Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £83,781 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 88 33
Rank change year-on-year +56 -55 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,472 1,107 3,116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.27% 3.22% 5.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.54% 3.61% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,449 683 1,919
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,781 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +3.33% -4.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £87,216 £82,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% +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 76,456 30,703 53,516
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.33% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 53,184 17,577 33,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,750
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 5 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 5 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 +93 1,191 £80,000 +6.67% 291
North West +104 650 £80,000 - 171
South East +12 596 £85,000 +9.68% 367
Midlands +34 506 £82,500 +10.00% 158
South West +52 504 £80,000 -5.88% 166
West Midlands +28 408 £85,000 +13.33% 99
Yorkshire +49 347 £80,000 +6.67% 97
East of England +61 225 £80,075 -1.45% 108
North East +9 194 £85,000 +30.77% 23
Scotland +62 186 £85,000 +6.25% 138
Wales +21 162 £80,000 +11.50% 11
Northern Ireland -15 115 £77,415 -1.88% 61
East Midlands -8 98 £67,464 -8.83% 59
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 631 (18.17%) Azure
2 510 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 486 (14.00%) Microsoft
4 442 (12.73%) Roadmaps
5 437 (12.59%) AI
6 403 (11.61%) AWS
7 302 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
7 302 (8.70%) SC Cleared
8 301 (8.67%) Agile
9 277 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
10 265 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
11 252 (7.26%) Data Architecture
12 239 (6.88%) TOGAF
13 236 (6.80%) Technical Architecture
14 228 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
15 223 (6.42%) CI/CD
16 221 (6.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 210 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
18 207 (5.96%) Decision-Making
19 201 (5.79%) DV Cleared
20 199 (5.73%) Data Modelling
21 197 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
22 189 (5.44%) Technology Strategy
23 183 (5.27%) Microservices
24 182 (5.24%) DevOps
25 180 (5.18%) Business Strategy
26 177 (5.10%) Power Platform
27 175 (5.04%) Security Architecture
28 174 (5.01%) Analytics
29 172 (4.95%) 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 (0.55%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.26%) 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 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.029%) JBoss
9 1 (0.029%) SAS
9 1 (0.029%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.029%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.29%) Revit
2 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.058%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.058%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.058%) Simulink
6 2 (0.058%) Weka
6 2 (0.058%) Windchill
7 1 (0.029%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.029%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 41 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.29%) 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 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.086%) Lawson
6 3 (0.086%) Movex
6 3 (0.086%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.086%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.086%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.086%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.058%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.058%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 631 (18.17%) Azure
2 403 (11.61%) AWS
3 177 (5.10%) Power Platform
4 127 (3.66%) SaaS
5 126 (3.63%) GCP
6 125 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
7 77 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
9 61 (1.76%) Serverless
10 56 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.21%) dbt
11 42 (1.21%) PaaS
12 40 (1.15%) IaaS
13 34 (0.98%) Azure Databricks
14 23 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (0.58%) Amazon S3
16 20 (0.58%) GitHub
16 20 (0.58%) PowerApps
17 18 (0.52%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.00%) WAN
2 87 (2.51%) LAN
3 72 (2.07%) Network Security
4 64 (1.84%) Firewall
5 45 (1.30%) VPN
6 36 (1.04%) DNS
7 28 (0.81%) Broadband
8 27 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.55%) MPLS
10 16 (0.46%) BGP
10 16 (0.46%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.43%) VLAN
12 14 (0.40%) Wireless
13 13 (0.37%) HTTP
13 13 (0.37%) SNMP
14 11 (0.32%) DHCP
15 10 (0.29%) ICMP
15 10 (0.29%) IPsec
15 10 (0.29%) SSH
15 10 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (2.33%) Metadata
2 40 (1.15%) Power BI
3 36 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 29 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.75%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.35%) GIS
8 11 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.29%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.29%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.29%) 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 28 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.63%) Snyk
3 20 (0.58%) GitLab
4 14 (0.40%) SonarQube
5 10 (0.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.14%) MLflow
6 5 (0.14%) Toad
7 4 (0.12%) Yeoman
8 3 (0.086%) ERwin
9 2 (0.058%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.058%) JMeter
9 2 (0.058%) Postman
9 2 (0.058%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.058%) Selenium
10 1 (0.029%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.029%) Flyway
10 1 (0.029%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.029%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.029%) Oracle Forms
General
1 477 (13.74%) Finance
2 443 (12.76%) Social Skills
3 276 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 193 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 97 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 86 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
8 82 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 61 (1.76%) Law
10 47 (1.35%) Retail
11 46 (1.32%) Marketing
12 44 (1.27%) Banking
13 43 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 33 (0.95%) Legal
15 30 (0.86%) Games
15 30 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.43%) Military
19 13 (0.37%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.70%) Terraform
2 52 (1.50%) .NET
3 48 (1.38%) Middleware
3 48 (1.38%) REST
4 38 (1.09%) SOAP
5 37 (1.07%) OAuth
6 35 (1.01%) LDAP
7 32 (0.92%) SAML
8 27 (0.78%) Node.js
9 25 (0.72%) Kafka
10 24 (0.69%) ModSecurity
11 21 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
12 20 (0.58%) OpenID
13 17 (0.49%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.49%) XML
14 16 (0.46%) JSON
14 16 (0.46%) XMPP
15 14 (0.40%) Visualforce
16 11 (0.32%) PySpark
17 10 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 169 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 85 (2.45%) Data Centre
3 52 (1.50%) Product Ownership
4 51 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 39 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 32 (0.92%) Operational Technology
10 30 (0.86%) Cyberattack
10 30 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 22 (0.63%) Management Information System
12 22 (0.63%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.60%) Private Cloud
13 21 (0.60%) Social Media
14 19 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
14 19 (0.55%) Industrial Internet of Things
15 18 (0.52%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.49%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.41%) Linux
2 39 (1.12%) Windows
3 28 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.029%) AIX
5 1 (0.029%) CentOS
5 1 (0.029%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.029%) Solaris
5 1 (0.029%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (12.73%) Roadmaps
2 437 (12.59%) AI
3 302 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
4 301 (8.67%) Agile
5 277 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
6 265 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
7 252 (7.26%) Data Architecture
8 239 (6.88%) TOGAF
9 236 (6.80%) Technical Architecture
10 228 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
11 223 (6.42%) CI/CD
12 221 (6.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 210 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 207 (5.96%) Decision-Making
15 199 (5.73%) Data Modelling
16 197 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 189 (5.44%) Technology Strategy
18 183 (5.27%) Microservices
19 182 (5.24%) DevOps
20 180 (5.18%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 97 (2.79%) SQL
2 95 (2.74%) Python
3 66 (1.90%) C#
4 51 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.09%) Java
6 26 (0.75%) Bicep
7 17 (0.49%) Apex Code
8 16 (0.46%) C
9 15 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.40%) SOQL
10 14 (0.40%) SOSL
11 12 (0.35%) C++
12 9 (0.26%) Scala
13 8 (0.23%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.17%) COBOL
14 6 (0.17%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.17%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.17%) Go
14 6 (0.17%) R
14 6 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 510 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 302 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 201 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 117 (3.37%) Degree
5 64 (1.84%) CISSP
6 58 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 55 (1.58%) AWS Certification
7 55 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 44 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (1.07%) CISM
10 30 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 17 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (0.46%) CCNP
15 15 (0.43%) CCSP
16 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.26%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.94%) NIST
2 98 (2.82%) GRC
3 94 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 68 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 56 (1.61%) GDPR
6 48 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.63%) NCSC
8 17 (0.49%) QA
9 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.35%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.26%) 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 (0.12%) Def Stans
System Software
1 93 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (0.78%) Docker
3 27 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.75%) vSphere
5 16 (0.46%) Firmware
6 12 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.17%) NDS
9 3 (0.086%) KVM
10 1 (0.029%) GPFS
10 1 (0.029%) Lustre
10 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.029%) vCloud
10 1 (0.029%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 29 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.46%) MOM
4 12 (0.35%) CASB
5 10 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.20%) Ansible
8 3 (0.086%) Grafana
9 2 (0.058%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.058%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.058%) SCCM
9 2 (0.058%) vRealize
10 1 (0.029%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.029%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.029%) Salt
Vendors
1 486 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.48%) SAP
3 85 (2.45%) Databricks
4 60 (1.73%) VMware
5 57 (1.64%) Oracle
6 45 (1.30%) Cisco
7 44 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 42 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 41 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 32 (0.92%) Google
11 26 (0.75%) Computacenter
11 26 (0.75%) Workday
12 23 (0.66%) Red Hat
13 22 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (0.63%) Tenable
14 21 (0.60%) Okta
15 20 (0.58%) ForgeRock
15 20 (0.58%) OpenAI
16 19 (0.55%) Adobe
17 16 (0.46%) Splunk