Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 42 38
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +24
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,364 2,149 1,860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.43% 5.02% 6.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.83% 5.35% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1,335 1,056
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £68,500 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,800 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,750 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -

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 35,626 40,138 27,761
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.70% 93.79% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 21,807 21,180 21,084
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 -23 379 £82,000 +5.81% 545
North of England -29 306 £79,000 +9.72% 381
Midlands -16 261 £80,000 +6.67% 301
South West +1 174 £79,500 +6.00% 188
West Midlands -15 168 £77,500 +3.33% 176
North West -21 148 £80,000 +10.34% 197
Yorkshire -23 114 £79,000 +12.86% 150
East of England -13 107 £90,000 +5.88% 223
East Midlands +6 89 £80,000 +14.29% 110
Scotland -43 70 £80,000 - 73
North East -6 43 £75,000 +5.63% 35
Wales -5 37 £75,000 +12.26% 45
Northern Ireland +14 36 £75,000 -6.25% 28
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, 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.

1 368 (26.98%) Azure
2 238 (17.45%) Security Cleared
3 217 (15.91%) AWS
4 209 (15.32%) Microsoft
5 205 (15.03%) Enterprise Architecture
6 204 (14.96%) Roadmaps
7 203 (14.88%) Agile
8 181 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 167 (12.24%) TOGAF
10 156 (11.44%) Mentoring
11 141 (10.34%) Data Modelling
12 140 (10.26%) Degree
12 140 (10.26%) SC Cleared
13 139 (10.19%) Analytics
13 139 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
14 134 (9.82%) DevOps
15 132 (9.68%) AI
16 128 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 121 (8.87%) Python
18 119 (8.72%) DV Cleared
18 119 (8.72%) GCP
19 115 (8.43%) Data Architecture
20 103 (7.55%) Project Management
21 97 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
21 97 (7.11%) SAP
22 96 (7.04%) Decision-Making
23 95 (6.96%) Business Strategy
24 94 (6.89%) Architectural Design
25 93 (6.82%) Microservices
26 90 (6.60%) Migration

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 15 (1.10%) CMS
2 14 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.44%) Apache
4 6 (0.44%) Appian
4 6 (0.44%) Confluence
5 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.22%) JBoss
7 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.073%) SAS
8 1 (0.073%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.073%) Strapi
Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 63 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (3.59%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.71%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 18 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Shopify
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.073%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.073%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.073%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.073%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 368 (26.98%) Azure
2 217 (15.91%) AWS
3 119 (8.72%) GCP
4 90 (6.60%) SaaS
5 62 (4.55%) PaaS
6 56 (4.11%) Power Platform
7 52 (3.81%) IaaS
8 43 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
8 43 (3.15%) Snowflake
9 42 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (2.86%) Serverless
11 27 (1.98%) OCI
12 20 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.95%) GitHub
14 12 (0.88%) Azure Stack
15 11 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (0.81%) Entra ID
16 10 (0.73%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.66%) Amazon Bedrock
17 9 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.27%) Firewall
2 25 (1.83%) LAN
2 25 (1.83%) VPN
3 24 (1.76%) WAN
4 17 (1.25%) Broadband
4 17 (1.25%) Network Security
5 8 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.51%) Junos
7 5 (0.37%) BGP
7 5 (0.37%) SSL
8 4 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.29%) OSPF
8 4 (0.29%) SAN
8 4 (0.29%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.22%) IPsec
9 3 (0.22%) MPLS
9 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.22%) VLAN
9 3 (0.22%) VoIP
10 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (2.35%) Metadata
3 23 (1.69%) BigQuery
4 22 (1.61%) Power BI
5 18 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.81%) Tableau
8 7 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 6 (0.44%) Big Data
9 6 (0.44%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (0.37%) Airbyte
10 5 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.37%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (1.61%) Jenkins
2 18 (1.32%) GitLab
3 15 (1.10%) SonarQube
4 9 (0.66%) MSI
5 8 (0.59%) JIRA
6 7 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.44%) Git
7 6 (0.44%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.44%) Selenium
7 6 (0.44%) Snyk
8 4 (0.29%) MSBuild
8 4 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.073%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.073%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 317 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 159 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (11.00%) Finance
4 98 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 88 (6.45%) Marketing
6 65 (4.77%) Law
7 53 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (3.30%) Legal
10 30 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.98%) Games
12 22 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.61%) Retail
13 18 (1.32%) Electronics
14 15 (1.10%) Banking
15 14 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.66%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.66%) Publishing
16 9 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.71%) Middleware
2 31 (2.27%) REST
3 27 (1.98%) .NET
4 26 (1.91%) React
5 25 (1.83%) Node.js
6 24 (1.76%) Django
7 23 (1.69%) Kafka
8 21 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
8 21 (1.54%) SOAP
9 16 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.10%) Visualforce
11 13 (0.95%) Web Services
12 11 (0.81%) EDI
13 8 (0.59%) gRPC
13 8 (0.59%) XML
14 7 (0.51%) GraphQL
15 6 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
15 6 (0.44%) CSS
15 6 (0.44%) HTML
16 5 (0.37%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 43 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (2.57%) Data Centre
4 34 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 25 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (1.83%) Virtual Team
7 23 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.25%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (0.81%) AI Agents
11 11 (0.81%) IoT
11 11 (0.81%) PKI
12 10 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (0.73%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.59%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.51%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.51%) Reference Data
15 6 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.91%) Windows
2 13 (0.95%) Linux
3 4 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) AIX
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.073%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.073%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.073%) VMS
5 1 (0.073%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (15.03%) Enterprise Architecture
2 204 (14.96%) Roadmaps
3 203 (14.88%) Agile
4 181 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 167 (12.24%) TOGAF
6 156 (11.44%) Mentoring
7 141 (10.34%) Data Modelling
8 139 (10.19%) Analytics
8 139 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
9 134 (9.82%) DevOps
10 132 (9.68%) AI
11 128 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 115 (8.43%) Data Architecture
13 103 (7.55%) Project Management
14 97 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
15 96 (7.04%) Decision-Making
16 95 (6.96%) Business Strategy
17 94 (6.89%) Architectural Design
18 93 (6.82%) Microservices
19 90 (6.60%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 121 (8.87%) Python
2 65 (4.77%) C#
3 61 (4.47%) Java
4 54 (3.96%) SQL
5 26 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.69%) Go
7 21 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.32%) C++
9 17 (1.25%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.17%) Apex Code
11 15 (1.10%) SOQL
11 15 (1.10%) SOSL
12 11 (0.81%) Bicep
13 7 (0.51%) PHP
14 4 (0.29%) Bash
15 3 (0.22%) ABAP
15 3 (0.22%) R
15 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.073%) C
Qualifications
1 238 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 140 (10.26%) Degree
2 140 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 119 (8.72%) DV Cleared
4 73 (5.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 60 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 43 (3.15%) CISSP
9 41 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 38 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 34 (2.49%) CISM
12 27 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (1.83%) Chartered Engineer
14 24 (1.76%) DBS Check
15 22 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
16 14 (1.03%) CCNP
17 10 (0.73%) CCNA
17 10 (0.73%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.64%) Accessibility
2 33 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.91%) GRC
4 24 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 20 (1.47%) GDPR
6 19 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.25%) NIST
8 11 (0.81%) QA
9 9 (0.66%) NCSC
10 6 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.29%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.29%) SEPA
11 4 (0.29%) TARGET2
12 3 (0.22%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.22%) SLA
13 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.15%) PMO
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (2.20%) Docker
2 24 (1.76%) Firmware
3 11 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.35%) Terraform
3 15 (1.10%) Ansible
4 10 (0.73%) WMI
5 8 (0.59%) Endace
6 4 (0.29%) Netcool
6 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) vRealize
7 3 (0.22%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.15%) VxRail
9 1 (0.073%) Argo
9 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.073%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.073%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 209 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.11%) SAP
3 46 (3.37%) Google
4 37 (2.71%) OpenText
4 37 (2.71%) Oracle
5 33 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.98%) Cisco
6 27 (1.98%) Databricks
7 25 (1.83%) Adobe
8 24 (1.76%) Juniper
8 24 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.61%) VMware
9 22 (1.61%) Workday
10 20 (1.47%) Splunk
11 18 (1.32%) Apple
11 18 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
13 12 (0.88%) Ariba
14 10 (0.73%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.73%) Genesys