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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 83 50
Rank change year-on-year +30 -33 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,302 1,037 3,217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.50% 3.61% 4.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.74% 4.06% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,653 757 2,078
10th Percentile £55,544 £59,101 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £86,776 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 61,492 25,557 65,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 89.06% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40,091 14,665 47,446
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £76,850
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%

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 May 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 May 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 +48 729 £85,000 +18.07% 163
South East +9 416 £85,000 +8.97% 174
North West +66 408 £88,000 +25.71% 100
Midlands +8 364 £80,000 +11.78% 87
South West +59 328 £77,500 +7.65% 80
West Midlands 0 275 £80,000 +6.67% 58
Yorkshire +8 217 £82,500 +3.13% 40
East of England +55 203 £90,000 +35.95% 50
Scotland +25 158 £90,000 +12.50% 30
North East +6 104 £80,000 +23.08% 23
East Midlands 0 87 £65,000 - 29
Wales +17 78 £80,000 +18.52% 30
Northern Ireland -12 35 £62,500 -28.57% 11
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 434 (18.85%) Azure
2 312 (13.55%) Security Cleared
3 247 (10.73%) AWS
4 240 (10.43%) Microsoft
5 236 (10.25%) Roadmaps
6 227 (9.86%) Agile
7 197 (8.56%) TOGAF
8 193 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
9 180 (7.82%) Enterprise Architecture
10 178 (7.73%) SC Cleared
11 177 (7.69%) Data Modelling
12 169 (7.34%) AI
13 167 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
14 157 (6.82%) DevOps
15 152 (6.60%) Data Architecture
16 149 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 133 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 131 (5.69%) CI/CD
19 129 (5.60%) Analytics
20 125 (5.43%) IT Strategy
21 123 (5.34%) Degree
22 119 (5.17%) Data Governance
23 118 (5.13%) DV Cleared
24 117 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
24 117 (5.08%) Technology Strategy
25 108 (4.69%) Power Platform
26 107 (4.65%) Architectural Design
27 106 (4.60%) Security Architecture
27 106 (4.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
28 102 (4.43%) 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 19 (0.83%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.56%) Confluence
3 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.26%) Apache
5 6 (0.26%) CMS
6 5 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.13%) SAS
8 2 (0.087%) JBoss
8 2 (0.087%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.043%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.043%) Camunda
9 1 (0.043%) IIS
9 1 (0.043%) Strapi
9 1 (0.043%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (0.087%) ArchiCAD
2 2 (0.087%) Revit
3 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.043%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.30%) SAP ERP
2 7 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.26%) SAP MM
4 5 (0.22%) SAP CAR
4 5 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 4 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.043%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.043%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.043%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.043%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.043%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.043%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.043%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 434 (18.85%) Azure
2 247 (10.73%) AWS
3 108 (4.69%) Power Platform
4 87 (3.78%) GCP
5 84 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
6 70 (3.04%) SaaS
7 61 (2.65%) Serverless
8 55 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (1.65%) Snowflake
11 37 (1.61%) PaaS
12 32 (1.39%) Entra ID
12 32 (1.39%) IaaS
13 27 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (0.61%) GitHub
15 13 (0.56%) iPaaS
16 11 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.30%) Mimecast
17 7 (0.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.48%) Broadband
1 57 (2.48%) Firewall
2 38 (1.65%) Network Security
3 30 (1.30%) VPN
4 24 (1.04%) DNS
4 24 (1.04%) WAN
5 13 (0.56%) LAN
6 9 (0.39%) Internet
6 9 (0.39%) NetScaler
7 8 (0.35%) BGP
7 8 (0.35%) MPLS
7 8 (0.35%) SAN
7 8 (0.35%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.30%) SNMP
9 6 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.26%) HTTP
9 6 (0.26%) NAS
9 6 (0.26%) Wireshark
10 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (2.48%) Metadata
2 41 (1.78%) Power BI
3 37 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 24 (1.04%) Tableau
6 20 (0.87%) SQL Server
7 17 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.48%) GIS
8 11 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.26%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.26%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.22%) Big Data
14 4 (0.17%) DB2
14 4 (0.17%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.13%) ClickHouse
15 3 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (1.78%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.56%) GitLab
3 34 (1.48%) SonarQube
4 20 (0.87%) Snyk
5 11 (0.48%) JIRA
6 3 (0.13%) Git
6 3 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.13%) Toad
6 3 (0.13%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.087%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.087%) JMeter
7 2 (0.087%) MLflow
7 2 (0.087%) Postman
7 2 (0.087%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.087%) Selenium
8 1 (0.043%) Oracle APEX
General
1 261 (11.34%) Social Skills
2 233 (10.12%) Finance
3 175 (7.60%) Public Sector
4 120 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (3.08%) Games
7 68 (2.95%) Marketing
8 51 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 49 (2.13%) Retail
10 36 (1.56%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.22%) Law
12 26 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.09%) Legal
14 21 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.70%) Banking
16 12 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.48%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.48%) Electronics
18 8 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.35%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.65%) REST
2 55 (2.39%) SOAP
3 44 (1.91%) Lightning Web Components
4 43 (1.87%) Middleware
5 40 (1.74%) .NET
6 34 (1.48%) Visualforce
7 21 (0.91%) Node.js
7 21 (0.91%) XML
8 19 (0.83%) Kafka
9 18 (0.78%) JSON
10 15 (0.65%) OAuth
11 14 (0.61%) LDAP
11 14 (0.61%) Regular Expression
12 12 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.52%) XMPP
13 10 (0.43%) NestJS
14 9 (0.39%) OpenID
14 9 (0.39%) React
15 8 (0.35%) EDI
15 8 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 81 (3.52%) Cloud Native
2 63 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 57 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 38 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (1.43%) Cyberattack
6 33 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 31 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.26%) PKI
9 27 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 22 (0.96%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.61%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.61%) NHS
13 14 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.48%) IoT
15 11 (0.48%) Low-Code
16 10 (0.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.04%) Windows
2 35 (1.52%) Windows Server
3 28 (1.22%) Linux
4 16 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.043%) AIX
5 1 (0.043%) CentOS
5 1 (0.043%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (10.25%) Roadmaps
2 227 (9.86%) Agile
3 197 (8.56%) TOGAF
4 193 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
5 180 (7.82%) Enterprise Architecture
6 177 (7.69%) Data Modelling
7 169 (7.34%) AI
8 167 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (6.82%) DevOps
10 152 (6.60%) Data Architecture
11 149 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 133 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 131 (5.69%) CI/CD
14 129 (5.60%) Analytics
15 125 (5.43%) IT Strategy
16 119 (5.17%) Data Governance
17 117 (5.08%) Technical Leadership
17 117 (5.08%) Technology Strategy
18 107 (4.65%) Architectural Design
19 106 (4.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 82 (3.56%) SQL
2 76 (3.30%) Python
3 38 (1.65%) Java
4 37 (1.61%) Apex Code
4 37 (1.61%) C#
5 35 (1.52%) SOQL
6 34 (1.48%) SOSL
7 24 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 18 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 16 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.48%) Bicep
11 6 (0.26%) Bash
12 5 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.17%) C
13 4 (0.17%) C++
13 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.17%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.087%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.087%) R
14 2 (0.087%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 312 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 178 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.34%) Degree
4 118 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 48 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 46 (2.00%) CISSP
8 36 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 32 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.09%) CISM
12 24 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.83%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.83%) PMP
14 17 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.70%) CCSP
15 16 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.43%) CCNP
17 8 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 67 (2.91%) NIST
3 36 (1.56%) GDPR
4 32 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (1.30%) QA
6 24 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.00%) GRC
8 21 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.78%) NCSC
10 10 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 4 (0.17%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.17%) WCAG
14 3 (0.13%) IFRS
15 2 (0.087%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.087%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.087%) PMO
15 2 (0.087%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.087%) Solvency II
System Software
1 62 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 25 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.74%) vSphere
5 14 (0.61%) Docker
6 11 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.043%) GPFS
8 1 (0.043%) Lustre
8 1 (0.043%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.043%) vCloud
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (1.26%) Terraform
2 18 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.70%) MOM
4 14 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.39%) Netcool
5 9 (0.39%) vRealize
6 7 (0.30%) Endace
7 6 (0.26%) Ansible
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.13%) CASB
10 1 (0.043%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.043%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.043%) Grafana
10 1 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.043%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.043%) SCCM
Vendors
1 240 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 80 (3.48%) SAP
3 79 (3.43%) Databricks
4 69 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.17%) VMware
7 37 (1.61%) Oracle
8 35 (1.52%) Splunk
9 26 (1.13%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.09%) Cisco
11 23 (1.00%) Anaplan
11 23 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.96%) Google
13 21 (0.91%) Palantir
14 20 (0.87%) Tenable
15 18 (0.78%) Genesys
15 18 (0.78%) Verint
16 16 (0.70%) Juniper
16 16 (0.70%) Sparx
17 13 (0.56%) Red Hat