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 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,270 2,563 2,011
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.45% 5.35% 6.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% 5.65% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 782 1,566 1,068
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,241
25th Percentile £67,875 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,150 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -0.53% -3.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,105
90th Percentile £99,875 £97,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 32,986 45,395 29,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 94.81% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 20,445 24,466 22,021
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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
South East -29 359 £77,500 - 472
North of England -40 306 £79,000 +5.33% 189
Midlands -18 237 £80,000 +6.67% 137
North West -38 156 £80,000 +6.67% 120
South West -21 151 £80,000 +6.67% 145
West Midlands -17 148 £77,000 -0.65% 89
Yorkshire -24 105 £80,000 +4.58% 56
East of England -28 90 £90,000 +5.88% 101
East Midlands -6 86 £80,000 +14.29% 46
Scotland -47 72 £80,000 - 51
North East -20 44 £75,000 -0.20% 13
Wales -15 33 £75,000 +36.36% 23
Northern Ireland -3 28 £75,000 -6.25% 13
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 2025, 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.

1 357 (28.11%) Azure
2 249 (19.61%) Security Cleared
3 223 (17.56%) AWS
4 212 (16.69%) Agile
5 209 (16.46%) Roadmaps
6 202 (15.91%) Microsoft
7 193 (15.20%) Enterprise Architecture
8 175 (13.78%) TOGAF
9 173 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 170 (13.39%) Mentoring
11 151 (11.89%) DevOps
12 149 (11.73%) SC Cleared
13 145 (11.42%) Analytics
14 141 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
15 130 (10.24%) Python
16 129 (10.16%) Data Modelling
17 127 (10.00%) AI
18 125 (9.84%) Degree
19 124 (9.76%) DV Cleared
19 124 (9.76%) GCP
20 110 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
21 109 (8.58%) Data Architecture
22 102 (8.03%) Business Strategy
23 97 (7.64%) SaaS
23 97 (7.64%) Technical Leadership
24 95 (7.48%) Architectural Design
25 94 (7.40%) SAP
26 93 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
26 93 (7.32%) Decision-Making
26 93 (7.32%) Project Management

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 (1.50%) CMS
2 13 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (0.87%) Appian
3 11 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.47%) Apache
6 5 (0.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.079%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.079%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.079%) JBoss
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.079%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 63 (4.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (3.86%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.91%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.39%) Shopify
7 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.16%) Maximo
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.16%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.079%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.079%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.079%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 357 (28.11%) Azure
2 223 (17.56%) AWS
3 124 (9.76%) GCP
4 97 (7.64%) SaaS
5 59 (4.65%) PaaS
6 46 (3.62%) IaaS
7 45 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
8 43 (3.39%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (2.83%) OCI
10 35 (2.76%) Snowflake
11 33 (2.60%) Serverless
12 26 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (1.10%) GitHub
16 12 (0.94%) Azure Stack
17 11 (0.87%) iPaaS
17 11 (0.87%) MinIO
18 10 (0.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.52%) LAN
2 30 (2.36%) Network Security
2 30 (2.36%) VPN
2 30 (2.36%) WAN
3 28 (2.20%) Firewall
4 17 (1.34%) Broadband
5 15 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (1.02%) Junos
7 7 (0.55%) VoIP
8 6 (0.47%) ATM
8 6 (0.47%) BGP
8 6 (0.47%) Frame Relay
8 6 (0.47%) SDH
9 5 (0.39%) SSL
10 4 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.31%) DNS
10 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.31%) OSPF
10 4 (0.31%) SAN
10 4 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (2.36%) Metadata
3 22 (1.73%) BigQuery
3 22 (1.73%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.02%) Power BI
6 8 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (0.47%) Airbyte
8 6 (0.47%) Delta Lake
8 6 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (0.47%) Metadata Repository
8 6 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.39%) Big Data
9 5 (0.39%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 21 (1.65%) GitLab
3 15 (1.18%) SonarQube
4 11 (0.87%) MSI
4 11 (0.87%) Robot Framework
4 11 (0.87%) Selenium
4 11 (0.87%) Snyk
5 9 (0.71%) JIRA
5 9 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (0.63%) Git
7 6 (0.47%) MSBuild
7 6 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.079%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.079%) ERwin
8 1 (0.079%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 324 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 163 (12.83%) Finance
3 154 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 87 (6.85%) Marketing
6 72 (5.67%) Law
7 56 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (3.39%) Legal
10 27 (2.13%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.97%) Banking
11 25 (1.97%) Retail
12 23 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.34%) Games
14 15 (1.18%) Electronics
15 14 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.79%) Publishing
18 9 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.52%) .NET
1 32 (2.52%) REST
2 29 (2.28%) Middleware
3 27 (2.13%) Kafka
4 26 (2.05%) React
5 25 (1.97%) Node.js
6 24 (1.89%) Django
7 21 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 20 (1.57%) SOAP
9 18 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.18%) Visualforce
11 11 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (0.87%) Web Services
12 10 (0.79%) gRPC
13 9 (0.71%) XML
14 8 (0.63%) CSS
14 8 (0.63%) HTML
15 7 (0.55%) ASP.NET
15 7 (0.55%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 37 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (2.76%) Data Centre
4 33 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (2.28%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 25 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 21 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 12 (0.94%) Private Cloud
12 11 (0.87%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (0.87%) IoT
13 8 (0.63%) PKI
14 7 (0.55%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.55%) Reference Data
15 6 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.97%) Windows
2 19 (1.50%) Linux
3 4 (0.31%) AIX
4 3 (0.24%) Android
4 3 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.16%) Unix
6 1 (0.079%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.079%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.079%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.079%) VMS
6 1 (0.079%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (16.69%) Agile
2 209 (16.46%) Roadmaps
3 193 (15.20%) Enterprise Architecture
4 175 (13.78%) TOGAF
5 173 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 170 (13.39%) Mentoring
7 151 (11.89%) DevOps
8 145 (11.42%) Analytics
9 141 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (10.16%) Data Modelling
11 127 (10.00%) AI
12 110 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 109 (8.58%) Data Architecture
14 102 (8.03%) Business Strategy
15 97 (7.64%) Technical Leadership
16 95 (7.48%) Architectural Design
17 93 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
17 93 (7.32%) Decision-Making
17 93 (7.32%) Project Management
18 92 (7.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 130 (10.24%) Python
2 73 (5.75%) C#
3 63 (4.96%) Java
3 63 (4.96%) SQL
4 25 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 23 (1.81%) C++
5 23 (1.81%) Go
6 19 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.42%) Apex Code
8 17 (1.34%) SOQL
8 17 (1.34%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.18%) SOSL
10 10 (0.79%) Bicep
11 9 (0.71%) PHP
12 4 (0.31%) Bash
13 3 (0.24%) ABAP
13 3 (0.24%) C
13 3 (0.24%) R
13 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 249 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 149 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.84%) Degree
4 124 (9.76%) DV Cleared
5 76 (5.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 62 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.86%) AWS Certification
8 43 (3.39%) Azure Certification
9 41 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 41 (3.23%) CISSP
10 40 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (2.68%) CISM
12 31 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (1.97%) Chartered Engineer
15 24 (1.89%) DBS Check
16 22 (1.73%) CCNP
17 18 (1.42%) CCNA
18 13 (1.02%) JNCIA
19 6 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.68%) Data Quality
2 32 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.28%) GDPR
5 26 (2.05%) GRC
5 26 (2.05%) NIST
6 24 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 17 (1.34%) NCSC
8 12 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 9 (0.71%) QA
10 6 (0.47%) SLA
11 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.31%) SEPA
12 4 (0.31%) TARGET2
13 3 (0.24%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (2.91%) Docker
2 26 (2.05%) Firmware
3 10 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.63%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 37 (2.91%) Terraform
3 21 (1.65%) Ansible
4 12 (0.94%) WMI
5 7 (0.55%) Endace
6 3 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.24%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.16%) VxRail
8 1 (0.079%) Argo
8 1 (0.079%) Netcool
8 1 (0.079%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.079%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.079%) vRealize
Vendors
1 202 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 94 (7.40%) SAP
3 51 (4.02%) Google
4 49 (3.86%) Oracle
5 37 (2.91%) OpenText
6 35 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.60%) Cisco
8 29 (2.28%) Juniper
9 25 (1.97%) VMware
10 23 (1.81%) Adobe
10 23 (1.81%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.65%) Workday
12 20 (1.57%) Splunk
13 19 (1.50%) Databricks
14 18 (1.42%) Apple
14 18 (1.42%) BiZZdesign
15 12 (0.94%) Ariba
15 12 (0.94%) UiPath
16 11 (0.87%) Black Duck
17 9 (0.71%) Fortinet