Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £81,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 84 36
Rank change year-on-year +51 -48 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,985 1,142 3,228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.05% 3.34% 5.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.27% 3.73% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,162 752 2,101
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +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 69,940 30,606 59,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 89.59% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 48,327 17,587 40,465
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
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 29 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 29 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 +88 999 £82,500 +10.00% 179
North West +99 584 £85,000 +6.25% 103
South East +10 501 £85,000 +9.68% 256
South West +43 450 £80,000 -5.88% 103
Midlands +23 431 £80,000 +6.67% 108
West Midlands +21 346 £82,500 +10.00% 82
Yorkshire +42 252 £82,500 +8.20% 48
East of England +39 180 £80,000 +11.89% 59
Scotland +59 178 £90,000 +12.50% 48
North East +12 163 £80,000 +23.08% 30
Wales +26 153 £80,000 +15.30% 12
Northern Ireland -13 103 £74,830 -9.63% 17
East Midlands -18 85 £60,000 -11.11% 26
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 602 (20.17%) Azure
2 449 (15.04%) Microsoft
3 435 (14.57%) Security Cleared
4 376 (12.60%) Roadmaps
5 354 (11.86%) AI
6 350 (11.73%) AWS
7 279 (9.35%) SC Cleared
8 275 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
9 274 (9.18%) Agile
10 261 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
11 244 (8.17%) TOGAF
12 201 (6.73%) Technical Leadership
13 199 (6.67%) CI/CD
14 198 (6.63%) Technical Architecture
15 197 (6.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 196 (6.57%) Data Architecture
17 192 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
18 180 (6.03%) Data Modelling
19 179 (6.00%) DevOps
20 171 (5.73%) DV Cleared
20 171 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
21 169 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
22 168 (5.63%) Power Platform
23 162 (5.43%) Business Strategy
24 157 (5.26%) Analytics
25 155 (5.19%) Decision-Making
26 152 (5.09%) Technology Strategy
27 145 (4.86%) Infrastructure as Code
27 145 (4.86%) Security Architecture
28 141 (4.72%) Microservices

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 10 (0.34%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.27%) CMS
2 8 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.20%) Apache
3 6 (0.20%) Confluence
4 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.10%) SAS
7 2 (0.067%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.034%) JBoss
8 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.034%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.034%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.34%) Revit
2 9 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.067%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.067%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.067%) Simulink
6 2 (0.067%) Windchill
7 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.034%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.034%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 34 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.10%) Oracle Utilities
7 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.067%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.067%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.067%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 602 (20.17%) Azure
2 350 (11.73%) AWS
3 168 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 106 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (3.42%) GCP
6 93 (3.12%) SaaS
7 90 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (2.08%) Serverless
10 51 (1.71%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.41%) dbt
12 38 (1.27%) PaaS
13 35 (1.17%) IaaS
14 29 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (0.87%) Snowflake
16 23 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 22 (0.74%) GitHub
18 17 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.50%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.50%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.48%) WAN
2 82 (2.75%) LAN
3 62 (2.08%) Firewall
4 58 (1.94%) Network Security
5 44 (1.47%) VPN
6 41 (1.37%) DNS
7 40 (1.34%) Broadband
8 26 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.64%) BGP
9 19 (0.64%) MPLS
10 16 (0.54%) SNMP
11 15 (0.50%) HTTP
11 15 (0.50%) VLAN
12 14 (0.47%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.37%) DHCP
14 10 (0.34%) FTP
14 10 (0.34%) ICMP
14 10 (0.34%) IPsec
14 10 (0.34%) SSH
14 10 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.01%) Metadata
2 38 (1.27%) Data Lake
3 34 (1.14%) Power BI
4 29 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.54%) GIS
8 11 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.30%) Tableau
10 8 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.27%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.23%) Delta Lake
11 7 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.20%) MySQL
12 6 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.13%) Big Data
13 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 41 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 32 (1.07%) GitLab
3 26 (0.87%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.74%) Snyk
5 9 (0.30%) JIRA
6 5 (0.17%) MLflow
6 5 (0.17%) Toad
6 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.10%) Git
8 2 (0.067%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.067%) ERwin
8 2 (0.067%) JMeter
8 2 (0.067%) Postman
8 2 (0.067%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.067%) Selenium
9 1 (0.034%) Flyway
9 1 (0.034%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.034%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Forms
General
1 384 (12.86%) Social Skills
2 382 (12.80%) Finance
3 219 (7.34%) Public Sector
4 171 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 112 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (1.91%) Law
9 55 (1.84%) Marketing
10 49 (1.64%) Retail
11 40 (1.34%) Games
12 39 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.14%) Aerospace
14 28 (0.94%) Legal
15 26 (0.87%) Banking
16 24 (0.80%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.44%) Advertising
19 12 (0.40%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.98%) REST
2 48 (1.61%) SOAP
3 46 (1.54%) .NET
4 38 (1.27%) Middleware
5 36 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
6 30 (1.01%) OAuth
7 28 (0.94%) LDAP
8 27 (0.90%) Node.js
9 26 (0.87%) Visualforce
10 24 (0.80%) SAML
11 22 (0.74%) Kafka
12 18 (0.60%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.57%) XML
14 16 (0.54%) JSON
14 16 (0.54%) XMPP
15 12 (0.40%) OpenID
16 11 (0.37%) GraphQL
17 10 (0.34%) NestJS
17 10 (0.34%) Spring Boot
18 9 (0.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 142 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 86 (2.88%) Data Centre
3 64 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 46 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 35 (1.17%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.04%) Cyberattack
10 27 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 26 (0.87%) Onboarding
12 19 (0.64%) PKI
13 17 (0.57%) Management Information System
14 14 (0.47%) Graphic Design
15 13 (0.44%) NHS
15 13 (0.44%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.40%) Low-Code
16 12 (0.40%) Private Cloud
16 12 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.61%) Windows
2 47 (1.57%) Linux
3 35 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.034%) AIX
5 1 (0.034%) CentOS
5 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.034%) Solaris
5 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (12.60%) Roadmaps
2 354 (11.86%) AI
3 275 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
4 274 (9.18%) Agile
5 261 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
6 244 (8.17%) TOGAF
7 201 (6.73%) Technical Leadership
8 199 (6.67%) CI/CD
9 198 (6.63%) Technical Architecture
10 197 (6.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 196 (6.57%) Data Architecture
12 192 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
13 180 (6.03%) Data Modelling
14 179 (6.00%) DevOps
15 171 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 169 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
17 162 (5.43%) Business Strategy
18 157 (5.26%) Analytics
19 155 (5.19%) Decision-Making
20 152 (5.09%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 97 (3.25%) SQL
2 91 (3.05%) Python
3 55 (1.84%) C#
4 46 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.07%) Java
6 31 (1.04%) Apex Code
7 27 (0.90%) SOQL
8 26 (0.87%) Bicep
8 26 (0.87%) SOSL
9 14 (0.47%) C
9 14 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 13 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 11 (0.37%) C++
12 6 (0.20%) COBOL
12 6 (0.20%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.20%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.20%) Ruby
13 4 (0.13%) Bash
13 4 (0.13%) R
13 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 435 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 279 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 171 (5.73%) DV Cleared
4 104 (3.48%) Degree
5 52 (1.74%) CISSP
6 50 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 37 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (1.11%) AWS Certification
11 28 (0.94%) CISM
12 20 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 20 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.57%) CCSP
13 17 (0.57%) Master's Degree
14 16 (0.54%) CCNP
15 13 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.30%) ICAEW
16 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.20%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.22%) NIST
3 91 (3.05%) GRC
4 58 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.64%) GDPR
6 37 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.80%) NCSC
8 21 (0.70%) QA
9 13 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.30%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.17%) SLA
14 5 (0.17%) WCAG
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) MISRA
System Software
1 83 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (0.80%) vSphere
4 20 (0.67%) Docker
5 10 (0.34%) Firmware
6 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.17%) NDS
9 1 (0.034%) GPFS
9 1 (0.034%) KVM
9 1 (0.034%) Lustre
9 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.034%) vCloud
9 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.78%) Terraform
3 20 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.54%) MOM
5 10 (0.34%) CASB
5 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.23%) Ansible
8 3 (0.10%) Endace
8 3 (0.10%) Grafana
9 2 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.067%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.067%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.067%) vRealize
10 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.034%) SCCM
Vendors
1 449 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 80 (2.68%) Databricks
3 71 (2.38%) SAP
4 60 (2.01%) Salesforce
5 58 (1.94%) VMware
6 48 (1.61%) Cisco
7 43 (1.44%) Oracle
8 41 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 28 (0.94%) Splunk
11 22 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.74%) Tenable
12 20 (0.67%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.64%) Computacenter
13 19 (0.64%) Google
14 17 (0.57%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.47%) Okta
16 13 (0.44%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.40%) Citrix
17 12 (0.40%) McAfee