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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 95 42
Rank change year-on-year +59 -53 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,534 991 3,803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.77% 3.33% 4.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.99% 3.74% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,894 696 2,466
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £88,563
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 63,568 26,499 74,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 89.04% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 44,047 14,332 53,600
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,296 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
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 17 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 17 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 +98 877 £85,000 +21.43% 297
North West +95 499 £88,000 +26.27% 153
South East +26 416 £85,000 +9.68% 261
South West +52 368 £80,000 -3.03% 168
Midlands +18 368 £80,000 +14.29% 119
West Midlands +19 279 £82,500 +13.79% 91
Yorkshire +44 245 £80,000 +3.23% 87
East of England +55 193 £75,000 +13.29% 87
Scotland +42 169 £90,000 +12.50% 66
North East +18 133 £80,000 +23.08% 58
Wales +36 121 £80,000 +15.30% 38
East Midlands -10 88 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Northern Ireland -20 28 £62,500 -26.47% 24
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 483 (19.06%) Azure
2 331 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 315 (12.43%) Microsoft
4 285 (11.25%) Roadmaps
5 284 (11.21%) AWS
6 243 (9.59%) Agile
7 240 (9.47%) AI
8 228 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
9 223 (8.80%) TOGAF
10 203 (8.01%) SC Cleared
11 198 (7.81%) Enterprise Architecture
12 177 (6.99%) Data Modelling
13 175 (6.91%) Data Architecture
14 173 (6.83%) Problem-Solving
15 172 (6.79%) CI/CD
16 166 (6.55%) DevOps
17 145 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
18 140 (5.52%) Analytics
19 136 (5.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 135 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
21 133 (5.25%) Stakeholder Management
22 132 (5.21%) Data Governance
23 129 (5.09%) Security Architecture
23 129 (5.09%) Technology Strategy
24 128 (5.05%) DV Cleared
25 118 (4.66%) IT Strategy
26 116 (4.58%) Architectural Design
27 113 (4.46%) Power Platform
28 112 (4.42%) Data Quality
29 107 (4.22%) 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 (0.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.36%) Confluence
2 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.24%) Apache
5 5 (0.20%) CMS
5 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.12%) SAS
8 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.039%) Camunda
9 1 (0.039%) IIS
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (0.36%) Revit
2 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.079%) ArchiCAD
4 2 (0.079%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.079%) PTC Creo
4 2 (0.079%) Simulink
4 2 (0.079%) Windchill
5 1 (0.039%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.039%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.28%) 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 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.079%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.039%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.039%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.039%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.039%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 483 (19.06%) Azure
2 284 (11.21%) AWS
3 113 (4.46%) Power Platform
4 101 (3.99%) GCP
5 94 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
6 78 (3.08%) SaaS
7 60 (2.37%) Serverless
8 52 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 37 (1.46%) Entra ID
11 34 (1.34%) PaaS
12 29 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (1.14%) IaaS
12 29 (1.14%) Snowflake
13 20 (0.79%) GitHub
14 14 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.51%) iPaaS
16 11 (0.43%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.37%) Broadband
1 60 (2.37%) Firewall
2 45 (1.78%) Network Security
3 37 (1.46%) DNS
4 35 (1.38%) VPN
5 34 (1.34%) WAN
6 18 (0.71%) BGP
7 17 (0.67%) MPLS
7 17 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 15 (0.59%) LAN
8 15 (0.59%) SNMP
9 13 (0.51%) HTTP
10 10 (0.39%) SSL
10 10 (0.39%) VLAN
11 9 (0.36%) NetScaler
11 9 (0.36%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.32%) Internet
12 8 (0.32%) SAN
13 7 (0.28%) ICMP
13 7 (0.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (2.60%) Metadata
2 32 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 27 (1.07%) Power BI
5 23 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.63%) GIS
7 16 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.39%) Tableau
9 9 (0.36%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.32%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.28%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.24%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.20%) Big Data
13 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
13 5 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.42%) GitLab
3 34 (1.34%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.87%) Snyk
5 8 (0.32%) 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 (0.079%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.079%) ERwin
8 2 (0.079%) JMeter
8 2 (0.079%) Postman
8 2 (0.079%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.079%) Selenium
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle Forms
General
1 282 (11.13%) Social Skills
2 257 (10.14%) Finance
3 206 (8.13%) Public Sector
4 125 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 64 (2.53%) Marketing
8 56 (2.21%) Games
9 51 (2.01%) Retail
10 30 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 21 (0.83%) Law
11 21 (0.83%) Legal
11 21 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 17 (0.67%) Banking
14 12 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.43%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.39%) Automotive
16 10 (0.39%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (2.45%) REST
2 54 (2.13%) SOAP
3 44 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (1.54%) .NET
5 35 (1.38%) Middleware
6 34 (1.34%) Visualforce
7 23 (0.91%) OAuth
8 19 (0.75%) LDAP
8 19 (0.75%) Node.js
8 19 (0.75%) XML
9 18 (0.71%) JSON
9 18 (0.71%) Kafka
9 18 (0.71%) Regular Expression
10 17 (0.67%) SAML
11 16 (0.63%) XMPP
12 11 (0.43%) OpenID
13 10 (0.39%) NestJS
13 10 (0.39%) RESTful
14 9 (0.36%) JWT
14 9 (0.36%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 102 (4.03%) Cloud Native
2 69 (2.72%) Data Centre
3 63 (2.49%) Product Ownership
4 42 (1.66%) Operational Technology
5 38 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.34%) Cyberattack
8 28 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (0.99%) PKI
10 24 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 21 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (0.71%) Management Information System
13 17 (0.67%) Public Cloud
14 16 (0.63%) NHS
15 15 (0.59%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.59%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.55%) Onboarding
17 13 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
18 12 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.97%) Windows
2 43 (1.70%) Linux
3 40 (1.58%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.039%) AIX
5 1 (0.039%) CentOS
5 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (11.25%) Roadmaps
2 243 (9.59%) Agile
3 240 (9.47%) AI
4 228 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
5 223 (8.80%) TOGAF
6 198 (7.81%) Enterprise Architecture
7 177 (6.99%) Data Modelling
8 175 (6.91%) Data Architecture
9 173 (6.83%) Problem-Solving
10 172 (6.79%) CI/CD
11 166 (6.55%) DevOps
12 145 (5.72%) Technical Leadership
13 140 (5.52%) Analytics
14 136 (5.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 135 (5.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 133 (5.25%) Stakeholder Management
17 132 (5.21%) Data Governance
18 129 (5.09%) Security Architecture
18 129 (5.09%) Technology Strategy
19 118 (4.66%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 97 (3.83%) SQL
2 88 (3.47%) Python
3 41 (1.62%) C#
4 37 (1.46%) Apex Code
5 36 (1.42%) Java
6 35 (1.38%) SOQL
7 34 (1.34%) SOSL
8 32 (1.26%) JavaScript
9 19 (0.75%) Bicep
10 16 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.55%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.32%) C
12 8 (0.32%) C++
13 6 (0.24%) Bash
13 6 (0.24%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.24%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.12%) R
15 3 (0.12%) Scala
16 2 (0.079%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 331 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 203 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.05%) DV Cleared
4 100 (3.95%) Degree
5 53 (2.09%) CISSP
6 50 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
7 37 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 33 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.10%) CISM
11 22 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 19 (0.75%) CCSP
13 16 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 12 (0.47%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.39%) CCNP
18 9 (0.36%) ICAEW
19 7 (0.28%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.75%) NIST
3 58 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (1.78%) GDPR
5 29 (1.14%) GRC
6 26 (1.03%) QA
7 21 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.83%) NCSC
8 19 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.20%) WCAG
13 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.12%) IFRS
15 2 (0.079%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.83%) vSphere
4 20 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.59%) Docker
6 9 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.039%) GPFS
9 1 (0.039%) Lustre
9 1 (0.039%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.039%) vCloud
9 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (1.50%) Terraform
2 29 (1.14%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.63%) MOM
4 15 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.36%) CASB
6 7 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.28%) vRealize
7 6 (0.24%) Ansible
7 6 (0.24%) Endace
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.16%) Netcool
10 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.079%) Grafana
12 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.039%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 1 (0.039%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.039%) SCCM
Vendors
1 315 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.55%) Databricks
3 73 (2.88%) SAP
4 61 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 52 (2.05%) VMware
6 40 (1.58%) Oracle
7 39 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 36 (1.42%) Cisco
8 36 (1.42%) Splunk
9 33 (1.30%) Palo Alto
10 24 (0.95%) Google
11 22 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.87%) Tenable
12 19 (0.75%) Juniper
12 19 (0.75%) Palantir
13 17 (0.67%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.47%) McAfee
15 9 (0.36%) Citrix
15 9 (0.36%) HP
15 9 (0.36%) Sparx