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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 86 39
Rank change year-on-year +53 -47 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,899 1,146 3,354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.99% 3.38% 4.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.21% 3.77% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 769 2,210
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,194 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -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 68,824 30,367 64,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.52% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 47,665 17,402 44,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 22 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 22 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 +89 975 £80,000 +6.67% 220
North West +99 577 £85,000 +12.21% 117
South East +8 488 £85,000 +9.68% 247
South West +37 424 £80,000 -5.88% 116
Midlands +16 416 £80,000 +6.67% 109
West Midlands +27 334 £82,500 +10.00% 78
Yorkshire +31 239 £80,000 +4.92% 65
Scotland +49 177 £90,000 +12.50% 61
East of England +56 176 £80,000 +14.29% 63
North East +9 159 £80,000 +23.08% 38
Wales +29 152 £80,000 +15.30% 19
Northern Ireland -13 102 £74,830 -12.12% 13
East Midlands -18 81 £60,000 -11.11% 30
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 581 (20.04%) Azure
2 432 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 419 (14.45%) Security Cleared
4 369 (12.73%) Roadmaps
5 339 (11.69%) AWS
6 326 (11.25%) AI
7 273 (9.42%) SC Cleared
8 268 (9.24%) Agile
9 267 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
10 258 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
11 243 (8.38%) TOGAF
12 197 (6.80%) CI/CD
13 192 (6.62%) Technical Architecture
14 190 (6.55%) Data Architecture
15 188 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 188 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
16 182 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
17 179 (6.17%) DevOps
18 176 (6.07%) Data Modelling
19 167 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
20 165 (5.69%) DV Cleared
21 158 (5.45%) Power Platform
22 154 (5.31%) Business Strategy
23 152 (5.24%) Analytics
23 152 (5.24%) Stakeholder Management
24 150 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
25 139 (4.79%) Decision-Making
26 138 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
27 133 (4.59%) Security Architecture
28 132 (4.55%) 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 11 (0.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.24%) CMS
4 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.17%) Apache
5 5 (0.17%) Confluence
5 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.10%) SAS
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.034%) Camunda
9 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.034%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.34%) Revit
2 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.069%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.069%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.069%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.069%) Simulink
5 2 (0.069%) Windchill
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Utilities
8 2 (0.069%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.069%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.069%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 581 (20.04%) Azure
2 339 (11.69%) AWS
3 158 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 101 (3.48%) GCP
5 95 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
7 89 (3.07%) SaaS
8 65 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (2.14%) Serverless
10 48 (1.66%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.45%) dbt
12 37 (1.28%) PaaS
13 34 (1.17%) IaaS
14 29 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (0.93%) Snowflake
16 26 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (0.79%) GitHub
18 16 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.52%) Amazon S3
20 14 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.62%) WAN
2 81 (2.79%) LAN
3 62 (2.14%) Firewall
4 56 (1.93%) Network Security
5 48 (1.66%) Broadband
6 46 (1.59%) VPN
7 41 (1.41%) DNS
8 25 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.76%) BGP
10 20 (0.69%) MPLS
11 19 (0.66%) SNMP
12 16 (0.55%) HTTP
13 15 (0.52%) VLAN
14 12 (0.41%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.38%) DHCP
16 10 (0.34%) FTP
16 10 (0.34%) ICMP
16 10 (0.34%) IPsec
16 10 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (1.97%) Metadata
2 37 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.07%) Power BI
4 27 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.79%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.55%) GIS
6 16 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.31%) Tableau
9 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.28%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.28%) Data Vault
9 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.21%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.17%) MySQL
12 5 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.14%) Big Data
13 4 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 47 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 38 (1.31%) GitLab
3 34 (1.17%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.76%) Snyk
5 5 (0.17%) JIRA
5 5 (0.17%) Toad
5 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
6 4 (0.14%) MLflow
7 3 (0.10%) Git
8 2 (0.069%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.069%) ERwin
8 2 (0.069%) JMeter
8 2 (0.069%) Postman
8 2 (0.069%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.069%) Selenium
9 1 (0.034%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.034%) Oracle Forms
General
1 373 (12.87%) Social Skills
2 349 (12.04%) Finance
3 214 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 164 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 102 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
7 80 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 61 (2.10%) Marketing
9 54 (1.86%) Law
10 49 (1.69%) Games
11 48 (1.66%) Retail
12 34 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 26 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 25 (0.86%) Legal
15 23 (0.79%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.72%) Banking
17 13 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.41%) Advertising
18 12 (0.41%) Automotive
18 12 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (2.35%) REST
2 56 (1.93%) SOAP
3 44 (1.52%) .NET
3 44 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (1.17%) Visualforce
5 33 (1.14%) Middleware
6 28 (0.97%) OAuth
7 26 (0.90%) Node.js
8 23 (0.79%) LDAP
9 22 (0.76%) Kafka
9 22 (0.76%) SAML
10 18 (0.62%) Regular Expression
11 16 (0.55%) XML
11 16 (0.55%) XMPP
12 15 (0.52%) JSON
13 11 (0.38%) GraphQL
13 11 (0.38%) Spring Boot
14 10 (0.34%) NestJS
14 10 (0.34%) OpenID
15 9 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 131 (4.52%) Cloud Native
2 81 (2.79%) Data Centre
3 71 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 43 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (1.24%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 32 (1.10%) Cyberattack
10 26 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 24 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 22 (0.76%) PKI
13 14 (0.48%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.48%) Management Information System
14 13 (0.45%) NHS
14 13 (0.45%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.41%) Graphic Design
15 12 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.62%) Windows
2 45 (1.55%) Linux
3 36 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.034%) AIX
5 1 (0.034%) CentOS
5 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (12.73%) Roadmaps
2 326 (11.25%) AI
3 268 (9.24%) Agile
4 267 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
5 258 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
6 243 (8.38%) TOGAF
7 197 (6.80%) CI/CD
8 192 (6.62%) Technical Architecture
9 190 (6.55%) Data Architecture
10 188 (6.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 188 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
11 182 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
12 179 (6.17%) DevOps
13 176 (6.07%) Data Modelling
14 167 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 154 (5.31%) Business Strategy
16 152 (5.24%) Analytics
16 152 (5.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 150 (5.17%) Technology Strategy
18 139 (4.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 92 (3.17%) SQL
2 86 (2.97%) Python
3 44 (1.52%) C#
4 39 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.31%) Apex Code
6 35 (1.21%) SOQL
7 34 (1.17%) SOSL
8 32 (1.10%) Java
9 26 (0.90%) Bicep
10 14 (0.48%) PowerShell
11 13 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.41%) C
13 10 (0.34%) C++
14 6 (0.21%) COBOL
14 6 (0.21%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.21%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.21%) Ruby
15 5 (0.17%) Bash
16 3 (0.10%) R
16 3 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 419 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 273 (9.42%) SC Cleared
3 165 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 100 (3.45%) Degree
5 48 (1.66%) CISSP
5 48 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 38 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 24 (0.83%) CISM
11 20 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 18 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.59%) CCSP
13 17 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.52%) CCNP
15 14 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 9 (0.31%) ICAEW
16 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.21%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.55%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.28%) NIST
3 88 (3.04%) GRC
4 57 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.59%) GDPR
6 37 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.86%) NCSC
8 21 (0.72%) QA
9 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.17%) SLA
15 5 (0.17%) WCAG
16 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 81 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (0.83%) vSphere
4 20 (0.69%) Docker
5 10 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.31%) Firmware
7 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.14%) NDS
9 1 (0.034%) GPFS
9 1 (0.034%) Lustre
9 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.034%) vCloud
9 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (1.79%) Terraform
2 49 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.55%) MOM
3 16 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.34%) CASB
4 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.24%) Ansible
7 6 (0.21%) Endace
8 3 (0.10%) vRealize
9 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.069%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.069%) Grafana
10 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.034%) SCCM
Vendors
1 432 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 80 (2.76%) Databricks
3 70 (2.41%) SAP
4 66 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 58 (2.00%) VMware
6 52 (1.79%) Cisco
7 41 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 40 (1.38%) Oracle
9 36 (1.24%) Splunk
10 35 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 22 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.76%) Tenable
12 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
13 19 (0.66%) Google
14 17 (0.59%) Computacenter
14 17 (0.59%) Red Hat
15 16 (0.55%) Juniper
16 12 (0.41%) Citrix
16 12 (0.41%) McAfee
17 11 (0.38%) CyberArk