Microsoft .NET Architect
UK

The median Microsoft .NET Architect salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 870 898 1117
Rank change year-on-year +28 +219 -273
Permanent jobs requiring a .NET Architect 44 54 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.055% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.061% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 39 46 104
10th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £70,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £123,000 £105,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £87,500 £90,000 £81,250
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% +16.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

.NET Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured .NET Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing .NET Architect.

Salary trend for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Architect over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for .NET Architect in the UK

.NET Architect
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England +57 36 £87,500 -2.78% 5
London +142 24 £90,000 - 2
Work from Home +44 17 £90,000 - 9
UK excluding London -30 17 £87,500 -2.78% 5
Midlands -1 6 £87,500 - 2
East Midlands -10 6 £87,500 +9.38% 2
North of England +47 4 £80,000 -11.11%
North West +9 4 £80,000 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £70,000 - 2
South West - 2 £98,750 -
Scotland - 2 - -

.NET Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, .NET Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring .NET Architect in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (68.18%) C#
2 30 (68.18%) Azure
3 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
4 19 (43.18%) AWS
5 17 (38.64%) Agile
6 15 (34.09%) Microservices
6 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
7 13 (29.55%) Finance
8 12 (27.27%) .NET Core
9 11 (25.00%) DevOps
10 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
10 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
11 9 (20.45%) ASP.NET
11 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
11 9 (20.45%) GCP
12 8 (18.18%) Banking
12 8 (18.18%) Docker
12 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
13 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
13 7 (15.91%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (13.64%) .NET Framework
14 6 (13.64%) MVC
14 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (13.64%) Azure Certification
14 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
14 6 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (11.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (11.36%) Architectural Patterns

.NET Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (68.18%) Azure
2 19 (43.18%) AWS
3 9 (20.45%) GCP
4 7 (15.91%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.82%) dbt
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.27%) NuGet
7 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.82%) Apache Arrow
2 3 (6.82%) Dremio
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Agriculture
4 3 (6.82%) Front Office
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (27.27%) .NET Core
3 9 (20.45%) ASP.NET
4 6 (13.64%) .NET Framework
4 6 (13.64%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
5 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (11.36%) Entity Framework
5 5 (11.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 4 (9.09%) React
7 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (6.82%) gRPC
7 3 (6.82%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (6.82%) Redux
8 2 (4.55%) RESTful
9 1 (2.27%) Kafka
9 1 (2.27%) Next.js
9 1 (2.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Derivative
3 3 (6.82%) Equities
3 3 (6.82%) Fixed Income
3 3 (6.82%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Agile
2 15 (34.09%) Microservices
3 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.64%) MVC
6 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 5 (11.36%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (11.36%) Asset Management
7 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.36%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (11.36%) Fintech
7 5 (11.36%) High Availability
7 5 (11.36%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (9.09%) Architectural Design
8 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.82%) Presales
9 3 (6.82%) TDD
10 2 (4.55%) ERP
10 2 (4.55%) UML
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) C#
2 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) Java
3 4 (9.09%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Azure Certification
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Certification
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (2.27%) Okta
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle