Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 89 32
Rank change year-on-year +57 -57 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,285 1,092 3,205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.18% 3.15% 5.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.43% 3.52% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,317 697 2,057
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +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 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +1.88% -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 74,163 31,014 56,658
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 89.45% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,317 17,801 36,818
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -4.63% -5.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +92 1,105 £80,000 +6.67% 245
North West +108 608 £80,000 - 141
South East +19 576 £85,000 +9.68% 235
South West +48 478 £80,000 -5.88% 128
Midlands +30 473 £82,500 +10.00% 92
West Midlands +34 384 £85,000 +13.33% 70
Yorkshire +56 310 £80,000 +6.67% 73
East of England +54 210 £80,150 +1.78% 46
Scotland +59 187 £86,250 +7.81% 73
North East +13 187 £85,000 +30.77% 32
Wales +26 159 £80,000 +11.89% 15
Northern Ireland -19 110 £74,830 -9.63% 32
East Midlands -6 89 £60,000 -18.37% 22
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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.

1 619 (18.84%) Azure
2 478 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 472 (14.37%) Microsoft
4 426 (12.97%) Roadmaps
5 412 (12.54%) AI
6 380 (11.57%) AWS
7 299 (9.10%) Enterprise Architecture
8 290 (8.83%) Agile
9 284 (8.65%) SC Cleared
10 265 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
11 249 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
12 243 (7.40%) TOGAF
13 225 (6.85%) Data Architecture
14 223 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
15 221 (6.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 215 (6.54%) CI/CD
16 215 (6.54%) Technical Architecture
17 206 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
18 195 (5.94%) DV Cleared
19 194 (5.91%) Decision-Making
20 191 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
21 189 (5.75%) Data Modelling
22 180 (5.48%) Business Strategy
22 180 (5.48%) Technology Strategy
23 176 (5.36%) DevOps
24 175 (5.33%) Power Platform
25 171 (5.21%) Analytics
26 165 (5.02%) Microservices
27 163 (4.96%) Security Architecture
28 162 (4.93%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.21%) Apache
2 7 (0.21%) CMS
2 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.15%) Confluence
3 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.030%) JBoss
7 1 (0.030%) SAS
7 1 (0.030%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.030%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.30%) Revit
2 9 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.061%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.061%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.061%) Simulink
6 2 (0.061%) Windchill
7 1 (0.030%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.030%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.030%) SketchUp
7 1 (0.030%) Weka
Business Applications
1 42 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.15%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.12%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.091%) Lawson
6 3 (0.091%) Movex
6 3 (0.091%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.091%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.091%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.091%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.061%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.061%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 619 (18.84%) Azure
2 380 (11.57%) AWS
3 175 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 125 (3.81%) SaaS
5 120 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
6 117 (3.56%) GCP
7 79 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.95%) Serverless
10 56 (1.70%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.31%) PaaS
12 42 (1.28%) dbt
13 39 (1.19%) IaaS
14 24 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (0.64%) Snowflake
16 20 (0.61%) GitHub
17 19 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (0.55%) iPaaS
19 17 (0.52%) Amazon S3
19 17 (0.52%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.20%) WAN
2 86 (2.62%) LAN
3 64 (1.95%) Firewall
3 64 (1.95%) Network Security
4 45 (1.37%) VPN
5 40 (1.22%) DNS
6 34 (1.04%) Broadband
7 27 (0.82%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.58%) MPLS
9 16 (0.49%) BGP
9 16 (0.49%) Unified Communications
10 15 (0.46%) VLAN
11 13 (0.40%) HTTP
11 13 (0.40%) SNMP
12 11 (0.33%) DHCP
13 10 (0.30%) FTP
13 10 (0.30%) ICMP
13 10 (0.30%) IPsec
13 10 (0.30%) SSH
13 10 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (2.04%) Metadata
2 38 (1.16%) Data Lake
2 38 (1.16%) Power BI
3 32 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 17 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.37%) GIS
7 10 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.30%) Tableau
8 9 (0.27%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (0.21%) Data Vault
10 6 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.18%) MySQL
11 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.12%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 34 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 26 (0.79%) GitLab
3 22 (0.67%) Snyk
4 20 (0.61%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.27%) JIRA
6 5 (0.15%) Git
6 5 (0.15%) MLflow
6 5 (0.15%) Toad
6 5 (0.15%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.091%) ERwin
8 2 (0.061%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.061%) JMeter
8 2 (0.061%) Postman
8 2 (0.061%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.061%) Selenium
9 1 (0.030%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.030%) Flyway
9 1 (0.030%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.030%) Oracle Forms
General
1 457 (13.91%) Finance
2 426 (12.97%) Social Skills
3 251 (7.64%) Public Sector
4 196 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.80%) Law
10 52 (1.58%) Marketing
11 47 (1.43%) Retail
12 46 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.13%) Banking
14 35 (1.07%) Games
15 32 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 30 (0.91%) Legal
17 17 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
19 14 (0.43%) Military
20 13 (0.40%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.77%) Terraform
2 55 (1.67%) REST
3 51 (1.55%) .NET
4 46 (1.40%) Middleware
5 44 (1.34%) SOAP
6 37 (1.13%) OAuth
7 35 (1.07%) LDAP
8 31 (0.94%) SAML
9 29 (0.88%) Node.js
10 28 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
11 25 (0.76%) Kafka
12 22 (0.67%) ModSecurity
13 20 (0.61%) Visualforce
14 19 (0.58%) OpenID
15 18 (0.55%) Regular Expression
16 17 (0.52%) XML
17 16 (0.49%) JSON
17 16 (0.49%) XMPP
18 11 (0.33%) NestJS
19 10 (0.30%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 164 (4.99%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 55 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 55 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 47 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (1.07%) Operational Technology
8 33 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 32 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (0.91%) Cyberattack
11 27 (0.82%) Virtual Team
12 22 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.64%) Social Media
14 19 (0.58%) Management Information System
14 19 (0.58%) Private Cloud
15 18 (0.55%) AI Agents
16 16 (0.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
17 15 (0.46%) Graphic Design
18 14 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.49%) Linux
2 43 (1.31%) Windows
3 31 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.030%) AIX
5 1 (0.030%) CentOS
5 1 (0.030%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.030%) Solaris
5 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (12.97%) Roadmaps
2 412 (12.54%) AI
3 299 (9.10%) Enterprise Architecture
4 290 (8.83%) Agile
5 265 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
6 249 (7.58%) Technical Leadership
7 243 (7.40%) TOGAF
8 225 (6.85%) Data Architecture
9 223 (6.79%) Problem-Solving
10 221 (6.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 215 (6.54%) CI/CD
11 215 (6.54%) Technical Architecture
12 206 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 194 (5.91%) Decision-Making
14 191 (5.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 189 (5.75%) Data Modelling
16 180 (5.48%) Business Strategy
16 180 (5.48%) Technology Strategy
17 176 (5.36%) DevOps
18 171 (5.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (3.01%) SQL
2 96 (2.92%) Python
3 64 (1.95%) C#
4 50 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.13%) Java
6 26 (0.79%) Bicep
7 23 (0.70%) Apex Code
8 20 (0.61%) SOQL
8 20 (0.61%) SOSL
9 16 (0.49%) C
10 15 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.37%) C++
12 8 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.24%) Scala
13 6 (0.18%) COBOL
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.18%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.18%) Go
13 6 (0.18%) R
13 6 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 478 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 284 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 195 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 115 (3.50%) Degree
5 61 (1.86%) CISSP
6 53 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
7 46 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 42 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (1.10%) CISM
10 26 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (0.64%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.46%) CCNP
13 15 (0.46%) CCSP
14 9 (0.27%) ICAEW
14 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (2.95%) GRC
1 97 (2.95%) NIST
2 93 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 62 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (1.61%) GDPR
5 39 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 21 (0.64%) NCSC
7 18 (0.55%) QA
8 12 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.33%) NIST 800
9 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.15%) MISRA
13 5 (0.15%) SLA
14 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.76%) Docker
3 25 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (0.76%) vSphere
4 14 (0.43%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.15%) NDS
8 3 (0.091%) KVM
9 1 (0.030%) GPFS
9 1 (0.030%) Lustre
9 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.030%) vCloud
9 1 (0.030%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 74 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.49%) MOM
4 11 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.18%) Ansible
8 3 (0.091%) Grafana
9 2 (0.061%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.061%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.061%) SCCM
9 2 (0.061%) vRealize
10 1 (0.030%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.030%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 472 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 88 (2.68%) SAP
3 85 (2.59%) Databricks
4 59 (1.80%) VMware
5 55 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 50 (1.52%) Oracle
7 42 (1.28%) Cisco
8 41 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 37 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 26 (0.79%) Google
11 22 (0.67%) Computacenter
11 22 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (0.67%) Splunk
11 22 (0.67%) Tenable
11 22 (0.67%) Workday
12 21 (0.64%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.61%) Okta
13 20 (0.61%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.58%) ForgeRock
15 14 (0.43%) Adobe