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 30 August 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 90 33
Rank change year-on-year +60 -57 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,419 1,107 3,185
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.25% 3.17% 5.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.52% 3.54% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,416 696 1,993
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -5.82%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 75,692 31,231 55,277
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.47% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 52,536 18,051 34,989
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 30 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 30 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 +93 1,163 £80,000 +6.67% 280
North West +104 637 £80,000 - 154
South East +17 604 £85,000 +9.68% 318
South West +53 493 £80,000 -5.88% 153
Midlands +31 487 £82,500 +10.00% 147
West Midlands +34 394 £85,000 +13.33% 94
Yorkshire +50 335 £80,000 +6.67% 101
East of England +68 224 £80,075 +1.68% 80
North East +9 191 £85,000 +30.77% 25
Scotland +57 185 £85,000 +6.25% 107
Wales +24 164 £80,000 +11.50% 12
Northern Ireland -19 113 £77,415 -6.50% 39
East Midlands -7 93 £65,000 -12.16% 53
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 624 (18.25%) Azure
2 501 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 480 (14.04%) Microsoft
4 430 (12.58%) Roadmaps
5 429 (12.55%) AI
6 395 (11.55%) AWS
7 299 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
8 293 (8.57%) SC Cleared
9 291 (8.51%) Agile
10 273 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
11 267 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
12 242 (7.08%) Data Architecture
13 239 (6.99%) TOGAF
14 227 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
15 226 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
16 222 (6.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 217 (6.35%) CI/CD
18 209 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
19 205 (6.00%) Decision-Making
19 205 (6.00%) DV Cleared
20 196 (5.73%) Data Modelling
21 193 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
22 185 (5.41%) Technology Strategy
23 182 (5.32%) Business Strategy
24 177 (5.18%) DevOps
24 177 (5.18%) Microservices
25 175 (5.12%) Analytics
25 175 (5.12%) Power Platform
26 171 (5.00%) Security Architecture
27 168 (4.91%) Mentoring

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 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.26%) Apache
3 7 (0.20%) CMS
3 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.15%) Confluence
5 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.029%) JBoss
9 1 (0.029%) SAS
9 1 (0.029%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.029%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.29%) Revit
2 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.058%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.058%) Simulink
6 2 (0.058%) Weka
6 2 (0.058%) Windchill
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.029%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 42 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.088%) Lawson
6 3 (0.088%) Movex
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.088%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.058%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.058%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 624 (18.25%) Azure
2 395 (11.55%) AWS
3 175 (5.12%) Power Platform
4 129 (3.77%) SaaS
5 127 (3.71%) GCP
6 122 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 77 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.87%) Serverless
10 55 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.23%) dbt
11 42 (1.23%) PaaS
12 40 (1.17%) IaaS
13 35 (1.02%) Azure Databricks
14 23 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (0.58%) Amazon S3
16 20 (0.58%) GitHub
17 18 (0.53%) iPaaS
17 18 (0.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.07%) WAN
2 87 (2.54%) LAN
3 70 (2.05%) Network Security
4 66 (1.93%) Firewall
5 46 (1.35%) VPN
6 40 (1.17%) DNS
7 29 (0.85%) Broadband
8 27 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.56%) MPLS
10 16 (0.47%) BGP
11 15 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.44%) VLAN
12 13 (0.38%) HTTP
12 13 (0.38%) SNMP
12 13 (0.38%) Wireless
13 11 (0.32%) DHCP
14 10 (0.29%) FTP
14 10 (0.29%) ICMP
14 10 (0.29%) IPsec
14 10 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (2.19%) Metadata
2 39 (1.14%) Power BI
3 37 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 31 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.35%) GIS
8 11 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.29%) Tableau
10 8 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.20%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.18%) Big Data
12 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.18%) MySQL
13 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.15%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 28 (0.82%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.64%) Snyk
3 20 (0.58%) GitLab
4 14 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.15%) Git
6 5 (0.15%) MLflow
6 5 (0.15%) Toad
6 5 (0.15%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.088%) ERwin
8 2 (0.058%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.058%) JMeter
8 2 (0.058%) Postman
8 2 (0.058%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.058%) Selenium
9 1 (0.029%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.029%) Flyway
9 1 (0.029%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.029%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.029%) Oracle Forms
General
1 468 (13.69%) Finance
2 437 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 266 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 191 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 79 (2.31%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.73%) Law
10 46 (1.35%) Marketing
10 46 (1.35%) Retail
11 45 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 42 (1.23%) Banking
13 31 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 30 (0.88%) Legal
15 29 (0.85%) Games
16 19 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (0.47%) Military
19 13 (0.38%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.73%) Terraform
2 56 (1.64%) .NET
3 49 (1.43%) REST
4 48 (1.40%) Middleware
5 38 (1.11%) SOAP
6 37 (1.08%) OAuth
7 35 (1.02%) LDAP
8 31 (0.91%) SAML
9 30 (0.88%) Node.js
10 25 (0.73%) Kafka
11 24 (0.70%) ModSecurity
12 22 (0.64%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (0.56%) OpenID
14 18 (0.53%) Regular Expression
14 18 (0.53%) XML
15 17 (0.50%) JSON
16 16 (0.47%) XMPP
17 14 (0.41%) Visualforce
18 12 (0.35%) PySpark
19 10 (0.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 167 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.46%) Data Centre
3 52 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
3 52 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 45 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 34 (0.99%) Operational Technology
8 33 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 32 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (0.88%) Cyberattack
11 27 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 22 (0.64%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.61%) Private Cloud
13 21 (0.61%) Social Media
14 20 (0.58%) Management Information System
15 19 (0.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
16 18 (0.53%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
18 15 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.46%) Linux
2 41 (1.20%) Windows
3 31 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.029%) AIX
5 1 (0.029%) CentOS
5 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.029%) Solaris
5 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (12.58%) Roadmaps
2 429 (12.55%) AI
3 299 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 291 (8.51%) Agile
5 273 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
6 267 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
7 242 (7.08%) Data Architecture
8 239 (6.99%) TOGAF
9 227 (6.64%) Problem-Solving
10 226 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
11 222 (6.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 217 (6.35%) CI/CD
13 209 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 205 (6.00%) Decision-Making
15 196 (5.73%) Data Modelling
16 193 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 185 (5.41%) Technology Strategy
18 182 (5.32%) Business Strategy
19 177 (5.18%) DevOps
19 177 (5.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 100 (2.92%) SQL
2 97 (2.84%) Python
3 66 (1.93%) C#
4 52 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.11%) Java
6 26 (0.76%) Bicep
7 17 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 16 (0.47%) C
9 15 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.41%) SOQL
10 14 (0.41%) SOSL
11 12 (0.35%) C++
12 9 (0.26%) Scala
13 8 (0.23%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.18%) COBOL
14 6 (0.18%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.18%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.18%) Go
14 6 (0.18%) R
14 6 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 501 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 293 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 205 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 118 (3.45%) Degree
5 64 (1.87%) CISSP
6 56 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 53 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
8 51 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 44 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (1.14%) CISM
11 37 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 29 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 23 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.47%) CCNP
17 15 (0.44%) CCSP
18 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
19 9 (0.26%) ICAEW
20 8 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.98%) NIST
2 98 (2.87%) GRC
3 95 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 68 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.64%) GDPR
6 44 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.64%) NCSC
8 17 (0.50%) QA
9 13 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.15%) MISRA
15 5 (0.15%) SLA
16 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.79%) Docker
4 26 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.76%) vSphere
5 15 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.15%) NDS
8 3 (0.088%) KVM
9 1 (0.029%) GPFS
9 1 (0.029%) Lustre
9 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.029%) vCloud
9 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.47%) MOM
4 12 (0.35%) CASB
5 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.15%) Ansible
8 3 (0.088%) Grafana
9 2 (0.058%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.058%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.058%) SCCM
9 2 (0.058%) vRealize
10 1 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.029%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 480 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.52%) SAP
3 84 (2.46%) Databricks
4 60 (1.75%) VMware
5 55 (1.61%) Oracle
6 47 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 43 (1.26%) Cisco
8 42 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 31 (0.91%) Google
11 25 (0.73%) Workday
12 24 (0.70%) Computacenter
13 22 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.64%) Tenable
14 20 (0.58%) Okta
14 20 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 19 (0.56%) Adobe
15 19 (0.56%) ForgeRock
16 16 (0.47%) Splunk