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 12 July 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 87 40
Rank change year-on-year +54 -47 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,830 1,149 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.97% 3.40% 4.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.19% 3.81% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,111 793 2,345
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,310 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +3.08% -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 67,575 30,176 69,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.38% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 46,820 17,246 49,288
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 12 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 12 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 +93 972 £80,000 +6.67% 178
North West +90 566 £85,000 +13.33% 105
South East +11 476 £85,000 +9.68% 199
South West +43 414 £80,000 -4.48% 98
Midlands +18 402 £80,000 +10.34% 82
West Midlands +19 320 £82,500 +10.00% 65
Yorkshire +32 246 £80,000 - 40
East of England +48 178 £78,750 +12.50% 43
Scotland +44 172 £90,000 +12.50% 53
North East +12 160 £80,000 +23.08% 33
Wales +39 152 £80,000 +13.57% 20
East Midlands -23 81 £60,000 -11.11% 17
Northern Ireland -17 74 £74,830 -13.24% 13
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 555 (19.61%) Azure
2 404 (14.28%) Security Cleared
3 399 (14.10%) Microsoft
4 346 (12.23%) Roadmaps
5 337 (11.91%) AWS
6 314 (11.10%) AI
7 277 (9.79%) Agile
8 263 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 262 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
10 255 (9.01%) SC Cleared
11 247 (8.73%) TOGAF
12 199 (7.03%) CI/CD
13 193 (6.82%) Data Architecture
14 183 (6.47%) DevOps
14 183 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 181 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
16 179 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
17 178 (6.29%) Data Modelling
18 165 (5.83%) DV Cleared
19 162 (5.72%) Technical Architecture
20 160 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
21 155 (5.48%) Power Platform
22 153 (5.41%) Analytics
22 153 (5.41%) Technology Strategy
23 145 (5.12%) Stakeholder Management
24 137 (4.84%) IT Strategy
25 136 (4.81%) Decision-Making
26 133 (4.70%) Security Architecture
27 128 (4.52%) Cloud Security
28 127 (4.49%) Data Governance

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 13 (0.46%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.25%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.25%) Confluence
4 6 (0.21%) CMS
5 5 (0.18%) Apache
5 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.071%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.035%) Camunda
9 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.035%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.35%) Revit
2 9 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.071%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.071%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.071%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.071%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.071%) Simulink
4 2 (0.071%) Windchill
5 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 36 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.18%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
7 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.14%) SAP CAR
7 4 (0.14%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.071%) Oracle Utilities
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.035%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.035%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.035%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.035%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 555 (19.61%) Azure
2 337 (11.91%) AWS
3 155 (5.48%) Power Platform
4 109 (3.85%) GCP
5 88 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
5 88 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 84 (2.97%) SaaS
7 63 (2.23%) Serverless
8 40 (1.41%) Entra ID
9 38 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
9 38 (1.34%) dbt
10 37 (1.31%) PaaS
11 32 (1.13%) IaaS
12 30 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (1.02%) Snowflake
14 23 (0.81%) GitHub
15 15 (0.53%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (2.69%) WAN
2 63 (2.23%) Firewall
3 53 (1.87%) Network Security
4 52 (1.84%) LAN
5 51 (1.80%) Broadband
6 45 (1.59%) VPN
7 42 (1.48%) DNS
8 24 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.78%) BGP
10 20 (0.71%) MPLS
11 19 (0.67%) SNMP
12 16 (0.57%) HTTP
13 15 (0.53%) VLAN
14 12 (0.42%) SSL
15 11 (0.39%) DHCP
15 11 (0.39%) Unified Communications
16 10 (0.35%) FTP
16 10 (0.35%) ICMP
16 10 (0.35%) IPsec
16 10 (0.35%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (2.26%) Metadata
2 36 (1.27%) Data Lake
3 30 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (0.99%) Power BI
5 22 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.53%) GIS
8 10 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.35%) Tableau
9 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.28%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.28%) Data Vault
9 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.18%) Big Data
11 5 (0.18%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.18%) MySQL
12 4 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 47 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.31%) GitLab
3 34 (1.20%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.78%) Snyk
5 6 (0.21%) JIRA
6 5 (0.18%) Toad
6 5 (0.18%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.11%) Git
7 3 (0.11%) MLflow
8 2 (0.071%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.071%) ERwin
8 2 (0.071%) JMeter
8 2 (0.071%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.071%) Postman
8 2 (0.071%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.071%) Selenium
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Forms
General
1 349 (12.33%) Social Skills
2 314 (11.10%) Finance
3 218 (7.70%) Public Sector
4 161 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (2.23%) Marketing
8 53 (1.87%) Law
8 53 (1.87%) Retail
9 52 (1.84%) Games
10 49 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 26 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 22 (0.78%) Banking
13 22 (0.78%) Legal
14 21 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.42%) Automotive
15 12 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.42%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.39%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.37%) REST
2 55 (1.94%) SOAP
3 45 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 42 (1.48%) .NET
5 36 (1.27%) Middleware
6 34 (1.20%) Visualforce
7 27 (0.95%) OAuth
8 25 (0.88%) Node.js
9 22 (0.78%) Kafka
10 21 (0.74%) SAML
11 18 (0.64%) LDAP
11 18 (0.64%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.60%) XML
13 16 (0.57%) JSON
13 16 (0.57%) XMPP
14 11 (0.39%) GraphQL
14 11 (0.39%) OpenID
14 11 (0.39%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.35%) NestJS
15 10 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 126 (4.45%) Cloud Native
2 78 (2.76%) Data Centre
3 66 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 42 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.17%) Cyberattack
8 33 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (0.88%) PKI
10 25 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 21 (0.74%) Onboarding
12 19 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 17 (0.60%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.53%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.53%) NHS
15 13 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.80%) Windows
2 44 (1.55%) Linux
3 40 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.035%) AIX
5 1 (0.035%) CentOS
5 1 (0.035%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (12.23%) Roadmaps
2 314 (11.10%) AI
3 277 (9.79%) Agile
4 263 (9.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 262 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
6 247 (8.73%) TOGAF
7 199 (7.03%) CI/CD
8 193 (6.82%) Data Architecture
9 183 (6.47%) DevOps
9 183 (6.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 181 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
11 179 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
12 178 (6.29%) Data Modelling
13 162 (5.72%) Technical Architecture
14 160 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 153 (5.41%) Analytics
15 153 (5.41%) Technology Strategy
16 145 (5.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 137 (4.84%) IT Strategy
18 136 (4.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 93 (3.29%) SQL
2 86 (3.04%) Python
3 42 (1.48%) C#
4 38 (1.34%) Apex Code
5 35 (1.24%) Java
5 35 (1.24%) JavaScript
5 35 (1.24%) SOQL
6 34 (1.20%) SOSL
7 25 (0.88%) Bicep
8 16 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.39%) C
11 10 (0.35%) C++
12 6 (0.21%) Bash
12 6 (0.21%) COBOL
12 6 (0.21%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.21%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.21%) Ruby
13 4 (0.14%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 404 (14.28%) Security Cleared
2 255 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 165 (5.83%) DV Cleared
4 102 (3.60%) Degree
5 51 (1.80%) CISSP
5 51 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 38 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 26 (0.92%) CISM
10 22 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 19 (0.67%) CCSP
12 17 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 15 (0.53%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.46%) CCNP
16 11 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.32%) ICAEW
18 7 (0.25%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.71%) Data Quality
2 99 (3.50%) NIST
3 60 (2.12%) GRC
4 59 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.63%) GDPR
6 35 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.85%) NCSC
7 24 (0.85%) QA
8 14 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.18%) WCAG
15 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 76 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (0.81%) vSphere
4 21 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.67%) Docker
6 11 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.32%) Firmware
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.035%) GPFS
9 1 (0.035%) Lustre
9 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.035%) vCloud
9 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (1.77%) Terraform
2 45 (1.59%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.57%) MOM
3 16 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.35%) CASB
4 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.25%) Ansible
7 6 (0.21%) Endace
7 6 (0.21%) vRealize
8 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.071%) Grafana
10 1 (0.035%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.035%) Netcool
10 1 (0.035%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.035%) SCCM
Vendors
1 399 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.93%) Databricks
3 72 (2.54%) SAP
4 65 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 56 (1.98%) VMware
6 50 (1.77%) Cisco
7 41 (1.45%) Oracle
8 39 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.27%) Splunk
10 33 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.95%) Google
12 22 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.78%) Tenable
13 20 (0.71%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.60%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.57%) Juniper
16 15 (0.53%) Computacenter
17 12 (0.42%) McAfee
18 11 (0.39%) Citrix
19 9 (0.32%) Genesys