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 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 62 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,769 1,201 2,621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.39% 4.26% 4.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.69% 4.70% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,221 815 1,791
10th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +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 47,886 25,527 54,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.52% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 30,213 14,208 41,915
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -4.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,958 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 March 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 March 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 +15 507 £80,000 +10.34% 142
South East -15 364 £85,000 +6.25% 233
North West +17 278 £83,750 +19.64% 84
Midlands -4 272 £80,000 +10.34% 88
South West +32 234 £77,500 - 105
West Midlands -11 183 £80,000 +6.67% 52
East of England +41 176 £90,000 +22.45% 52
Yorkshire -3 149 £80,000 -3.03% 38
Scotland -2 139 £90,000 +6.51% 48
East Midlands -6 86 £74,600 +10.52% 34
North East +20 80 £78,500 +20.77% 22
Wales +19 54 £80,000 +26.23% 25
Northern Ireland -2 34 £80,000 -5.88% 5
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 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.

1 392 (22.16%) Azure
2 287 (16.22%) Security Cleared
3 218 (12.32%) Agile
4 215 (12.15%) Roadmaps
5 214 (12.10%) AWS
6 199 (11.25%) Microsoft
7 179 (10.12%) TOGAF
8 175 (9.89%) Data Modelling
8 175 (9.89%) Enterprise Architecture
9 169 (9.55%) SC Cleared
10 152 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (8.14%) Analytics
12 142 (8.03%) Data Architecture
13 141 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
14 139 (7.86%) DevOps
15 137 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 135 (7.63%) Degree
17 131 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
18 123 (6.95%) IT Strategy
19 109 (6.16%) DV Cleared
19 109 (6.16%) Mentoring
20 106 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
21 105 (5.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 102 (5.77%) Data Governance
22 102 (5.77%) Technology Strategy
23 100 (5.65%) Architectural Design
24 98 (5.54%) AI
25 97 (5.48%) Technology Roadmap
26 93 (5.26%) Migration
27 91 (5.14%) Python

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 (1.07%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.85%) Confluence
3 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.34%) Apache
5 5 (0.28%) CMS
6 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.23%) SAS
7 3 (0.17%) Appian
7 3 (0.17%) JBoss
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.057%) Camunda
9 1 (0.057%) IIS
9 1 (0.057%) Strapi
9 1 (0.057%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.11%) ArchiCAD
1 2 (0.11%) Revit
2 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.34%) SAP MM
3 6 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.23%) SAP CAR
4 4 (0.23%) SAP Retail
5 3 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.057%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.057%) Maximo
7 1 (0.057%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 392 (22.16%) Azure
2 214 (12.10%) AWS
3 75 (4.24%) SaaS
4 72 (4.07%) Power Platform
5 66 (3.73%) GCP
6 65 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
7 60 (3.39%) Snowflake
8 53 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
9 45 (2.54%) Serverless
10 42 (2.37%) PaaS
11 41 (2.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 37 (2.09%) IaaS
13 26 (1.47%) Entra ID
14 22 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (0.68%) GitHub
16 7 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (0.40%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.40%) OCI
17 6 (0.34%) Amazon Bedrock
17 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.00%) Broadband
2 40 (2.26%) Firewall
3 22 (1.24%) Network Security
4 21 (1.19%) VPN
5 18 (1.02%) WAN
6 10 (0.57%) LAN
7 8 (0.45%) BGP
8 7 (0.40%) DNS
8 7 (0.40%) MPLS
8 7 (0.40%) SAN
8 7 (0.40%) SNMP
9 6 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.34%) HTTP
10 5 (0.28%) Internet
10 5 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.23%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.23%) SSL
11 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.23%) VLAN
11 4 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (3.05%) Metadata
3 35 (1.98%) Power BI
4 19 (1.07%) Tableau
5 17 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 17 (0.96%) SQL Server
6 14 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.62%) GIS
8 9 (0.51%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.28%) Big Data
11 5 (0.28%) DB2
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.17%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 42 (2.37%) Jenkins
2 35 (1.98%) GitLab
2 35 (1.98%) SonarQube
3 14 (0.79%) JIRA
4 6 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.17%) Git
5 3 (0.17%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.17%) Selenium
5 3 (0.17%) Snyk
6 1 (0.057%) MSI
6 1 (0.057%) Yeoman
General
1 280 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 177 (10.01%) Finance
3 146 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 103 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (3.96%) Games
6 63 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.50%) Marketing
8 49 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.87%) Legal
11 33 (1.87%) Retail
12 23 (1.30%) Law
13 19 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.02%) Banking
15 17 (0.96%) Electronics
16 15 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.79%) Publishing
18 10 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.00%) REST
2 48 (2.71%) SOAP
3 41 (2.32%) Lightning Web Components
4 35 (1.98%) Visualforce
5 34 (1.92%) Node.js
6 33 (1.87%) Middleware
7 27 (1.53%) .NET
8 23 (1.30%) React
9 20 (1.13%) Django
9 20 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (0.90%) Kafka
11 10 (0.57%) EDI
12 8 (0.45%) NestJS
12 8 (0.45%) Web Services
13 7 (0.40%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.40%) OAuth
13 7 (0.40%) XML
14 6 (0.34%) A2A Protocol
15 5 (0.28%) JSON
15 5 (0.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.01%) Cloud Native
2 60 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
3 48 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 35 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 25 (1.41%) Virtual Team
8 24 (1.36%) PKI
9 21 (1.19%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (0.79%) Public Cloud
12 13 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.73%) IoT
13 12 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 12 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.45%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.40%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.40%) Reference Data
16 6 (0.34%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (1.92%) Windows
2 19 (1.07%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.73%) Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Android
4 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.057%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (12.32%) Agile
2 215 (12.15%) Roadmaps
3 179 (10.12%) TOGAF
4 175 (9.89%) Data Modelling
4 175 (9.89%) Enterprise Architecture
5 152 (8.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 144 (8.14%) Analytics
7 142 (8.03%) Data Architecture
8 141 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
9 139 (7.86%) DevOps
10 137 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 131 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
12 123 (6.95%) IT Strategy
13 109 (6.16%) Mentoring
14 106 (5.99%) Technical Leadership
15 105 (5.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 102 (5.77%) Data Governance
16 102 (5.77%) Technology Strategy
17 100 (5.65%) Architectural Design
18 98 (5.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (5.14%) Python
2 55 (3.11%) SQL
3 41 (2.32%) Java
4 40 (2.26%) C#
5 37 (2.09%) Apex Code
6 36 (2.04%) SOQL
7 35 (1.98%) SOSL
8 28 (1.58%) JavaScript
9 24 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 20 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 10 (0.57%) Bicep
12 8 (0.45%) C++
13 7 (0.40%) Bash
13 7 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.11%) ABAP
14 2 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.11%) PHP
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.057%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.057%) R
Qualifications
1 287 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 169 (9.55%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.63%) Degree
4 109 (6.16%) DV Cleared
5 60 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 56 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 42 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 42 (2.37%) Azure Certification
9 40 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.47%) CISSP
12 19 (1.07%) PMI Certification
12 19 (1.07%) PMP
13 16 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.85%) CISM
15 14 (0.79%) Chartered Engineer
16 8 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.45%) CCNP
17 6 (0.34%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 43 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (1.30%) NIST
5 21 (1.19%) GDPR
6 19 (1.07%) QA
7 18 (1.02%) NCSC
8 13 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 13 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.17%) SEPA
10 3 (0.17%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
11 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.11%) PMO
12 1 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.057%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.057%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.057%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.68%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.62%) Docker
5 6 (0.34%) Firmware
6 4 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (1.30%) Terraform
2 19 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.68%) Ansible
4 10 (0.57%) Netcool
4 10 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.51%) vRealize
6 8 (0.45%) Endace
7 3 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.17%) CASB
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.17%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) WMI
9 1 (0.057%) Argo
9 1 (0.057%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.057%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.057%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.057%) VxRail
Vendors
1 199 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 70 (3.96%) SAP
3 61 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 58 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 53 (3.00%) Databricks
6 40 (2.26%) VMware
7 39 (2.20%) Splunk
8 33 (1.87%) Oracle
9 23 (1.30%) Anaplan
9 23 (1.30%) Cisco
10 21 (1.19%) Google
11 18 (1.02%) Genesys
11 18 (1.02%) Verint
12 16 (0.90%) Palantir
12 16 (0.90%) Sparx
12 16 (0.90%) Workday
13 15 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
14 13 (0.73%) Juniper
15 12 (0.68%) Siemens
16 10 (0.57%) Informatica