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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -38 +2 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,311 2,582 1,996
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.55% 5.36% 6.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.94% 5.67% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 810 1,590 1,070
10th Percentile £59,111 £55,000 £56,475
25th Percentile £68,250 £66,250 £65,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,150 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -3.03% -1.27%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,597 £97,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -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 33,297 45,518 28,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.41% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 21,025 24,676 21,761
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 -30 370 £78,750 +1.61% 385
North of England -39 303 £79,000 +5.33% 165
Midlands -4 251 £80,000 +6.67% 121
West Midlands -11 157 £77,500 - 86
South West -15 157 £80,000 +6.67% 121
North West -38 153 £80,000 +6.67% 109
Yorkshire -21 107 £80,000 +5.61% 44
East of England -25 96 £90,000 +5.88% 76
East Midlands +2 90 £80,000 +14.29% 34
Scotland -42 74 £80,000 - 56
North East -13 42 £75,000 -0.20% 12
Wales -14 34 £75,000 +25.79% 12
Northern Ireland +3 31 £75,000 -6.25% 10
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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.

1 364 (27.77%) Azure
2 243 (18.54%) Security Cleared
3 221 (16.86%) AWS
4 209 (15.94%) Microsoft
5 206 (15.71%) Roadmaps
6 204 (15.56%) Agile
7 198 (15.10%) Enterprise Architecture
8 176 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 166 (12.66%) TOGAF
10 159 (12.13%) Mentoring
11 149 (11.37%) Analytics
12 147 (11.21%) SC Cleared
13 142 (10.83%) DevOps
14 141 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
15 136 (10.37%) Data Modelling
16 128 (9.76%) AI
16 128 (9.76%) Degree
17 125 (9.53%) GCP
18 124 (9.46%) Python
19 118 (9.00%) Data Architecture
20 116 (8.85%) DV Cleared
21 112 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
22 98 (7.48%) SAP
23 96 (7.32%) Business Strategy
24 95 (7.25%) Project Management
25 94 (7.17%) Architectural Design
25 94 (7.17%) SaaS
26 93 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
27 90 (6.86%) Decision-Making
28 89 (6.79%) Cybersecurity

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 17 (1.30%) CMS
2 9 (0.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.46%) Appian
5 5 (0.38%) Apache
5 5 (0.38%) Confluence
6 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.076%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.076%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.076%) JBoss
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.076%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.076%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.076%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 64 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (3.74%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.82%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 16 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.38%) Shopify
7 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.15%) Maximo
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.076%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.076%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.076%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 364 (27.77%) Azure
2 221 (16.86%) AWS
3 125 (9.53%) GCP
4 94 (7.17%) SaaS
5 60 (4.58%) PaaS
6 49 (3.74%) IaaS
7 46 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
8 43 (3.28%) Snowflake
9 42 (3.20%) Power Platform
10 38 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (2.75%) OCI
12 33 (2.52%) Serverless
13 19 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.07%) GitHub
15 12 (0.92%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.92%) Azure Stack
16 11 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (0.76%) Entra ID
18 9 (0.69%) Amazon Bedrock
18 9 (0.69%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.29%) LAN
2 28 (2.14%) Firewall
2 28 (2.14%) VPN
2 28 (2.14%) WAN
3 22 (1.68%) Network Security
4 17 (1.30%) Broadband
5 13 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.84%) Junos
7 6 (0.46%) BGP
8 5 (0.38%) SSL
8 5 (0.38%) VoIP
9 4 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.31%) DNS
9 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.31%) OSPF
9 4 (0.31%) SAN
9 4 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.23%) MPLS
10 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (2.36%) Metadata
3 22 (1.68%) BigQuery
4 21 (1.60%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.07%) Power BI
7 7 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (0.46%) Delta Lake
8 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.38%) Airbyte
9 5 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.38%) Big Data
9 5 (0.38%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (0.38%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 21 (1.60%) GitLab
3 15 (1.14%) SonarQube
4 9 (0.69%) MSI
5 8 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (0.53%) Git
6 7 (0.53%) JIRA
7 6 (0.46%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.46%) Selenium
7 6 (0.46%) Snyk
8 5 (0.38%) MSBuild
8 5 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.076%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.076%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 314 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 156 (11.90%) Finance
3 152 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.56%) Marketing
6 74 (5.64%) Law
7 52 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (3.13%) Legal
10 29 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.83%) Retail
12 21 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.53%) Banking
14 17 (1.30%) Games
15 14 (1.07%) Electronics
16 13 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.84%) Publishing
18 10 (0.76%) Financial Institution
19 9 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
19 9 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.36%) .NET
2 30 (2.29%) REST
3 29 (2.21%) Middleware
4 27 (2.06%) React
5 26 (1.98%) Node.js
6 24 (1.83%) Django
7 21 (1.60%) Kafka
8 19 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (1.45%) SOAP
9 16 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.14%) Visualforce
11 11 (0.84%) Web Services
12 10 (0.76%) EDI
13 9 (0.69%) gRPC
14 8 (0.61%) XML
15 7 (0.53%) CSS
15 7 (0.53%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.53%) HTML
16 6 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
16 6 (0.46%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 38 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 33 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 25 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 16 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (0.92%) Private Cloud
12 11 (0.84%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.84%) IoT
12 11 (0.84%) PKI
13 8 (0.61%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.61%) Operational Technology
14 7 (0.53%) Reference Data
15 6 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.83%) Windows
2 18 (1.37%) Linux
3 4 (0.31%) AIX
4 3 (0.23%) Android
4 3 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.15%) Unix
6 1 (0.076%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.076%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.076%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.076%) VMS
6 1 (0.076%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (15.71%) Roadmaps
2 204 (15.56%) Agile
3 198 (15.10%) Enterprise Architecture
4 176 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 166 (12.66%) TOGAF
6 159 (12.13%) Mentoring
7 149 (11.37%) Analytics
8 142 (10.83%) DevOps
9 141 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
10 136 (10.37%) Data Modelling
11 128 (9.76%) AI
12 118 (9.00%) Data Architecture
13 112 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 96 (7.32%) Business Strategy
15 95 (7.25%) Project Management
16 94 (7.17%) Architectural Design
17 93 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (6.86%) Decision-Making
19 89 (6.79%) Cybersecurity
20 86 (6.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (9.46%) Python
2 70 (5.34%) C#
3 62 (4.73%) Java
4 60 (4.58%) SQL
5 23 (1.75%) C++
5 23 (1.75%) Go
5 23 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 17 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.22%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.14%) SOQL
8 15 (1.14%) SOSL
9 11 (0.84%) Bicep
10 9 (0.69%) PHP
11 4 (0.31%) Bash
12 3 (0.23%) ABAP
12 3 (0.23%) C
12 3 (0.23%) R
12 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 243 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 147 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 128 (9.76%) Degree
4 116 (8.85%) DV Cleared
5 73 (5.57%) TOGAF Certification
6 61 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (3.66%) AWS Certification
8 43 (3.28%) Azure Certification
9 42 (3.20%) CISSP
10 40 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 34 (2.59%) CISM
13 29 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
14 26 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (1.91%) Chartered Engineer
16 24 (1.83%) DBS Check
17 20 (1.53%) CCNP
18 16 (1.22%) CCNA
19 11 (0.84%) JNCIA
20 6 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.75%) Accessibility
2 34 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.98%) GRC
4 25 (1.91%) GDPR
5 24 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 24 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.53%) NIST
7 10 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.76%) NCSC
8 9 (0.69%) QA
9 5 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.31%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.31%) SEPA
10 4 (0.31%) SLA
10 4 (0.31%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.15%) PMO
12 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (2.67%) Docker
2 26 (1.98%) Firmware
3 9 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 33 (2.52%) Terraform
3 15 (1.14%) Ansible
4 10 (0.76%) WMI
5 7 (0.53%) Endace
6 4 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.23%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.15%) VxRail
9 1 (0.076%) Argo
9 1 (0.076%) Netcool
9 1 (0.076%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 1 (0.076%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.076%) vRealize
Vendors
1 209 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.48%) SAP
3 50 (3.81%) Google
4 46 (3.51%) Oracle
5 37 (2.82%) OpenText
6 33 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 31 (2.36%) Cisco
8 27 (2.06%) Juniper
9 24 (1.83%) Adobe
9 24 (1.83%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.68%) Workday
11 20 (1.53%) Databricks
11 20 (1.53%) Splunk
11 20 (1.53%) VMware
12 18 (1.37%) Apple
13 13 (0.99%) BiZZdesign
14 12 (0.92%) Ariba
15 10 (0.76%) Fortinet
16 8 (0.61%) UiPath
17 6 (0.46%) Thales