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 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 96 43
Rank change year-on-year +48 -53 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,437 955 3,542
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.61% 3.28% 4.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.84% 3.68% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,794 675 2,307
10th Percentile £58,750 £59,850 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £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 £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 63,399 25,927 70,162
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 89.15% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 42,369 13,779 50,824
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £76,250
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 3 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 3 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 +80 835 £85,000 +21.43% 322
North West +87 475 £90,000 +28.57% 175
South East +21 399 £85,000 +9.68% 280
Midlands +8 357 £80,000 +14.29% 123
South West +53 344 £80,000 - 161
West Midlands 0 269 £82,500 +13.79% 95
Yorkshire +37 237 £80,000 -3.03% 93
East of England +51 197 £75,000 +13.29% 79
Scotland +36 169 £90,000 +12.50% 60
North East +12 123 £80,000 +23.08% 55
Wales +32 112 £80,000 +15.30% 53
East Midlands +10 87 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Northern Ireland -18 30 £70,000 -18.84% 21
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 469 (19.24%) Azure
2 315 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 290 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 277 (11.37%) AWS
5 258 (10.59%) Roadmaps
6 236 (9.68%) Agile
7 228 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
8 218 (8.95%) TOGAF
9 212 (8.70%) AI
10 192 (7.88%) SC Cleared
11 190 (7.80%) Enterprise Architecture
12 177 (7.26%) Data Modelling
13 171 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
14 160 (6.57%) Data Architecture
15 159 (6.52%) DevOps
16 158 (6.48%) CI/CD
17 148 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 148 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 135 (5.54%) Technical Leadership
19 134 (5.50%) Analytics
20 131 (5.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 126 (5.17%) Data Governance
22 125 (5.13%) Security Architecture
23 124 (5.09%) Power Platform
24 121 (4.97%) DV Cleared
25 120 (4.92%) Degree
26 119 (4.88%) Technology Strategy
27 115 (4.72%) Migration
28 113 (4.64%) Architectural Design
28 113 (4.64%) IT Strategy

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 12 (0.49%) Confluence
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.25%) Apache
6 5 (0.21%) CMS
6 5 (0.21%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.041%) Camunda
9 1 (0.041%) IIS
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.29%) Revit
2 6 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.082%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.082%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.082%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.082%) Windchill
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 38 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.25%) SAP CAR
5 6 (0.25%) 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 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.041%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.041%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.041%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.041%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 469 (19.24%) Azure
2 277 (11.37%) AWS
3 124 (5.09%) Power Platform
4 99 (4.06%) GCP
5 94 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
6 76 (3.12%) SaaS
7 59 (2.42%) Serverless
8 55 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 36 (1.48%) Entra ID
11 33 (1.35%) PaaS
12 29 (1.19%) Snowflake
13 28 (1.15%) IaaS
14 26 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (0.66%) GitHub
16 13 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.53%) iPaaS
17 9 (0.37%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.37%) Anthropic Claude
17 9 (0.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.50%) Firewall
2 59 (2.42%) Broadband
3 45 (1.85%) Network Security
4 34 (1.40%) WAN
5 33 (1.35%) VPN
6 32 (1.31%) DNS
7 18 (0.74%) LAN
8 15 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 14 (0.57%) BGP
9 14 (0.57%) MPLS
10 11 (0.45%) SNMP
11 10 (0.41%) HTTP
11 10 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 9 (0.37%) Internet
12 9 (0.37%) NetScaler
12 9 (0.37%) WLAN
13 8 (0.33%) SAN
13 8 (0.33%) SSL
14 6 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (2.50%) Metadata
2 42 (1.72%) Power BI
3 32 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.07%) Tableau
6 23 (0.94%) SQL Server
7 16 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 14 (0.57%) GIS
8 14 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.33%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.29%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.21%) Big Data
12 5 (0.21%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.16%) DB2
13 4 (0.16%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.48%) GitLab
3 34 (1.40%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.90%) Snyk
5 10 (0.41%) JIRA
6 5 (0.21%) Toad
6 5 (0.21%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.12%) Git
7 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.082%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.082%) ERwin
8 2 (0.082%) JMeter
8 2 (0.082%) MLflow
8 2 (0.082%) Postman
8 2 (0.082%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.082%) Selenium
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
General
1 279 (11.45%) Social Skills
2 252 (10.34%) Finance
3 195 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 126 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 119 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (2.95%) Games
7 66 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (2.67%) Marketing
9 50 (2.05%) Retail
10 30 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (0.98%) Law
13 23 (0.94%) Legal
14 21 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.74%) Banking
16 16 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.37%) Aviation
18 9 (0.37%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.42%) REST
2 53 (2.17%) SOAP
3 44 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (1.60%) .NET
5 34 (1.40%) Visualforce
6 32 (1.31%) Middleware
7 20 (0.82%) OAuth
8 19 (0.78%) XML
9 18 (0.74%) JSON
9 18 (0.74%) Kafka
10 17 (0.70%) LDAP
10 17 (0.70%) Node.js
10 17 (0.70%) Regular Expression
11 15 (0.62%) XMPP
12 14 (0.57%) SAML
13 11 (0.45%) OpenID
13 11 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (0.41%) NestJS
15 9 (0.37%) JWT
15 9 (0.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 92 (3.78%) Cloud Native
2 67 (2.75%) Data Centre
3 58 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 46 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 34 (1.40%) Cyberattack
7 31 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (0.98%) PKI
9 24 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 19 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 18 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (0.74%) NHS
12 16 (0.66%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.66%) Public Cloud
13 15 (0.62%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.53%) Onboarding
14 13 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (2.05%) Windows
2 40 (1.64%) Linux
3 39 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.78%) 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
1 258 (10.59%) Roadmaps
2 236 (9.68%) Agile
3 228 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
4 218 (8.95%) TOGAF
5 212 (8.70%) AI
6 190 (7.80%) Enterprise Architecture
7 177 (7.26%) Data Modelling
8 171 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (6.57%) Data Architecture
10 159 (6.52%) DevOps
11 158 (6.48%) CI/CD
12 148 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 148 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 135 (5.54%) Technical Leadership
14 134 (5.50%) Analytics
15 131 (5.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 126 (5.17%) Data Governance
17 125 (5.13%) Security Architecture
18 119 (4.88%) Technology Strategy
19 115 (4.72%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 90 (3.69%) SQL
2 86 (3.53%) Python
3 45 (1.85%) C#
4 37 (1.52%) Apex Code
4 37 (1.52%) Java
5 35 (1.44%) SOQL
6 34 (1.40%) SOSL
7 33 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 20 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 13 (0.53%) Bicep
11 5 (0.21%) Bash
11 5 (0.21%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.16%) C
12 4 (0.16%) C++
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.12%) R
14 2 (0.082%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.082%) Scala
Qualifications
1 315 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 192 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 121 (4.97%) DV Cleared
4 120 (4.92%) Degree
5 51 (2.09%) CISSP
6 50 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 41 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 35 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.03%) CISM
11 22 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.78%) CCSP
12 19 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.78%) PMP
13 18 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.49%) CCNP
16 9 (0.37%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 91 (3.73%) NIST
3 53 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (1.76%) GDPR
5 29 (1.19%) QA
6 28 (1.15%) GRC
7 19 (0.78%) NCSC
7 19 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.74%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.25%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.21%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.21%) WCAG
14 3 (0.12%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.12%) IFRS
15 2 (0.082%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.082%) PMO
System Software
1 72 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.82%) vSphere
4 19 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.62%) Docker
6 9 (0.37%) VMware NSX
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 29 (1.19%) Terraform
2 25 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.66%) MOM
4 15 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.29%) CASB
5 7 (0.29%) vRealize
6 6 (0.25%) Endace
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.25%) Netcool
7 5 (0.21%) Ansible
8 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.041%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.041%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.041%) Grafana
10 1 (0.041%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.041%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 290 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 84 (3.45%) Databricks
3 76 (3.12%) SAP
4 63 (2.59%) ServiceNow
5 61 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.05%) VMware
7 42 (1.72%) Oracle
8 36 (1.48%) Splunk
9 33 (1.35%) Cisco
10 31 (1.27%) Palo Alto
11 23 (0.94%) Anaplan
11 23 (0.94%) Google
12 22 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.90%) Tenable
13 21 (0.86%) Palantir
14 19 (0.78%) Juniper
15 18 (0.74%) Genesys
15 18 (0.74%) Verint
16 16 (0.66%) Red Hat
17 14 (0.57%) Sparx