Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 97 31
Rank change year-on-year +67 -66 0
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,658 1,041 2,967
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.23% 3.01% 5.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 3.36% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 635 1,775
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,725 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £88,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.13% -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 80,372 30,974 50,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.50% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 55,674 17,230 28,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
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 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +102 1,226 £80,000 +3.23% 502
North West +99 668 £80,000 - 276
South East +23 661 £87,500 +12.90% 568
South West +52 539 £85,000 +1.49% 250
Midlands +36 531 £85,000 +13.33% 282
West Midlands +41 428 £85,000 +13.33% 204
Yorkshire +59 358 £80,000 +6.67% 168
East of England +57 242 £81,325 +4.94% 189
North East +18 200 £85,000 +30.77% 58
Scotland +61 179 £85,000 +6.25% 217
Wales +19 164 £80,000 +12.68% 66
Northern Ireland -13 131 £80,000 +6.67% 69
East Midlands -10 103 £80,000 +6.67% 78
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 633 (17.30%) Azure
2 564 (15.42%) Security Cleared
3 484 (13.23%) Microsoft
4 454 (12.41%) Roadmaps
5 453 (12.38%) AI
6 411 (11.24%) AWS
7 348 (9.51%) SC Cleared
8 332 (9.08%) Technical Leadership
9 311 (8.50%) Agile
10 305 (8.34%) Enterprise Architecture
11 283 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
12 252 (6.89%) Data Architecture
13 242 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 241 (6.59%) Technical Architecture
15 234 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
16 221 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 217 (5.93%) TOGAF
18 216 (5.90%) CI/CD
19 214 (5.85%) Decision-Making
20 211 (5.77%) DV Cleared
21 207 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
22 201 (5.49%) Data Modelling
23 197 (5.39%) Analytics
24 192 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
25 191 (5.22%) Microservices
26 187 (5.11%) Mentoring
26 187 (5.11%) Security Architecture
27 186 (5.08%) IT Strategy
28 172 (4.70%) Business Strategy
28 172 (4.70%) Power Platform

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 16 (0.44%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.25%) Apache
3 8 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.19%) CMS
5 5 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.082%) Confluence
7 3 (0.082%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.082%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.055%) JBoss
8 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.055%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.027%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.027%) SAS
9 1 (0.027%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
1 11 (0.30%) Revit
2 9 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.055%) Notion
5 2 (0.055%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.055%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.055%) Simulink
5 2 (0.055%) Weka
5 2 (0.055%) Windchill
6 1 (0.027%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.027%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 45 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
3 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.14%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.082%) Lawson
6 3 (0.082%) Movex
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.082%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.082%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.082%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.082%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 633 (17.30%) Azure
2 411 (11.24%) AWS
3 172 (4.70%) Power Platform
4 132 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (3.34%) GCP
6 121 (3.31%) SaaS
7 74 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 69 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
9 67 (1.83%) Entra ID
10 58 (1.59%) Serverless
11 42 (1.15%) dbt
12 38 (1.04%) IaaS
12 38 (1.04%) PaaS
13 35 (0.96%) Azure Databricks
14 22 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (0.57%) Amazon S3
16 20 (0.55%) PowerApps
17 18 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (0.49%) OpenShift
18 17 (0.46%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (2.90%) WAN
2 92 (2.52%) LAN
3 76 (2.08%) Network Security
4 57 (1.56%) Firewall
5 47 (1.28%) VPN
6 29 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 28 (0.77%) DNS
8 20 (0.55%) Wireless
9 19 (0.52%) MPLS
10 18 (0.49%) BGP
10 18 (0.49%) VLAN
11 16 (0.44%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.41%) 5G
12 15 (0.41%) SNMP
13 13 (0.36%) HTTP
14 12 (0.33%) Broadband
14 12 (0.33%) DHCP
14 12 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
15 11 (0.30%) Intelligent Network
16 10 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (2.41%) Metadata
2 39 (1.07%) Power BI
3 34 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 29 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (0.68%) SQL Server
6 12 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.33%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.30%) GIS
7 11 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
7 11 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
8 9 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.25%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.22%) Tableau
10 7 (0.19%) Big Data
11 6 (0.16%) Data Vault
11 6 (0.16%) MySQL
11 6 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (0.60%) Snyk
2 12 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.30%) JIRA
4 5 (0.14%) Claude Code
4 5 (0.14%) Git
4 5 (0.14%) MLflow
4 5 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (0.14%) Toad
5 4 (0.11%) GitLab
5 4 (0.11%) Yeoman
6 3 (0.082%) ERwin
7 2 (0.055%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.055%) JMeter
7 2 (0.055%) Postman
7 2 (0.055%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.055%) Selenium
8 1 (0.027%) Flyway
8 1 (0.027%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.027%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 522 (14.27%) Finance
2 475 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 296 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 164 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (3.61%) Aerospace
7 99 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
8 94 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (1.64%) Retail
10 56 (1.53%) Law
11 51 (1.39%) Banking
12 50 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.12%) Legal
14 30 (0.82%) Telecoms
15 28 (0.77%) Marketing
16 21 (0.57%) Military
17 20 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (0.41%) Games
19 15 (0.41%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (1.56%) Middleware
2 53 (1.45%) Terraform
3 49 (1.34%) .NET
4 37 (1.01%) REST
5 36 (0.98%) OAuth
6 35 (0.96%) LDAP
7 33 (0.90%) SAML
8 26 (0.71%) ModSecurity
9 25 (0.68%) Kafka
9 25 (0.68%) SOAP
10 21 (0.57%) Node.js
11 20 (0.55%) OpenID
12 15 (0.41%) JSON
12 15 (0.41%) XML
13 13 (0.36%) SailPoint
14 11 (0.30%) GraphQL
14 11 (0.30%) RESTful
15 10 (0.27%) Regular Expression
15 10 (0.27%) Spring Boot
15 10 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 177 (4.84%) Cloud Native
2 75 (2.05%) Data Centre
3 57 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 41 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 40 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 26 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 25 (0.68%) AI Agents
11 25 (0.68%) Operational Technology
12 23 (0.63%) Embedded Systems
12 23 (0.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 23 (0.63%) Public Cloud
13 22 (0.60%) Private Cloud
14 21 (0.57%) Cyberattack
14 21 (0.57%) Social Media
15 19 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (1.20%) Linux
2 34 (0.93%) Windows
3 20 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.055%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.027%) AIX
6 1 (0.027%) CentOS
6 1 (0.027%) Solaris
6 1 (0.027%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (12.41%) Roadmaps
2 453 (12.38%) AI
3 332 (9.08%) Technical Leadership
4 311 (8.50%) Agile
5 305 (8.34%) Enterprise Architecture
6 283 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
7 252 (6.89%) Data Architecture
8 242 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 241 (6.59%) Technical Architecture
10 234 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
11 221 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 217 (5.93%) TOGAF
13 216 (5.90%) CI/CD
14 214 (5.85%) Decision-Making
15 207 (5.66%) Technology Strategy
16 201 (5.49%) Data Modelling
17 197 (5.39%) Analytics
18 192 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 191 (5.22%) Microservices
20 187 (5.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 88 (2.41%) SQL
2 86 (2.35%) Python
3 72 (1.97%) C#
4 51 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 36 (0.98%) Java
6 25 (0.68%) Bicep
7 16 (0.44%) C
8 15 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.33%) C++
10 10 (0.27%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.25%) Scala
12 7 (0.19%) Rust
13 6 (0.16%) COBOL
13 6 (0.16%) R
13 6 (0.16%) Ruby
14 5 (0.14%) Go
15 4 (0.11%) Bash
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.082%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 564 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 348 (9.51%) SC Cleared
3 211 (5.77%) DV Cleared
4 139 (3.80%) Degree
5 71 (1.94%) CISSP
6 67 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 57 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 54 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
9 51 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 37 (1.01%) CISM
12 36 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.57%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 18 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.44%) CCSP
18 15 (0.41%) CCNP
19 14 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
20 9 (0.25%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.79%) GRC
2 100 (2.73%) NIST
3 88 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 68 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.56%) GDPR
6 52 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.66%) NCSC
8 22 (0.60%) QA
9 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 11 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.19%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.19%) MISRA
13 7 (0.19%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.14%) SLA
16 4 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (0.77%) Docker
4 22 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.55%) Firmware
6 17 (0.46%) vSphere
7 11 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.25%) NDS
10 3 (0.082%) KVM
11 1 (0.027%) GPFS
11 1 (0.027%) Lustre
11 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.027%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 32 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (0.33%) CASB
4 10 (0.27%) FortiGate
5 9 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.14%) Ansible
6 5 (0.14%) MOM
7 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.055%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.055%) Grafana
7 2 (0.055%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.055%) SCCM
7 2 (0.055%) vRealize
8 1 (0.027%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.027%) Salt
Vendors
1 484 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 87 (2.38%) SAP
3 80 (2.19%) Databricks
4 60 (1.64%) Oracle
5 49 (1.34%) ServiceNow
6 48 (1.31%) Cisco
6 48 (1.31%) VMware
7 41 (1.12%) Palo Alto
7 41 (1.12%) Workday
8 31 (0.85%) Computacenter
8 31 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 30 (0.82%) Google
10 24 (0.66%) ForgeRock
10 24 (0.66%) Okta
11 23 (0.63%) Tenable
12 22 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (0.57%) Adobe
13 21 (0.57%) Red Hat
14 20 (0.55%) OpenAI
15 18 (0.49%) CyberArk