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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 91 33
Rank change year-on-year +60 -58 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,355 1,096 3,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.22% 3.15% 5.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.47% 3.52% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,367 697 2,064
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,349 £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 £88,938
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 74,984 31,142 57,012
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 89.44% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51,976 17,959 36,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
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 26 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 26 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 +95 1,140 £80,000 +6.67% 121
North West +109 626 £80,000 - 62
South East +17 586 £85,000 +9.68% 109
South West +54 488 £80,000 -5.88% 83
Midlands +36 486 £82,500 +10.00% 58
West Midlands +34 392 £85,000 +13.33% 40
Yorkshire +56 321 £80,000 +6.67% 45
East of England +56 213 £80,150 +3.42% 19
North East +8 193 £85,000 +30.77% 14
Scotland +59 184 £85,000 +6.25% 19
Wales +26 161 £80,000 +11.89% 10
Northern Ireland -17 110 £74,830 -9.63% 7
East Midlands -5 94 £60,000 -18.92% 18
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 621 (18.51%) Azure
2 484 (14.43%) Security Cleared
3 477 (14.22%) Microsoft
4 425 (12.67%) Roadmaps
5 424 (12.64%) AI
6 389 (11.59%) AWS
7 298 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
8 290 (8.64%) Agile
9 285 (8.49%) SC Cleared
10 264 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
10 264 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
11 236 (7.03%) Data Architecture
11 236 (7.03%) TOGAF
12 223 (6.65%) Problem-Solving
12 223 (6.65%) Technical Architecture
13 221 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 215 (6.41%) CI/CD
15 208 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 202 (6.02%) Decision-Making
17 196 (5.84%) DV Cleared
18 194 (5.78%) Data Modelling
19 191 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
20 182 (5.42%) Technology Strategy
21 181 (5.39%) Business Strategy
22 175 (5.22%) Power Platform
23 174 (5.19%) DevOps
24 172 (5.13%) Analytics
25 171 (5.10%) Microservices
26 166 (4.95%) Mentoring
26 166 (4.95%) Security Architecture

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 20 (0.60%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.27%) Apache
3 7 (0.21%) CMS
3 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.15%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.15%) Confluence
4 5 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.089%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.030%) JBoss
8 1 (0.030%) SAS
8 1 (0.030%) WebLogic
8 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 (0.060%) PlantUML
6 2 (0.060%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.060%) Simulink
6 2 (0.060%) Weka
6 2 (0.060%) 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
Business Applications
1 42 (1.25%) 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 (0.089%) Lawson
6 3 (0.089%) Movex
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.089%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.060%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 621 (18.51%) Azure
2 389 (11.59%) AWS
3 175 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 132 (3.93%) SaaS
5 125 (3.73%) GCP
6 124 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 78 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
9 64 (1.91%) Serverless
10 55 (1.64%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.28%) PaaS
12 42 (1.25%) dbt
13 41 (1.22%) IaaS
14 22 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (0.60%) GitHub
16 19 (0.57%) Amazon S3
17 18 (0.54%) iPaaS
17 18 (0.54%) Snowflake
18 17 (0.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.13%) WAN
2 87 (2.59%) LAN
3 66 (1.97%) Network Security
4 64 (1.91%) Firewall
5 46 (1.37%) VPN
6 40 (1.19%) DNS
7 29 (0.86%) Broadband
8 27 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 19 (0.57%) MPLS
10 16 (0.48%) BGP
11 15 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.45%) VLAN
12 13 (0.39%) HTTP
12 13 (0.39%) SNMP
13 11 (0.33%) DHCP
13 11 (0.33%) Wireless
14 10 (0.30%) FTP
14 10 (0.30%) ICMP
14 10 (0.30%) IPsec
14 10 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (2.21%) Metadata
2 39 (1.16%) Power BI
3 37 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 31 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.77%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.36%) GIS
8 10 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 10 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
8 10 (0.30%) Tableau
9 8 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.18%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.18%) MySQL
12 5 (0.15%) Big Data
12 5 (0.15%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 27 (0.80%) Jenkins
2 22 (0.66%) Snyk
3 20 (0.60%) GitLab
4 14 (0.42%) 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 (0.089%) ERwin
8 2 (0.060%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.060%) JMeter
8 2 (0.060%) Postman
8 2 (0.060%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.060%) 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
1 466 (13.89%) Finance
2 431 (12.85%) Social Skills
3 265 (7.90%) Public Sector
4 191 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 133 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.76%) Law
10 45 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 45 (1.34%) Marketing
10 45 (1.34%) Retail
11 40 (1.19%) Banking
12 32 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 30 (0.89%) Legal
14 29 (0.86%) Games
15 18 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.45%) Military
18 13 (0.39%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (1.73%) Terraform
2 56 (1.67%) .NET
3 49 (1.46%) Middleware
3 49 (1.46%) REST
4 38 (1.13%) SOAP
5 37 (1.10%) OAuth
6 35 (1.04%) LDAP
7 31 (0.92%) SAML
8 30 (0.89%) Node.js
9 25 (0.75%) Kafka
10 22 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
10 22 (0.66%) ModSecurity
11 19 (0.57%) OpenID
12 18 (0.54%) Regular Expression
13 17 (0.51%) XML
14 16 (0.48%) JSON
14 16 (0.48%) XMPP
15 14 (0.42%) Visualforce
16 11 (0.33%) PySpark
17 10 (0.30%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 165 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 54 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 48 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.01%) Operational Technology
9 33 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
9 33 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 30 (0.89%) Cyberattack
11 27 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 22 (0.66%) Public Cloud
13 21 (0.63%) Social Media
14 20 (0.60%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.57%) Management Information System
16 18 (0.54%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.51%) Industrial Internet of Things
18 15 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
18 15 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.49%) Linux
2 42 (1.25%) Windows
3 31 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.60%) 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
1 425 (12.67%) Roadmaps
2 424 (12.64%) AI
3 298 (8.88%) Enterprise Architecture
4 290 (8.64%) Agile
5 264 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
5 264 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
6 236 (7.03%) Data Architecture
6 236 (7.03%) TOGAF
7 223 (6.65%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (6.65%) Technical Architecture
8 221 (6.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 215 (6.41%) CI/CD
10 208 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 202 (6.02%) Decision-Making
12 194 (5.78%) Data Modelling
13 191 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 182 (5.42%) Technology Strategy
15 181 (5.39%) Business Strategy
16 174 (5.19%) DevOps
17 172 (5.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (2.92%) SQL
2 96 (2.86%) Python
3 66 (1.97%) C#
4 52 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.10%) Java
6 26 (0.77%) Bicep
7 17 (0.51%) Apex Code
8 16 (0.48%) C
9 15 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 14 (0.42%) SOQL
10 14 (0.42%) SOSL
11 12 (0.36%) 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
1 484 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 285 (8.49%) SC Cleared
3 196 (5.84%) DV Cleared
4 117 (3.49%) Degree
5 61 (1.82%) CISSP
6 53 (1.58%) Azure Certification
6 53 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 47 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 43 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.07%) CISM
11 26 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.66%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (0.48%) CCNP
15 15 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.45%) CCSP
16 10 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.27%) ICAEW
18 8 (0.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (2.95%) NIST
2 97 (2.89%) GRC
3 95 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 65 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.64%) GDPR
6 43 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.63%) NCSC
8 17 (0.51%) QA
9 12 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.15%) MISRA
14 5 (0.15%) SLA
15 4 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (0.77%) Docker
3 26 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (0.77%) vSphere
4 15 (0.45%) Firmware
5 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.15%) NDS
7 3 (0.089%) KVM
8 1 (0.030%) GPFS
8 1 (0.030%) Lustre
8 1 (0.030%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.030%) vCloud
8 1 (0.030%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 28 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (0.48%) MOM
4 11 (0.33%) CASB
5 10 (0.30%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.15%) Ansible
8 3 (0.089%) Grafana
9 2 (0.060%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.060%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.060%) SCCM
9 2 (0.060%) vRealize
10 1 (0.030%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.030%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 477 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.59%) SAP
3 82 (2.44%) Databricks
4 60 (1.79%) VMware
5 55 (1.64%) Oracle
6 47 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 43 (1.28%) Cisco
8 41 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 41 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 30 (0.89%) Google
10 22 (0.66%) Computacenter
10 22 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.66%) Red Hat
10 22 (0.66%) Tenable
10 22 (0.66%) Workday
11 20 (0.60%) Okta
11 20 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.57%) ForgeRock
13 17 (0.51%) Adobe
14 16 (0.48%) Splunk