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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 93 35
Rank change year-on-year +60 -58 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 3,140 1,099 3,165
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 4.08% 3.18% 5.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.32% 3.55% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 710 2,060
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 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -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 72,709 30,936 56,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.43% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 50,271 17,815 37,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,498
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 12 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 12 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 1,043 £82,500 +10.00% 391
North West +107 587 £83,750 +4.69% 223
South East +14 551 £85,000 +9.68% 405
South West +56 470 £80,000 -5.88% 220
Midlands +33 446 £82,500 +10.00% 180
West Midlands +26 362 £82,500 +6.45% 126
Yorkshire +52 276 £82,500 +10.00% 123
East of England +50 198 £80,150 +3.42% 122
Scotland +61 185 £90,000 +12.50% 159
North East +14 180 £82,750 +27.31% 47
Wales +29 152 £80,000 +11.89% 27
Northern Ireland -15 106 £74,830 -9.63% 70
East Midlands -9 84 £60,000 -14.29% 54
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 614 (19.55%) Azure
2 462 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 462 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 402 (12.80%) Roadmaps
4 392 (12.48%) AI
5 364 (11.59%) AWS
6 292 (9.30%) Enterprise Architecture
7 290 (9.24%) SC Cleared
8 281 (8.95%) Agile
9 263 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
10 240 (7.64%) TOGAF
11 230 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
12 214 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
13 209 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
14 208 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 207 (6.59%) Data Architecture
16 204 (6.50%) CI/CD
17 186 (5.92%) Data Modelling
17 186 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
18 182 (5.80%) DV Cleared
19 177 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 177 (5.64%) Power Platform
20 175 (5.57%) DevOps
21 173 (5.51%) Decision-Making
22 170 (5.41%) Business Strategy
23 165 (5.25%) Technology Strategy
24 164 (5.22%) Analytics
25 158 (5.03%) Microservices
26 154 (4.90%) Security Architecture
27 151 (4.81%) 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 12 (0.38%) 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%) Confluence
4 5 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.096%) SAS
6 3 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.064%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.032%) JBoss
8 1 (0.032%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.032%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 9 (0.29%) Revit
2 8 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.064%) PlantUML
5 2 (0.064%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.064%) Simulink
5 2 (0.064%) 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 36 (1.15%) 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%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.096%) Infor M3
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.096%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.096%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.064%) Movex
8 2 (0.064%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.064%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 614 (19.55%) Azure
2 364 (11.59%) AWS
3 177 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 113 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (3.57%) GCP
6 108 (3.44%) SaaS
7 86 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
8 66 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
9 62 (1.97%) Serverless
10 54 (1.72%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.34%) dbt
12 41 (1.31%) PaaS
13 35 (1.11%) IaaS
14 29 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (0.70%) Snowflake
16 21 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (0.67%) GitHub
17 18 (0.57%) iPaaS
18 17 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 104 (3.31%) WAN
2 82 (2.61%) LAN
3 63 (2.01%) Firewall
4 62 (1.97%) Network Security
5 45 (1.43%) VPN
6 40 (1.27%) DNS
7 35 (1.11%) Broadband
8 27 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 21 (0.67%) MPLS
10 18 (0.57%) BGP
11 16 (0.51%) Unified Communications
12 15 (0.48%) HTTP
12 15 (0.48%) SNMP
12 15 (0.48%) VLAN
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 66 (2.10%) Metadata
2 38 (1.21%) Data Lake
3 36 (1.15%) Power BI
4 33 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (0.80%) SQL Server
6 17 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (0.48%) GIS
8 11 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.32%) Tableau
10 9 (0.29%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.22%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.22%) Data Vault
13 6 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.19%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.19%) MySQL
14 4 (0.13%) Big Data
14 4 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 36 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 26 (0.83%) GitLab
3 22 (0.70%) Snyk
4 20 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.29%) JIRA
6 5 (0.16%) Git
6 5 (0.16%) MLflow
6 5 (0.16%) Toad
6 5 (0.16%) Yeoman
7 3 (0.096%) ERwin
8 2 (0.064%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.064%) JMeter
8 2 (0.064%) Postman
8 2 (0.064%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.064%) 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
1 422 (13.44%) Finance
2 405 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 241 (7.68%) Public Sector
4 190 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (4.01%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 80 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (1.91%) Law
9 51 (1.62%) Marketing
10 49 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 46 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 46 (1.46%) Retail
12 34 (1.08%) Games
13 31 (0.99%) Legal
14 30 (0.96%) Banking
15 29 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.41%) Advertising
17 13 (0.41%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (1.72%) REST
2 50 (1.59%) .NET
3 44 (1.40%) SOAP
4 40 (1.27%) Middleware
5 34 (1.08%) OAuth
6 32 (1.02%) LDAP
7 29 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
8 28 (0.89%) Node.js
8 28 (0.89%) SAML
9 24 (0.76%) Kafka
10 20 (0.64%) Visualforce
11 18 (0.57%) Regular Expression
12 17 (0.54%) XML
13 16 (0.51%) JSON
13 16 (0.51%) ModSecurity
13 16 (0.51%) OpenID
13 16 (0.51%) XMPP
14 10 (0.32%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.32%) NestJS
14 10 (0.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 153 (4.87%) Cloud Native
2 83 (2.64%) Data Centre
3 56 (1.78%) Product Ownership
4 51 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
5 47 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 33 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (0.96%) Cyberattack
10 30 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 27 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 20 (0.64%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.61%) Social Media
14 18 (0.57%) Management Information System
14 18 (0.57%) Private Cloud
15 16 (0.51%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.48%) Graphic Design
16 15 (0.48%) PKI
17 14 (0.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
Operating Systems
1 48 (1.53%) Linux
2 44 (1.40%) Windows
3 31 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.64%) 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
1 402 (12.80%) Roadmaps
2 392 (12.48%) AI
3 292 (9.30%) Enterprise Architecture
4 281 (8.95%) Agile
5 263 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
6 240 (7.64%) TOGAF
7 230 (7.32%) Technical Leadership
8 214 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
9 209 (6.66%) Technical Architecture
10 208 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 207 (6.59%) Data Architecture
12 204 (6.50%) CI/CD
13 186 (5.92%) Data Modelling
13 186 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 177 (5.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 175 (5.57%) DevOps
16 173 (5.51%) Decision-Making
17 170 (5.41%) Business Strategy
18 165 (5.25%) Technology Strategy
19 164 (5.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 97 (3.09%) Python
1 97 (3.09%) SQL
2 62 (1.97%) C#
3 49 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 36 (1.15%) Java
5 25 (0.80%) Bicep
6 24 (0.76%) Apex Code
7 21 (0.67%) SOQL
8 20 (0.64%) SOSL
9 16 (0.51%) C
10 15 (0.48%) TypeScript
11 12 (0.38%) C++
12 8 (0.25%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.22%) Scala
14 6 (0.19%) COBOL
14 6 (0.19%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.19%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.19%) Go
14 6 (0.19%) R
14 6 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 462 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 290 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 182 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 116 (3.69%) Degree
5 55 (1.75%) CISSP
6 52 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
7 46 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 42 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 37 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.96%) CISM
12 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 16 (0.51%) CCNP
16 15 (0.48%) CCSP
17 13 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.29%) ICAEW
18 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
19 6 (0.19%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (3.12%) Data Quality
2 92 (2.93%) GRC
2 92 (2.93%) NIST
3 56 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (1.62%) GDPR
5 39 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 21 (0.67%) NCSC
7 19 (0.61%) 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 (0.29%) 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 91 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (0.80%) Docker
4 24 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.76%) vSphere
5 13 (0.41%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.16%) NDS
9 3 (0.096%) 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 69 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 55 (1.75%) Terraform
3 25 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.51%) MOM
5 10 (0.32%) CASB
5 10 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.22%) Ansible
8 3 (0.096%) Grafana
9 2 (0.064%) Endace
9 2 (0.064%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.064%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.064%) vRealize
10 1 (0.032%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.032%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.032%) SCCM
Vendors
1 462 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 85 (2.71%) Databricks
3 79 (2.52%) SAP
4 58 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 58 (1.85%) VMware
5 46 (1.46%) Cisco
6 45 (1.43%) Oracle
7 41 (1.31%) Palo Alto
8 33 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 22 (0.70%) Computacenter
9 22 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (0.70%) Google
9 22 (0.70%) Splunk
9 22 (0.70%) Tenable
10 20 (0.64%) OpenAI
11 19 (0.61%) Okta
11 19 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 18 (0.57%) Workday
13 16 (0.51%) ForgeRock
14 13 (0.41%) CyberArk