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 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 97 42
Rank change year-on-year +59 -55 +9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,452 984 3,695
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.68% 3.31% 4.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.90% 3.71% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 690 2,394
10th Percentile £59,050 £59,207 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,569 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £88,750
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 62,862 26,509 72,368
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 89.24% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42,841 14,243 52,068
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,575
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +92 849 £85,000 +21.43% 354
North West +97 486 £90,000 +29.14% 173
South East +22 400 £85,000 +9.68% 289
Midlands +10 355 £80,000 +14.29% 128
South West +53 345 £80,000 - 165
West Midlands +3 268 £82,500 +13.79% 96
Yorkshire +40 238 £80,000 -1.54% 99
East of England +48 197 £75,000 +13.29% 91
Scotland +34 168 £90,000 +12.50% 70
North East +16 125 £80,000 +23.08% 83
Wales +38 115 £80,000 +15.30% 49
East Midlands -6 86 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Northern Ireland -22 29 £70,000 -16.57% 24
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 June 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.

1 478 (19.49%) Azure
2 320 (13.05%) Security Cleared
3 297 (12.11%) Microsoft
4 285 (11.62%) AWS
5 260 (10.60%) Roadmaps
6 235 (9.58%) Agile
7 227 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
8 221 (9.01%) AI
9 219 (8.93%) TOGAF
10 196 (7.99%) SC Cleared
11 190 (7.75%) Enterprise Architecture
12 174 (7.10%) Data Modelling
12 174 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
13 164 (6.69%) CI/CD
13 164 (6.69%) Data Architecture
14 161 (6.57%) DevOps
15 141 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 139 (5.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 137 (5.59%) Analytics
17 137 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
18 131 (5.34%) Security Architecture
18 131 (5.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 127 (5.18%) Data Governance
20 121 (4.93%) DV Cleared
21 118 (4.81%) Power Platform
21 118 (4.81%) Technology Strategy
22 114 (4.65%) Architectural Design
23 111 (4.53%) IT Strategy
24 108 (4.40%) Data Quality
25 107 (4.36%) Degree

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 14 (0.57%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.49%) Confluence
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.24%) Apache
6 5 (0.20%) CMS
6 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.041%) Camunda
9 1 (0.041%) IIS
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.33%) Revit
2 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.16%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.082%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.082%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.082%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.082%) Windchill
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.041%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 38 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.29%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.29%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.24%) SAP CAR
5 6 (0.24%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.041%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.041%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.041%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.041%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.041%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 478 (19.49%) Azure
2 285 (11.62%) AWS
3 118 (4.81%) Power Platform
4 101 (4.12%) GCP
5 93 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
6 77 (3.14%) SaaS
7 59 (2.41%) Serverless
8 56 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (1.51%) Entra ID
11 33 (1.35%) PaaS
12 29 (1.18%) Snowflake
13 28 (1.14%) IaaS
14 27 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (0.73%) GitHub
16 13 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.53%) iPaaS
17 10 (0.41%) Amazon S3
18 9 (0.37%) Anthropic Claude
18 9 (0.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.53%) Firewall
2 59 (2.41%) Broadband
3 46 (1.88%) Network Security
4 34 (1.39%) DNS
4 34 (1.39%) VPN
4 34 (1.39%) WAN
5 17 (0.69%) LAN
6 16 (0.65%) SD-WAN
7 15 (0.61%) BGP
7 15 (0.61%) MPLS
8 12 (0.49%) SNMP
9 11 (0.45%) HTTP
10 10 (0.41%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.37%) Internet
11 9 (0.37%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.37%) SSL
11 9 (0.37%) WLAN
12 8 (0.33%) SAN
13 7 (0.29%) VLAN
14 6 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (2.49%) Metadata
2 34 (1.39%) Power BI
3 33 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 23 (0.94%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.73%) Tableau
7 17 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 15 (0.61%) GIS
8 15 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.33%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.33%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.29%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.24%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.20%) Big Data
13 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.20%) MySQL
14 4 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.47%) GitLab
3 34 (1.39%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.90%) Snyk
5 10 (0.41%) JIRA
6 5 (0.20%) Toad
6 5 (0.20%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.12%) Git
7 3 (0.12%) MLflow
7 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.082%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.082%) ERwin
8 2 (0.082%) JMeter
8 2 (0.082%) Postman
8 2 (0.082%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.082%) Selenium
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle Forms
General
1 282 (11.50%) Social Skills
2 251 (10.24%) Finance
3 196 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 127 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 65 (2.65%) Marketing
7 64 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 62 (2.53%) Games
9 49 (2.00%) Retail
10 30 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 24 (0.98%) Law
11 24 (0.98%) Legal
12 21 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 19 (0.77%) Banking
14 18 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.65%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (0.37%) Automotive
17 9 (0.37%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (2.49%) REST
2 54 (2.20%) SOAP
3 44 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (1.59%) .NET
5 34 (1.39%) Visualforce
6 32 (1.31%) Middleware
7 21 (0.86%) OAuth
8 19 (0.77%) XML
9 18 (0.73%) JSON
9 18 (0.73%) Kafka
9 18 (0.73%) LDAP
9 18 (0.73%) Node.js
9 18 (0.73%) Regular Expression
10 16 (0.65%) XMPP
11 15 (0.61%) SAML
12 11 (0.45%) OpenID
13 10 (0.41%) NestJS
14 9 (0.37%) JWT
14 9 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 95 (3.87%) Cloud Native
2 67 (2.73%) Data Centre
3 58 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 42 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
5 41 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 38 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (1.39%) Cyberattack
7 34 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (1.02%) PKI
10 24 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 19 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (0.69%) Management Information System
12 17 (0.69%) NHS
13 16 (0.65%) Low-Code
13 16 (0.65%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.61%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.53%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 51 (2.08%) Windows
2 41 (1.67%) Linux
3 40 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.041%) AIX
5 1 (0.041%) CentOS
5 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (10.60%) Roadmaps
2 235 (9.58%) Agile
3 227 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
4 221 (9.01%) AI
5 219 (8.93%) TOGAF
6 190 (7.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 174 (7.10%) Data Modelling
7 174 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (6.69%) CI/CD
8 164 (6.69%) Data Architecture
9 161 (6.57%) DevOps
10 141 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 139 (5.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 137 (5.59%) Analytics
12 137 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
13 131 (5.34%) Security Architecture
13 131 (5.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 127 (5.18%) Data Governance
15 118 (4.81%) Technology Strategy
16 114 (4.65%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 94 (3.83%) SQL
2 88 (3.59%) Python
3 45 (1.84%) C#
4 37 (1.51%) Apex Code
4 37 (1.51%) Java
5 35 (1.43%) SOQL
6 34 (1.39%) SOSL
7 33 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 18 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 14 (0.57%) Bicep
11 6 (0.24%) C
11 6 (0.24%) C++
12 5 (0.20%) Bash
12 5 (0.20%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.20%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) R
13 3 (0.12%) Scala
14 2 (0.082%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 320 (13.05%) Security Cleared
2 196 (7.99%) SC Cleared
3 121 (4.93%) DV Cleared
4 107 (4.36%) Degree
5 53 (2.16%) CISSP
6 50 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 35 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.10%) CISM
12 22 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (0.77%) CCSP
14 18 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 18 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.45%) CCNP
15 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (0.37%) ICAEW
16 9 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 9 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 94 (3.83%) NIST
3 56 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (1.79%) GDPR
5 29 (1.18%) QA
6 28 (1.14%) GRC
7 21 (0.86%) NCSC
8 20 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.29%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.20%) WCAG
14 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.12%) IFRS
16 2 (0.082%) PMO
16 2 (0.082%) Solvency II
System Software
1 74 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.86%) vSphere
4 19 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.61%) Docker
6 9 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.041%) Firmware
7 1 (0.041%) GPFS
7 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.041%) Lustre
7 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.041%) vCloud
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (1.31%) Terraform
2 25 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.65%) MOM
4 15 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.33%) CASB
6 7 (0.29%) vRealize
7 6 (0.24%) Endace
7 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.20%) Ansible
8 5 (0.20%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.20%) Netcool
9 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.082%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.041%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.041%) Grafana
11 1 (0.041%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.041%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 297 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 88 (3.59%) Databricks
3 76 (3.10%) SAP
4 61 (2.49%) Salesforce
5 51 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 51 (2.08%) VMware
6 41 (1.67%) Oracle
7 36 (1.47%) Splunk
8 34 (1.39%) Cisco
9 32 (1.31%) Palo Alto
10 23 (0.94%) Google
11 22 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.90%) Tenable
12 21 (0.86%) Palantir
13 19 (0.77%) Juniper
14 17 (0.69%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.53%) Anaplan
15 13 (0.53%) Sparx
16 12 (0.49%) McAfee
17 9 (0.37%) Citrix