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 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 64 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,267 1,070 3,121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.47% 3.93% 4.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.72% 4.44% 4.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 791 2,029
10th Percentile £55,544 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -5.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,000 £89,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £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 60,893 24,120 64,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 88.67% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 39,038 14,658 47,091
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,648 £53,000
% change year-on-year -7.79% +12.54% -11.67%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +26 694 £85,000 +21.43% 150
South East -5 434 £85,000 +6.25% 169
North West +36 377 £90,000 +31.39% 94
Midlands -1 362 £80,000 +10.34% 107
South West +51 312 £77,500 +7.65% 97
West Midlands +5 275 £80,000 +6.67% 72
Yorkshire +3 218 £82,500 +3.13% 35
East of England +45 205 £90,000 +34.63% 62
Scotland +11 159 £90,000 +12.50% 21
North East +3 99 £80,000 +23.08% 21
East Midlands -17 85 £65,000 - 35
Wales +14 76 £80,000 +19.74% 32
Northern Ireland -16 35 £55,000 -37.14% 19
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 428 (18.88%) Azure
2 307 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 244 (10.76%) Microsoft
4 235 (10.37%) Roadmaps
5 233 (10.28%) AWS
6 217 (9.57%) Agile
7 196 (8.65%) TOGAF
8 192 (8.47%) Data Modelling
9 186 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
9 186 (8.20%) Enterprise Architecture
10 169 (7.45%) SC Cleared
11 167 (7.37%) Data Architecture
12 152 (6.70%) DevOps
12 152 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
13 150 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 143 (6.31%) AI
15 139 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 133 (5.87%) Analytics
17 128 (5.65%) IT Strategy
18 125 (5.51%) Degree
19 119 (5.25%) Technology Strategy
20 118 (5.21%) CI/CD
20 118 (5.21%) Data Governance
21 117 (5.16%) DV Cleared
22 112 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
23 105 (4.63%) Architectural Design
24 101 (4.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 97 (4.28%) Security Architecture
26 96 (4.23%) Power Platform
27 94 (4.15%) Mentoring

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 20 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.66%) Confluence
3 13 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.26%) Apache
5 6 (0.26%) CMS
6 5 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.13%) SAS
9 2 (0.088%) JBoss
9 2 (0.088%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.044%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.044%) Camunda
10 1 (0.044%) IIS
10 1 (0.044%) Strapi
10 1 (0.044%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.088%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.088%) Revit
3 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.044%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.26%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.26%) SAP MM
4 5 (0.22%) SAP CAR
4 5 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 4 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.088%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.044%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.044%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.044%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.044%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.044%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 428 (18.88%) Azure
2 233 (10.28%) AWS
3 96 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.84%) GCP
5 80 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
6 68 (3.00%) SaaS
7 59 (2.60%) Serverless
8 55 (2.43%) Snowflake
9 51 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
10 44 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 39 (1.72%) PaaS
12 35 (1.54%) IaaS
13 30 (1.32%) Entra ID
14 27 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (0.57%) GitHub
15 13 (0.57%) iPaaS
16 10 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.31%) Mimecast
17 7 (0.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.47%) Broadband
2 55 (2.43%) Firewall
3 36 (1.59%) Network Security
4 30 (1.32%) VPN
5 24 (1.06%) DNS
6 19 (0.84%) WAN
7 10 (0.44%) LAN
8 9 (0.40%) Internet
8 9 (0.40%) NetScaler
8 9 (0.40%) SAN
9 7 (0.31%) BGP
9 7 (0.31%) MPLS
9 7 (0.31%) SNMP
10 6 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.26%) HTTP
10 6 (0.26%) NAS
10 6 (0.26%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (2.51%) Metadata
3 38 (1.68%) Power BI
4 22 (0.97%) Data Lake
5 21 (0.93%) Tableau
6 18 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.75%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.44%) GIS
8 10 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.31%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.22%) Big Data
12 5 (0.22%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.18%) DB2
13 4 (0.18%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.13%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.13%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 41 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.59%) GitLab
3 34 (1.50%) SonarQube
4 16 (0.71%) Snyk
5 13 (0.57%) JIRA
6 4 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.13%) Git
8 2 (0.088%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.088%) JMeter
8 2 (0.088%) MLflow
8 2 (0.088%) Postman
8 2 (0.088%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.088%) Selenium
8 2 (0.088%) Yeoman
9 1 (0.044%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.044%) Toad
General
1 266 (11.73%) Social Skills
2 218 (9.62%) Finance
3 158 (6.97%) Public Sector
4 114 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 94 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (3.18%) Games
7 67 (2.96%) Marketing
8 50 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 44 (1.94%) Retail
10 41 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (1.28%) Law
12 29 (1.28%) Legal
13 20 (0.88%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.75%) Banking
15 12 (0.53%) Electronics
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.35%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.56%) REST
2 52 (2.29%) SOAP
3 44 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (1.81%) Middleware
5 40 (1.76%) .NET
6 34 (1.50%) Visualforce
7 30 (1.32%) Node.js
8 20 (0.88%) XML
9 17 (0.75%) JSON
9 17 (0.75%) React
10 14 (0.62%) Kafka
10 14 (0.62%) LDAP
10 14 (0.62%) Regular Expression
11 12 (0.53%) Django
11 12 (0.53%) OAuth
11 12 (0.53%) XMPP
12 11 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.44%) EDI
13 10 (0.44%) NestJS
14 7 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (3.44%) Cloud Native
2 56 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 36 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (1.46%) Operational Technology
7 32 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.37%) Cyberattack
9 29 (1.28%) PKI
10 25 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 25 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (0.75%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.62%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (0.57%) IoT
14 12 (0.53%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.49%) NHS
16 10 (0.44%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.16%) Windows
2 36 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.28%) Linux
4 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.044%) AIX
5 1 (0.044%) CentOS
5 1 (0.044%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (10.37%) Roadmaps
2 217 (9.57%) Agile
3 196 (8.65%) TOGAF
4 192 (8.47%) Data Modelling
5 186 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
5 186 (8.20%) Enterprise Architecture
6 167 (7.37%) Data Architecture
7 152 (6.70%) DevOps
7 152 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 143 (6.31%) AI
10 139 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (5.87%) Analytics
12 128 (5.65%) IT Strategy
13 119 (5.25%) Technology Strategy
14 118 (5.21%) CI/CD
14 118 (5.21%) Data Governance
15 112 (4.94%) Technical Leadership
16 105 (4.63%) Architectural Design
17 101 (4.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 78 (3.44%) Python
2 77 (3.40%) SQL
3 37 (1.63%) Apex Code
4 36 (1.59%) C#
4 36 (1.59%) Java
5 35 (1.54%) SOQL
6 34 (1.50%) SOSL
7 21 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 18 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 17 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.53%) Bicep
11 6 (0.26%) Bash
12 5 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.18%) C
13 4 (0.18%) C++
13 4 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.18%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.088%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.088%) PHP
14 2 (0.088%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 307 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 169 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 125 (5.51%) Degree
4 117 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 48 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
6 47 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (1.94%) CISSP
8 38 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 34 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.06%) CISM
12 23 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.84%) PMP
14 15 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 15 (0.66%) CCSP
15 8 (0.35%) CCNP
15 8 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 66 (2.91%) NIST
3 42 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 33 (1.46%) GDPR
5 31 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.24%) QA
7 21 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.79%) GRC
9 17 (0.75%) NCSC
10 10 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 4 (0.18%) WCAG
14 3 (0.13%) IFRS
14 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.088%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.088%) PMO
15 2 (0.088%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.088%) SLA
15 2 (0.088%) Solvency II
System Software
1 60 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.75%) vSphere
5 12 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 11 (0.49%) Docker
7 2 (0.088%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.044%) GPFS
8 1 (0.044%) Lustre
8 1 (0.044%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.044%) vCloud
8 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (1.10%) Terraform
2 16 (0.71%) MOM
3 14 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (0.53%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.44%) vRealize
6 9 (0.40%) Netcool
7 7 (0.31%) Endace
8 6 (0.26%) Ansible
9 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.13%) CASB
11 1 (0.044%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.044%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.044%) Grafana
11 1 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.044%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.044%) SCCM
Vendors
1 244 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.53%) SAP
3 70 (3.09%) Databricks
4 66 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 60 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 52 (2.29%) VMware
7 35 (1.54%) Splunk
8 33 (1.46%) Oracle
9 23 (1.01%) Anaplan
9 23 (1.01%) Google
10 22 (0.97%) Cisco
11 21 (0.93%) Palantir
11 21 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 20 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (0.79%) Genesys
13 18 (0.79%) Verint
14 17 (0.75%) Sparx
15 16 (0.71%) Tenable
16 13 (0.57%) Juniper
16 13 (0.57%) Red Hat