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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 93 34
Rank change year-on-year +60 -59 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,131 1,100 3,164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.06% 3.18% 5.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.30% 3.56% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,230 709 2,060
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £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 £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 72,831 30,931 56,883
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.45% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 50,336 17,816 37,495
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,498
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 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 11 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 1,043 £82,500 +10.00% 315
North West +102 588 £82,500 +3.13% 170
South East +14 549 £85,000 +9.68% 377
South West +53 470 £80,000 -5.88% 196
Midlands +25 444 £82,500 +10.00% 166
West Midlands +29 360 £82,500 +6.45% 114
Yorkshire +52 276 £82,500 +10.00% 106
East of England +52 196 £80,150 +7.58% 107
Scotland +57 182 £90,000 +12.50% 106
North East +10 179 £82,750 +27.31% 39
Wales +25 152 £80,000 +13.57% 23
Northern Ireland -17 106 £74,830 -9.63% 47
East Midlands -11 84 £60,000 -14.29% 52
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 620 (19.80%) Azure
2 463 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 462 (14.76%) Security Cleared
4 398 (12.71%) Roadmaps
5 387 (12.36%) AI
6 365 (11.66%) AWS
7 292 (9.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 291 (9.29%) SC Cleared
9 280 (8.94%) Agile
10 265 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
11 242 (7.73%) TOGAF
12 228 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
13 215 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (6.68%) Technical Architecture
15 208 (6.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 206 (6.58%) Data Architecture
17 201 (6.42%) CI/CD
18 186 (5.94%) Data Modelling
19 185 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
20 182 (5.81%) DV Cleared
21 177 (5.65%) Power Platform
22 173 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
22 173 (5.53%) Decision-Making
22 173 (5.53%) DevOps
23 170 (5.43%) Business Strategy
24 164 (5.24%) Analytics
25 162 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
26 160 (5.11%) Microservices
27 156 (4.98%) Security Architecture
28 150 (4.79%) 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 11 (0.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.22%) Apache
2 7 (0.22%) CMS
2 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.16%) Confluence
4 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.13%) SAS
6 3 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.032%) JBoss
8 1 (0.032%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.29%) Revit
2 8 (0.26%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.064%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.064%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.064%) Simulink
5 2 (0.064%) Windchill
6 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.032%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 36 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
4 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.096%) Infor M3
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.096%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.064%) Movex
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.064%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.064%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 620 (19.80%) Azure
2 365 (11.66%) AWS
3 177 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 113 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.58%) GCP
6 108 (3.45%) SaaS
7 85 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (1.98%) Serverless
10 54 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.34%) dbt
12 41 (1.31%) PaaS
13 36 (1.15%) IaaS
14 29 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (0.73%) Snowflake
16 22 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (0.67%) GitHub
18 18 (0.57%) iPaaS
19 17 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
20 15 (0.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.32%) WAN
2 82 (2.62%) LAN
3 63 (2.01%) Firewall
4 62 (1.98%) Network Security
5 44 (1.41%) VPN
6 40 (1.28%) DNS
7 34 (1.09%) Broadband
8 27 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 20 (0.64%) MPLS
10 18 (0.57%) BGP
11 15 (0.48%) HTTP
11 15 (0.48%) SNMP
11 15 (0.48%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.48%) VLAN
12 11 (0.35%) DHCP
13 10 (0.32%) FTP
13 10 (0.32%) ICMP
13 10 (0.32%) IPsec
13 10 (0.32%) SSH
13 10 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (2.14%) Metadata
2 39 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 37 (1.18%) Power BI
4 34 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.48%) GIS
8 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.32%) Tableau
10 9 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.26%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.22%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.19%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.19%) MySQL
14 4 (0.13%) Big Data
14 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 26 (0.83%) GitLab
3 22 (0.70%) Snyk
4 20 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.16%) Git
6 5 (0.16%) MLflow
6 5 (0.16%) Toad
6 5 (0.16%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.096%) ERwin
8 2 (0.064%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.064%) JMeter
8 2 (0.064%) Postman
8 2 (0.064%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.064%) Selenium
9 1 (0.032%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.032%) Flyway
9 1 (0.032%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Forms
General
1 417 (13.32%) Finance
2 404 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 239 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 187 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
7 79 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.92%) Law
9 50 (1.60%) Marketing
10 49 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 46 (1.47%) Retail
12 33 (1.05%) Games
13 30 (0.96%) Legal
14 29 (0.93%) Banking
15 28 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.42%) Advertising
17 13 (0.42%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (1.76%) REST
2 50 (1.60%) .NET
3 44 (1.41%) SOAP
4 40 (1.28%) Middleware
5 34 (1.09%) OAuth
6 32 (1.02%) LDAP
7 29 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
8 28 (0.89%) Node.js
8 28 (0.89%) SAML
9 24 (0.77%) Kafka
10 20 (0.64%) Visualforce
11 18 (0.57%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.54%) XML
13 16 (0.51%) JSON
13 16 (0.51%) ModSecurity
13 16 (0.51%) OpenID
13 16 (0.51%) XMPP
14 10 (0.32%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.32%) NestJS
14 10 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 151 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 57 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 51 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.12%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (0.96%) Cyberattack
10 30 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 27 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 20 (0.64%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.61%) Social Media
14 18 (0.57%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.57%) Private Cloud
15 17 (0.54%) PKI
16 15 (0.48%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.48%) Graphic Design
17 13 (0.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.53%) Linux
2 44 (1.41%) Windows
3 32 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.032%) AIX
5 1 (0.032%) CentOS
5 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.032%) Solaris
5 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (12.71%) Roadmaps
2 387 (12.36%) AI
3 292 (9.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 280 (8.94%) Agile
5 265 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
6 242 (7.73%) TOGAF
7 228 (7.28%) Technical Leadership
8 215 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (6.68%) Technical Architecture
10 208 (6.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 206 (6.58%) Data Architecture
12 201 (6.42%) CI/CD
13 186 (5.94%) Data Modelling
14 185 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 173 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 173 (5.53%) Decision-Making
15 173 (5.53%) DevOps
16 170 (5.43%) Business Strategy
17 164 (5.24%) Analytics
18 162 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 97 (3.10%) SQL
2 96 (3.07%) Python
3 63 (2.01%) C#
4 50 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 36 (1.15%) Java
6 25 (0.80%) Bicep
7 24 (0.77%) Apex Code
8 21 (0.67%) SOQL
9 20 (0.64%) SOSL
10 16 (0.51%) C
11 15 (0.48%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.38%) C++
13 9 (0.29%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.19%) COBOL
14 6 (0.19%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.19%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.19%) Go
14 6 (0.19%) R
14 6 (0.19%) Ruby
14 6 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 462 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 291 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 182 (5.81%) DV Cleared
4 114 (3.64%) Degree
5 57 (1.82%) CISSP
6 52 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 47 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 39 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.02%) CISM
11 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.54%) CCNP
14 16 (0.51%) CCSP
15 13 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.29%) ICAEW
16 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.19%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (3.16%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.00%) NIST
3 92 (2.94%) GRC
4 57 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (1.69%) GDPR
6 39 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.70%) NCSC
8 19 (0.61%) QA
9 13 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.16%) MISRA
15 5 (0.16%) SLA
16 4 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 31 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.80%) Docker
4 24 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.77%) vSphere
5 12 (0.38%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.16%) NDS
9 3 (0.096%) KVM
10 1 (0.032%) GPFS
10 1 (0.032%) Lustre
10 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.032%) vCloud
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.76%) Terraform
3 25 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.51%) MOM
5 10 (0.32%) CASB
5 10 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.22%) Ansible
8 3 (0.096%) Grafana
9 2 (0.064%) Endace
9 2 (0.064%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.064%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.064%) vRealize
10 1 (0.032%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 463 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.71%) Databricks
3 78 (2.49%) SAP
4 58 (1.85%) VMware
5 57 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 46 (1.47%) Cisco
7 45 (1.44%) Oracle
8 41 (1.31%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 22 (0.70%) Computacenter
10 22 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.70%) Google
10 22 (0.70%) Splunk
10 22 (0.70%) Tenable
11 20 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.61%) Okta
12 19 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 18 (0.57%) Workday
14 16 (0.51%) ForgeRock
15 13 (0.42%) CyberArk