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 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 90 34
Rank change year-on-year +57 -56 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,170 1,101 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.09% 3.18% 5.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 3.55% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,242 708 2,053
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £71,085 £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 73,108 31,009 56,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 89.45% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50,512 17,790 37,230
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,191 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% - -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 15 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 15 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 1,061 £82,500 +10.00% 390
North West +105 590 £83,750 +4.69% 227
South East +14 554 £85,000 +9.68% 401
South West +50 473 £80,000 -5.88% 232
Midlands +26 452 £82,500 +10.00% 181
West Midlands +24 369 £82,500 +6.45% 129
Yorkshire +51 288 £80,000 +6.67% 121
East of England +56 197 £82,500 +4.76% 119
Scotland +57 184 £90,000 +12.50% 162
North East +10 183 £85,000 +30.77% 44
Wales +26 154 £80,000 +11.89% 29
Northern Ireland -17 107 £74,830 -9.63% 68
East Midlands -11 83 £60,000 -16.38% 52
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 (19.53%) Azure
2 466 (14.70%) Microsoft
3 462 (14.57%) Security Cleared
4 411 (12.97%) Roadmaps
5 400 (12.62%) AI
6 371 (11.70%) AWS
7 297 (9.37%) Enterprise Architecture
8 285 (8.99%) Agile
9 283 (8.93%) SC Cleared
10 263 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
11 243 (7.67%) TOGAF
12 241 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
13 218 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
14 217 (6.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 213 (6.72%) Technical Architecture
16 209 (6.59%) Data Architecture
17 208 (6.56%) CI/CD
18 191 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
19 187 (5.90%) DV Cleared
20 186 (5.87%) Data Modelling
20 186 (5.87%) Decision-Making
21 185 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
22 177 (5.58%) Power Platform
23 176 (5.55%) DevOps
24 173 (5.46%) Business Strategy
25 171 (5.39%) Technology Strategy
26 168 (5.30%) Analytics
27 162 (5.11%) Microservices
28 159 (5.02%) Security Architecture
29 155 (4.89%) 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 15 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.22%) Apache
2 7 (0.22%) CMS
2 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.19%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.13%) Confluence
6 3 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.063%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.032%) JBoss
8 1 (0.032%) SAS
8 1 (0.032%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.28%) Revit
2 8 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.063%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.063%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.063%) Simulink
5 2 (0.063%) Windchill
6 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.032%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.032%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
4 6 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.16%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.095%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.095%) Infor M3
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.095%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.095%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.063%) Lawson
8 2 (0.063%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.063%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.063%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 619 (19.53%) Azure
2 371 (11.70%) AWS
3 177 (5.58%) Power Platform
4 119 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 115 (3.63%) SaaS
6 114 (3.60%) GCP
7 82 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (1.96%) Serverless
10 57 (1.80%) Entra ID
11 43 (1.36%) PaaS
12 42 (1.32%) dbt
13 39 (1.23%) IaaS
14 28 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (0.66%) GitHub
16 20 (0.63%) Snowflake
17 18 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (0.57%) iPaaS
18 17 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
19 16 (0.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.28%) WAN
2 83 (2.62%) LAN
3 63 (1.99%) Firewall
3 63 (1.99%) Network Security
4 45 (1.42%) VPN
5 40 (1.26%) DNS
6 35 (1.10%) Broadband
7 27 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.63%) MPLS
9 17 (0.54%) BGP
10 16 (0.50%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.47%) VLAN
12 14 (0.44%) HTTP
12 14 (0.44%) SNMP
13 11 (0.35%) DHCP
14 10 (0.32%) FTP
14 10 (0.32%) ICMP
14 10 (0.32%) IPsec
14 10 (0.32%) SSH
14 10 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (2.05%) Metadata
2 37 (1.17%) Power BI
3 36 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 31 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (0.82%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.44%) GIS
8 12 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.32%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 10 (0.32%) Tableau
10 8 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (0.22%) Data Vault
12 6 (0.19%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.19%) MySQL
13 5 (0.16%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.13%) Big Data
14 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 26 (0.82%) GitLab
3 22 (0.69%) Snyk
4 20 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 8 (0.25%) JIRA
6 5 (0.16%) Git
6 5 (0.16%) MLflow
6 5 (0.16%) Toad
6 5 (0.16%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.095%) ERwin
8 2 (0.063%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.063%) JMeter
8 2 (0.063%) Postman
8 2 (0.063%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.063%) Selenium
9 1 (0.032%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.032%) Flyway
9 1 (0.032%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.032%) Oracle Forms
General
1 437 (13.79%) Finance
2 415 (13.09%) Social Skills
3 245 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 193 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 131 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
7 84 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.89%) Law
9 54 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 51 (1.61%) Marketing
11 47 (1.48%) Retail
12 46 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.10%) Games
14 32 (1.01%) Banking
15 31 (0.98%) Legal
16 30 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.44%) Military
19 13 (0.41%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (1.70%) REST
2 51 (1.61%) .NET
3 45 (1.42%) Middleware
4 44 (1.39%) SOAP
5 37 (1.17%) OAuth
6 35 (1.10%) LDAP
7 31 (0.98%) SAML
8 29 (0.91%) Lightning Web Components
9 28 (0.88%) Node.js
10 25 (0.79%) Kafka
11 20 (0.63%) ModSecurity
11 20 (0.63%) Visualforce
12 19 (0.60%) OpenID
13 18 (0.57%) Regular Expression
14 17 (0.54%) XML
15 16 (0.50%) JSON
15 16 (0.50%) XMPP
16 10 (0.32%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.32%) NestJS
16 10 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 159 (5.02%) Cloud Native
2 84 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 56 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 47 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 37 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.10%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (0.95%) Cyberattack
10 30 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 27 (0.85%) Virtual Team
12 21 (0.66%) Social Media
13 20 (0.63%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.60%) Management Information System
15 18 (0.57%) Private Cloud
16 17 (0.54%) AI Agents
17 15 (0.47%) Graphic Design
18 14 (0.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
18 14 (0.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.51%) Linux
2 44 (1.39%) Windows
3 31 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.032%) AIX
5 1 (0.032%) CentOS
5 1 (0.032%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.032%) Solaris
5 1 (0.032%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (12.97%) Roadmaps
2 400 (12.62%) AI
3 297 (9.37%) Enterprise Architecture
4 285 (8.99%) Agile
5 263 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
6 243 (7.67%) TOGAF
7 241 (7.60%) Technical Leadership
8 218 (6.88%) Problem-Solving
9 217 (6.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 213 (6.72%) Technical Architecture
11 209 (6.59%) Data Architecture
12 208 (6.56%) CI/CD
13 191 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 186 (5.87%) Data Modelling
14 186 (5.87%) Decision-Making
15 185 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 176 (5.55%) DevOps
17 173 (5.46%) Business Strategy
18 171 (5.39%) Technology Strategy
19 168 (5.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (3.09%) Python
2 97 (3.06%) SQL
3 63 (1.99%) C#
4 49 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 37 (1.17%) Java
6 26 (0.82%) Bicep
7 24 (0.76%) Apex Code
8 21 (0.66%) SOQL
9 20 (0.63%) SOSL
10 16 (0.50%) C
11 15 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 12 (0.38%) C++
13 8 (0.25%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.22%) Scala
15 6 (0.19%) COBOL
15 6 (0.19%) Embedded C
15 6 (0.19%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.19%) Go
15 6 (0.19%) R
15 6 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 462 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 283 (8.93%) SC Cleared
3 187 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 118 (3.72%) Degree
5 59 (1.86%) CISSP
6 53 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
7 50 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 43 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 36 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.07%) CISM
12 23 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 15 (0.47%) CCNP
15 15 (0.47%) CCSP
16 13 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.28%) ICAEW
17 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
18 6 (0.19%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 93 (2.93%) GRC
2 93 (2.93%) NIST
3 58 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (1.61%) GDPR
5 38 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 21 (0.66%) NCSC
7 19 (0.60%) QA
8 12 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.32%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.19%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.16%) MISRA
14 5 (0.16%) SLA
15 4 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 94 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.79%) Docker
4 24 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.76%) vSphere
5 14 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.16%) NDS
9 3 (0.095%) KVM
10 1 (0.032%) GPFS
10 1 (0.032%) Lustre
10 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.032%) vCloud
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.77%) Terraform
3 28 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.50%) MOM
5 10 (0.32%) CASB
5 10 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.22%) Ansible
8 3 (0.095%) Grafana
9 2 (0.063%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.063%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.063%) vRealize
10 1 (0.032%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.032%) Endace
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 466 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.68%) Databricks
3 81 (2.56%) SAP
4 58 (1.83%) Salesforce
4 58 (1.83%) VMware
5 46 (1.45%) Oracle
6 44 (1.39%) Cisco
7 41 (1.29%) Palo Alto
8 33 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 25 (0.79%) Google
10 22 (0.69%) Computacenter
10 22 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (0.69%) Okta
10 22 (0.69%) Splunk
10 22 (0.69%) Tenable
11 20 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 20 (0.63%) Red Hat
12 19 (0.60%) ForgeRock
13 18 (0.57%) Workday
14 13 (0.41%) CyberArk