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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 89 41
Rank change year-on-year +54 -48 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,728 1,102 3,631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.87% 3.36% 4.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.09% 3.76% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,035 779 2,397
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,310 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +3.08% -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 66,738 29,315 71,409
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 46,304 16,594 50,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 7 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 7 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 +86 941 £80,000 +6.67% 176
North West +94 549 £85,000 +13.33% 110
South East +13 460 £85,000 +9.68% 217
South West +38 398 £80,000 -3.03% 117
Midlands +19 389 £80,000 +10.34% 90
West Midlands +17 306 £82,500 +10.00% 67
Yorkshire +39 241 £80,000 - 42
East of England +51 179 £80,000 +16.36% 49
Scotland +40 168 £90,000 +12.50% 51
North East +18 151 £80,000 +23.08% 25
Wales +33 144 £80,000 +13.57% 25
East Midlands -12 82 £60,000 -11.11% 23
Northern Ireland -19 58 £74,830 -13.24% 13
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 525 (19.24%) Azure
2 374 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 369 (13.53%) Security Cleared
4 329 (12.06%) Roadmaps
5 317 (11.62%) AWS
6 295 (10.81%) AI
7 254 (9.31%) Agile
8 247 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
9 240 (8.80%) Enterprise Architecture
10 237 (8.69%) TOGAF
11 225 (8.25%) SC Cleared
12 191 (7.00%) CI/CD
13 185 (6.78%) Data Architecture
14 177 (6.49%) DevOps
15 172 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
16 170 (6.23%) Data Modelling
17 167 (6.12%) Technical Leadership
18 157 (5.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 154 (5.65%) DV Cleared
20 148 (5.43%) Analytics
20 148 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
21 142 (5.21%) Power Platform
22 141 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
23 136 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
24 132 (4.84%) Security Architecture
25 129 (4.73%) Technical Architecture
26 128 (4.69%) IT Strategy
27 125 (4.58%) Data Governance
28 124 (4.55%) Decision-Making
29 123 (4.51%) Cloud Security

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 13 (0.48%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.26%) Confluence
4 5 (0.18%) Apache
4 5 (0.18%) CMS
4 5 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.037%) Camunda
8 1 (0.037%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.037%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.37%) Revit
2 6 (0.22%) AutoCAD
2 6 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.073%) ArchiCAD
3 2 (0.073%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.073%) PTC Creo
3 2 (0.073%) Simulink
3 2 (0.073%) Windchill
4 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.037%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 34 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 4 (0.15%) SAP Retail
6 4 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.037%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.037%) Infor CloudSuite
9 1 (0.037%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Utilities
9 1 (0.037%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 525 (19.24%) Azure
2 317 (11.62%) AWS
3 142 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 108 (3.96%) GCP
5 86 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
6 83 (3.04%) SaaS
7 74 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (2.27%) Serverless
9 38 (1.39%) Entra ID
10 36 (1.32%) PaaS
11 31 (1.14%) IaaS
12 30 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (1.06%) Snowflake
14 28 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (0.92%) dbt
16 22 (0.81%) GitHub
17 14 (0.51%) Amazon S3
17 14 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.35%) WAN
2 61 (2.24%) Firewall
3 52 (1.91%) Broadband
4 50 (1.83%) Network Security
5 42 (1.54%) DNS
5 42 (1.54%) VPN
6 41 (1.50%) LAN
7 22 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 21 (0.77%) BGP
9 20 (0.73%) MPLS
10 18 (0.66%) SNMP
11 16 (0.59%) HTTP
12 14 (0.51%) VLAN
13 12 (0.44%) SSL
14 11 (0.40%) DHCP
15 10 (0.37%) FTP
15 10 (0.37%) ICMP
15 10 (0.37%) IPsec
15 10 (0.37%) SSH
15 10 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (2.24%) Metadata
2 35 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (1.03%) Power BI
5 22 (0.81%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.51%) GIS
8 10 (0.37%) Tableau
9 9 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.29%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.29%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.18%) Big Data
12 5 (0.18%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.18%) MySQL
13 4 (0.15%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 46 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 37 (1.36%) GitLab
3 34 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.81%) Snyk
5 6 (0.22%) JIRA
6 5 (0.18%) Toad
6 5 (0.18%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.11%) Git
7 3 (0.11%) MLflow
8 2 (0.073%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.073%) ERwin
8 2 (0.073%) JMeter
8 2 (0.073%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.073%) Postman
8 2 (0.073%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.073%) Selenium
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.037%) Oracle Forms
General
1 309 (11.33%) Social Skills
2 294 (10.78%) Finance
3 219 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 141 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
7 63 (2.31%) Marketing
8 52 (1.91%) Games
8 52 (1.91%) Retail
9 42 (1.54%) Law
10 35 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 24 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 21 (0.77%) Banking
13 21 (0.77%) Legal
14 19 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 12 (0.44%) Automotive
15 12 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.44%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (2.38%) REST
2 54 (1.98%) SOAP
3 45 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
4 41 (1.50%) .NET
5 35 (1.28%) Middleware
6 34 (1.25%) Visualforce
7 27 (0.99%) OAuth
8 23 (0.84%) Node.js
9 22 (0.81%) Kafka
10 21 (0.77%) SAML
11 18 (0.66%) LDAP
11 18 (0.66%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.62%) XML
13 16 (0.59%) JSON
13 16 (0.59%) XMPP
14 11 (0.40%) OpenID
15 10 (0.37%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.37%) NestJS
15 10 (0.37%) RESTful
15 10 (0.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 117 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 74 (2.71%) Data Centre
3 65 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 41 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 40 (1.47%) Operational Technology
6 38 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (1.21%) Cyberattack
7 33 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 27 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (0.88%) PKI
10 24 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 20 (0.73%) Onboarding
12 18 (0.66%) Public Cloud
13 16 (0.59%) Management Information System
14 15 (0.55%) Low-Code
14 15 (0.55%) NHS
15 13 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
17 10 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 51 (1.87%) Windows
2 44 (1.61%) Linux
3 40 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.037%) AIX
5 1 (0.037%) CentOS
5 1 (0.037%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (12.06%) Roadmaps
2 295 (10.81%) AI
3 254 (9.31%) Agile
4 247 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
5 240 (8.80%) Enterprise Architecture
6 237 (8.69%) TOGAF
7 191 (7.00%) CI/CD
8 185 (6.78%) Data Architecture
9 177 (6.49%) DevOps
10 172 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
11 170 (6.23%) Data Modelling
12 167 (6.12%) Technical Leadership
13 157 (5.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 148 (5.43%) Analytics
14 148 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 141 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
16 136 (4.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 132 (4.84%) Security Architecture
18 129 (4.73%) Technical Architecture
19 128 (4.69%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 92 (3.37%) SQL
2 85 (3.12%) Python
3 40 (1.47%) C#
4 38 (1.39%) Apex Code
5 35 (1.28%) SOQL
6 34 (1.25%) Java
6 34 (1.25%) SOSL
7 33 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 24 (0.88%) Bicep
9 16 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.40%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.37%) C
11 10 (0.37%) C++
12 6 (0.22%) Bash
12 6 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.22%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.18%) COBOL
13 5 (0.18%) Ruby
14 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 369 (13.53%) Security Cleared
2 225 (8.25%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 98 (3.59%) Degree
5 50 (1.83%) CISSP
6 49 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 37 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 30 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 26 (0.95%) CISM
12 22 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (0.70%) CCSP
14 16 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 14 (0.51%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.44%) CCNP
17 10 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.33%) ICAEW
19 7 (0.26%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.59%) NIST
3 59 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (1.83%) GRC
5 45 (1.65%) GDPR
6 30 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.88%) QA
8 22 (0.81%) NCSC
9 14 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.18%) WCAG
16 4 (0.15%) Def Stans
17 3 (0.11%) IFRS
17 3 (0.11%) MISRA
System Software
1 76 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (0.84%) vSphere
4 20 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (0.70%) Docker
6 10 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.29%) Firmware
8 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.037%) GPFS
9 1 (0.037%) Lustre
9 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.037%) vCloud
9 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (1.76%) Terraform
2 38 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.59%) MOM
3 16 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.37%) CASB
4 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
5 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.26%) Ansible
7 6 (0.22%) Endace
7 6 (0.22%) vRealize
8 3 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.073%) Grafana
10 1 (0.037%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.037%) Netcool
10 1 (0.037%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.037%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.037%) SCCM
Vendors
1 374 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 84 (3.08%) Databricks
3 68 (2.49%) SAP
4 64 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 53 (1.94%) VMware
6 46 (1.69%) Cisco
7 39 (1.43%) Oracle
8 38 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.32%) Splunk
10 32 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.99%) Google
12 22 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (0.81%) Tenable
13 17 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.59%) Juniper
15 14 (0.51%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.48%) Computacenter
17 12 (0.44%) McAfee
18 10 (0.37%) Citrix
19 9 (0.33%) BiZZdesign