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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 92 32
Rank change year-on-year +61 -60 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,613 1,081 3,064
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.24% 3.14% 5.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 3.52% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,509 669 1,846
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,992 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £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 £97,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% -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 79,445 30,717 52,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.30% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55,076 17,484 30,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,620
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 £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 19 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 19 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 1,235 £80,000 +6.67% 585
North West +104 664 £80,000 - 330
South East +15 624 £85,000 +9.68% 665
South West +51 537 £80,000 -5.88% 236
Midlands +39 519 £85,000 +13.33% 326
West Midlands +33 416 £85,000 +13.33% 231
Yorkshire +62 370 £80,000 +6.67% 188
East of England +67 235 £81,325 +0.09% 186
North East +13 201 £85,000 +30.77% 67
Scotland +64 188 £85,000 +6.25% 243
Wales +17 166 £80,000 +11.89% 31
Northern Ireland -7 124 £80,000 +1.39% 75
East Midlands -9 103 £77,500 +3.33% 94
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 641 (17.74%) Azure
2 556 (15.39%) Security Cleared
3 495 (13.70%) Microsoft
4 454 (12.57%) Roadmaps
5 452 (12.51%) AI
6 419 (11.60%) AWS
7 333 (9.22%) SC Cleared
8 309 (8.55%) Agile
8 309 (8.55%) Enterprise Architecture
8 309 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
9 276 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
10 259 (7.17%) Data Architecture
11 242 (6.70%) Technical Architecture
12 239 (6.62%) Problem-Solving
13 237 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 229 (6.34%) TOGAF
15 227 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
16 218 (6.03%) CI/CD
17 217 (6.01%) Decision-Making
18 212 (5.87%) DV Cleared
19 205 (5.67%) Data Modelling
19 205 (5.67%) Technology Strategy
20 196 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
21 191 (5.29%) Microservices
22 182 (5.04%) IT Strategy
22 182 (5.04%) Mentoring
23 180 (4.98%) Analytics
23 180 (4.98%) Business Strategy
23 180 (4.98%) Security Architecture
24 178 (4.93%) DevOps

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 17 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.22%) Apache
2 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.19%) CMS
4 6 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.11%) Confluence
7 3 (0.083%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.028%) JBoss
9 1 (0.028%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.028%) SAS
9 1 (0.028%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.028%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Revit
2 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.055%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.055%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.055%) Simulink
6 2 (0.055%) Weka
6 2 (0.055%) Windchill
7 1 (0.028%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.028%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.028%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 42 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.083%) Lawson
6 3 (0.083%) Movex
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.083%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.083%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.055%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.055%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 641 (17.74%) Azure
2 419 (11.60%) AWS
3 174 (4.82%) Power Platform
4 133 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (3.49%) SaaS
6 125 (3.46%) GCP
7 76 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
9 63 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 60 (1.66%) Serverless
11 42 (1.16%) dbt
12 41 (1.13%) IaaS
12 41 (1.13%) PaaS
13 35 (0.97%) Azure Databricks
14 23 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (0.55%) Amazon S3
15 20 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (0.53%) GitHub
17 18 (0.50%) iPaaS
17 18 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 107 (2.96%) WAN
2 91 (2.52%) LAN
3 76 (2.10%) Network Security
4 64 (1.77%) Firewall
5 49 (1.36%) VPN
6 33 (0.91%) DNS
7 29 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.53%) Broadband
8 19 (0.53%) MPLS
9 18 (0.50%) BGP
9 18 (0.50%) VLAN
9 18 (0.50%) Wireless
10 16 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.42%) SNMP
12 13 (0.36%) 5G
12 13 (0.36%) HTTP
13 12 (0.33%) DHCP
14 10 (0.28%) FTP
14 10 (0.28%) IPsec
14 10 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (2.35%) Metadata
2 38 (1.05%) Power BI
3 35 (0.97%) Data Lake
4 27 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (0.69%) SQL Server
6 13 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.33%) GIS
8 11 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.28%) Metadata Repository
9 10 (0.28%) Tableau
10 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.19%) Big Data
12 7 (0.19%) Data Vault
12 7 (0.19%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.17%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (0.61%) Snyk
2 19 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.30%) GitLab
4 10 (0.28%) JIRA
5 6 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.14%) MLflow
6 5 (0.14%) Toad
7 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.083%) ERwin
8 3 (0.083%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.055%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.055%) JMeter
9 2 (0.055%) Postman
9 2 (0.055%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.055%) Selenium
10 1 (0.028%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.028%) Flyway
10 1 (0.028%) Liquibase
General
1 510 (14.12%) Finance
2 469 (12.98%) Social Skills
3 290 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 180 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (3.27%) Aerospace
7 100 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
8 92 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (1.63%) Law
10 57 (1.58%) Retail
11 50 (1.38%) Banking
12 45 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 39 (1.08%) Marketing
14 38 (1.05%) Legal
15 32 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.58%) Games
17 20 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.50%) Military
19 16 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
20 15 (0.42%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (1.55%) Terraform
2 54 (1.49%) Middleware
3 48 (1.33%) .NET
4 42 (1.16%) REST
5 38 (1.05%) LDAP
6 37 (1.02%) OAuth
7 33 (0.91%) SAML
8 30 (0.83%) SOAP
9 26 (0.72%) ModSecurity
10 25 (0.69%) Kafka
11 22 (0.61%) Node.js
12 20 (0.55%) OpenID
13 16 (0.44%) XML
14 15 (0.42%) JSON
15 13 (0.36%) Regular Expression
15 13 (0.36%) XMPP
16 12 (0.33%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.33%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (0.33%) SailPoint
17 11 (0.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 176 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 82 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 54 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 46 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 43 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 40 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 33 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (0.77%) Cyberattack
10 28 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 27 (0.75%) Operational Technology
12 24 (0.66%) Management Information System
13 23 (0.64%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 23 (0.64%) Public Cloud
14 22 (0.61%) AI Agents
14 22 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
15 21 (0.58%) Private Cloud
15 21 (0.58%) Social Media
16 20 (0.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.25%) Linux
2 35 (0.97%) Windows
3 24 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.028%) AIX
6 1 (0.028%) CentOS
6 1 (0.028%) Solaris
6 1 (0.028%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (12.57%) Roadmaps
2 452 (12.51%) AI
3 309 (8.55%) Agile
3 309 (8.55%) Enterprise Architecture
3 309 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
4 276 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
5 259 (7.17%) Data Architecture
6 242 (6.70%) Technical Architecture
7 239 (6.62%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 229 (6.34%) TOGAF
10 227 (6.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 218 (6.03%) CI/CD
12 217 (6.01%) Decision-Making
13 205 (5.67%) Data Modelling
13 205 (5.67%) Technology Strategy
14 196 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 191 (5.29%) Microservices
16 182 (5.04%) IT Strategy
16 182 (5.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 93 (2.57%) SQL
2 92 (2.55%) Python
3 67 (1.85%) C#
4 49 (1.36%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.02%) Java
6 26 (0.72%) Bicep
7 17 (0.47%) C
8 15 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.36%) C++
10 10 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.25%) Scala
12 6 (0.17%) COBOL
12 6 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.17%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.17%) R
12 6 (0.17%) Ruby
12 6 (0.17%) Rust
12 6 (0.17%) SOQL
12 6 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 556 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 333 (9.22%) SC Cleared
3 212 (5.87%) DV Cleared
4 132 (3.65%) Degree
5 68 (1.88%) CISSP
6 62 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 56 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 53 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 44 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 38 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (1.02%) CISM
13 23 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 20 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.47%) CCSP
16 15 (0.42%) CCNP
16 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
18 9 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.82%) GRC
1 102 (2.82%) NIST
2 90 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 68 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (1.52%) GDPR
5 52 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 24 (0.66%) NCSC
7 19 (0.53%) QA
8 13 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 12 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.17%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.17%) MISRA
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) Def Stans
System Software
1 95 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (0.77%) Docker
4 26 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.58%) vSphere
6 18 (0.50%) Firmware
7 12 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.25%) NDS
10 3 (0.083%) KVM
11 1 (0.028%) GPFS
11 1 (0.028%) Lustre
11 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.028%) vCloud
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 32 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
3 15 (0.42%) MOM
4 12 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.17%) Ansible
8 3 (0.083%) Grafana
9 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.055%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.055%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.055%) SCCM
9 2 (0.055%) vRealize
10 1 (0.028%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.028%) Salt
Vendors
1 495 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.38%) SAP
3 85 (2.35%) Databricks
4 58 (1.61%) Oracle
5 55 (1.52%) VMware
6 48 (1.33%) Cisco
7 46 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 41 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 36 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 35 (0.97%) Workday
11 30 (0.83%) Computacenter
11 30 (0.83%) Google
12 24 (0.66%) ForgeRock
12 24 (0.66%) Okta
13 23 (0.64%) Tenable
14 22 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
15 21 (0.58%) Adobe
15 21 (0.58%) Red Hat
16 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.50%) CyberArk