Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 41 44
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,218 3,514 4,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.47% 5.34% 6.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.87% 5.63% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 851 1,896 1,790
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,592 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.06% +5.33%
75th Percentile £86,125 £89,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 31,449 62,447 57,914
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.60% 94.84% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,846 44,952 32,480
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,219 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £54,650 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -8.92% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Architect 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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025. 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
South East -5 381 £77,500 +3.33% 320
North of England -59 279 £70,000 -12.10% 308
Midlands -36 230 £70,641 -5.81% 164
West Midlands -26 181 £72,500 -3.85% 110
North West -79 154 £67,000 -10.67% 187
Scotland +2 131 £80,000 +6.67% 92
Yorkshire -35 93 £80,000 +0.09% 89
East of England -1 83 £73,750 -7.81% 115
South West -66 83 £71,991 -4.01% 117
East Midlands -38 48 £65,000 +8.33% 51
North East +19 32 £65,000 -18.68% 32
Wales -20 27 £65,000 +0.91% 41
Northern Ireland -16 8 £87,500 +5.80% 30
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 April 2025, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 395 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 300 (24.63%) Security Cleared
3 286 (23.48%) Azure
4 272 (22.33%) Roadmaps
5 270 (22.17%) Agile
6 256 (21.02%) Finance
7 224 (18.39%) TOGAF
8 199 (16.34%) Mentoring
9 196 (16.09%) SC Cleared
10 186 (15.27%) Microservices
11 180 (14.78%) Enterprise Architecture
11 180 (14.78%) Microsoft
12 178 (14.61%) Technical Leadership
13 175 (14.37%) DevOps
14 170 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
15 169 (13.88%) Degree
16 162 (13.30%) AWS
17 158 (12.97%) Management Information System
18 135 (11.08%) Cisco
19 130 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
20 124 (10.18%) Data Architecture
21 118 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 117 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
23 116 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
24 114 (9.36%) SQL
25 113 (9.28%) Information Security
25 113 (9.28%) Risk Management
26 111 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
26 111 (9.11%) Juniper
27 110 (9.03%) Analytics

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (1.07%) CMS
2 11 (0.90%) Umbraco
3 9 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.66%) Confluence
4 8 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (0.66%) SAS
5 7 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.33%) NetWeaver
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.25%) Apache
8 3 (0.25%) Luigi
8 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 14 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Windchill
5 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.16%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.082%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.082%) Odoo
8 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.082%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 286 (23.48%) Azure
2 162 (13.30%) AWS
3 87 (7.14%) GCP
4 81 (6.65%) SaaS
5 47 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 44 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 39 (3.20%) PaaS
9 38 (3.12%) Serverless
10 36 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 36 (2.96%) SonarCloud
11 33 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 26 (2.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 24 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (1.89%) Amazon S3
16 22 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
16 22 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (8.62%) WAN
2 78 (6.40%) Firewall
3 65 (5.34%) LAN
4 53 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 39 (3.20%) MPLS
6 34 (2.79%) Broadband
7 26 (2.13%) BGP
8 22 (1.81%) IPsec
9 21 (1.72%) Junos
10 19 (1.56%) Network Security
10 19 (1.56%) VPN
11 18 (1.48%) Cisco IOS
12 16 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.99%) Ethernet
13 12 (0.99%) Internet
14 11 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.74%) DNS
15 9 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.49%) TCP/IP
17 5 (0.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.27%) NoSQL
2 45 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (3.53%) Data Lake
4 36 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.48%) Big Data
6 18 (1.48%) BigQuery
6 18 (1.48%) Power BI
7 17 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.07%) Metadata
9 13 (1.07%) RDBMS
10 12 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (0.82%) Tableau
13 9 (0.74%) Data Vault
13 9 (0.74%) MySQL
14 8 (0.66%) Oracle ODI
15 6 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
2 53 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 46 (3.78%) Git
4 39 (3.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 37 (3.04%) MSBuild
5 37 (3.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (0.74%) JIRA
7 7 (0.57%) GitLab
7 7 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.49%) JDeveloper
8 6 (0.49%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.33%) ERwin
10 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.16%) Babel
11 2 (0.16%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.16%) Mocha
11 2 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.16%) webpack
12 1 (0.082%) ER Studio
General
1 395 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 256 (21.02%) Finance
3 130 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (6.81%) Telecoms
6 74 (6.08%) Banking
7 73 (5.99%) Public Sector
8 53 (4.35%) Retail
9 48 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (3.86%) Marketing
11 39 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.87%) Games
13 34 (2.79%) Law
14 31 (2.55%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.31%) Legal
16 13 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.74%) Advertising
19 8 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
20 6 (0.49%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.65%) HTML
2 74 (6.08%) REST
3 69 (5.67%) .NET
4 61 (5.01%) CSS
5 47 (3.86%) XML
6 42 (3.45%) JSON
7 38 (3.12%) ASP.NET
8 36 (2.96%) Bootstrap
8 36 (2.96%) gRPC
9 31 (2.55%) React
10 27 (2.22%) Middleware
10 27 (2.22%) SOAP
11 26 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (1.40%) SAML
13 13 (1.07%) .NET Framework
13 13 (1.07%) OAuth
14 12 (0.99%) jQuery
14 12 (0.99%) Kafka
14 12 (0.99%) OpenID
15 11 (0.90%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 158 (12.97%) Management Information System
2 58 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (2.87%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.79%) Public Cloud
6 33 (2.71%) Cyberattack
7 27 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 18 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.40%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 16 (1.31%) IoT
13 14 (1.15%) Social Media
14 12 (0.99%) Blockchain
14 12 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.75%) Windows
2 28 (2.30%) Linux
3 14 (1.15%) Windows Vista
4 13 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.74%) Android
5 9 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.16%) Solaris
9 1 (0.082%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (22.33%) Roadmaps
2 270 (22.17%) Agile
3 224 (18.39%) TOGAF
4 199 (16.34%) Mentoring
5 186 (15.27%) Microservices
6 180 (14.78%) Enterprise Architecture
7 178 (14.61%) Technical Leadership
8 175 (14.37%) DevOps
9 170 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (10.18%) Data Architecture
11 117 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
12 116 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 113 (9.28%) Information Security
13 113 (9.28%) Risk Management
14 111 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence
15 110 (9.03%) Analytics
16 105 (8.62%) IT Strategy
17 99 (8.13%) Security Architecture
18 98 (8.05%) Business Strategy
19 96 (7.88%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 114 (9.36%) SQL
2 74 (6.08%) JavaScript
3 72 (5.91%) C#
4 56 (4.60%) Python
5 52 (4.27%) Java
6 26 (2.13%) Apex Code
7 17 (1.40%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.99%) C++
9 11 (0.90%) C
10 8 (0.66%) R
11 6 (0.49%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.41%) PHP
13 4 (0.33%) Scala
14 3 (0.25%) ABAP
14 3 (0.25%) Bicep
15 2 (0.16%) Bash
15 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.082%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 300 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 196 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 169 (13.88%) Degree
4 105 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 79 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
7 56 (4.60%) Chartered Engineer
7 56 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (4.35%) CCNA
9 52 (4.27%) CISSP
10 41 (3.37%) Master's Degree
11 40 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 30 (2.46%) CCNP
13 26 (2.13%) AWS Certification
13 26 (2.13%) CISM
14 24 (1.97%) JNCIA
15 22 (1.81%) JNCIS
16 17 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 16 (1.31%) CEH
18 15 (1.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.08%) GDPR
2 56 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 37 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.71%) NIST
5 29 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.64%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.31%) SLA
8 14 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.15%) QA
9 8 (0.66%) COBIT
9 8 (0.66%) NCSC
10 7 (0.57%) Basel II
10 7 (0.57%) Basel III
10 7 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
10 7 (0.57%) IFRS
10 7 (0.57%) IFRS 9
11 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.33%) GMP
12 4 (0.33%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 78 (6.40%) Docker
2 40 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (3.12%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.49%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.16%) KVM
8 2 (0.16%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) SRDF
8 2 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.16%) vSphere
8 2 (0.16%) Xen
9 1 (0.082%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.082%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 33 (2.71%) Terraform
3 22 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.56%) Ansible
5 13 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.49%) SCCM
7 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.25%) Puppet
9 2 (0.16%) WSUS
10 1 (0.082%) CASB
10 1 (0.082%) Istio
Vendors
1 180 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 135 (11.08%) Cisco
3 111 (9.11%) Juniper
4 81 (6.65%) IBM
5 48 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 48 (3.94%) VMware
6 41 (3.37%) SAP
7 38 (3.12%) Google
7 38 (3.12%) Oracle
8 35 (2.87%) Aruba
9 32 (2.63%) Fortinet
10 26 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 25 (2.05%) Databricks
12 22 (1.81%) Apple
13 21 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 19 (1.56%) Adobe
15 17 (1.40%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.90%) SevOne
17 10 (0.82%) ServiceNow
18 9 (0.74%) Meraki