Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 88 33
Rank change year-on-year +56 -55 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,534 1,121 3,087
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.29% 3.25% 5.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.57% 3.63% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,489 684 1,870
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,659 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £87,431 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.62% +2.50% -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 77,322 30,847 53,097
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.32% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 53,774 17,601 31,752
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 1,208 £80,000 +6.67% 357
North West +97 658 £80,000 +1.59% 222
South East +10 607 £85,000 +9.68% 422
South West +56 516 £80,000 -5.88% 194
Midlands +38 516 £82,500 +10.00% 172
West Midlands +33 414 £85,000 +13.33% 118
Yorkshire +51 355 £80,000 +6.67% 109
East of England +61 229 £80,150 -1.35% 123
North East +11 195 £85,000 +30.77% 27
Scotland +65 187 £85,000 +6.25% 179
Wales +13 164 £80,000 +11.89% 13
Northern Ireland -13 120 £80,000 +1.39% 89
East Midlands -9 102 £67,464 -8.83% 54
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 633 (17.91%) Azure
2 526 (14.88%) Security Cleared
3 489 (13.84%) Microsoft
4 446 (12.62%) Roadmaps
5 443 (12.54%) AI
6 407 (11.52%) AWS
7 308 (8.72%) SC Cleared
8 304 (8.60%) Agile
9 302 (8.55%) Enterprise Architecture
10 284 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
11 268 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
12 255 (7.22%) Data Architecture
13 238 (6.73%) TOGAF
14 236 (6.68%) Technical Architecture
15 233 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
16 223 (6.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 222 (6.28%) CI/CD
18 213 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
19 209 (5.91%) DV Cleared
20 208 (5.89%) Decision-Making
21 199 (5.63%) Data Modelling
22 197 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
23 191 (5.40%) Technology Strategy
24 184 (5.21%) Microservices
25 182 (5.15%) DevOps
26 180 (5.09%) Business Strategy
27 179 (5.07%) Security Architecture
28 177 (5.01%) Power Platform
29 174 (4.92%) Analytics
30 173 (4.90%) Mentoring

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 19 (0.54%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.25%) Apache
3 7 (0.20%) CMS
3 7 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.14%) Confluence
5 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.028%) JBoss
9 1 (0.028%) SAS
9 1 (0.028%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.028%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.28%) Revit
2 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.057%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.057%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.057%) Simulink
6 2 (0.057%) Weka
6 2 (0.057%) Windchill
7 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.028%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 41 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.085%) Lawson
6 3 (0.085%) Movex
6 3 (0.085%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.085%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.085%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.057%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.057%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 633 (17.91%) Azure
2 407 (11.52%) AWS
3 177 (5.01%) Power Platform
4 128 (3.62%) GCP
5 125 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (3.54%) SaaS
6 77 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
7 71 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
8 60 (1.70%) Serverless
9 56 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 42 (1.19%) dbt
10 42 (1.19%) PaaS
11 40 (1.13%) IaaS
12 34 (0.96%) Azure Databricks
13 23 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
14 21 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (0.59%) PowerApps
15 20 (0.57%) Amazon S3
15 20 (0.57%) GitHub
16 18 (0.51%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (2.94%) WAN
2 88 (2.49%) LAN
3 73 (2.07%) Network Security
4 64 (1.81%) Firewall
5 45 (1.27%) VPN
6 36 (1.02%) DNS
7 27 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.74%) Broadband
9 19 (0.54%) MPLS
10 16 (0.45%) BGP
10 16 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.42%) VLAN
11 15 (0.42%) Wireless
12 13 (0.37%) HTTP
12 13 (0.37%) SNMP
13 11 (0.31%) 5G
13 11 (0.31%) DHCP
14 10 (0.28%) FTP
14 10 (0.28%) IPsec
14 10 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (2.32%) Metadata
2 40 (1.13%) Power BI
3 36 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 29 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.74%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.34%) GIS
8 11 (0.31%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.28%) Tableau
10 8 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.23%) Metadata Repository
11 7 (0.20%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.17%) Big Data
12 6 (0.17%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.17%) MySQL
13 5 (0.14%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (0.71%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.62%) Snyk
3 18 (0.51%) GitLab
4 12 (0.34%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.28%) JIRA
6 5 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.14%) MLflow
6 5 (0.14%) Toad
7 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.085%) ERwin
9 2 (0.057%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.057%) JMeter
9 2 (0.057%) Postman
9 2 (0.057%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.057%) Selenium
10 1 (0.028%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.028%) Flyway
10 1 (0.028%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.028%) Oracle Forms
General
1 488 (13.81%) Finance
2 449 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 281 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 191 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 98 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 87 (2.46%) Aerospace
9 60 (1.70%) Law
10 49 (1.39%) Retail
11 46 (1.30%) Banking
12 44 (1.25%) Marketing
13 42 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 35 (0.99%) Legal
15 32 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 28 (0.79%) Games
17 19 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (0.42%) Military
20 13 (0.37%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.67%) Terraform
2 50 (1.41%) .NET
3 49 (1.39%) Middleware
4 47 (1.33%) REST
5 37 (1.05%) OAuth
6 36 (1.02%) SOAP
7 35 (0.99%) LDAP
8 32 (0.91%) SAML
9 25 (0.71%) Kafka
10 24 (0.68%) ModSecurity
10 24 (0.68%) Node.js
11 20 (0.57%) OpenID
12 19 (0.54%) Lightning Web Components
13 17 (0.48%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.48%) XML
14 16 (0.45%) JSON
14 16 (0.45%) XMPP
15 12 (0.34%) Visualforce
16 11 (0.31%) GraphQL
16 11 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 171 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 85 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 51 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 45 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 40 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (0.96%) Onboarding
9 31 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (0.88%) Operational Technology
10 30 (0.85%) Cyberattack
11 28 (0.79%) Virtual Team
12 23 (0.65%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.62%) Industrial Internet of Things
14 21 (0.59%) Management Information System
14 21 (0.59%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.59%) Social Media
15 20 (0.57%) AI Agents
15 20 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
16 17 (0.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.39%) Linux
2 39 (1.10%) Windows
3 28 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.028%) AIX
5 1 (0.028%) CentOS
5 1 (0.028%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.028%) Solaris
5 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (12.62%) Roadmaps
2 443 (12.54%) AI
3 304 (8.60%) Agile
4 302 (8.55%) Enterprise Architecture
5 284 (8.04%) Technical Leadership
6 268 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
7 255 (7.22%) Data Architecture
8 238 (6.73%) TOGAF
9 236 (6.68%) Technical Architecture
10 233 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
11 223 (6.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 222 (6.28%) CI/CD
13 213 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 208 (5.89%) Decision-Making
15 199 (5.63%) Data Modelling
16 197 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 191 (5.40%) Technology Strategy
18 184 (5.21%) Microservices
19 182 (5.15%) DevOps
20 180 (5.09%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 97 (2.74%) SQL
2 95 (2.69%) Python
3 67 (1.90%) C#
4 51 (1.44%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.08%) Java
6 26 (0.74%) Bicep
7 16 (0.45%) C
8 15 (0.42%) Apex Code
8 15 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.34%) C++
9 12 (0.34%) SOQL
9 12 (0.34%) SOSL
10 9 (0.25%) Scala
11 8 (0.23%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.17%) COBOL
12 6 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.17%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.17%) Go
12 6 (0.17%) R
12 6 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 526 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 308 (8.72%) SC Cleared
3 209 (5.91%) DV Cleared
4 119 (3.37%) Degree
5 66 (1.87%) CISSP
6 59 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 55 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
8 44 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.05%) CISM
11 31 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 17 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (0.48%) CCSP
15 15 (0.42%) CCNP
16 12 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.25%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (2.91%) NIST
2 101 (2.86%) GRC
3 94 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 69 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.61%) GDPR
6 49 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.62%) NCSC
8 17 (0.48%) QA
9 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.34%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) MISRA
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.76%) Docker
3 27 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.74%) vSphere
5 16 (0.45%) Firmware
6 12 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.17%) NDS
9 3 (0.085%) KVM
10 1 (0.028%) GPFS
10 1 (0.028%) Lustre
10 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.028%) vCloud
10 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.45%) MOM
4 12 (0.34%) CASB
5 10 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.17%) Ansible
8 3 (0.085%) Grafana
9 2 (0.057%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.057%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.057%) SCCM
9 2 (0.057%) vRealize
10 1 (0.028%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.028%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 489 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.46%) SAP
3 85 (2.41%) Databricks
4 60 (1.70%) VMware
5 58 (1.64%) Oracle
6 45 (1.27%) Cisco
7 42 (1.19%) Salesforce
7 42 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.16%) Palo Alto
9 33 (0.93%) Google
10 31 (0.88%) Workday
11 27 (0.76%) Computacenter
12 23 (0.65%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (0.62%) Tenable
14 21 (0.59%) Okta
15 20 (0.57%) Adobe
15 20 (0.57%) ForgeRock
15 20 (0.57%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.40%) CyberArk