Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 85 36
Rank change year-on-year +51 -49 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,019 1,141 3,231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.05% 3.33% 5.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.27% 3.72% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,177 753 2,103
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +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 70,658 30,652 59,310
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 89.58% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 48,894 17,631 40,396
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,875 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,759 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 31 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 31 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 +94 1,011 £82,500 +10.00% 178
North West +100 589 £85,000 +7.94% 98
South East +10 512 £85,000 +9.68% 254
South West +49 452 £80,000 -5.88% 107
Midlands +20 436 £82,500 +10.00% 105
West Midlands +28 351 £82,500 +10.00% 76
Yorkshire +42 253 £82,500 +8.20% 53
East of England +44 181 £80,000 +11.89% 60
Scotland +51 180 £90,000 +12.50% 52
North East +13 169 £80,000 +23.08% 29
Wales +26 153 £80,000 +15.30% 6
Northern Ireland -11 104 £74,830 -9.63% 17
East Midlands -14 85 £60,000 -11.11% 29
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 610 (20.21%) Azure
2 456 (15.10%) Microsoft
3 441 (14.61%) Security Cleared
4 384 (12.72%) Roadmaps
5 362 (11.99%) AI
6 358 (11.86%) AWS
7 284 (9.41%) SC Cleared
8 283 (9.37%) Enterprise Architecture
9 276 (9.14%) Agile
10 263 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
11 248 (8.21%) TOGAF
12 209 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
13 203 (6.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 201 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
15 199 (6.59%) CI/CD
16 198 (6.56%) Data Architecture
16 198 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
17 184 (6.09%) Data Modelling
18 179 (5.93%) DevOps
19 175 (5.80%) DV Cleared
19 175 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
20 170 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
21 169 (5.60%) Power Platform
22 166 (5.50%) Business Strategy
23 161 (5.33%) Decision-Making
24 158 (5.23%) Analytics
25 153 (5.07%) Technology Strategy
26 148 (4.90%) Security Architecture
27 147 (4.87%) Microservices
28 145 (4.80%) Infrastructure as Code

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 10 (0.33%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.26%) CMS
2 8 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.20%) Apache
3 6 (0.20%) Confluence
4 5 (0.17%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.099%) SAS
6 3 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.033%) JBoss
8 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.033%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.033%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.33%) Revit
2 9 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 6 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.066%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.066%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.066%) Simulink
6 2 (0.066%) Windchill
7 1 (0.033%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.033%) ArchiCAD
7 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.033%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.033%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.033%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 34 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Utilities
6 4 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.099%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.066%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.066%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.066%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 610 (20.21%) Azure
2 358 (11.86%) AWS
3 169 (5.60%) Power Platform
4 109 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (3.51%) GCP
6 95 (3.15%) SaaS
7 91 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (2.05%) Serverless
10 52 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.39%) dbt
12 40 (1.32%) PaaS
13 36 (1.19%) IaaS
14 29 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
15 26 (0.86%) Snowflake
16 23 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 22 (0.73%) GitHub
18 17 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.50%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.50%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.48%) WAN
2 82 (2.72%) LAN
3 63 (2.09%) Firewall
4 60 (1.99%) Network Security
5 45 (1.49%) VPN
6 41 (1.36%) Broadband
6 41 (1.36%) DNS
7 27 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.66%) MPLS
9 19 (0.63%) BGP
10 16 (0.53%) HTTP
10 16 (0.53%) SNMP
11 15 (0.50%) VLAN
12 14 (0.46%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.36%) DHCP
14 10 (0.33%) FTP
14 10 (0.33%) ICMP
14 10 (0.33%) IPsec
14 10 (0.33%) SSH
14 10 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (1.99%) Metadata
2 38 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 34 (1.13%) Power BI
4 29 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.53%) GIS
8 11 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.30%) Tableau
10 8 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.26%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.26%) Data Vault
10 8 (0.26%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.23%) Delta Lake
11 7 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.20%) MySQL
12 6 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.13%) Big Data
13 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 41 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 32 (1.06%) GitLab
3 26 (0.86%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.73%) Snyk
5 9 (0.30%) JIRA
6 5 (0.17%) MLflow
6 5 (0.17%) Toad
6 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.13%) Git
8 2 (0.066%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.066%) ERwin
8 2 (0.066%) JMeter
8 2 (0.066%) Postman
8 2 (0.066%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.066%) Selenium
9 1 (0.033%) Flyway
9 1 (0.033%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.033%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Forms
General
1 391 (12.95%) Social Skills
2 389 (12.89%) Finance
3 223 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 174 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 86 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (1.92%) Law
9 55 (1.82%) Marketing
10 50 (1.66%) Retail
11 41 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.32%) Games
13 38 (1.26%) Aerospace
14 28 (0.93%) Legal
15 27 (0.89%) Banking
16 24 (0.79%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
19 13 (0.43%) Advertising
20 12 (0.40%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.95%) REST
2 48 (1.59%) .NET
2 48 (1.59%) SOAP
3 39 (1.29%) Middleware
4 36 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
5 31 (1.03%) OAuth
6 29 (0.96%) LDAP
7 27 (0.89%) Node.js
8 26 (0.86%) Visualforce
9 25 (0.83%) SAML
10 22 (0.73%) Kafka
11 18 (0.60%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.56%) XML
13 16 (0.53%) JSON
13 16 (0.53%) XMPP
14 13 (0.43%) OpenID
15 11 (0.36%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.33%) ModSecurity
16 10 (0.33%) NestJS
16 10 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 143 (4.74%) Cloud Native
2 86 (2.85%) Data Centre
3 65 (2.15%) Product Ownership
4 47 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 44 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (1.16%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (1.03%) Cyberattack
11 27 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 26 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 19 (0.63%) PKI
14 18 (0.60%) Management Information System
15 15 (0.50%) Graphic Design
16 14 (0.46%) Social Media
17 13 (0.43%) NHS
17 13 (0.43%) Private Cloud
17 13 (0.43%) Public Cloud
18 12 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.59%) Windows
2 47 (1.56%) Linux
3 35 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.033%) AIX
5 1 (0.033%) CentOS
5 1 (0.033%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.033%) Solaris
5 1 (0.033%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (12.72%) Roadmaps
2 362 (11.99%) AI
3 283 (9.37%) Enterprise Architecture
4 276 (9.14%) Agile
5 263 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
6 248 (8.21%) TOGAF
7 209 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
8 203 (6.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 201 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
10 199 (6.59%) CI/CD
11 198 (6.56%) Data Architecture
11 198 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
12 184 (6.09%) Data Modelling
13 179 (5.93%) DevOps
14 175 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
15 170 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 166 (5.50%) Business Strategy
17 161 (5.33%) Decision-Making
18 158 (5.23%) Analytics
19 153 (5.07%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 96 (3.18%) SQL
2 90 (2.98%) Python
3 57 (1.89%) C#
4 46 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 33 (1.09%) Java
6 31 (1.03%) Apex Code
7 27 (0.89%) SOQL
8 26 (0.86%) Bicep
8 26 (0.86%) SOSL
9 15 (0.50%) C
10 14 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.43%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.36%) C++
13 6 (0.20%) COBOL
13 6 (0.20%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.20%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.20%) Ruby
14 4 (0.13%) Bash
14 4 (0.13%) R
14 4 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 441 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 284 (9.41%) SC Cleared
3 175 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 108 (3.58%) Degree
5 54 (1.79%) CISSP
6 52 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 41 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
9 39 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 35 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 29 (0.96%) CISM
12 22 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 18 (0.60%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.56%) CCNP
15 17 (0.56%) CCSP
16 13 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.30%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
18 6 (0.20%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.44%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.18%) NIST
3 91 (3.01%) GRC
4 58 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (1.66%) GDPR
6 37 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.79%) NCSC
8 20 (0.66%) QA
9 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.30%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.23%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.17%) SLA
15 4 (0.13%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.13%) MISRA
15 4 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.79%) vSphere
5 21 (0.70%) Docker
6 10 (0.33%) Firmware
7 9 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.17%) NDS
9 2 (0.066%) KVM
10 1 (0.033%) GPFS
10 1 (0.033%) Lustre
10 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.033%) vCloud
10 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (1.92%) Kubernetes
2 53 (1.76%) Terraform
3 21 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.53%) MOM
5 10 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.23%) Ansible
8 3 (0.099%) Endace
8 3 (0.099%) Grafana
9 2 (0.066%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.066%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.066%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.066%) vRealize
10 1 (0.033%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.033%) SCCM
Vendors
1 456 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 80 (2.65%) Databricks
3 71 (2.35%) SAP
4 60 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 59 (1.95%) VMware
6 48 (1.59%) Cisco
7 44 (1.46%) Oracle
8 41 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 28 (0.93%) Splunk
11 22 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.73%) Tenable
12 20 (0.66%) Computacenter
12 20 (0.66%) Google
12 20 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 17 (0.56%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.50%) Okta
15 13 (0.43%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.40%) ForgeRock
16 12 (0.40%) Juniper