Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,150 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 99 41
Rank change year-on-year +62 -58 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,523 986 3,793
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.76% 3.31% 4.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.98% 3.72% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 692 2,459
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,690 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,150 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £88,750
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 63,411 26,495 74,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.49% 88.99% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,940 14,354 53,488
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 £66,274 £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 16 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 16 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 +99 871 £85,000 +21.43% 307
North West +94 495 £90,000 +29.14% 159
South East +24 414 £85,000 +9.68% 278
Midlands +24 365 £80,000 +14.29% 123
South West +58 364 £80,000 -3.03% 196
West Midlands +19 277 £82,500 +13.79% 92
Yorkshire +45 246 £80,000 +3.23% 85
East of England +56 192 £75,000 +13.29% 83
Scotland +44 171 £90,000 +12.50% 74
North East +19 130 £80,000 +23.08% 64
Wales +32 124 £80,000 +15.30% 36
East Midlands -3 87 £60,000 -7.69% 31
Northern Ireland -22 28 £62,500 -26.47% 26
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 481 (19.06%) Azure
2 331 (13.12%) Security Cleared
3 317 (12.56%) Microsoft
4 284 (11.26%) AWS
5 277 (10.98%) Roadmaps
6 239 (9.47%) Agile
7 236 (9.35%) AI
8 227 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
9 222 (8.80%) TOGAF
10 202 (8.01%) SC Cleared
11 195 (7.73%) Enterprise Architecture
12 174 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
13 173 (6.86%) Data Modelling
14 171 (6.78%) Data Architecture
15 170 (6.74%) CI/CD
16 164 (6.50%) DevOps
17 142 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
18 139 (5.51%) Analytics
19 135 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 135 (5.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 131 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
21 129 (5.11%) Security Architecture
22 128 (5.07%) Data Governance
22 128 (5.07%) DV Cleared
23 127 (5.03%) Technology Strategy
24 117 (4.64%) IT Strategy
25 114 (4.52%) Architectural Design
26 111 (4.40%) Power Platform
27 110 (4.36%) Data Quality
28 107 (4.24%) 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 14 (0.55%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.36%) Confluence
4 7 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.24%) Apache
6 5 (0.20%) CMS
6 5 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.040%) Camunda
10 1 (0.040%) IIS
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.040%) 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 (0.040%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.40%) 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 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.040%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.040%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.040%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.040%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 481 (19.06%) Azure
2 284 (11.26%) AWS
3 111 (4.40%) Power Platform
4 101 (4.00%) GCP
5 94 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
6 77 (3.05%) SaaS
7 60 (2.38%) Serverless
8 54 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (1.51%) Entra ID
10 34 (1.35%) PaaS
11 29 (1.15%) IaaS
11 29 (1.15%) Snowflake
12 28 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (0.75%) GitHub
14 13 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (0.52%) iPaaS
15 11 (0.44%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.44%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.40%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.42%) Firewall
2 60 (2.38%) Broadband
3 47 (1.86%) Network Security
4 37 (1.47%) DNS
5 35 (1.39%) VPN
5 35 (1.39%) WAN
6 18 (0.71%) BGP
6 18 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 17 (0.67%) MPLS
8 16 (0.63%) LAN
9 15 (0.59%) SNMP
10 13 (0.52%) HTTP
11 10 (0.40%) SSL
11 10 (0.40%) Unified Communications
11 10 (0.40%) VLAN
12 9 (0.36%) NetScaler
13 8 (0.32%) Internet
13 8 (0.32%) SAN
13 8 (0.32%) WLAN
14 7 (0.28%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (2.54%) Metadata
2 32 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 25 (0.99%) Power BI
5 23 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 16 (0.63%) GIS
8 15 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.40%) Tableau
10 9 (0.36%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.32%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.32%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.28%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.24%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.20%) Big Data
14 5 (0.20%) Delta Lake
14 5 (0.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 42 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 36 (1.43%) GitLab
3 34 (1.35%) 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%) MLflow
7 3 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.079%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.079%) ERwin
8 2 (0.079%) Git
8 2 (0.079%) JMeter
8 2 (0.079%) Postman
8 2 (0.079%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.079%) Selenium
9 1 (0.040%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.040%) Oracle Forms
General
1 282 (11.18%) Social Skills
2 256 (10.15%) Finance
3 207 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 124 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
7 64 (2.54%) Marketing
8 56 (2.22%) Games
9 51 (2.02%) Retail
10 29 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 22 (0.87%) Legal
12 21 (0.83%) Law
12 21 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 19 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.67%) Banking
15 12 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.44%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.40%) Automotive
17 10 (0.40%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (2.46%) REST
2 54 (2.14%) SOAP
3 44 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (1.55%) .NET
5 34 (1.35%) Middleware
5 34 (1.35%) Visualforce
6 23 (0.91%) OAuth
7 19 (0.75%) LDAP
7 19 (0.75%) Node.js
7 19 (0.75%) XML
8 18 (0.71%) JSON
8 18 (0.71%) Kafka
8 18 (0.71%) Regular Expression
9 17 (0.67%) SAML
10 16 (0.63%) XMPP
11 11 (0.44%) OpenID
12 10 (0.40%) NestJS
13 9 (0.36%) JWT
13 9 (0.36%) PySpark
13 9 (0.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.96%) Cloud Native
2 70 (2.77%) Data Centre
3 63 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 42 (1.66%) Operational Technology
5 38 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.35%) Cyberattack
8 28 (1.11%) 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%) NHS
13 17 (0.67%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.59%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.59%) Low-Code
15 14 (0.55%) Onboarding
16 13 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
17 12 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.98%) Windows
2 42 (1.66%) Linux
3 40 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.040%) AIX
5 1 (0.040%) CentOS
5 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (10.98%) Roadmaps
2 239 (9.47%) Agile
3 236 (9.35%) AI
4 227 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
5 222 (8.80%) TOGAF
6 195 (7.73%) Enterprise Architecture
7 174 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
8 173 (6.86%) Data Modelling
9 171 (6.78%) Data Architecture
10 170 (6.74%) CI/CD
11 164 (6.50%) DevOps
12 142 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
13 139 (5.51%) Analytics
14 135 (5.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 135 (5.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 131 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 129 (5.11%) Security Architecture
17 128 (5.07%) Data Governance
18 127 (5.03%) Technology Strategy
19 117 (4.64%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 95 (3.77%) SQL
2 87 (3.45%) Python
3 41 (1.63%) C#
4 37 (1.47%) Apex Code
5 36 (1.43%) Java
6 35 (1.39%) SOQL
7 34 (1.35%) SOSL
8 32 (1.27%) JavaScript
9 18 (0.71%) Bicep
10 16 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 15 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.32%) C
12 8 (0.32%) C++
13 6 (0.24%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.24%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.20%) Bash
14 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.12%) R
15 3 (0.12%) Scala
16 2 (0.079%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 331 (13.12%) Security Cleared
2 202 (8.01%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.07%) DV Cleared
4 100 (3.96%) Degree
5 53 (2.10%) CISSP
6 49 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 38 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 28 (1.11%) CISM
12 22 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 19 (0.75%) CCSP
14 16 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 12 (0.48%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.44%) CCNP
17 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
18 9 (0.36%) ICAEW
19 7 (0.28%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 95 (3.77%) NIST
3 58 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (1.82%) GDPR
5 29 (1.15%) GRC
6 26 (1.03%) QA
7 21 (0.83%) NCSC
8 20 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.20%) WCAG
14 4 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.12%) IFRS
16 2 (0.079%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (0.83%) vSphere
4 19 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.55%) Docker
6 9 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.040%) GPFS
8 1 (0.040%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.040%) Lustre
8 1 (0.040%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.040%) vCloud
8 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (1.47%) Terraform
2 27 (1.07%) 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%) Endace
7 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.20%) Ansible
9 4 (0.16%) Netcool
10 3 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.040%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.040%) Grafana
11 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.040%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.040%) SCCM
Vendors
1 317 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 89 (3.53%) Databricks
3 73 (2.89%) SAP
4 61 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 51 (2.02%) VMware
6 40 (1.59%) Oracle
6 40 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.43%) Splunk
8 35 (1.39%) Cisco
9 34 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 24 (0.95%) Google
11 22 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.87%) Tenable
12 21 (0.83%) Palantir
13 19 (0.75%) Juniper
14 17 (0.67%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.48%) McAfee
16 9 (0.36%) Citrix
16 9 (0.36%) HP
16 9 (0.36%) Sparx