Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 26 59
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,403 2,563 3,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.12% 8.35% 5.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.48% 8.72% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 1,009 1,901
10th Percentile £56,228 £56,250 £56,219
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,857 29,384 60,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.68% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 19,826 20,406 36,334
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,988 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -0.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,070 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,100 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Architect 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 20 December 2024.

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 20 December 2024. 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
South East +7 645 £77,500 -5.49% 114
Scotland +12 599 £80,000 +13.35% 46
North of England -35 468 £70,000 -12.10% 169
Midlands -21 310 £75,000 -9.09% 106
North West -33 292 £70,000 -12.10% 123
West Midlands -1 231 £75,000 -6.25% 50
South West -43 191 £75,000 +6.27% 49
East of England -31 131 £77,500 -6.34% 31
Yorkshire -37 128 £71,991 -9.60% 35
East Midlands -57 78 £70,000 -17.65% 55
Wales -21 53 £67,500 +1.89% 10
North East -3 48 £70,000 -17.65% 12
Northern Ireland -27 16 £80,000 +23.08% 5
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 December 2024, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 894 (37.20%) Agile
2 892 (37.12%) Social Skills
3 834 (34.71%) Roadmaps
4 731 (30.42%) TOGAF
5 624 (25.97%) Enterprise Architecture
6 616 (25.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 577 (24.01%) IT Strategy
8 561 (23.35%) Telecoms
9 555 (23.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 552 (22.97%) Technology Roadmap
11 545 (22.68%) Technology Strategy
12 539 (22.43%) Security Cleared
13 509 (21.18%) Architecture Governance
14 491 (20.43%) Release Train
15 490 (20.39%) Games
15 490 (20.39%) Broadband
16 451 (18.77%) Azure
17 384 (15.98%) SC Cleared
18 295 (12.28%) Microsoft
19 272 (11.32%) AWS
20 257 (10.69%) Line Management
21 250 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
22 231 (9.61%) Finance
23 223 (9.28%) DevOps
24 218 (9.07%) DV Cleared
25 201 (8.36%) Degree
26 193 (8.03%) Mentoring
27 181 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
28 180 (7.49%) Microservices
29 177 (7.37%) Analytical Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 20 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (0.71%) Confluence
4 11 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (0.33%) CMS
7 7 (0.29%) nginx
8 6 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.21%) SAS
10 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.083%) Luigi
13 1 (0.042%) CICS
13 1 (0.042%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.042%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.17%) Simulink
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 40 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.29%) Maximo
6 7 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.083%) Magento
8 2 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 2 (0.083%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.083%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.083%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.083%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.083%) SAP PP-PI
8 2 (0.083%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.083%) SAP Travel Management
8 2 (0.083%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.083%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 451 (18.77%) Azure
2 272 (11.32%) AWS
3 93 (3.87%) SaaS
4 84 (3.50%) GCP
5 81 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
6 79 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 56 (2.33%) Serverless
9 52 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 51 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 45 (1.87%) SonarCloud
12 43 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (1.41%) PaaS
15 27 (1.12%) Amazon S3
16 26 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (1.04%) Snowflake
18 24 (1.00%) IaaS
19 23 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 22 (0.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 490 (20.39%) Broadband
2 54 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
3 51 (2.12%) SD-WAN
4 45 (1.87%) Firewall
5 43 (1.79%) Internet
6 38 (1.58%) WAN
7 36 (1.50%) Network Security
8 26 (1.08%) LAN
9 20 (0.83%) MPLS
10 17 (0.71%) DNS
11 12 (0.50%) VPN
11 12 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.42%) Wireless
13 9 (0.37%) BGP
13 9 (0.37%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (0.33%) DHCP
14 8 (0.33%) IPv6
14 8 (0.33%) OSPF
15 7 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
3 44 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 35 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 28 (1.17%) Power BI
6 28 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.87%) Metadata
8 20 (0.83%) Big Data
9 17 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.67%) Data Vault
10 16 (0.67%) RDBMS
11 15 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.50%) MySQL
13 12 (0.50%) Tableau
14 11 (0.46%) MongoDB
14 11 (0.46%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 75 (3.12%) Visual Studio
2 56 (2.33%) Git
3 55 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 46 (1.91%) MSBuild
4 46 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
5 36 (1.50%) GitLab
6 31 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 22 (0.92%) JIRA
8 14 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
9 9 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.25%) JDeveloper
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.12%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.083%) Babel
12 2 (0.083%) ERwin
12 2 (0.083%) Mocha
12 2 (0.083%) MSI
12 2 (0.083%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.083%) webpack
General
1 892 (37.12%) Social Skills
2 616 (25.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 561 (23.35%) Telecoms
4 490 (20.39%) Games
5 231 (9.61%) Finance
6 177 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
7 100 (4.16%) Public Sector
8 73 (3.04%) Retail
9 64 (2.66%) Military
10 50 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 47 (1.96%) Banking
12 33 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.25%) Law
14 21 (0.87%) Legal
14 21 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 20 (0.83%) Aerospace
16 18 (0.75%) Marketing
17 15 (0.62%) Advertising
18 14 (0.58%) Electronics
19 13 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (4.29%) .NET
2 101 (4.20%) HTML
3 68 (2.83%) CSS
4 65 (2.70%) REST
5 59 (2.46%) XML
6 52 (2.16%) React
7 51 (2.12%) JSON
8 48 (2.00%) ASP.NET
8 48 (2.00%) Middleware
9 45 (1.87%) gRPC
9 45 (1.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 37 (1.54%) Node.js
11 29 (1.21%) Django
12 28 (1.17%) Web Services
13 17 (0.71%) Kafka
14 16 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.58%) AngularJS
16 13 (0.54%) .NET Framework
17 10 (0.42%) LDAP
17 10 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (5.53%) Management Information System
2 65 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 45 (1.87%) Cloud Native
3 45 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 41 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 37 (1.54%) Cyberattack
7 31 (1.29%) IoT
8 30 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.04%) Operational Technology
10 19 (0.79%) Private Cloud
11 17 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.67%) Security Posture
13 15 (0.62%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.54%) PMI
15 12 (0.50%) Blockchain
16 11 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 10 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 126 (5.24%) Windows
2 96 (4.00%) Linux
3 27 (1.12%) Android
4 18 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
5 15 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.33%) Windows Vista
8 7 (0.29%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.083%) CentOS
9 2 (0.083%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.042%) Unix
10 1 (0.042%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 894 (37.20%) Agile
2 834 (34.71%) Roadmaps
3 731 (30.42%) TOGAF
4 624 (25.97%) Enterprise Architecture
5 577 (24.01%) IT Strategy
6 555 (23.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 552 (22.97%) Technology Roadmap
8 545 (22.68%) Technology Strategy
9 509 (21.18%) Architecture Governance
10 491 (20.43%) Release Train
11 257 (10.69%) Line Management
12 250 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
13 223 (9.28%) DevOps
14 193 (8.03%) Mentoring
15 181 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
16 180 (7.49%) Microservices
17 168 (6.99%) Presales
18 164 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
19 153 (6.37%) Technical Leadership
20 143 (5.95%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 139 (5.78%) SQL
2 119 (4.95%) Python
3 108 (4.49%) C#
4 86 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 71 (2.95%) Java
6 38 (1.58%) C++
7 34 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.21%) C
9 11 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.42%) Fortran
11 8 (0.33%) PHP
12 6 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.17%) Bicep
13 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.17%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.17%) R
14 3 (0.12%) ABAP
14 3 (0.12%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.12%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 539 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 384 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 218 (9.07%) DV Cleared
4 201 (8.36%) Degree
5 60 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 45 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (1.54%) CISSP
9 33 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 28 (1.17%) CISM
12 24 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (1.00%) Master's Degree
13 22 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
15 15 (0.62%) CEH
16 14 (0.58%) PMI Certification
17 13 (0.54%) CCNA
17 13 (0.54%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.33%) GDPR
2 82 (3.41%) NIST
3 64 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 30 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 20 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.71%) NCSC
8 16 (0.67%) COBIT
9 14 (0.58%) QA
10 11 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.29%) GRC
14 6 (0.25%) PMO
15 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.12%) Basel III
17 3 (0.12%) Dodd-Frank
17 3 (0.12%) IFRS
17 3 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 91 (3.79%) Docker
2 45 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 20 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.25%) vSphere
9 5 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 5 (0.21%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.12%) vCloud
10 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.083%) LXC
Systems Management
1 77 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 59 (2.46%) Terraform
3 28 (1.17%) Ansible
4 16 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (0.46%) SCCM
7 9 (0.37%) Rancher
8 8 (0.33%) Grafana
8 8 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.29%) Puppet
10 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.17%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.083%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.083%) vRealize
11 2 (0.083%) WMI
11 2 (0.083%) WSUS
12 1 (0.042%) CloudForms
12 1 (0.042%) Consul
12 1 (0.042%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 295 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 68 (2.83%) Cisco
3 64 (2.66%) Oracle
4 55 (2.29%) VMware
5 53 (2.21%) SAP
6 43 (1.79%) Juniper
7 41 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 37 (1.54%) IBM
9 36 (1.50%) Databricks
10 34 (1.41%) Adobe
11 28 (1.17%) Apple
12 24 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 21 (0.87%) Google
14 19 (0.79%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.54%) Computacenter
15 13 (0.54%) Sparx
16 12 (0.50%) Dell
16 12 (0.50%) NetApp
17 11 (0.46%) Aruba
18 10 (0.42%) Cognizant