Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 84 40
Rank change year-on-year +50 -44 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,904 1,155 3,330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.99% 3.41% 4.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.21% 3.80% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,130 765 2,192
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,246 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +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 68,933 30,398 63,289
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.74% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 47,685 17,426 44,005
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +86 977 £81,250 +8.33% 223
North West +100 577 £85,000 +12.21% 114
South East +9 492 £85,000 +9.68% 251
South West +45 423 £80,000 -4.48% 115
Midlands +21 416 £80,000 +6.67% 112
West Midlands +24 334 £82,500 +10.00% 79
Yorkshire +32 242 £80,000 +4.92% 70
Scotland +52 177 £90,000 +12.50% 61
East of England +59 175 £80,000 +14.29% 61
North East +10 158 £80,000 +23.08% 39
Wales +34 153 £80,000 +15.30% 18
Northern Ireland -13 102 £74,830 -12.12% 11
East Midlands -22 81 £60,000 -11.11% 32
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 581 (20.01%) Azure
2 432 (14.88%) Microsoft
3 418 (14.39%) Security Cleared
4 371 (12.78%) Roadmaps
5 339 (11.67%) AWS
6 329 (11.33%) AI
7 271 (9.33%) SC Cleared
8 270 (9.30%) Agile
9 268 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture
10 257 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
11 242 (8.33%) TOGAF
12 199 (6.85%) CI/CD
13 192 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
14 191 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
15 189 (6.51%) Data Architecture
15 189 (6.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 183 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
17 179 (6.16%) DevOps
18 176 (6.06%) Data Modelling
19 167 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
20 164 (5.65%) DV Cleared
21 158 (5.44%) Power Platform
22 154 (5.30%) Analytics
22 154 (5.30%) Business Strategy
23 152 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
24 149 (5.13%) Technology Strategy
25 140 (4.82%) Decision-Making
26 138 (4.75%) Infrastructure as Code
27 135 (4.65%) Security Architecture
28 132 (4.55%) 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 11 (0.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.28%) CMS
4 6 (0.21%) Apache
4 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.17%) Confluence
5 5 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.10%) SAS
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.034%) Camunda
9 1 (0.034%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.034%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.34%) Revit
2 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.21%) AutoCAD
3 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.069%) ArchiCAD
5 2 (0.069%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.069%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.069%) Simulink
5 2 (0.069%) Windchill
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.034%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.069%) Oracle Utilities
8 2 (0.069%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.069%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.069%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 581 (20.01%) Azure
2 339 (11.67%) AWS
3 158 (5.44%) Power Platform
4 101 (3.48%) GCP
5 95 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (3.10%) SaaS
7 89 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (2.13%) Serverless
10 47 (1.62%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.45%) dbt
12 37 (1.27%) PaaS
13 34 (1.17%) IaaS
14 29 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (0.93%) Snowflake
16 25 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (0.79%) GitHub
18 16 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.52%) Amazon S3
20 14 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.62%) WAN
2 81 (2.79%) LAN
3 61 (2.10%) Firewall
4 56 (1.93%) Network Security
5 48 (1.65%) Broadband
6 46 (1.58%) VPN
7 41 (1.41%) DNS
8 25 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.76%) BGP
10 21 (0.72%) MPLS
11 19 (0.65%) SNMP
12 17 (0.59%) HTTP
13 15 (0.52%) VLAN
14 13 (0.45%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.38%) DHCP
16 10 (0.34%) FTP
16 10 (0.34%) ICMP
16 10 (0.34%) IPsec
16 10 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (1.96%) Metadata
2 37 (1.27%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.07%) Power BI
4 26 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (0.83%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.55%) GIS
6 16 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.31%) Tableau
9 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.28%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.28%) Data Vault
9 8 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.21%) Delta Lake
11 5 (0.17%) MySQL
11 5 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (0.14%) Big Data
12 4 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 47 (1.62%) Jenkins
2 38 (1.31%) GitLab
3 34 (1.17%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.76%) Snyk
5 6 (0.21%) JIRA
6 5 (0.17%) Toad
6 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
7 4 (0.14%) MLflow
8 3 (0.10%) Git
9 2 (0.069%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.069%) ERwin
9 2 (0.069%) JMeter
9 2 (0.069%) Postman
9 2 (0.069%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.069%) Selenium
10 1 (0.034%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.034%) Oracle Forms
General
1 374 (12.88%) Social Skills
2 355 (12.22%) Finance
3 212 (7.30%) Public Sector
4 165 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 61 (2.10%) Marketing
9 54 (1.86%) Law
10 49 (1.69%) Games
11 48 (1.65%) Retail
12 34 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 26 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 25 (0.86%) Legal
15 24 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 23 (0.79%) Banking
17 13 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.41%) Advertising
18 12 (0.41%) Automotive
18 12 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.31%) REST
2 55 (1.89%) SOAP
3 45 (1.55%) .NET
4 44 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (1.17%) Visualforce
6 33 (1.14%) Middleware
7 28 (0.96%) OAuth
8 27 (0.93%) Node.js
9 24 (0.83%) LDAP
10 23 (0.79%) Kafka
11 22 (0.76%) SAML
12 18 (0.62%) Regular Expression
13 16 (0.55%) XML
13 16 (0.55%) XMPP
14 15 (0.52%) JSON
15 11 (0.38%) GraphQL
15 11 (0.38%) Spring Boot
16 10 (0.34%) NestJS
16 10 (0.34%) OpenID
17 9 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 134 (4.61%) Cloud Native
2 82 (2.82%) Data Centre
3 71 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 44 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (1.21%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 32 (1.10%) Cyberattack
10 26 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 24 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 22 (0.76%) PKI
13 15 (0.52%) Management Information System
14 14 (0.48%) Graphic Design
14 14 (0.48%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.45%) NHS
16 12 (0.41%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (0.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 47 (1.62%) Windows
2 45 (1.55%) Linux
3 36 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.034%) AIX
5 1 (0.034%) CentOS
5 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.034%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (12.78%) Roadmaps
2 329 (11.33%) AI
3 270 (9.30%) Agile
4 268 (9.23%) Enterprise Architecture
5 257 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
6 242 (8.33%) TOGAF
7 199 (6.85%) CI/CD
8 192 (6.61%) Technical Architecture
9 191 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
10 189 (6.51%) Data Architecture
10 189 (6.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 183 (6.30%) Problem-Solving
12 179 (6.16%) DevOps
13 176 (6.06%) Data Modelling
14 167 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 154 (5.30%) Analytics
15 154 (5.30%) Business Strategy
16 152 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
17 149 (5.13%) Technology Strategy
18 140 (4.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 91 (3.13%) SQL
2 85 (2.93%) Python
3 45 (1.55%) C#
4 40 (1.38%) JavaScript
5 38 (1.31%) Apex Code
6 35 (1.21%) SOQL
7 34 (1.17%) SOSL
8 32 (1.10%) Java
9 26 (0.90%) Bicep
10 14 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 14 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 13 (0.45%) C
12 10 (0.34%) C++
13 6 (0.21%) COBOL
13 6 (0.21%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.21%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.21%) Ruby
14 5 (0.17%) Bash
15 3 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.10%) R
Qualifications
1 418 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 271 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 164 (5.65%) DV Cleared
4 102 (3.51%) Degree
5 48 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
6 47 (1.62%) CISSP
7 38 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 24 (0.83%) CISM
12 20 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 18 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.59%) CCSP
14 17 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.52%) CCNP
16 14 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.31%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
18 6 (0.21%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.31%) NIST
3 88 (3.03%) GRC
4 57 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (1.62%) GDPR
6 37 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.86%) NCSC
8 21 (0.72%) QA
9 13 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.24%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.17%) SLA
14 5 (0.17%) WCAG
15 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 80 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.83%) vSphere
4 23 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (0.72%) Docker
6 10 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.14%) NDS
10 1 (0.034%) GPFS
10 1 (0.034%) Lustre
10 1 (0.034%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.034%) vCloud
10 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 52 (1.79%) Terraform
2 17 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.55%) MOM
4 10 (0.34%) CASB
4 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.24%) Ansible
7 6 (0.21%) Endace
8 3 (0.10%) vRealize
9 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.069%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.069%) Grafana
10 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool
10 1 (0.034%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.034%) SCCM
Vendors
1 432 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 79 (2.72%) Databricks
3 70 (2.41%) SAP
4 67 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 57 (1.96%) VMware
6 51 (1.76%) Cisco
7 41 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 40 (1.38%) Oracle
9 36 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 36 (1.24%) Splunk
10 22 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.76%) Tenable
11 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 18 (0.62%) Google
13 17 (0.59%) Computacenter
13 17 (0.59%) Red Hat
14 15 (0.52%) Juniper
15 12 (0.41%) Citrix
15 12 (0.41%) McAfee
16 11 (0.38%) CyberArk