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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 94 31
Rank change year-on-year +62 -63 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,706 1,034 2,769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.25% 3.03% 5.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.60% 3.38% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,434 638 1,697
10th Percentile £62,898 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £66,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -1.96%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 80,602 30,608 47,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 89.75% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,718 17,467 26,033
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £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 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -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 16 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 16 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 +91 1,207 £80,000 +3.23% 81
South East +29 704 £90,000 +16.13% 146
North West +91 659 £80,000 - 39
South West +49 554 £85,000 +6.25% 75
Midlands +46 522 £82,500 +10.00% 69
West Midlands +45 412 £83,750 +11.67% 56
Yorkshire +57 349 £80,000 +1.27% 25
East of England +61 250 £82,500 -1.49% 25
North East +17 199 £80,250 +10.69% 17
Scotland +58 190 £85,000 +6.25% 32
Wales +16 165 £80,000 +6.79% 11
Northern Ireland -10 132 £80,000 +6.79% 4
East Midlands -8 110 £80,000 +3.23% 13
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 633 (17.08%) Azure
2 586 (15.81%) Security Cleared
3 492 (13.28%) Microsoft
4 468 (12.63%) Roadmaps
5 455 (12.28%) AI
6 409 (11.04%) AWS
7 374 (10.09%) SC Cleared
8 365 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
9 309 (8.34%) Agile
10 300 (8.09%) Enterprise Architecture
11 290 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
12 254 (6.85%) Data Architecture
13 252 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 242 (6.53%) Technical Architecture
15 238 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
16 233 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
17 226 (6.10%) Decision-Making
18 214 (5.77%) DV Cleared
18 214 (5.77%) TOGAF
19 207 (5.59%) Analytics
20 203 (5.48%) Technology Strategy
21 202 (5.45%) CI/CD
22 196 (5.29%) Data Modelling
23 189 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
23 189 (5.10%) Mentoring
24 185 (4.99%) IT Strategy
25 183 (4.94%) Microservices
26 179 (4.83%) Migration
27 175 (4.72%) Architectural Patterns
28 169 (4.56%) Security Architecture

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 16 (0.43%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.27%) Apache
3 7 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.16%) CMS
4 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.081%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.081%) Confluence
6 2 (0.054%) JBoss
6 2 (0.054%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.054%) SAS
6 2 (0.054%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.054%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.027%) IIS
7 1 (0.027%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.027%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.027%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.32%) Revit
2 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.13%) Notion
5 5 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.081%) Windchill
7 2 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.054%) PlantUML
7 2 (0.054%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.054%) Simulink
7 2 (0.054%) Weka
8 1 (0.027%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 41 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.13%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.081%) Lawson
6 3 (0.081%) Movex
6 3 (0.081%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.081%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.081%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.054%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 633 (17.08%) Azure
2 409 (11.04%) AWS
3 168 (4.53%) Power Platform
4 138 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (3.21%) SaaS
6 114 (3.08%) GCP
7 73 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 70 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
8 70 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (1.27%) Serverless
10 41 (1.11%) dbt
11 39 (1.05%) IaaS
12 38 (1.03%) PaaS
13 37 (1.00%) Azure Databricks
14 22 (0.59%) Amazon S3
14 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (0.57%) OpenShift
15 21 (0.57%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
17 17 (0.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.81%) WAN
2 90 (2.43%) LAN
3 76 (2.05%) Network Security
4 57 (1.54%) Firewall
5 48 (1.30%) VPN
6 29 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 28 (0.76%) DNS
8 20 (0.54%) Wireless
9 19 (0.51%) MPLS
10 18 (0.49%) BGP
10 18 (0.49%) VLAN
11 16 (0.43%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.40%) 5G
12 15 (0.40%) SNMP
13 13 (0.35%) HTTP
14 12 (0.32%) DHCP
14 12 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
15 11 (0.30%) Broadband
15 11 (0.30%) Intelligent Network
16 10 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (2.32%) Metadata
2 43 (1.16%) Power BI
3 32 (0.86%) Data Lake
4 30 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (0.65%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
6 13 (0.35%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.30%) GIS
7 11 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (0.24%) Big Data
9 9 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (0.22%) Star Schema
10 8 (0.22%) Tableau
11 7 (0.19%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.16%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (0.32%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.30%) JIRA
2 11 (0.30%) Snyk
3 5 (0.13%) Claude Code
3 5 (0.13%) Git
3 5 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (0.13%) Toad
4 4 (0.11%) GitLab
4 4 (0.11%) MLflow
4 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
5 3 (0.081%) ERwin
6 1 (0.027%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.027%) Flyway
6 1 (0.027%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.027%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.027%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 527 (14.22%) Finance
2 485 (13.09%) Social Skills
3 286 (7.72%) Public Sector
4 149 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 147 (3.97%) Aerospace
7 102 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
8 94 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (1.48%) Banking
9 55 (1.48%) Law
9 55 (1.48%) Retail
10 53 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 47 (1.27%) Legal
12 29 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 27 (0.73%) Military
14 25 (0.67%) Marketing
15 19 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.40%) Automotive
17 15 (0.40%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (2.24%) .NET
2 54 (1.46%) Terraform
3 51 (1.38%) Middleware
4 37 (1.00%) LDAP
5 36 (0.97%) OAuth
6 35 (0.94%) REST
7 34 (0.92%) SAML
8 27 (0.73%) ModSecurity
9 25 (0.67%) Kafka
10 23 (0.62%) SOAP
11 21 (0.57%) OpenID
12 19 (0.51%) Node.js
13 13 (0.35%) SailPoint
14 12 (0.32%) JSON
15 11 (0.30%) GraphQL
15 11 (0.30%) XML
16 10 (0.27%) Regular Expression
16 10 (0.27%) Spring Boot
16 10 (0.27%) XMPP
17 9 (0.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 174 (4.70%) Cloud Native
2 59 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (1.48%) Data Centre
4 50 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 31 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 30 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 29 (0.78%) Virtual Team
13 27 (0.73%) Operational Technology
14 24 (0.65%) Private Cloud
15 23 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
15 23 (0.62%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 23 (0.62%) Public Cloud
16 21 (0.57%) Social Media
17 20 (0.54%) IoT
18 19 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.24%) Linux
2 32 (0.86%) Windows
3 19 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.054%) macOS
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
1 468 (12.63%) Roadmaps
2 455 (12.28%) AI
3 365 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
4 309 (8.34%) Agile
5 300 (8.09%) Enterprise Architecture
6 290 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
7 254 (6.85%) Data Architecture
8 252 (6.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 242 (6.53%) Technical Architecture
10 238 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 233 (6.29%) Problem-Solving
12 226 (6.10%) Decision-Making
13 214 (5.77%) TOGAF
14 207 (5.59%) Analytics
15 203 (5.48%) Technology Strategy
16 202 (5.45%) CI/CD
17 196 (5.29%) Data Modelling
18 189 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
18 189 (5.10%) Mentoring
19 185 (4.99%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 109 (2.94%) C#
2 91 (2.46%) Python
3 85 (2.29%) SQL
4 52 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 39 (1.05%) Java
6 24 (0.65%) Bicep
7 20 (0.54%) C
8 17 (0.46%) C++
9 14 (0.38%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.32%) PowerShell
11 11 (0.30%) Scala
12 8 (0.22%) Rust
13 6 (0.16%) COBOL
13 6 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.16%) R
13 6 (0.16%) Ruby
14 5 (0.13%) Bash
14 5 (0.13%) Go
15 3 (0.081%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.081%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 586 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 374 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 214 (5.77%) DV Cleared
4 150 (4.05%) Degree
5 74 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 70 (1.89%) CISSP
7 63 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 58 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 56 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 42 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.00%) CISM
12 31 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 20 (0.54%) Chartered Engineer
16 18 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (0.40%) CCNP
18 14 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (0.30%) CCSP
20 8 (0.22%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (2.48%) GRC
2 87 (2.35%) NIST
3 86 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 67 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 54 (1.46%) GDPR
6 28 (0.76%) NCSC
7 16 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 14 (0.38%) QA
9 10 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.24%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.19%) MISRA
12 6 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.13%) SLA
14 4 (0.11%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.11%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.081%) HIPAA
System Software
1 101 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 29 (0.78%) Docker
3 23 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.57%) Firmware
5 19 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.49%) vSphere
7 10 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.24%) NDS
9 3 (0.081%) KVM
10 1 (0.027%) GPFS
10 1 (0.027%) Lustre
10 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.027%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 34 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.32%) CASB
4 10 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.16%) Ansible
7 2 (0.054%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.054%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.054%) Grafana
7 2 (0.054%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.027%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.027%) Puppet
8 1 (0.027%) Salt
8 1 (0.027%) SCCM
8 1 (0.027%) vRealize
Vendors
1 492 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.32%) SAP
3 79 (2.13%) Databricks
4 62 (1.67%) Oracle
5 51 (1.38%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.30%) Cisco
6 48 (1.30%) VMware
7 42 (1.13%) Workday
8 33 (0.89%) Google
9 31 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 30 (0.81%) Computacenter
10 30 (0.81%) Palo Alto
11 25 (0.67%) ForgeRock
11 25 (0.67%) Okta
11 25 (0.67%) Red Hat
12 22 (0.59%) Thales
13 21 (0.57%) Adobe
14 20 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 16 (0.43%) CyberArk
15 16 (0.43%) YouTube