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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 88 38
Rank change year-on-year +54 -50 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,089 1,111 3,129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.06% 3.23% 5.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.29% 3.60% 5.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 724 2,012
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,073 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £65,000 £63,438
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 72,028 30,825 56,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 89.57% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 49,824 17,771 37,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -0.80% -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 7 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 7 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 1,033 £82,500 +10.00% 303
North West +106 590 £85,000 +9.68% 158
South East +13 525 £85,000 +9.68% 345
South West +53 468 £80,000 -5.88% 182
Midlands +29 444 £82,500 +10.00% 161
West Midlands +28 358 £82,500 +8.20% 108
Yorkshire +51 266 £82,500 +10.00% 112
East of England +48 192 £80,150 +12.10% 109
Scotland +58 180 £90,000 +12.50% 116
North East +12 177 £80,500 +23.85% 33
Wales +26 152 £80,000 +15.30% 24
Northern Ireland -14 106 £74,830 -9.63% 44
East Midlands -10 86 £60,000 -11.11% 53
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 620 (20.07%) Azure
2 461 (14.92%) Microsoft
3 454 (14.70%) Security Cleared
4 399 (12.92%) Roadmaps
5 379 (12.27%) AI
6 364 (11.78%) AWS
7 289 (9.36%) SC Cleared
8 288 (9.32%) Enterprise Architecture
9 286 (9.26%) Agile
10 265 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
11 250 (8.09%) TOGAF
12 224 (7.25%) Technical Leadership
13 208 (6.73%) Data Architecture
14 207 (6.70%) Technical Architecture
15 206 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
15 206 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 205 (6.64%) CI/CD
17 188 (6.09%) Data Modelling
18 184 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
19 183 (5.92%) DevOps
20 179 (5.79%) DV Cleared
21 177 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
22 172 (5.57%) Power Platform
23 169 (5.47%) Business Strategy
23 169 (5.47%) Decision-Making
24 163 (5.28%) Analytics
25 160 (5.18%) Technology Strategy
26 154 (4.99%) Microservices
26 154 (4.99%) Security Architecture
27 150 (4.86%) 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 (0.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.23%) Apache
3 7 (0.23%) CMS
4 5 (0.16%) 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 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.032%) JBoss
8 1 (0.032%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.32%) Revit
2 9 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
3 7 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.065%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.065%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.065%) Simulink
5 2 (0.065%) Windchill
6 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.032%) ArchiCAD
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 35 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.23%) 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 (0.097%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.097%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.097%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.065%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.065%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.065%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 620 (20.07%) Azure
2 364 (11.78%) AWS
3 172 (5.57%) Power Platform
4 111 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (3.56%) GCP
6 103 (3.33%) SaaS
7 88 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
9 63 (2.04%) Serverless
10 55 (1.78%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.39%) PaaS
12 42 (1.36%) dbt
13 37 (1.20%) IaaS
14 29 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
15 25 (0.81%) Snowflake
16 22 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (0.71%) GitHub
17 17 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (0.55%) iPaaS
18 15 (0.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.37%) WAN
2 82 (2.65%) LAN
3 64 (2.07%) Firewall
4 63 (2.04%) Network Security
5 44 (1.42%) VPN
6 41 (1.33%) Broadband
7 40 (1.29%) DNS
8 27 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 20 (0.65%) MPLS
10 18 (0.58%) BGP
11 15 (0.49%) HTTP
11 15 (0.49%) SNMP
11 15 (0.49%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.49%) VLAN
12 11 (0.36%) DHCP
13 10 (0.32%) FTP
13 10 (0.32%) ICMP
13 10 (0.32%) IPsec
13 10 (0.32%) SAN
13 10 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (2.17%) Metadata
2 40 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 35 (1.13%) Power BI
4 33 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.52%) GIS
8 11 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.29%) Tableau
11 8 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.26%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.26%) Data Vault
11 8 (0.26%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.23%) Delta Lake
12 7 (0.23%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.19%) MySQL
14 4 (0.13%) Big Data
14 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 42 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 32 (1.04%) GitLab
3 26 (0.84%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.71%) Snyk
5 9 (0.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.16%) MLflow
6 5 (0.16%) Toad
6 5 (0.16%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.13%) Git
8 2 (0.065%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.065%) ERwin
8 2 (0.065%) JMeter
8 2 (0.065%) Postman
8 2 (0.065%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.065%) Selenium
9 1 (0.032%) Flyway
9 1 (0.032%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.032%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Forms
General
1 409 (13.24%) Finance
2 400 (12.95%) Social Skills
3 234 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 188 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
7 81 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (1.91%) Law
9 57 (1.85%) Marketing
10 48 (1.55%) Retail
11 44 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 42 (1.36%) Aerospace
13 40 (1.29%) Games
14 30 (0.97%) Legal
15 28 (0.91%) Banking
16 27 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 16 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.42%) Advertising
19 12 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (1.97%) REST
2 50 (1.62%) SOAP
3 49 (1.59%) .NET
4 41 (1.33%) Middleware
5 36 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 33 (1.07%) OAuth
7 31 (1.00%) LDAP
8 28 (0.91%) Node.js
9 27 (0.87%) SAML
10 26 (0.84%) Visualforce
11 23 (0.74%) Kafka
12 18 (0.58%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.55%) XML
14 16 (0.52%) JSON
14 16 (0.52%) XMPP
15 15 (0.49%) OpenID
16 14 (0.45%) ModSecurity
17 11 (0.36%) GraphQL
18 10 (0.32%) NestJS
18 10 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 150 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 85 (2.75%) Data Centre
3 64 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 48 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 35 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
6 35 (1.13%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (1.00%) Cyberattack
9 29 (0.94%) Onboarding
10 27 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 18 (0.58%) Management Information System
11 18 (0.58%) PKI
11 18 (0.58%) Public Cloud
12 17 (0.55%) Social Media
13 16 (0.52%) Private Cloud
14 15 (0.49%) Graphic Design
15 14 (0.45%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.59%) Linux
2 48 (1.55%) Windows
3 34 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.65%) 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
1 399 (12.92%) Roadmaps
2 379 (12.27%) AI
3 288 (9.32%) Enterprise Architecture
4 286 (9.26%) Agile
5 265 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
6 250 (8.09%) TOGAF
7 224 (7.25%) Technical Leadership
8 208 (6.73%) Data Architecture
9 207 (6.70%) Technical Architecture
10 206 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
10 206 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 205 (6.64%) CI/CD
12 188 (6.09%) Data Modelling
13 184 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 183 (5.92%) DevOps
15 177 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 169 (5.47%) Business Strategy
16 169 (5.47%) Decision-Making
17 163 (5.28%) Analytics
18 160 (5.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 98 (3.17%) SQL
2 94 (3.04%) Python
3 59 (1.91%) C#
4 47 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 35 (1.13%) Java
6 31 (1.00%) Apex Code
7 27 (0.87%) SOQL
8 26 (0.84%) Bicep
8 26 (0.84%) SOSL
9 16 (0.52%) C
10 15 (0.49%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.39%) C++
11 12 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.19%) COBOL
12 6 (0.19%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.19%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.19%) R
12 6 (0.19%) Ruby
12 6 (0.19%) Scala
13 5 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 454 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 289 (9.36%) SC Cleared
3 179 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 111 (3.59%) Degree
5 55 (1.78%) CISSP
6 54 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 44 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 41 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 30 (0.97%) CISM
12 23 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 18 (0.58%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.55%) CCNP
16 16 (0.52%) CCSP
17 13 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.29%) ICAEW
18 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
19 6 (0.19%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.11%) NIST
3 92 (2.98%) GRC
4 57 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (1.68%) GDPR
6 37 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.78%) NCSC
8 20 (0.65%) QA
9 13 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.16%) MISRA
15 5 (0.16%) SLA
16 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.78%) vSphere
5 22 (0.71%) Docker
6 12 (0.39%) Firmware
7 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.16%) NDS
10 3 (0.097%) KVM
11 1 (0.032%) GPFS
11 1 (0.032%) Lustre
11 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.032%) vCloud
11 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (2.07%) Kubernetes
2 54 (1.75%) Terraform
3 23 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.52%) MOM
5 10 (0.32%) CASB
5 10 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.23%) Ansible
8 3 (0.097%) Grafana
9 2 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.065%) Endace
9 2 (0.065%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.065%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.065%) vRealize
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 461 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.75%) Databricks
3 76 (2.46%) SAP
4 63 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 61 (1.97%) VMware
6 47 (1.52%) Cisco
7 45 (1.46%) Oracle
8 41 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 28 (0.91%) Splunk
11 22 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.71%) Tenable
12 21 (0.68%) Computacenter
12 21 (0.68%) Google
13 20 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.55%) Okta
14 17 (0.55%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.45%) ForgeRock
16 13 (0.42%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.42%) Workday