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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 99 31
Rank change year-on-year +69 -68 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,644 1,038 2,882
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.21% 3.00% 5.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 3.35% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 634 1,730
10th Percentile £62,908 £60,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,563
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 £97,597
UK median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 80,159 30,989 48,952
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 89.62% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 55,290 17,375 26,993
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +102 1,206 £80,000 +3.23% 460
South East +24 676 £88,750 +14.52% 528
North West +102 655 £80,000 - 240
South West +48 543 £85,000 +4.62% 201
Midlands +41 515 £82,500 +10.00% 266
West Midlands +45 408 £85,000 +13.33% 204
Yorkshire +59 354 £80,000 +4.92% 161
East of England +63 242 £81,325 -1.42% 181
North East +17 197 £80,500 +16.02% 59
Scotland +52 184 £85,000 +6.25% 242
Wales +13 162 £80,000 +6.91% 53
Northern Ireland -9 132 £80,000 +6.67% 62
East Midlands -9 107 £80,000 +3.23% 62
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 624 (17.12%) Azure
2 572 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 481 (13.20%) Microsoft
4 452 (12.40%) Roadmaps
5 447 (12.27%) AI
6 400 (10.98%) AWS
7 361 (9.91%) SC Cleared
8 349 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
9 310 (8.51%) Agile
10 297 (8.15%) Enterprise Architecture
11 286 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
12 250 (6.86%) Data Architecture
13 248 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 241 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
15 231 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
16 222 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
17 215 (5.90%) Decision-Making
18 209 (5.74%) DV Cleared
19 208 (5.71%) CI/CD
19 208 (5.71%) TOGAF
20 205 (5.63%) Technology Strategy
21 202 (5.54%) Analytics
22 197 (5.41%) Data Modelling
23 189 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
24 186 (5.10%) IT Strategy
24 186 (5.10%) Mentoring
25 182 (4.99%) Microservices
26 172 (4.72%) Security Architecture
27 169 (4.64%) Infrastructure as Code
27 169 (4.64%) Migration

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 15 (0.41%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.30%) Apache
3 8 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.19%) CMS
5 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.082%) Confluence
7 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.055%) JBoss
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.055%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.027%) IIS
9 1 (0.027%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.027%) SAS
9 1 (0.027%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.33%) Revit
2 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.11%) Notion
7 2 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.055%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.055%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.055%) Simulink
7 2 (0.055%) Weka
7 2 (0.055%) Windchill
8 1 (0.027%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 41 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.082%) Lawson
6 3 (0.082%) Movex
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.082%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.082%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.055%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 624 (17.12%) Azure
2 400 (10.98%) AWS
3 168 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 133 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
5 117 (3.21%) SaaS
6 114 (3.13%) GCP
7 72 (1.98%) Entra ID
8 70 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 69 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (1.43%) Serverless
11 42 (1.15%) dbt
12 37 (1.02%) IaaS
13 36 (0.99%) Azure Databricks
13 36 (0.99%) PaaS
14 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (0.60%) Amazon S3
16 20 (0.55%) OpenShift
16 20 (0.55%) PowerApps
17 17 (0.47%) Azure AKS
17 17 (0.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.85%) WAN
2 90 (2.47%) LAN
3 73 (2.00%) Network Security
4 55 (1.51%) Firewall
5 46 (1.26%) VPN
6 29 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 27 (0.74%) DNS
8 20 (0.55%) Wireless
9 19 (0.52%) MPLS
10 18 (0.49%) BGP
10 18 (0.49%) VLAN
11 16 (0.44%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.41%) 5G
12 15 (0.41%) SNMP
13 13 (0.36%) HTTP
14 12 (0.33%) Broadband
14 12 (0.33%) DHCP
14 12 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
15 11 (0.30%) Intelligent Network
16 10 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (2.44%) Metadata
2 41 (1.13%) Power BI
3 32 (0.88%) Data Lake
4 30 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.63%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 12 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
8 11 (0.30%) GIS
8 11 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (0.27%) Big Data
9 10 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (0.22%) Tableau
12 7 (0.19%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.16%) MySQL
13 6 (0.16%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (0.41%) Snyk
2 12 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.30%) JIRA
4 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.14%) Git
4 5 (0.14%) MLflow
4 5 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.14%) Toad
5 4 (0.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
6 3 (0.082%) ERwin
7 1 (0.027%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.027%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.027%) Flyway
7 1 (0.027%) JMeter
7 1 (0.027%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.027%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.027%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.027%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.027%) Selenium
General
1 520 (14.27%) Finance
2 477 (13.09%) Social Skills
3 287 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 152 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 140 (3.84%) Aerospace
7 99 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
8 92 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (1.54%) Law
9 56 (1.54%) Retail
10 53 (1.45%) Banking
11 48 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 46 (1.26%) Legal
13 30 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 25 (0.69%) Marketing
15 24 (0.66%) Military
16 19 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.41%) Local Government
19 14 (0.38%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (1.67%) .NET
2 54 (1.48%) Terraform
3 51 (1.40%) Middleware
4 37 (1.02%) LDAP
5 36 (0.99%) OAuth
6 35 (0.96%) REST
7 34 (0.93%) SAML
8 27 (0.74%) ModSecurity
9 25 (0.69%) Kafka
10 23 (0.63%) SOAP
11 21 (0.58%) OpenID
12 19 (0.52%) Node.js
13 13 (0.36%) JSON
13 13 (0.36%) SailPoint
13 13 (0.36%) XML
14 11 (0.30%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.27%) Regular Expression
15 10 (0.27%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.27%) XMPP
16 9 (0.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (4.77%) Cloud Native
2 62 (1.70%) Data Centre
3 59 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (0.82%) AI Agents
9 30 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 29 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 26 (0.71%) Operational Technology
12 23 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
12 23 (0.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 23 (0.63%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.60%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.58%) Social Media
15 20 (0.55%) IoT
16 19 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.26%) Linux
2 32 (0.88%) Windows
3 18 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.027%) AIX
6 1 (0.027%) CentOS
6 1 (0.027%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.027%) Solaris
6 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (12.40%) Roadmaps
2 447 (12.27%) AI
3 349 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
4 310 (8.51%) Agile
5 297 (8.15%) Enterprise Architecture
6 286 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
7 250 (6.86%) Data Architecture
8 248 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 241 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
10 231 (6.34%) Problem-Solving
11 222 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
12 215 (5.90%) Decision-Making
13 208 (5.71%) CI/CD
13 208 (5.71%) TOGAF
14 205 (5.63%) Technology Strategy
15 202 (5.54%) Analytics
16 197 (5.41%) Data Modelling
17 189 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 186 (5.10%) IT Strategy
18 186 (5.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 90 (2.47%) Python
2 86 (2.36%) C#
2 86 (2.36%) SQL
3 51 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 38 (1.04%) Java
5 25 (0.69%) Bicep
6 18 (0.49%) C
7 14 (0.38%) C++
7 14 (0.38%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 11 (0.30%) Scala
9 7 (0.19%) Rust
10 6 (0.16%) COBOL
10 6 (0.16%) R
10 6 (0.16%) Ruby
11 5 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.14%) Go
12 4 (0.11%) Bash
13 3 (0.082%) ABAP
13 3 (0.082%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 572 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 361 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 209 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 140 (3.84%) Degree
5 69 (1.89%) CISSP
6 68 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 59 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 54 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 40 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (1.04%) CISM
12 33 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
16 17 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 15 (0.41%) CCNP
19 13 (0.36%) CCSP
20 9 (0.25%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (2.63%) GRC
2 89 (2.44%) NIST
3 86 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 67 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 55 (1.51%) GDPR
6 25 (0.69%) NCSC
7 17 (0.47%) QA
8 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.38%) NIST 800
10 10 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.25%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.19%) MISRA
13 6 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.16%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.14%) SLA
15 4 (0.11%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (2.72%) Active Directory
2 29 (0.80%) Docker
3 25 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) Firmware
6 17 (0.47%) vSphere
7 10 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.25%) NDS
9 3 (0.082%) KVM
10 1 (0.027%) GPFS
10 1 (0.027%) Lustre
10 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 85 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 34 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.33%) CASB
4 10 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.14%) Ansible
7 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.055%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.055%) Grafana
7 2 (0.055%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.027%) Salt
8 1 (0.027%) SCCM
8 1 (0.027%) vRealize
Vendors
1 481 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 83 (2.28%) SAP
3 80 (2.20%) Databricks
4 62 (1.70%) Oracle
5 50 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.32%) Cisco
7 46 (1.26%) VMware
8 42 (1.15%) Workday
9 34 (0.93%) Palo Alto
10 31 (0.85%) Google
10 31 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 30 (0.82%) Computacenter
12 25 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 25 (0.69%) Okta
13 24 (0.66%) Red Hat
14 22 (0.60%) Adobe
15 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.55%) Thales
16 16 (0.44%) CyberArk
16 16 (0.44%) Tenable