Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,474 1,874 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.45% 4.96% 5.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.82% 5.31% 6.02%
Number of salaries quoted 907 1,135 1,097
10th Percentile £58,250 £56,250 £56,219
25th Percentile £69,500 £66,250 £65,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,900 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,923
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,550 35,299 29,130
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 93.38% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,494 17,655 22,030
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,918
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.11% -3.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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
South East -28 374 £85,000 +9.68% 503
North of England -11 362 £80,000 +14.29% 436
Midlands -3 274 £80,000 +6.67% 326
South West +7 184 £80,000 +6.67% 199
West Midlands -4 184 £78,750 +5.00% 176
North West -11 180 £80,000 +14.29% 225
Yorkshire -4 132 £80,000 +12.68% 178
East of England +17 126 £90,000 +18.03% 282
East Midlands -6 86 £80,000 +14.29% 132
Scotland -33 83 £86,600 +8.25% 83
North East +11 49 £75,000 +7.14% 34
Wales +13 43 £75,000 +11.11% 53
Northern Ireland +8 34 £80,000 - 21
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, 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.

1 366 (24.83%) Azure
2 234 (15.88%) Security Cleared
3 214 (14.52%) AWS
4 212 (14.38%) Roadmaps
5 208 (14.11%) Microsoft
6 199 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 192 (13.03%) Agile
8 185 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 171 (11.60%) TOGAF
10 158 (10.72%) Data Modelling
11 156 (10.58%) Degree
12 151 (10.24%) Mentoring
13 145 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 143 (9.70%) SC Cleared
15 135 (9.16%) Analytics
16 132 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
17 128 (8.68%) AI
18 127 (8.62%) DevOps
19 124 (8.41%) Python
20 122 (8.28%) Data Architecture
21 116 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
22 113 (7.67%) Project Management
23 109 (7.39%) GCP
24 108 (7.33%) SAP
25 101 (6.85%) Decision-Making
26 100 (6.78%) Strategic Thinking
27 99 (6.72%) DV Cleared
28 98 (6.65%) Architectural Design
28 98 (6.65%) Business Strategy
29 95 (6.45%) Migration

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 18 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.68%) Confluence
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) Appian
6 6 (0.41%) CMS
7 5 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.20%) JBoss
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.068%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.068%) IIS
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.068%) SAS
10 1 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.068%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 66 (4.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (3.32%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.51%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 19 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.20%) Shopify
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.068%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.068%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.068%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.068%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 366 (24.83%) Azure
2 214 (14.52%) AWS
3 109 (7.39%) GCP
4 75 (5.09%) SaaS
5 68 (4.61%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (2.99%) PaaS
8 43 (2.92%) Snowflake
9 41 (2.78%) IaaS
10 40 (2.71%) Serverless
11 20 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (1.22%) OCI
14 15 (1.02%) Entra ID
15 14 (0.95%) GitHub
16 11 (0.75%) Azure Stack
17 9 (0.61%) Amazon Bedrock
17 9 (0.61%) Amazon S3
18 8 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.71%) Firewall
2 25 (1.70%) VPN
3 22 (1.49%) Network Security
3 22 (1.49%) WAN
4 20 (1.36%) LAN
5 18 (1.22%) Broadband
6 6 (0.41%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.34%) BGP
7 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.27%) Junos
8 4 (0.27%) MPLS
8 4 (0.27%) OSPF
8 4 (0.27%) SAN
8 4 (0.27%) VLAN
9 3 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.20%) SSL
9 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.20%) VoIP
9 3 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (2.44%) Metadata
3 33 (2.24%) Power BI
4 23 (1.56%) BigQuery
5 19 (1.29%) NoSQL
5 19 (1.29%) Tableau
6 14 (0.95%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (0.41%) Big Data
8 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (0.34%) Airbyte
9 5 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.34%) Data Vault
9 5 (0.34%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.34%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (0.34%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 18 (1.22%) GitLab
3 15 (1.02%) SonarQube
4 11 (0.75%) JIRA
5 6 (0.41%) MSI
5 6 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 6 (0.41%) Selenium
5 6 (0.41%) Snyk
6 5 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.27%) Git
8 1 (0.068%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.068%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.068%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.068%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.068%) Visual Studio
General
1 327 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 159 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (10.45%) Finance
4 122 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.90%) Marketing
6 67 (4.55%) Law
7 58 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (2.78%) Legal
10 36 (2.44%) Games
11 34 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.36%) Retail
14 19 (1.29%) Banking
14 19 (1.29%) Electronics
15 16 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (0.88%) Publishing
17 10 (0.68%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.47%) Financial Institution
19 5 (0.34%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.37%) Middleware
2 27 (1.83%) REST
3 26 (1.76%) React
4 25 (1.70%) Node.js
5 24 (1.63%) Django
6 23 (1.56%) .NET
6 23 (1.56%) Kafka
7 22 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
8 20 (1.36%) SOAP
9 15 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
9 15 (1.02%) Visualforce
10 14 (0.95%) EDI
11 8 (0.54%) Web Services
12 7 (0.47%) GraphQL
13 6 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (0.34%) gRPC
14 5 (0.34%) PySpark
14 5 (0.34%) RESTful
14 5 (0.34%) Spring
15 4 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 79 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
3 35 (2.37%) Data Centre
4 30 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 21 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 12 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (0.81%) IoT
10 11 (0.75%) AI Agents
11 10 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (0.61%) Low-Code
12 9 (0.61%) PKI
13 8 (0.54%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.54%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.47%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.47%) Operational Technology
15 6 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.63%) Windows
2 12 (0.81%) Linux
3 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.14%) Android
4 2 (0.14%) Unix
5 1 (0.068%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.068%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.068%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.068%) VMS
5 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (14.38%) Roadmaps
2 199 (13.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 192 (13.03%) Agile
4 185 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 171 (11.60%) TOGAF
6 158 (10.72%) Data Modelling
7 151 (10.24%) Mentoring
8 145 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 135 (9.16%) Analytics
10 132 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
11 128 (8.68%) AI
12 127 (8.62%) DevOps
13 122 (8.28%) Data Architecture
14 116 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
15 113 (7.67%) Project Management
16 101 (6.85%) Decision-Making
17 100 (6.78%) Strategic Thinking
18 98 (6.65%) Architectural Design
18 98 (6.65%) Business Strategy
19 95 (6.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (8.41%) Python
2 65 (4.41%) Java
3 55 (3.73%) C#
4 49 (3.32%) SQL
5 27 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 25 (1.70%) TypeScript
7 23 (1.56%) Go
8 16 (1.09%) C++
9 15 (1.02%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.02%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.02%) SOQL
9 15 (1.02%) SOSL
10 12 (0.81%) Bicep
11 4 (0.27%) Bash
11 4 (0.27%) PHP
12 3 (0.20%) ABAP
12 3 (0.20%) R
12 3 (0.20%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.14%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.068%) C
Qualifications
1 234 (15.88%) Security Cleared
2 156 (10.58%) Degree
3 143 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.72%) DV Cleared
5 77 (5.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 65 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (3.53%) AWS Certification
8 45 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 45 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 45 (3.05%) CISSP
9 42 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (2.31%) CISM
11 31 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (1.76%) DBS Check
13 24 (1.63%) Chartered Engineer
14 18 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.22%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.22%) PMP
15 11 (0.75%) CCNP
16 7 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (2.71%) Data Quality
2 36 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 26 (1.76%) GRC
4 23 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 21 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.29%) GDPR
7 16 (1.09%) NIST
8 14 (0.95%) QA
9 12 (0.81%) NCSC
10 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.27%) SEPA
11 4 (0.27%) TARGET2
12 3 (0.20%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.14%) PMO
14 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 25 (1.70%) Docker
2 19 (1.29%) Firmware
3 12 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.97%) Terraform
3 12 (0.81%) Ansible
4 8 (0.54%) Endace
5 7 (0.47%) Netcool
5 7 (0.47%) WMI
6 6 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.34%) vRealize
8 3 (0.20%) CASB
8 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.20%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.14%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.14%) VxRail
10 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.068%) Argo
10 1 (0.068%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.068%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.068%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 208 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 108 (7.33%) SAP
3 43 (2.92%) Google
4 40 (2.71%) Oracle
5 38 (2.58%) ServiceNow
6 37 (2.51%) OpenText
7 35 (2.37%) Databricks
8 30 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.90%) VMware
10 26 (1.76%) Cisco
10 26 (1.76%) Workday
11 25 (1.70%) Adobe
11 25 (1.70%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.42%) Anaplan
13 20 (1.36%) Juniper
13 20 (1.36%) Splunk
14 18 (1.22%) Apple
14 18 (1.22%) Genesys
14 18 (1.22%) Verint
15 16 (1.09%) Palantir