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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 93 33
Rank change year-on-year +60 -60 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,335 1,089 3,228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.20% 3.13% 5.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.46% 3.50% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,351 694 2,064
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 74,850 31,070 57,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 89.40% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,898 17,899 36,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,520 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -4.96% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 August 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 August 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 +97 1,128 £80,000 +6.67% 132
North West +98 621 £80,000 - 70
South East +20 584 £85,000 +9.68% 177
South West +55 487 £80,000 -5.88% 82
Midlands +33 482 £82,500 +10.00% 52
West Midlands +32 391 £85,000 +13.33% 36
Yorkshire +55 319 £80,000 +6.67% 47
East of England +61 214 £81,325 +3.27% 19
North East +11 188 £85,000 +30.77% 15
Scotland +55 182 £85,000 +6.25% 22
Wales +24 161 £80,000 +11.89% 10
Northern Ireland -15 110 £74,830 -9.63% 7
East Midlands -9 91 £60,000 -18.37% 16
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 622 (18.65%) Azure
2 482 (14.45%) Security Cleared
3 476 (14.27%) Microsoft
4 427 (12.80%) Roadmaps
5 425 (12.74%) AI
6 383 (11.48%) AWS
7 299 (8.97%) Enterprise Architecture
8 288 (8.64%) Agile
9 285 (8.55%) SC Cleared
10 264 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
11 259 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
12 237 (7.11%) TOGAF
13 230 (6.90%) Data Architecture
14 223 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
14 223 (6.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 221 (6.63%) Technical Architecture
16 212 (6.36%) CI/CD
17 207 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
18 197 (5.91%) Decision-Making
19 196 (5.88%) DV Cleared
20 192 (5.76%) Data Modelling
21 188 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
22 181 (5.43%) Business Strategy
23 180 (5.40%) Technology Strategy
24 176 (5.28%) Power Platform
25 173 (5.19%) DevOps
26 172 (5.16%) Analytics
27 168 (5.04%) Microservices
28 166 (4.98%) Security Architecture
29 162 (4.86%) Infrastructure as Code

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 19 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.21%) Apache
2 7 (0.21%) CMS
2 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.15%) Confluence
3 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.030%) JBoss
7 1 (0.030%) SAS
7 1 (0.030%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.030%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.30%) Revit
2 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.060%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.060%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.060%) Simulink
6 2 (0.060%) Weka
6 2 (0.060%) Windchill
7 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.030%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 42 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.090%) Lawson
6 3 (0.090%) Movex
6 3 (0.090%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.090%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.090%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.090%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.090%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.060%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 622 (18.65%) Azure
2 383 (11.48%) AWS
3 176 (5.28%) Power Platform
4 129 (3.87%) SaaS
5 124 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
6 123 (3.69%) GCP
7 78 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.92%) Serverless
10 56 (1.68%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.29%) PaaS
12 42 (1.26%) dbt
13 41 (1.23%) IaaS
14 23 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (0.60%) GitHub
17 19 (0.57%) Snowflake
18 18 (0.54%) iPaaS
19 17 (0.51%) Amazon S3
19 17 (0.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.15%) WAN
2 87 (2.61%) LAN
3 66 (1.98%) Network Security
4 64 (1.92%) Firewall
5 46 (1.38%) VPN
6 40 (1.20%) DNS
7 28 (0.84%) Broadband
8 27 (0.81%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.57%) MPLS
10 16 (0.48%) BGP
11 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.45%) VLAN
12 13 (0.39%) HTTP
12 13 (0.39%) SNMP
13 11 (0.33%) DHCP
14 10 (0.30%) FTP
14 10 (0.30%) ICMP
14 10 (0.30%) IPsec
14 10 (0.30%) SSL
14 10 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (2.10%) Metadata
2 39 (1.17%) Power BI
3 38 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 31 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.78%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.36%) GIS
8 10 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (0.30%) Tableau
9 7 (0.21%) Data Vault
10 6 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.18%) MySQL
11 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.66%) Snyk
3 20 (0.60%) GitLab
4 14 (0.42%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.27%) JIRA
6 5 (0.15%) Git
6 5 (0.15%) MLflow
6 5 (0.15%) Toad
6 5 (0.15%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.090%) ERwin
8 2 (0.060%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.060%) JMeter
8 2 (0.060%) Postman
8 2 (0.060%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.060%) Selenium
9 1 (0.030%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.030%) Flyway
9 1 (0.030%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle Forms
General
1 464 (13.91%) Finance
2 430 (12.89%) Social Skills
3 261 (7.83%) Public Sector
4 190 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
6 95 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.77%) Law
10 46 (1.38%) Retail
11 45 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 45 (1.35%) Marketing
12 38 (1.14%) Banking
13 32 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 31 (0.93%) Legal
15 29 (0.87%) Games
16 18 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.45%) Military
19 13 (0.39%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.74%) Terraform
2 53 (1.59%) .NET
3 49 (1.47%) REST
4 48 (1.44%) Middleware
5 38 (1.14%) SOAP
6 37 (1.11%) OAuth
7 35 (1.05%) LDAP
8 31 (0.93%) SAML
9 29 (0.87%) Node.js
10 25 (0.75%) Kafka
11 22 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
11 22 (0.66%) ModSecurity
12 19 (0.57%) OpenID
13 18 (0.54%) Regular Expression
14 17 (0.51%) XML
15 16 (0.48%) JSON
15 16 (0.48%) XMPP
16 14 (0.42%) Visualforce
17 10 (0.30%) NestJS
17 10 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 166 (4.98%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 55 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 48 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 39 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.05%) Operational Technology
9 33 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 32 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (0.90%) Cyberattack
12 27 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 22 (0.66%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.63%) Social Media
15 20 (0.60%) Private Cloud
16 19 (0.57%) Management Information System
17 18 (0.54%) AI Agents
18 17 (0.51%) Industrial Internet of Things
19 15 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
19 15 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.47%) Linux
2 43 (1.29%) Windows
3 31 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.030%) AIX
5 1 (0.030%) CentOS
5 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.030%) Solaris
5 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (12.80%) Roadmaps
2 425 (12.74%) AI
3 299 (8.97%) Enterprise Architecture
4 288 (8.64%) Agile
5 264 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
6 259 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
7 237 (7.11%) TOGAF
8 230 (6.90%) Data Architecture
9 223 (6.69%) Problem-Solving
9 223 (6.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 221 (6.63%) Technical Architecture
11 212 (6.36%) CI/CD
12 207 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 197 (5.91%) Decision-Making
14 192 (5.76%) Data Modelling
15 188 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 181 (5.43%) Business Strategy
17 180 (5.40%) Technology Strategy
18 173 (5.19%) DevOps
19 172 (5.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (2.94%) SQL
2 95 (2.85%) Python
3 65 (1.95%) C#
4 51 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.11%) Java
6 26 (0.78%) Bicep
7 17 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 16 (0.48%) C
9 15 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.42%) SOQL
10 14 (0.42%) SOSL
11 12 (0.36%) C++
12 8 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.24%) Scala
13 6 (0.18%) COBOL
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.18%) Go
13 6 (0.18%) R
13 6 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 482 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 285 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 196 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 117 (3.51%) Degree
5 61 (1.83%) CISSP
6 53 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 46 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 43 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.08%) CISM
11 26 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (0.48%) CCNP
15 15 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.45%) CCSP
16 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.27%) ICAEW
18 8 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (2.97%) NIST
2 97 (2.91%) GRC
3 92 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 65 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.65%) GDPR
6 41 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.63%) NCSC
8 18 (0.54%) QA
9 12 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.15%) MISRA
14 5 (0.15%) SLA
15 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (0.78%) vSphere
4 25 (0.75%) Docker
5 15 (0.45%) Firmware
6 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.15%) NDS
8 3 (0.090%) KVM
9 1 (0.030%) GPFS
9 1 (0.030%) Lustre
9 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.030%) vCloud
9 1 (0.030%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 28 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.48%) MOM
4 11 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.15%) Ansible
8 3 (0.090%) Grafana
9 2 (0.060%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.060%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.060%) SCCM
9 2 (0.060%) vRealize
10 1 (0.030%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.030%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 476 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.61%) SAP
3 84 (2.52%) Databricks
4 60 (1.80%) VMware
5 54 (1.62%) Oracle
6 47 (1.41%) Salesforce
7 43 (1.29%) Cisco
8 41 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 39 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 29 (0.87%) Google
11 22 (0.66%) Computacenter
11 22 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.66%) Tenable
11 22 (0.66%) Workday
12 21 (0.63%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.60%) Okta
13 20 (0.60%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.57%) ForgeRock
15 16 (0.48%) Adobe
15 16 (0.48%) Splunk