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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 87 38
Rank change year-on-year +53 -49 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,061 1,120 3,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.05% 3.25% 5.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.28% 3.63% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,203 731 2,017
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,243 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £65,000 £62,500
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 71,566 30,840 56,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 89.61% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 49,473 17,770 38,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,600
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 5 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 5 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 +96 1,022 £82,500 +10.00% 310
North West +102 587 £85,000 +10.39% 158
South East +12 527 £85,000 +9.68% 358
South West +50 462 £80,000 -5.88% 193
Midlands +24 438 £82,500 +10.00% 174
West Midlands +29 353 £82,500 +8.20% 123
Yorkshire +48 263 £82,500 +10.00% 119
East of England +49 189 £80,075 +11.99% 108
Scotland +54 177 £90,000 +12.50% 107
North East +10 172 £80,000 +23.08% 34
Wales +28 153 £80,000 +15.30% 33
Northern Ireland -19 103 £74,830 -9.63% 66
East Midlands -10 85 £60,000 -11.11% 51
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 614 (20.06%) Azure
2 460 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 450 (14.70%) Security Cleared
4 393 (12.84%) Roadmaps
5 370 (12.09%) AI
6 360 (11.76%) AWS
7 289 (9.44%) SC Cleared
8 285 (9.31%) Enterprise Architecture
9 280 (9.15%) Agile
10 264 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
11 249 (8.13%) TOGAF
12 220 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
13 205 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 204 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
15 203 (6.63%) CI/CD
15 203 (6.63%) Data Architecture
15 203 (6.63%) Problem-Solving
16 185 (6.04%) Data Modelling
17 182 (5.95%) DevOps
17 182 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 179 (5.85%) DV Cleared
19 177 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
20 171 (5.59%) Power Platform
21 168 (5.49%) Decision-Making
22 167 (5.46%) Business Strategy
23 160 (5.23%) Analytics
24 158 (5.16%) Technology Strategy
25 153 (5.00%) Microservices
26 152 (4.97%) Security Architecture
27 149 (4.87%) 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%) CMS
4 6 (0.20%) Apache
5 5 (0.16%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.16%) Confluence
5 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.13%) SAS
7 3 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.065%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.033%) JBoss
9 1 (0.033%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.033%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.33%) Revit
2 9 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.065%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.065%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.065%) Simulink
6 2 (0.065%) Windchill
7 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.033%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.033%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 35 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.20%) 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 (0.098%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.098%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.098%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.065%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.065%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.065%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.065%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 614 (20.06%) Azure
2 360 (11.76%) AWS
3 171 (5.59%) Power Platform
4 112 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (3.53%) GCP
6 100 (3.27%) SaaS
7 89 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (2.03%) Serverless
10 54 (1.76%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.37%) dbt
12 40 (1.31%) PaaS
13 36 (1.18%) IaaS
14 29 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (0.78%) Snowflake
16 23 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 22 (0.72%) GitHub
18 17 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
19 16 (0.52%) iPaaS
20 15 (0.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.43%) WAN
2 82 (2.68%) LAN
3 64 (2.09%) Firewall
4 61 (1.99%) Network Security
5 45 (1.47%) VPN
6 41 (1.34%) Broadband
6 41 (1.34%) DNS
7 27 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.69%) MPLS
9 19 (0.62%) BGP
10 16 (0.52%) HTTP
10 16 (0.52%) SNMP
11 15 (0.49%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.49%) VLAN
12 11 (0.36%) DHCP
13 10 (0.33%) FTP
13 10 (0.33%) IPsec
13 10 (0.33%) SAN
13 10 (0.33%) SSH
13 10 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (2.12%) Metadata
2 40 (1.31%) Data Lake
3 35 (1.14%) Power BI
4 31 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.88%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.52%) GIS
8 11 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
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%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.26%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.23%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.20%) MySQL
13 6 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (0.13%) Big Data
14 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 41 (1.34%) Jenkins
2 32 (1.05%) GitLab
3 26 (0.85%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.72%) Snyk
5 8 (0.26%) 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 (0.033%) Flyway
9 1 (0.033%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.033%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Forms
General
1 401 (13.10%) Finance
2 396 (12.94%) Social Skills
3 231 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 181 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 59 (1.93%) Law
9 56 (1.83%) Marketing
10 48 (1.57%) Retail
11 44 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 42 (1.37%) Aerospace
13 40 (1.31%) Games
14 30 (0.98%) Legal
15 27 (0.88%) Banking
15 27 (0.88%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.42%) Advertising
19 12 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (1.96%) REST
2 49 (1.60%) .NET
2 49 (1.60%) SOAP
3 39 (1.27%) Middleware
4 36 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
5 33 (1.08%) OAuth
6 31 (1.01%) LDAP
7 27 (0.88%) Node.js
7 27 (0.88%) SAML
8 26 (0.85%) Visualforce
9 22 (0.72%) Kafka
10 18 (0.59%) Regular Expression
11 17 (0.56%) XML
12 16 (0.52%) JSON
12 16 (0.52%) XMPP
13 15 (0.49%) OpenID
14 13 (0.42%) ModSecurity
15 11 (0.36%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.33%) NestJS
16 10 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 149 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 86 (2.81%) Data Centre
3 65 (2.12%) Product Ownership
4 48 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (1.14%) Operational Technology
8 34 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 34 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.01%) Cyberattack
10 29 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 27 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 19 (0.62%) PKI
13 18 (0.59%) Management Information System
14 17 (0.56%) Social Media
15 16 (0.52%) Private Cloud
16 15 (0.49%) Graphic Design
16 15 (0.49%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.42%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.42%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.60%) Linux
2 48 (1.57%) Windows
3 34 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.033%) AIX
5 1 (0.033%) CentOS
5 1 (0.033%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.033%) Solaris
5 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (12.84%) Roadmaps
2 370 (12.09%) AI
3 285 (9.31%) Enterprise Architecture
4 280 (9.15%) Agile
5 264 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
6 249 (8.13%) TOGAF
7 220 (7.19%) Technical Leadership
8 205 (6.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 204 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
10 203 (6.63%) CI/CD
10 203 (6.63%) Data Architecture
10 203 (6.63%) Problem-Solving
11 185 (6.04%) Data Modelling
12 182 (5.95%) DevOps
12 182 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 177 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 168 (5.49%) Decision-Making
15 167 (5.46%) Business Strategy
16 160 (5.23%) Analytics
17 158 (5.16%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 98 (3.20%) SQL
2 91 (2.97%) Python
3 59 (1.93%) C#
4 46 (1.50%) JavaScript
5 34 (1.11%) Java
6 31 (1.01%) Apex Code
7 27 (0.88%) SOQL
8 26 (0.85%) Bicep
8 26 (0.85%) SOSL
9 16 (0.52%) C
10 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.39%) C++
11 12 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.20%) COBOL
12 6 (0.20%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.20%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.20%) Ruby
13 5 (0.16%) R
13 5 (0.16%) Rust
13 5 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 450 (14.70%) Security Cleared
2 289 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 179 (5.85%) DV Cleared
4 109 (3.56%) Degree
5 55 (1.80%) CISSP
6 54 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 45 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 30 (0.98%) CISM
12 23 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (0.56%) CCNP
14 17 (0.56%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.52%) CCSP
16 14 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.29%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
18 6 (0.20%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.10%) NIST
3 92 (3.01%) GRC
4 57 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (1.70%) GDPR
6 37 (1.21%) 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 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.16%) MISRA
14 5 (0.16%) SLA
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.78%) vSphere
5 21 (0.69%) Docker
6 11 (0.36%) Firmware
7 10 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.16%) NDS
10 3 (0.098%) KVM
11 1 (0.033%) GPFS
11 1 (0.033%) Lustre
11 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.033%) vCloud
11 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.73%) Terraform
3 23 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.52%) MOM
5 10 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.23%) Ansible
8 3 (0.098%) Endace
8 3 (0.098%) Grafana
9 2 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.065%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.065%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.065%) vRealize
10 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.033%) SCCM
Vendors
1 460 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 82 (2.68%) Databricks
3 74 (2.42%) SAP
4 62 (2.03%) Salesforce
5 60 (1.96%) VMware
6 48 (1.57%) Cisco
7 44 (1.44%) Oracle
8 41 (1.34%) Palo Alto
9 34 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 28 (0.91%) Splunk
11 22 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.72%) Tenable
12 21 (0.69%) Computacenter
12 21 (0.69%) Google
13 20 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.56%) Okta
14 17 (0.56%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.46%) ForgeRock
16 13 (0.42%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.39%) McAfee