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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 88 36
Rank change year-on-year +56 -52 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,117 1,110 3,138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.05% 3.21% 5.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.29% 3.58% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,222 719 2,050
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,126 £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 72,637 30,994 56,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 89.50% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 50,209 17,886 37,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,401
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 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 10 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 +94 1,037 £82,500 +10.00% 292
North West +107 586 £82,500 +3.13% 147
South East +14 543 £85,000 +9.68% 350
South West +55 469 £80,000 -5.88% 179
Midlands +29 447 £82,500 +10.00% 156
West Midlands +28 361 £82,500 +8.20% 105
Yorkshire +50 273 £82,500 +10.00% 112
East of England +47 193 £80,150 +12.10% 109
Scotland +59 181 £90,000 +12.50% 106
North East +11 178 £82,750 +27.31% 33
Wales +28 152 £80,000 +13.57% 25
Northern Ireland -15 106 £74,830 -9.63% 42
East Midlands -9 86 £60,000 -14.29% 51
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 619 (19.86%) Azure
2 461 (14.79%) Security Cleared
3 459 (14.73%) Microsoft
4 398 (12.77%) Roadmaps
5 384 (12.32%) AI
6 365 (11.71%) AWS
7 292 (9.37%) Enterprise Architecture
8 291 (9.34%) SC Cleared
9 282 (9.05%) Agile
10 266 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
11 242 (7.76%) TOGAF
12 229 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
13 211 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (6.71%) Technical Architecture
15 208 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 206 (6.61%) Data Architecture
17 199 (6.38%) CI/CD
18 187 (6.00%) Data Modelling
19 186 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
20 182 (5.84%) DV Cleared
21 174 (5.58%) Power Platform
22 173 (5.55%) Decision-Making
22 173 (5.55%) DevOps
23 172 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
24 170 (5.45%) Business Strategy
25 163 (5.23%) Analytics
26 161 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
27 159 (5.10%) Microservices
28 157 (5.04%) Security Architecture
29 150 (4.81%) 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 8 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
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%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.096%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.064%) Movex
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.064%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 619 (19.86%) Azure
2 365 (11.71%) AWS
3 174 (5.58%) Power Platform
4 113 (3.63%) GCP
5 111 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
6 107 (3.43%) SaaS
7 86 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (1.99%) Serverless
10 55 (1.76%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.35%) dbt
12 41 (1.32%) PaaS
13 36 (1.15%) IaaS
14 29 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (0.74%) Snowflake
16 22 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (0.67%) GitHub
18 18 (0.58%) iPaaS
19 17 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
20 15 (0.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.34%) WAN
2 82 (2.63%) LAN
3 63 (2.02%) Firewall
3 63 (2.02%) Network Security
4 44 (1.41%) VPN
5 40 (1.28%) DNS
6 35 (1.12%) Broadband
7 27 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.64%) MPLS
9 18 (0.58%) BGP
10 15 (0.48%) HTTP
10 15 (0.48%) SNMP
10 15 (0.48%) Unified Communications
10 15 (0.48%) VLAN
11 11 (0.35%) DHCP
12 10 (0.32%) FTP
12 10 (0.32%) ICMP
12 10 (0.32%) IPsec
12 10 (0.32%) SSH
12 10 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (2.18%) Metadata
2 39 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 36 (1.15%) Power BI
4 34 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.55%) 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 (0.71%) 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 (13.38%) Finance
2 403 (12.93%) Social Skills
3 237 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 186 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 78 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.92%) Law
9 51 (1.64%) Marketing
10 47 (1.51%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 46 (1.48%) Retail
12 34 (1.09%) Games
13 30 (0.96%) Legal
14 28 (0.90%) Banking
14 28 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.42%) Advertising
16 13 (0.42%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (1.80%) REST
2 50 (1.60%) .NET
3 45 (1.44%) SOAP
4 41 (1.32%) Middleware
5 35 (1.12%) OAuth
6 33 (1.06%) LDAP
7 30 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
8 29 (0.93%) SAML
9 28 (0.90%) Node.js
10 24 (0.77%) Kafka
11 20 (0.64%) Visualforce
12 18 (0.58%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.55%) OpenID
13 17 (0.55%) XML
14 16 (0.51%) JSON
14 16 (0.51%) ModSecurity
14 16 (0.51%) XMPP
15 11 (0.35%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.32%) NestJS
16 10 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 150 (4.81%) Cloud Native
2 85 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 58 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 51 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.12%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (0.99%) Cyberattack
11 30 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 27 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 19 (0.61%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.61%) Social Media
14 18 (0.58%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.58%) PKI
15 16 (0.51%) Private Cloud
16 15 (0.48%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.48%) Graphic Design
17 13 (0.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.57%) Linux
2 47 (1.51%) Windows
3 34 (1.09%) 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 (12.77%) Roadmaps
2 384 (12.32%) AI
3 292 (9.37%) Enterprise Architecture
4 282 (9.05%) Agile
5 266 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
6 242 (7.76%) TOGAF
7 229 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
8 211 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (6.71%) Technical Architecture
10 208 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 206 (6.61%) Data Architecture
12 199 (6.38%) CI/CD
13 187 (6.00%) Data Modelling
14 186 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 173 (5.55%) Decision-Making
15 173 (5.55%) DevOps
16 172 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 170 (5.45%) Business Strategy
18 163 (5.23%) Analytics
19 161 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 97 (3.11%) SQL
2 94 (3.02%) Python
3 61 (1.96%) C#
4 49 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 36 (1.15%) Java
6 25 (0.80%) Apex Code
6 25 (0.80%) Bicep
7 21 (0.67%) SOQL
8 20 (0.64%) SOSL
9 16 (0.51%) C
10 15 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.38%) C++
12 11 (0.35%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.19%) COBOL
13 6 (0.19%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.19%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.19%) Go
13 6 (0.19%) R
13 6 (0.19%) Ruby
13 6 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 461 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 291 (9.34%) SC Cleared
3 182 (5.84%) DV Cleared
4 114 (3.66%) Degree
5 57 (1.83%) CISSP
6 52 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 47 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 39 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (1.03%) CISM
11 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.55%) 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
1 100 (3.21%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.08%) NIST
3 92 (2.95%) GRC
4 57 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (1.70%) GDPR
6 39 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.77%) NCSC
8 20 (0.64%) 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
13 7 (0.22%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
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 94 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 31 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.80%) Docker
3 25 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.77%) vSphere
5 12 (0.38%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.29%) 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 68 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 54 (1.73%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 459 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.73%) Databricks
3 79 (2.53%) SAP
4 59 (1.89%) VMware
5 58 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 46 (1.48%) Cisco
7 44 (1.41%) Oracle
8 41 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 23 (0.74%) Google
11 22 (0.71%) Computacenter
11 22 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.71%) Splunk
11 22 (0.71%) Tenable
12 20 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.61%) Okta
14 18 (0.58%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.51%) ForgeRock
15 16 (0.51%) Workday
16 13 (0.42%) CyberArk