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 248 (10.09%) Finance
3 196 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 126 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 114 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 65 (2.65%) Marketing
8 62 (2.52%) Games
9 48 (1.95%) Retail
10 28 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 23 (0.94%) Legal
12 22 (0.90%) Law
13 21 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 18 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.69%) Banking
16 16 (0.65%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.41%) Local Government
19 9 (0.37%) Financial Institution
20 8 (0.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.48%) REST
2 54 (2.20%) SOAP
3 44 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (1.59%) .NET
5 34 (1.38%) Visualforce
6 31 (1.26%) Middleware
7 22 (0.90%) OAuth
8 19 (0.77%) XML
9 18 (0.73%) JSON
9 18 (0.73%) Kafka
9 18 (0.73%) LDAP
9 18 (0.73%) Node.js
9 18 (0.73%) Regular Expression
10 16 (0.65%) SAML
10 16 (0.65%) XMPP
11 11 (0.45%) OpenID
12 10 (0.41%) NestJS
12 10 (0.41%) RESTful
13 9 (0.37%) JWT
13 9 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 96 (3.91%) Cloud Native
2 68 (2.77%) Data Centre
3 60 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 41 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 39 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 34 (1.38%) Cyberattack
6 34 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (1.02%) PKI
9 24 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 20 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 17 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 16 (0.65%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.65%) NHS
13 15 (0.61%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.53%) Onboarding
14 13 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.04%) Windows
2 41 (1.67%) Linux
3 40 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.041%) AIX
5 1 (0.041%) CentOS
5 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (10.83%) Roadmaps
2 233 (9.48%) Agile
3 227 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
4 225 (9.16%) AI
5 218 (8.87%) TOGAF
6 188 (7.65%) Enterprise Architecture
7 174 (7.08%) Data Modelling
7 174 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (6.80%) CI/CD
9 166 (6.76%) Data Architecture
10 162 (6.59%) DevOps
11 144 (5.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (5.62%) Analytics
13 137 (5.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 136 (5.54%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (5.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 131 (5.33%) Security Architecture
17 128 (5.21%) Data Governance
18 120 (4.88%) Technology Strategy
19 113 (4.60%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 95 (3.87%) SQL
2 89 (3.62%) Python
3 44 (1.79%) C#
4 38 (1.55%) Java
5 37 (1.51%) Apex Code
6 35 (1.42%) SOQL
7 34 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 34 (1.38%) SOSL
8 18 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.65%) Bicep
10 15 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.24%) C
11 6 (0.24%) C++
12 5 (0.20%) Bash
12 5 (0.20%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.20%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) R
13 3 (0.12%) Scala
14 2 (0.081%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 323 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 200 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 122 (4.97%) DV Cleared
4 106 (4.31%) Degree
5 53 (2.16%) CISSP
6 50 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 35 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.10%) CISM
11 22 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.77%) CCSP
13 16 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.45%) CCNP
16 9 (0.37%) ICAEW
16 9 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.83%) NIST
3 56 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (1.83%) GDPR
5 28 (1.14%) GRC
6 27 (1.10%) QA
7 21 (0.85%) NCSC
8 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.20%) WCAG
14 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.12%) IFRS
16 2 (0.081%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.081%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.85%) vSphere
4 19 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.57%) Docker
6 9 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.041%) Firmware
7 1 (0.041%) GPFS
7 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.041%) Lustre
7 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.041%) vCloud
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (1.38%) Terraform
2 25 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.65%) MOM
4 15 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.37%) CASB
6 7 (0.28%) vRealize
7 6 (0.24%) Endace
7 6 (0.24%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.20%) Ansible
8 5 (0.20%) Netcool
9 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.081%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.041%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.041%) Grafana
11 1 (0.041%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.041%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 304 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 89 (3.62%) Databricks
3 73 (2.97%) SAP
4 61 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 51 (2.08%) VMware
6 50 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.59%) Oracle
8 36 (1.47%) Splunk
9 35 (1.42%) Cisco
10 33 (1.34%) Palo Alto
11 24 (0.98%) Google
12 22 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.90%) Tenable
13 21 (0.85%) Palantir
14 19 (0.77%) Juniper
15 17 (0.69%) Red Hat
16 13 (0.53%) Anaplan
17 12 (0.49%) McAfee
18 11 (0.45%) Sparx
19 9 (0.37%) OpenAI