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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 86 40
Rank change year-on-year +53 -46 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2,886 1,133 3,360
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.98% 3.34% 4.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% 3.73% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,126 761 2,212
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,243 £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 68,706 30,337 64,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 89.40% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 47,586 17,385 44,623
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 21 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 21 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 +96 971 £80,000 +6.67% 228
North West +98 574 £85,000 +13.33% 125
South East +8 486 £85,000 +9.68% 242
South West +46 424 £80,000 -4.48% 112
Midlands +18 410 £80,000 +7.74% 107
West Midlands +25 329 £82,500 +10.00% 76
Yorkshire +36 236 £80,000 +6.67% 64
East of England +52 177 £80,000 +14.29% 59
Scotland +49 176 £90,000 +12.50% 60
North East +15 161 £80,000 +23.08% 39
Wales +31 152 £80,000 +15.30% 19
Northern Ireland -14 100 £74,830 -11.96% 12
East Midlands -15 80 £60,000 -11.11% 30
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 576 (19.96%) Azure
2 425 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 418 (14.48%) Security Cleared
4 366 (12.68%) Roadmaps
5 340 (11.78%) AWS
6 324 (11.23%) AI
7 271 (9.39%) SC Cleared
8 269 (9.32%) Agile
9 266 (9.22%) Enterprise Architecture
10 258 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
11 243 (8.42%) TOGAF
12 196 (6.79%) CI/CD
13 192 (6.65%) Data Architecture
14 191 (6.62%) Technical Architecture
15 188 (6.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 186 (6.44%) Technical Leadership
17 180 (6.24%) DevOps
17 180 (6.24%) Problem-Solving
18 175 (6.06%) Data Modelling
19 165 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
19 165 (5.72%) DV Cleared
20 157 (5.44%) Power Platform
21 152 (5.27%) Analytics
22 151 (5.23%) Business Strategy
23 149 (5.16%) Technology Strategy
24 148 (5.13%) Stakeholder Management
25 137 (4.75%) Decision-Making
26 134 (4.64%) Infrastructure as Code
27 133 (4.61%) Security Architecture
28 131 (4.54%) 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 12 (0.42%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.24%) CMS
4 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.17%) Apache
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 (0.035%) Camunda
9 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.035%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.35%) 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 (0.035%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 34 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.35%) 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
1 576 (19.96%) Azure
2 340 (11.78%) AWS
3 157 (5.44%) Power Platform
4 101 (3.50%) GCP
5 92 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 89 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
7 88 (3.05%) SaaS
8 62 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
8 62 (2.15%) Serverless
9 45 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 42 (1.46%) dbt
11 38 (1.32%) PaaS
12 34 (1.18%) IaaS
13 29 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (0.94%) Snowflake
15 26 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (0.80%) GitHub
17 16 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.52%) Amazon S3
19 14 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 102 (3.53%) WAN
2 78 (2.70%) LAN
3 62 (2.15%) Firewall
4 55 (1.91%) Network Security
5 48 (1.66%) Broadband
6 45 (1.56%) VPN
7 41 (1.42%) DNS
8 25 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 22 (0.76%) BGP
10 20 (0.69%) MPLS
11 19 (0.66%) SNMP
12 16 (0.55%) HTTP
13 15 (0.52%) VLAN
14 12 (0.42%) Unified Communications
15 11 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (0.38%) DHCP
16 10 (0.35%) FTP
16 10 (0.35%) IPsec
16 10 (0.35%) SSH
16 10 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (1.98%) Metadata
2 37 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 31 (1.07%) Power BI
4 27 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.55%) GIS
6 16 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (0.35%) 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%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.24%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.21%) Delta Lake
12 5 (0.17%) MySQL
12 5 (0.17%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.14%) Big Data
13 4 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 47 (1.63%) Jenkins
2 38 (1.32%) GitLab
3 34 (1.18%) SonarQube
4 22 (0.76%) Snyk
5 5 (0.17%) JIRA
5 5 (0.17%) Toad
5 5 (0.17%) Yeoman
6 4 (0.14%) MLflow
7 3 (0.10%) Git
8 2 (0.069%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.069%) ERwin
8 2 (0.069%) JMeter
8 2 (0.069%) Postman
8 2 (0.069%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.069%) Selenium
9 1 (0.035%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.035%) Oracle Forms
General
1 368 (12.75%) Social Skills
2 344 (11.92%) Finance
3 214 (7.42%) Public Sector
4 164 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
6 81 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
7 76 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 61 (2.11%) Marketing
9 54 (1.87%) Law
10 49 (1.70%) Games
11 48 (1.66%) Retail
12 34 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 25 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 25 (0.87%) Legal
14 22 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.73%) Banking
16 13 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.42%) Advertising
17 12 (0.42%) Automotive
17 12 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (2.32%) REST
2 55 (1.91%) SOAP
3 44 (1.52%) .NET
3 44 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 34 (1.18%) Visualforce
5 33 (1.14%) Middleware
6 26 (0.90%) Node.js
6 26 (0.90%) OAuth
7 22 (0.76%) Kafka
8 21 (0.73%) LDAP
9 20 (0.69%) SAML
10 18 (0.62%) Regular Expression
11 16 (0.55%) XML
11 16 (0.55%) XMPP
12 15 (0.52%) JSON
13 11 (0.38%) GraphQL
13 11 (0.38%) Spring Boot
14 10 (0.35%) NestJS
15 9 (0.31%) JWT
15 9 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 130 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 81 (2.81%) Data Centre
3 70 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 42 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (1.25%) Operational Technology
7 34 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (1.11%) Cyberattack
8 32 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 26 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 24 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 22 (0.76%) PKI
12 14 (0.49%) Low-Code
12 14 (0.49%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.45%) NHS
14 12 (0.42%) Graphic Design
14 12 (0.42%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.66%) Windows
2 45 (1.56%) Linux
3 37 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.035%) AIX
5 1 (0.035%) CentOS
5 1 (0.035%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (12.68%) Roadmaps
2 324 (11.23%) AI
3 269 (9.32%) Agile
4 266 (9.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 258 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
6 243 (8.42%) TOGAF
7 196 (6.79%) CI/CD
8 192 (6.65%) Data Architecture
9 191 (6.62%) Technical Architecture
10 188 (6.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 186 (6.44%) Technical Leadership
12 180 (6.24%) DevOps
12 180 (6.24%) Problem-Solving
13 175 (6.06%) Data Modelling
14 165 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 152 (5.27%) Analytics
16 151 (5.23%) Business Strategy
17 149 (5.16%) Technology Strategy
18 148 (5.13%) Stakeholder Management
19 137 (4.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 92 (3.19%) SQL
2 86 (2.98%) Python
3 43 (1.49%) C#
4 38 (1.32%) Apex Code
4 38 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 35 (1.21%) SOQL
6 34 (1.18%) SOSL
7 32 (1.11%) Java
8 25 (0.87%) Bicep
9 14 (0.49%) PowerShell
10 13 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.42%) C
12 10 (0.35%) 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 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 271 (9.39%) SC Cleared
3 165 (5.72%) DV Cleared
4 100 (3.47%) Degree
5 48 (1.66%) CISSP
6 47 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 24 (0.83%) CISM
12 21 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 18 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (0.62%) CCSP
14 17 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.52%) CCNP
16 14 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.31%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
18 6 (0.21%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.33%) NIST
3 85 (2.95%) GRC
4 58 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (1.59%) GDPR
6 37 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.87%) NCSC
8 21 (0.73%) 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
12 8 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.17%) WCAG
16 4 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 4 (0.14%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (2.77%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (0.83%) vSphere
4 23 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.69%) Docker
6 11 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.31%) Firmware
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.14%) NDS
10 1 (0.035%) GPFS
10 1 (0.035%) Lustre
10 1 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.035%) vCloud
10 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (1.77%) Terraform
2 48 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.55%) MOM
4 14 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.35%) CASB
5 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.24%) Ansible
8 6 (0.21%) Endace
9 4 (0.14%) vRealize
10 2 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.069%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.069%) Grafana
11 1 (0.035%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.035%) Netcool
11 1 (0.035%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.035%) SCCM
Vendors
1 425 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 80 (2.77%) Databricks
3 70 (2.43%) SAP
4 66 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 58 (2.01%) VMware
6 52 (1.80%) Cisco
7 41 (1.42%) Oracle
7 41 (1.42%) Palo Alto
8 36 (1.25%) Splunk
9 34 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 22 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.76%) Tenable
11 20 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.66%) Google
13 17 (0.59%) Computacenter
13 17 (0.59%) Red Hat
14 16 (0.55%) Juniper
15 12 (0.42%) Citrix
15 12 (0.42%) McAfee
16 10 (0.35%) CyberArk