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 4 July 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 88 40
Rank change year-on-year +53 -48 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,689 1,096 3,663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.85% 3.38% 4.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.07% 3.78% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,006 776 2,419
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £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% - -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 66,108 28,979 72,373
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 89.41% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45,861 16,303 51,637
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,991 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,772 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -12.50%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +90 926 £82,500 +14.19% 278
North West +88 542 £85,000 +15.25% 162
South East +16 458 £85,000 +9.68% 235
South West +42 395 £80,000 -3.03% 126
Midlands +14 386 £80,000 +10.34% 113
West Midlands +15 302 £82,500 +10.00% 90
Yorkshire +41 239 £80,000 - 65
East of England +48 180 £75,000 +9.09% 51
Scotland +42 166 £90,000 +12.50% 75
North East +17 145 £80,000 +23.08% 54
Wales +35 140 £80,000 +13.57% 32
East Midlands -9 83 £60,000 -11.11% 22
Northern Ireland -24 47 £72,415 -14.81% 24
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 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.

1 518 (19.26%) Azure
2 360 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 360 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 321 (11.94%) Roadmaps
4 315 (11.71%) AWS
5 287 (10.67%) AI
6 252 (9.37%) Agile
7 245 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
8 235 (8.74%) TOGAF
9 231 (8.59%) Enterprise Architecture
10 219 (8.14%) SC Cleared
11 189 (7.03%) CI/CD
12 186 (6.92%) Data Architecture
13 175 (6.51%) DevOps
14 171 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
15 170 (6.32%) Data Modelling
16 164 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
17 151 (5.62%) DV Cleared
17 151 (5.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 149 (5.54%) Analytics
19 147 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
20 135 (5.02%) Power Platform
20 135 (5.02%) Technology Strategy
21 132 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
22 130 (4.83%) Security Architecture
23 124 (4.61%) Data Governance
23 124 (4.61%) Decision-Making
24 123 (4.57%) Cloud Security
25 122 (4.54%) IT Strategy
26 118 (4.39%) Data Strategy

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 12 (0.45%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.26%) Confluence
4 5 (0.19%) Apache
4 5 (0.19%) CMS
4 5 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.037%) Camunda
8 1 (0.037%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.037%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Revit
2 6 (0.22%) AutoCAD
2 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.074%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.074%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.074%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.074%) Simulink
3 2 (0.074%) Windchill
4 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 4 (0.15%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.037%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.037%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.037%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.037%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.037%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 518 (19.26%) Azure
2 315 (11.71%) AWS
3 135 (5.02%) Power Platform
4 108 (4.02%) GCP
5 87 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
6 82 (3.05%) SaaS
7 65 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (2.31%) Serverless
9 37 (1.38%) Entra ID
10 36 (1.34%) PaaS
11 32 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (1.15%) IaaS
13 30 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (1.08%) Snowflake
15 22 (0.82%) GitHub
16 21 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (0.56%) dbt
18 14 (0.52%) Amazon S3
18 14 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
19 13 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.23%) Firewall
2 55 (2.05%) WAN
3 52 (1.93%) Broadband
4 49 (1.82%) Network Security
5 41 (1.52%) DNS
5 41 (1.52%) VPN
6 33 (1.23%) LAN
7 21 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.74%) BGP
9 19 (0.71%) MPLS
10 17 (0.63%) SNMP
11 15 (0.56%) HTTP
12 13 (0.48%) VLAN
13 11 (0.41%) SSL
14 10 (0.37%) DHCP
15 9 (0.33%) FTP
15 9 (0.33%) ICMP
15 9 (0.33%) IPsec
15 9 (0.33%) SSH
15 9 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (2.27%) Metadata
2 35 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.04%) Power BI
5 22 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.52%) GIS
8 10 (0.37%) Tableau
9 9 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.30%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.30%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.30%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.19%) Big Data
12 5 (0.19%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.19%) MySQL
13 4 (0.15%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 46 (1.71%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.38%) GitLab
3 34 (1.26%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.82%) Snyk
5 6 (0.22%) JIRA
6 5 (0.19%) Toad
6 5 (0.19%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.11%) Git
7 3 (0.11%) MLflow
8 2 (0.074%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.074%) ERwin
8 2 (0.074%) JMeter
8 2 (0.074%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.074%) Postman
8 2 (0.074%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.074%) Selenium
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Forms
General
1 294 (10.93%) Social Skills
2 286 (10.64%) Finance
3 217 (8.07%) Public Sector
4 135 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 75 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (2.34%) Marketing
8 52 (1.93%) Games
8 52 (1.93%) Retail
9 35 (1.30%) Law
10 32 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (0.89%) Aerospace
13 21 (0.78%) Banking
13 21 (0.78%) Legal
14 16 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.45%) Automotive
15 12 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (2.38%) REST
2 53 (1.97%) SOAP
3 45 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (1.52%) .NET
5 35 (1.30%) Middleware
6 34 (1.26%) Visualforce
7 26 (0.97%) OAuth
8 23 (0.86%) Node.js
9 22 (0.82%) Kafka
10 20 (0.74%) SAML
11 18 (0.67%) LDAP
11 18 (0.67%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.63%) XML
13 16 (0.60%) JSON
13 16 (0.60%) XMPP
14 11 (0.41%) OpenID
15 10 (0.37%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.37%) NestJS
15 10 (0.37%) RESTful
15 10 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 117 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 74 (2.75%) Data Centre
3 65 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 43 (1.60%) Operational Technology
5 42 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (1.23%) Cyberattack
7 33 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (0.89%) PKI
10 24 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 20 (0.74%) Onboarding
12 18 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 16 (0.60%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.56%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.56%) NHS
15 13 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (0.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.90%) Windows
2 44 (1.64%) Linux
3 40 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.037%) AIX
5 1 (0.037%) CentOS
5 1 (0.037%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (11.94%) Roadmaps
2 287 (10.67%) AI
3 252 (9.37%) Agile
4 245 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
5 235 (8.74%) TOGAF
6 231 (8.59%) Enterprise Architecture
7 189 (7.03%) CI/CD
8 186 (6.92%) Data Architecture
9 175 (6.51%) DevOps
10 171 (6.36%) Problem-Solving
11 170 (6.32%) Data Modelling
12 164 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
13 151 (5.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 149 (5.54%) Analytics
15 147 (5.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 135 (5.02%) Technology Strategy
17 132 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 130 (4.83%) Security Architecture
19 124 (4.61%) Data Governance
19 124 (4.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 92 (3.42%) SQL
2 85 (3.16%) Python
3 40 (1.49%) C#
4 38 (1.41%) Apex Code
5 35 (1.30%) SOQL
6 34 (1.26%) Java
6 34 (1.26%) SOSL
7 33 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 24 (0.89%) Bicep
9 15 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.41%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.37%) C
11 10 (0.37%) C++
12 6 (0.22%) Bash
12 6 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.22%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.19%) COBOL
13 5 (0.19%) Ruby
14 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 360 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 219 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 151 (5.62%) DV Cleared
4 98 (3.64%) Degree
5 50 (1.86%) CISSP
6 49 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
7 37 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 26 (0.97%) CISM
11 22 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.71%) CCSP
13 16 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.52%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.45%) CCNP
16 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.33%) ICAEW
18 7 (0.26%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 97 (3.61%) NIST
3 58 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (1.67%) GDPR
5 43 (1.60%) GRC
6 30 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.89%) QA
8 22 (0.82%) NCSC
9 14 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.19%) WCAG
16 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
17 3 (0.11%) IFRS
17 3 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 77 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (0.82%) vSphere
4 19 (0.71%) Docker
4 19 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.30%) Firmware
7 4 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.037%) GPFS
8 1 (0.037%) Lustre
8 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.037%) vCloud
8 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (1.79%) Terraform
2 38 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.60%) MOM
3 16 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.33%) CASB
4 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.26%) Ansible
5 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.22%) Endace
6 6 (0.22%) vRealize
7 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.074%) Grafana
8 2 (0.074%) Netcool
9 1 (0.037%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.037%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.037%) SCCM
Vendors
1 360 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 86 (3.20%) Databricks
3 67 (2.49%) SAP
4 63 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 51 (1.90%) VMware
6 44 (1.64%) Cisco
7 38 (1.41%) Oracle
8 37 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.34%) Splunk
10 31 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 27 (1.00%) Google
12 22 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.82%) Tenable
13 17 (0.63%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.60%) Juniper
15 12 (0.45%) McAfee
16 11 (0.41%) Computacenter
16 11 (0.41%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.33%) BiZZdesign
17 9 (0.33%) Sparx