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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 92 32
Rank change year-on-year +61 -60 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,594 1,081 3,064
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.25% 3.14% 5.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 3.52% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 669 1,846
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,992 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £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 78,906 30,717 52,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.30% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 54,746 17,484 30,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,620
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 £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -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 18 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 18 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 +88 1,232 £80,000 +6.67% 574
North West +105 662 £80,000 - 324
South East +16 619 £85,000 +9.68% 671
South West +50 535 £80,000 -5.88% 229
Midlands +38 517 £85,000 +13.33% 309
West Midlands +32 414 £85,000 +13.33% 219
Yorkshire +62 369 £80,000 +6.67% 185
East of England +66 231 £80,150 -1.35% 172
North East +11 201 £85,000 +30.77% 65
Scotland +65 186 £85,000 +6.25% 239
Wales +18 166 £80,000 +11.89% 30
Northern Ireland -9 123 £80,000 +1.39% 71
East Midlands -12 103 £77,500 +3.33% 90
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 638 (17.75%) Azure
2 555 (15.44%) Security Cleared
3 495 (13.77%) Microsoft
4 452 (12.58%) Roadmaps
5 451 (12.55%) AI
6 419 (11.66%) AWS
7 332 (9.24%) SC Cleared
8 308 (8.57%) Agile
8 308 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
9 307 (8.54%) Enterprise Architecture
10 272 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
11 258 (7.18%) Data Architecture
12 242 (6.73%) Technical Architecture
13 236 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
13 236 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 229 (6.37%) TOGAF
15 227 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 217 (6.04%) CI/CD
16 217 (6.04%) Decision-Making
17 212 (5.90%) DV Cleared
18 203 (5.65%) Data Modelling
19 201 (5.59%) Technology Strategy
20 195 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
21 190 (5.29%) Microservices
22 182 (5.06%) Mentoring
23 179 (4.98%) Analytics
23 179 (4.98%) Business Strategy
24 178 (4.95%) IT Strategy
24 178 (4.95%) Security Architecture
25 177 (4.92%) DevOps

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 6 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.11%) Confluence
7 3 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.028%) JBoss
9 1 (0.028%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.028%) SAS
9 1 (0.028%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.028%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.31%) Revit
2 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.056%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.056%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.056%) Simulink
6 2 (0.056%) Weka
6 2 (0.056%) Windchill
7 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.028%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 41 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.083%) Lawson
6 3 (0.083%) Movex
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.056%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.056%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 638 (17.75%) Azure
2 419 (11.66%) AWS
3 174 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 133 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (3.48%) GCP
5 125 (3.48%) SaaS
6 76 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
7 70 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
8 61 (1.70%) Entra ID
9 60 (1.67%) Serverless
10 42 (1.17%) dbt
11 41 (1.14%) IaaS
11 41 (1.14%) PaaS
12 35 (0.97%) Azure Databricks
13 23 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (0.56%) Amazon S3
14 20 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (0.53%) GitHub
16 18 (0.50%) iPaaS
16 18 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 107 (2.98%) WAN
2 90 (2.50%) LAN
3 76 (2.11%) Network Security
4 64 (1.78%) Firewall
5 49 (1.36%) VPN
6 33 (0.92%) DNS
7 29 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.53%) Broadband
8 19 (0.53%) MPLS
9 18 (0.50%) BGP
9 18 (0.50%) VLAN
10 17 (0.47%) Wireless
11 16 (0.45%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.42%) SNMP
13 13 (0.36%) HTTP
14 12 (0.33%) 5G
14 12 (0.33%) DHCP
15 10 (0.28%) FTP
15 10 (0.28%) IPsec
15 10 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (2.37%) Metadata
2 38 (1.06%) Power BI
3 35 (0.97%) Data Lake
4 27 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.33%) GIS
8 11 (0.31%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
9 10 (0.28%) Tableau
10 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.19%) Big Data
12 7 (0.19%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.19%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.17%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (0.61%) Snyk
2 19 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.31%) GitLab
4 10 (0.28%) JIRA
5 6 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.14%) MLflow
6 5 (0.14%) Toad
7 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.083%) ERwin
8 3 (0.083%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.056%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.056%) JMeter
9 2 (0.056%) Postman
9 2 (0.056%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.056%) Selenium
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.028%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 506 (14.08%) Finance
2 468 (13.02%) Social Skills
3 289 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 180 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 140 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 114 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 100 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 92 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (1.64%) Law
10 57 (1.59%) Retail
11 50 (1.39%) Banking
12 44 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.09%) Marketing
14 38 (1.06%) Legal
15 32 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.58%) Games
17 19 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.50%) Military
19 16 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
20 14 (0.39%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (1.56%) Terraform
2 54 (1.50%) Middleware
3 47 (1.31%) .NET
4 41 (1.14%) REST
5 37 (1.03%) OAuth
6 36 (1.00%) LDAP
7 33 (0.92%) SAML
8 30 (0.83%) SOAP
9 26 (0.72%) ModSecurity
10 25 (0.70%) Kafka
11 22 (0.61%) Node.js
12 20 (0.56%) OpenID
13 16 (0.45%) XML
14 15 (0.42%) JSON
15 13 (0.36%) Regular Expression
15 13 (0.36%) XMPP
16 12 (0.33%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.33%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (0.33%) SailPoint
17 11 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 175 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 82 (2.28%) Data Centre
3 51 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 43 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 40 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 32 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (0.78%) Cyberattack
10 28 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 27 (0.75%) Operational Technology
12 23 (0.64%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 23 (0.64%) Management Information System
12 23 (0.64%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.61%) AI Agents
13 22 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
14 21 (0.58%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.58%) Social Media
15 19 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.25%) Linux
2 35 (0.97%) Windows
3 24 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.056%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.028%) AIX
6 1 (0.028%) CentOS
6 1 (0.028%) Solaris
6 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (12.58%) Roadmaps
2 451 (12.55%) AI
3 308 (8.57%) Agile
3 308 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
4 307 (8.54%) Enterprise Architecture
5 272 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
6 258 (7.18%) Data Architecture
7 242 (6.73%) Technical Architecture
8 236 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 229 (6.37%) TOGAF
10 227 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 217 (6.04%) CI/CD
11 217 (6.04%) Decision-Making
12 203 (5.65%) Data Modelling
13 201 (5.59%) Technology Strategy
14 195 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 190 (5.29%) Microservices
16 182 (5.06%) Mentoring
17 179 (4.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (2.56%) SQL
2 91 (2.53%) Python
3 66 (1.84%) C#
4 49 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.03%) Java
6 26 (0.72%) Bicep
7 17 (0.47%) C
8 15 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.36%) C++
10 10 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.25%) Scala
12 6 (0.17%) COBOL
12 6 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.17%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.17%) R
12 6 (0.17%) Ruby
12 6 (0.17%) Rust
12 6 (0.17%) SOQL
12 6 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 555 (15.44%) Security Cleared
2 332 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 212 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 132 (3.67%) Degree
5 68 (1.89%) CISSP
6 62 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 53 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 44 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.03%) CISM
13 23 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.47%) CCSP
16 15 (0.42%) CCNP
16 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
18 9 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.84%) GRC
2 101 (2.81%) NIST
3 90 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 68 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.53%) GDPR
6 51 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.67%) NCSC
8 19 (0.53%) QA
9 12 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.17%) MISRA
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.75%) Docker
4 26 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.58%) vSphere
6 18 (0.50%) Firmware
7 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.25%) NDS
10 3 (0.083%) KVM
11 1 (0.028%) GPFS
11 1 (0.028%) Lustre
11 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.028%) vCloud
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (2.28%) Kubernetes
2 30 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.42%) MOM
4 12 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.17%) Ansible
8 3 (0.083%) Grafana
9 2 (0.056%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.056%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.056%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.056%) SCCM
9 2 (0.056%) vRealize
10 1 (0.028%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 495 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.37%) Databricks
2 85 (2.37%) SAP
3 58 (1.61%) Oracle
4 55 (1.53%) VMware
5 48 (1.34%) Cisco
6 46 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 41 (1.14%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 34 (0.95%) Workday
10 30 (0.83%) Computacenter
10 30 (0.83%) Google
11 24 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 24 (0.67%) Okta
12 23 (0.64%) Tenable
13 22 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (0.58%) Adobe
14 21 (0.58%) Red Hat
15 20 (0.56%) OpenAI
16 18 (0.50%) CyberArk