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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 91 31
Rank change year-on-year +60 -60 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,646 1,075 3,011
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.24% 3.11% 5.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 3.48% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 661 1,797
10th Percentile £62,000 £60,960 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £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 £97,500
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 80,086 30,882 51,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 89.41% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 55,545 17,477 29,269
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
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 26 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 26 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 +89 1,235 £80,000 +6.67% 520
North West +98 670 £80,000 - 289
South East +20 654 £87,200 +12.52% 569
South West +48 535 £84,000 -1.18% 252
Midlands +38 521 £85,000 +13.33% 290
West Midlands +41 418 £85,000 +13.33% 220
Yorkshire +57 364 £80,000 +6.67% 174
East of England +62 239 £82,500 +1.54% 159
North East +16 201 £85,000 +25.93% 57
Scotland +62 183 £85,000 +6.25% 208
Wales +24 166 £80,000 +11.11% 31
Northern Ireland -15 128 £80,000 +6.67% 74
East Midlands -4 103 £80,000 +6.67% 70
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 (17.44%) Azure
2 563 (15.44%) Security Cleared
3 492 (13.49%) Microsoft
4 454 (12.45%) AI
5 449 (12.31%) Roadmaps
6 412 (11.30%) AWS
7 343 (9.41%) SC Cleared
8 323 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
9 309 (8.48%) Enterprise Architecture
10 304 (8.34%) Agile
11 283 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
12 261 (7.16%) Data Architecture
13 244 (6.69%) Technical Architecture
14 239 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 234 (6.42%) Problem-Solving
16 223 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 220 (6.03%) TOGAF
18 218 (5.98%) Decision-Making
19 214 (5.87%) CI/CD
20 211 (5.79%) DV Cleared
21 206 (5.65%) Data Modelling
21 206 (5.65%) Technology Strategy
22 192 (5.27%) Analytics
23 191 (5.24%) Continuous Improvement
24 190 (5.21%) Microservices
25 186 (5.10%) Security Architecture
26 185 (5.07%) Mentoring
27 184 (5.05%) IT Strategy
28 178 (4.88%) Business Strategy
29 172 (4.72%) 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 17 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.22%) Apache
2 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.19%) CMS
4 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.082%) Confluence
6 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.055%) JBoss
7 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.055%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.027%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.027%) SAS
8 1 (0.027%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Revit
2 10 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.055%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.055%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.055%) Simulink
7 2 (0.055%) Weka
7 2 (0.055%) Windchill
8 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.027%) Notion
8 1 (0.027%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 44 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.082%) Lawson
6 3 (0.082%) Movex
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.082%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.055%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.055%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 636 (17.44%) Azure
2 412 (11.30%) AWS
3 172 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 132 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 124 (3.40%) SaaS
6 120 (3.29%) GCP
7 75 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 68 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 67 (1.84%) Entra ID
10 58 (1.59%) Serverless
11 42 (1.15%) dbt
12 40 (1.10%) PaaS
13 39 (1.07%) IaaS
14 35 (0.96%) Azure Databricks
15 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (0.55%) Amazon S3
17 19 (0.52%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
19 17 (0.47%) iPaaS
19 17 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.91%) WAN
2 91 (2.50%) LAN
3 76 (2.08%) Network Security
4 61 (1.67%) Firewall
5 48 (1.32%) VPN
6 31 (0.85%) DNS
7 29 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.52%) MPLS
8 19 (0.52%) Wireless
9 18 (0.49%) BGP
9 18 (0.49%) VLAN
10 16 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.41%) SNMP
12 14 (0.38%) 5G
13 13 (0.36%) HTTP
14 12 (0.33%) Broadband
14 12 (0.33%) DHCP
15 11 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
16 10 (0.27%) IPsec
16 10 (0.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (2.44%) Metadata
2 38 (1.04%) Power BI
3 35 (0.96%) Data Lake
4 27 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (0.69%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.30%) GIS
7 11 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
7 11 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.22%) Tableau
11 7 (0.19%) Big Data
12 6 (0.16%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.16%) MySQL
12 6 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (0.60%) Snyk
2 12 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.27%) JIRA
4 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.14%) Git
4 5 (0.14%) MLflow
4 5 (0.14%) Toad
5 4 (0.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
6 3 (0.082%) ERwin
7 2 (0.055%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.055%) JMeter
7 2 (0.055%) Postman
7 2 (0.055%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.055%) Selenium
8 1 (0.027%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.027%) Flyway
8 1 (0.027%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.027%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 520 (14.26%) Finance
2 473 (12.97%) Social Skills
3 296 (8.12%) Public Sector
4 168 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 145 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (3.59%) Aerospace
7 100 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 92 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (1.62%) Retail
10 58 (1.59%) Law
11 50 (1.37%) Banking
12 47 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 43 (1.18%) Legal
14 32 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 31 (0.85%) Marketing
16 20 (0.55%) Military
16 20 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.41%) Games
18 15 (0.41%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (1.56%) Middleware
2 55 (1.51%) Terraform
3 47 (1.29%) .NET
4 37 (1.01%) LDAP
5 36 (0.99%) OAuth
5 36 (0.99%) REST
6 33 (0.91%) SAML
7 26 (0.71%) Kafka
7 26 (0.71%) ModSecurity
8 24 (0.66%) SOAP
9 21 (0.58%) Node.js
10 20 (0.55%) OpenID
11 16 (0.44%) XML
12 15 (0.41%) JSON
13 13 (0.36%) SailPoint
14 12 (0.33%) GraphQL
14 12 (0.33%) Regular Expression
14 12 (0.33%) XMPP
15 11 (0.30%) RESTful
16 10 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 176 (4.83%) Cloud Native
2 77 (2.11%) Data Centre
3 56 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 40 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (0.80%) Operational Technology
9 29 (0.80%) Virtual Team
10 25 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 23 (0.63%) AI Agents
11 23 (0.63%) Cyberattack
11 23 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
11 23 (0.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 23 (0.63%) Public Cloud
12 22 (0.60%) Private Cloud
13 21 (0.58%) Social Media
14 20 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.23%) Linux
2 36 (0.99%) Windows
3 22 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.027%) AIX
6 1 (0.027%) CentOS
6 1 (0.027%) Solaris
6 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (12.45%) AI
2 449 (12.31%) Roadmaps
3 323 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
4 309 (8.48%) Enterprise Architecture
5 304 (8.34%) Agile
6 283 (7.76%) Cybersecurity
7 261 (7.16%) Data Architecture
8 244 (6.69%) Technical Architecture
9 239 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 234 (6.42%) Problem-Solving
11 223 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 220 (6.03%) TOGAF
13 218 (5.98%) Decision-Making
14 214 (5.87%) CI/CD
15 206 (5.65%) Data Modelling
15 206 (5.65%) Technology Strategy
16 192 (5.27%) Analytics
17 191 (5.24%) Continuous Improvement
18 190 (5.21%) Microservices
19 186 (5.10%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 89 (2.44%) SQL
2 88 (2.41%) Python
3 68 (1.87%) C#
4 49 (1.34%) JavaScript
5 36 (0.99%) Java
6 25 (0.69%) Bicep
7 18 (0.49%) C
8 15 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.38%) C++
10 10 (0.27%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.22%) Scala
12 7 (0.19%) Rust
13 6 (0.16%) COBOL
13 6 (0.16%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.16%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.16%) R
13 6 (0.16%) Ruby
14 5 (0.14%) Go
15 4 (0.11%) Bash
16 3 (0.082%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 563 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 343 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 211 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 139 (3.81%) Degree
5 70 (1.92%) CISSP
6 65 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 57 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 53 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 49 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (1.04%) CISM
12 37 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.47%) CCSP
15 17 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.41%) CCNP
17 14 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
18 9 (0.25%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.80%) GRC
2 101 (2.77%) NIST
3 90 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 69 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.56%) GDPR
6 52 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.66%) NCSC
8 21 (0.58%) QA
9 14 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.36%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.19%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.19%) MISRA
14 6 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (0.77%) Docker
4 23 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) Firmware
6 19 (0.52%) vSphere
7 11 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.25%) NDS
10 3 (0.082%) KVM
11 1 (0.027%) GPFS
11 1 (0.027%) Lustre
11 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 32 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.33%) CASB
4 10 (0.27%) FortiGate
4 10 (0.27%) MOM
5 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.14%) Ansible
7 3 (0.082%) Grafana
8 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.055%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.055%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.055%) SCCM
8 2 (0.055%) vRealize
9 1 (0.027%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.027%) Salt
Vendors
1 492 (13.49%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.39%) SAP
3 81 (2.22%) Databricks
4 59 (1.62%) Oracle
5 51 (1.40%) VMware
6 48 (1.32%) Cisco
6 48 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 41 (1.12%) Palo Alto
8 38 (1.04%) Workday
9 30 (0.82%) Computacenter
9 30 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 29 (0.80%) Google
11 24 (0.66%) ForgeRock
11 24 (0.66%) Okta
12 23 (0.63%) Tenable
13 22 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (0.60%) Red Hat
14 21 (0.58%) Adobe
15 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
16 18 (0.49%) CyberArk