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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 87 32
Rank change year-on-year +56 -55 -2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,586 1,097 3,061
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.29% 3.19% 5.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.59% 3.57% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 678 1,842
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,988 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
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 £98,474
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +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 78,205 30,688 52,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 89.33% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 54,314 17,458 30,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,572
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 £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 1,224 £80,000 +6.67% 688
North West +95 660 £80,000 - 396
South East +14 619 £85,000 +9.68% 710
South West +53 534 £80,000 -5.88% 294
Midlands +38 517 £85,000 +13.33% 344
West Midlands +38 415 £85,000 +13.33% 248
Yorkshire +61 365 £80,000 +4.92% 220
East of England +63 233 £80,150 +0.19% 202
North East +13 199 £85,000 +30.77% 75
Scotland +59 186 £85,000 +6.25% 292
Wales +16 164 £80,000 +11.89% 35
Northern Ireland -9 123 £80,000 -3.38% 100
East Midlands -6 102 £77,500 +3.68% 96
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 636 (17.74%) Azure
2 550 (15.34%) Security Cleared
3 496 (13.83%) Microsoft
4 450 (12.55%) AI
5 444 (12.38%) Roadmaps
6 418 (11.66%) AWS
7 327 (9.12%) SC Cleared
8 307 (8.56%) Agile
9 305 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
10 303 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
11 272 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
12 256 (7.14%) Data Architecture
13 242 (6.75%) Technical Architecture
14 235 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
15 234 (6.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 232 (6.47%) TOGAF
17 220 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
18 214 (5.97%) CI/CD
18 214 (5.97%) Decision-Making
19 213 (5.94%) DV Cleared
20 200 (5.58%) Data Modelling
21 195 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
21 195 (5.44%) Technology Strategy
22 190 (5.30%) Microservices
23 181 (5.05%) Security Architecture
24 180 (5.02%) Business Strategy
25 179 (4.99%) Mentoring
26 178 (4.96%) Analytics
27 176 (4.91%) DevOps
27 176 (4.91%) Power Platform

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 18 (0.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.22%) Apache
3 7 (0.20%) CMS
3 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.11%) Confluence
7 3 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.028%) JBoss
9 1 (0.028%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.028%) SAS
9 1 (0.028%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.028%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.28%) Revit
2 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.084%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.056%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.056%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.056%) Simulink
6 2 (0.056%) Weka
6 2 (0.056%) Windchill
7 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.028%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 41 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.17%) 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 Retail
6 3 (0.084%) Lawson
6 3 (0.084%) Movex
6 3 (0.084%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.084%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.056%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.056%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 636 (17.74%) Azure
2 418 (11.66%) AWS
3 176 (4.91%) Power Platform
4 132 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (3.49%) SaaS
6 124 (3.46%) GCP
7 76 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
9 60 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.67%) Serverless
10 43 (1.20%) PaaS
11 42 (1.17%) dbt
11 42 (1.17%) IaaS
12 33 (0.92%) Azure Databricks
13 23 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (0.56%) Amazon S3
14 20 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (0.56%) PowerApps
15 18 (0.50%) GitHub
15 18 (0.50%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (2.98%) WAN
2 91 (2.54%) LAN
3 77 (2.15%) Network Security
4 67 (1.87%) Firewall
5 49 (1.37%) VPN
6 34 (0.95%) DNS
7 29 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.56%) Broadband
9 19 (0.53%) MPLS
10 18 (0.50%) BGP
10 18 (0.50%) VLAN
10 18 (0.50%) Wireless
11 16 (0.45%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.42%) SNMP
13 13 (0.36%) HTTP
14 12 (0.33%) 5G
14 12 (0.33%) DHCP
15 10 (0.28%) FTP
15 10 (0.28%) IPsec
15 10 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (2.31%) Metadata
2 38 (1.06%) Power BI
3 35 (0.98%) Data Lake
4 27 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.33%) GIS
8 11 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.28%) Tableau
10 9 (0.25%) Metadata Repository
10 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.20%) Big Data
12 7 (0.20%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.17%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.17%) MySQL
14 5 (0.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (0.61%) Snyk
2 20 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.33%) GitLab
4 10 (0.28%) JIRA
5 7 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.14%) MLflow
6 5 (0.14%) Toad
7 4 (0.11%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.084%) ERwin
8 3 (0.084%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.056%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.056%) JMeter
9 2 (0.056%) Postman
9 2 (0.056%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.056%) Selenium
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.028%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 501 (13.97%) Finance
2 467 (13.02%) Social Skills
3 287 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 181 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 138 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 111 (3.10%) Aerospace
7 100 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 91 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (1.65%) Law
10 56 (1.56%) Retail
11 48 (1.34%) Banking
12 44 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.09%) Marketing
14 38 (1.06%) Legal
15 32 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 22 (0.61%) Games
17 19 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (0.47%) Military
19 16 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
20 13 (0.36%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (1.56%) Terraform
2 54 (1.51%) Middleware
3 47 (1.31%) .NET
4 42 (1.17%) REST
5 38 (1.06%) OAuth
6 37 (1.03%) LDAP
7 33 (0.92%) SAML
8 31 (0.86%) SOAP
9 26 (0.73%) ModSecurity
10 25 (0.70%) Kafka
11 22 (0.61%) Node.js
12 21 (0.59%) OpenID
13 16 (0.45%) XML
14 15 (0.42%) JSON
15 14 (0.39%) Regular Expression
15 14 (0.39%) XMPP
16 13 (0.36%) Lightning Web Components
17 12 (0.33%) GraphQL
17 12 (0.33%) SailPoint
18 11 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 172 (4.80%) Cloud Native
2 83 (2.31%) Data Centre
3 51 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 43 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 40 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 31 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (0.78%) Cyberattack
10 28 (0.78%) Operational Technology
10 28 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 23 (0.64%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 23 (0.64%) Management Information System
11 23 (0.64%) Public Cloud
12 22 (0.61%) AI Agents
13 21 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
13 21 (0.59%) Private Cloud
13 21 (0.59%) Social Media
14 19 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.28%) Linux
2 36 (1.00%) Windows
3 25 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.028%) AIX
5 1 (0.028%) CentOS
5 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.028%) Solaris
5 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (12.55%) AI
2 444 (12.38%) Roadmaps
3 307 (8.56%) Agile
4 305 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
5 303 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
6 272 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
7 256 (7.14%) Data Architecture
8 242 (6.75%) Technical Architecture
9 235 (6.55%) Problem-Solving
10 234 (6.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 232 (6.47%) TOGAF
12 220 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 214 (5.97%) CI/CD
13 214 (5.97%) Decision-Making
14 200 (5.58%) Data Modelling
15 195 (5.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 195 (5.44%) Technology Strategy
16 190 (5.30%) Microservices
17 181 (5.05%) Security Architecture
18 180 (5.02%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 93 (2.59%) SQL
2 90 (2.51%) Python
3 66 (1.84%) C#
4 49 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.03%) Java
6 26 (0.73%) Bicep
7 16 (0.45%) C
8 15 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.33%) C++
10 10 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.25%) Scala
12 7 (0.20%) SOQL
12 7 (0.20%) SOSL
13 6 (0.17%) COBOL
13 6 (0.17%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.17%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.17%) R
13 6 (0.17%) Ruby
14 5 (0.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 550 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 327 (9.12%) SC Cleared
3 213 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 131 (3.65%) Degree
5 70 (1.95%) CISSP
6 62 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 56 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 44 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.12%) CISM
10 38 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.67%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 17 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 17 (0.47%) CCNP
13 17 (0.47%) CCSP
14 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.25%) ICAEW
15 9 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (2.93%) NIST
2 102 (2.84%) GRC
3 89 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 72 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.56%) GDPR
6 51 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.70%) NCSC
8 18 (0.50%) QA
9 13 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.33%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.20%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) MISRA
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.75%) Docker
4 26 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.61%) vSphere
6 17 (0.47%) Firmware
7 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.25%) NDS
10 3 (0.084%) KVM
11 1 (0.028%) GPFS
11 1 (0.028%) Lustre
11 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.028%) vCloud
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 81 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 30 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.45%) MOM
4 12 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.28%) FortiGate
5 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.17%) Ansible
7 3 (0.084%) Grafana
8 2 (0.056%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.056%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.056%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.056%) SCCM
8 2 (0.056%) vRealize
9 1 (0.028%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 496 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.40%) SAP
3 83 (2.31%) Databricks
4 59 (1.65%) Oracle
5 56 (1.56%) VMware
6 49 (1.37%) Cisco
7 45 (1.25%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.14%) Palo Alto
9 37 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 33 (0.92%) Workday
11 29 (0.81%) Computacenter
11 29 (0.81%) Google
12 24 (0.67%) ForgeRock
12 24 (0.67%) Okta
13 23 (0.64%) Tenable
14 22 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
14 22 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 21 (0.59%) Adobe
16 20 (0.56%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.50%) CyberArk