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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 85 39
Rank change year-on-year +51 -46 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,939 1,151 3,262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.03% 3.39% 5.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.25% 3.78% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,140 759 2,135
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
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 69,196 30,436 61,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.68% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 47,796 17,494 42,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 25 July 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 July 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 +92 985 £82,500 +10.00% 211
North West +98 579 £85,000 +13.33% 109
South East +7 495 £85,000 +9.68% 253
South West +42 433 £80,000 -5.88% 105
Midlands +19 421 £80,000 +6.67% 124
West Midlands +22 336 £82,500 +10.00% 91
Yorkshire +37 245 £80,000 +6.67% 62
Scotland +57 183 £90,000 +12.50% 50
East of England +52 177 £80,000 +14.29% 57
North East +12 161 £80,000 +23.08% 41
Wales +30 153 £80,000 +15.30% 19
Northern Ireland -14 103 £74,830 -9.63% 19
East Midlands -27 84 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 591 (20.11%) Azure
2 438 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 423 (14.39%) Security Cleared
4 378 (12.86%) Roadmaps
5 351 (11.94%) AWS
6 338 (11.50%) AI
7 275 (9.36%) SC Cleared
8 274 (9.32%) Agile
9 273 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
10 258 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
11 248 (8.44%) TOGAF
12 204 (6.94%) CI/CD
13 196 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
13 196 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
14 194 (6.60%) Data Architecture
15 193 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 188 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
17 184 (6.26%) DevOps
18 178 (6.06%) Data Modelling
19 172 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
20 166 (5.65%) DV Cleared
21 159 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
22 158 (5.38%) Power Platform
23 157 (5.34%) Business Strategy
24 155 (5.27%) Analytics
25 150 (5.10%) Technology Strategy
26 146 (4.97%) Decision-Making
27 144 (4.90%) Infrastructure as Code
28 140 (4.76%) Security Architecture
29 134 (4.56%) Cloud Security

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 10 (0.34%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.27%) CMS
2 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.20%) Apache
3 6 (0.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.17%) Confluence
4 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.10%) SAS
7 2 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.034%) Camunda
8 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.034%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Revit
2 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.24%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.068%) ArchiCAD
6 2 (0.068%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.068%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.068%) Simulink
6 2 (0.068%) Windchill
7 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.034%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 34 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle Utilities
7 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.068%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.068%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.068%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.068%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 591 (20.11%) Azure
2 351 (11.94%) AWS
3 158 (5.38%) Power Platform
4 103 (3.50%) GCP
5 96 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 91 (3.10%) SaaS
7 89 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
9 63 (2.14%) Serverless
10 49 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.43%) dbt
12 38 (1.29%) PaaS
13 35 (1.19%) IaaS
14 29 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (0.92%) Snowflake
16 25 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (0.78%) GitHub
18 16 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.51%) Amazon S3
20 14 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 106 (3.61%) WAN
2 81 (2.76%) LAN
3 61 (2.08%) Firewall
4 58 (1.97%) Network Security
5 49 (1.67%) Broadband
6 47 (1.60%) VPN
7 41 (1.40%) DNS
8 26 (0.88%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.75%) BGP
9 22 (0.75%) MPLS
10 19 (0.65%) SNMP
11 17 (0.58%) HTTP
12 15 (0.51%) VLAN
13 14 (0.48%) Unified Communications
14 11 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (0.37%) DHCP
15 10 (0.34%) FTP
15 10 (0.34%) ICMP
15 10 (0.34%) IPsec
15 10 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (1.97%) Metadata
2 37 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.05%) Power BI
4 26 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.54%) GIS
8 11 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.31%) Tableau
10 8 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.27%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.27%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.20%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.20%) MySQL
12 5 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.14%) Big Data
13 4 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 49 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 39 (1.33%) GitLab
3 34 (1.16%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.75%) Snyk
5 8 (0.27%) JIRA
6 5 (0.17%) Toad
6 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.14%) MLflow
8 3 (0.10%) Git
9 2 (0.068%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.068%) ERwin
9 2 (0.068%) JMeter
9 2 (0.068%) Postman
9 2 (0.068%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.068%) Selenium
10 1 (0.034%) Flyway
10 1 (0.034%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.034%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Forms
General
1 381 (12.96%) Social Skills
2 365 (12.42%) Finance
3 217 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 172 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (2.21%) Marketing
9 56 (1.91%) Law
10 49 (1.67%) Games
10 49 (1.67%) Retail
11 36 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 26 (0.88%) Legal
14 25 (0.85%) Banking
15 24 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.44%) Advertising
16 13 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (2.31%) REST
2 56 (1.91%) SOAP
3 45 (1.53%) .NET
3 45 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (1.16%) Middleware
4 34 (1.16%) Visualforce
5 29 (0.99%) OAuth
6 27 (0.92%) Node.js
7 26 (0.88%) LDAP
8 23 (0.78%) Kafka
8 23 (0.78%) SAML
9 18 (0.61%) Regular Expression
10 16 (0.54%) XML
10 16 (0.54%) XMPP
11 15 (0.51%) JSON
12 11 (0.37%) GraphQL
12 11 (0.37%) OpenID
12 11 (0.37%) Spring Boot
13 10 (0.34%) NestJS
14 9 (0.31%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 137 (4.66%) Cloud Native
2 83 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 72 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 45 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (1.19%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (1.09%) Cyberattack
10 26 (0.88%) Onboarding
10 26 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 22 (0.75%) PKI
12 15 (0.51%) Management Information System
13 14 (0.48%) Graphic Design
14 13 (0.44%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.44%) NHS
15 12 (0.41%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.41%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.60%) Windows
2 45 (1.53%) Linux
3 35 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.034%) AIX
5 1 (0.034%) CentOS
5 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (12.86%) Roadmaps
2 338 (11.50%) AI
3 274 (9.32%) Agile
4 273 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 258 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
6 248 (8.44%) TOGAF
7 204 (6.94%) CI/CD
8 196 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
8 196 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
9 194 (6.60%) Data Architecture
10 193 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 188 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
12 184 (6.26%) DevOps
13 178 (6.06%) Data Modelling
14 172 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 159 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 157 (5.34%) Business Strategy
17 155 (5.27%) Analytics
18 150 (5.10%) Technology Strategy
19 146 (4.97%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 92 (3.13%) SQL
2 86 (2.93%) Python
3 45 (1.53%) C#
4 40 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.33%) Apex Code
6 35 (1.19%) SOQL
7 34 (1.16%) SOSL
8 32 (1.09%) Java
9 26 (0.88%) Bicep
10 14 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 14 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.44%) C
12 10 (0.34%) C++
13 6 (0.20%) COBOL
13 6 (0.20%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.20%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.20%) Ruby
14 5 (0.17%) Bash
15 4 (0.14%) Scala
16 3 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 423 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 275 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 166 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 104 (3.54%) Degree
5 50 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 49 (1.67%) CISSP
7 39 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.22%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 25 (0.85%) CISM
12 20 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.61%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.58%) CCSP
16 16 (0.54%) CCNP
17 14 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.31%) ICAEW
18 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
19 7 (0.24%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.27%) NIST
3 89 (3.03%) GRC
4 57 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.67%) GDPR
6 38 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.85%) NCSC
8 21 (0.71%) QA
9 13 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.24%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.17%) SLA
14 5 (0.17%) WCAG
15 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 83 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (0.82%) vSphere
4 21 (0.71%) Docker
5 9 (0.31%) Firmware
5 9 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.17%) NDS
8 1 (0.034%) GPFS
8 1 (0.034%) KVM
8 1 (0.034%) Lustre
8 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.034%) vCloud
8 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.80%) Terraform
3 18 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.54%) MOM
5 10 (0.34%) CASB
5 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.24%) Ansible
8 6 (0.20%) Endace
9 3 (0.10%) Grafana
10 2 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.068%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.068%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.068%) vRealize
11 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.034%) Netcool
11 1 (0.034%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.034%) SCCM
Vendors
1 438 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 79 (2.69%) Databricks
3 70 (2.38%) SAP
4 68 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 57 (1.94%) VMware
6 51 (1.74%) Cisco
7 41 (1.40%) Oracle
7 41 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 36 (1.22%) Splunk
9 22 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (0.75%) Tenable
10 20 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.65%) Google
12 18 (0.61%) Computacenter
13 17 (0.58%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.51%) Juniper
15 12 (0.41%) Citrix
15 12 (0.41%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.41%) McAfee