Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 27 61
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 4,284 4,519 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.62% 7.99% 4.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.92% 8.99% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,308 1,488 1,699
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,962 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,400 £97,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK excluding London

Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Architect 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 June 2024.

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 June 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
North of England +12 1,250 £78,126 -2.34% 156
South East 0 940 £75,000 -9.09% 134
Midlands -4 722 £75,000 - 121
North West +3 680 £75,000 - 96
South West -8 528 £75,000 +3.45% 79
Yorkshire +22 486 £80,000 - 44
West Midlands +23 448 £76,750 +2.33% 84
Scotland -44 385 £75,000 -4.76% 26
East Midlands -21 267 £67,500 -6.90% 37
East of England -30 192 £85,000 +3.03% 44
Wales -12 152 £60,000 -5.88% 24
Northern Ireland +5 127 £80,000 +10.34% 10
North East +15 84 £79,842 -6.07% 16
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,126 (26.28%) Azure
2 956 (22.32%) Agile
3 860 (20.07%) AWS
4 856 (19.98%) TOGAF
5 819 (19.12%) Social Skills
6 736 (17.18%) Security Cleared
7 708 (16.53%) Roadmaps
8 704 (16.43%) Microsoft
9 642 (14.99%) Actionable Insight
10 626 (14.61%) Finance
11 604 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
12 489 (11.41%) Degree
13 483 (11.27%) Technical Architecture
14 469 (10.95%) Mentoring
15 465 (10.85%) SC Cleared
16 430 (10.04%) DevOps
17 398 (9.29%) Presales
18 380 (8.87%) Data Architecture
19 375 (8.75%) Validation
20 365 (8.52%) Requirements Management
21 361 (8.43%) Network Management
22 358 (8.36%) Enterprise Architecture
23 353 (8.24%) Network Architecture
24 349 (8.15%) Migration
25 345 (8.05%) Model Validation
26 329 (7.68%) Analytics
27 324 (7.56%) VSAT
28 323 (7.54%) Data Modelling
29 320 (7.47%) Public Cloud
30 317 (7.40%) GCP

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 77 (1.80%) SAS
2 61 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.93%) WebLogic
4 19 (0.44%) CMS
5 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.14%) Apache
7 6 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.12%) Drupal
9 4 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.093%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.070%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.070%) Confluence
10 3 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.070%) WordPress
11 2 (0.047%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.023%) Appian
12 1 (0.023%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.023%) Umbraco
Applications
1 45 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.40%) Simulink
5 3 (0.070%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.047%) Revit
6 2 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 84 (1.96%) SAP ERP
2 82 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 34 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.23%) SAP PP
8 8 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 7 (0.16%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.14%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.12%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.093%) SAP APO
13 3 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
14 2 (0.047%) SAP SCM
15 1 (0.023%) NetSuite
15 1 (0.023%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,126 (26.28%) Azure
2 860 (20.07%) AWS
3 317 (7.40%) GCP
4 275 (6.42%) SaaS
5 232 (5.42%) Power Platform
6 226 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
7 176 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
8 98 (2.29%) PaaS
9 88 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (1.96%) IaaS
11 73 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 60 (1.40%) Serverless
13 59 (1.38%) PowerApps
14 50 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (0.98%) Snowflake
16 41 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (0.75%) Power Automate
18 27 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 24 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 324 (7.56%) VSAT
2 128 (2.99%) WAN
3 101 (2.36%) SD-WAN
4 100 (2.33%) Firewall
5 82 (1.91%) Broadband
6 80 (1.87%) DNS
7 79 (1.84%) Network Security
8 64 (1.49%) TCP/IP
9 56 (1.31%) BGP
10 52 (1.21%) SSL
11 48 (1.12%) VPN
12 41 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
13 32 (0.75%) Wireless
14 29 (0.68%) LAN
15 17 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (0.33%) Internet
16 14 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
16 14 (0.33%) VLAN
17 12 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (0.28%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 243 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
2 112 (2.61%) Power BI
3 109 (2.54%) BigQuery
4 100 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 98 (2.29%) Looker
6 88 (2.05%) Relational Database
7 87 (2.03%) Metadata
8 79 (1.84%) Geospatial Data
9 71 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 60 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
11 55 (1.28%) RDBMS
11 55 (1.28%) SQL Server
12 47 (1.10%) Big Data
13 41 (0.96%) Oracle Database
14 38 (0.89%) Data Vault
15 30 (0.70%) Tableau
16 26 (0.61%) MongoDB
17 25 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (0.44%) DB2
19 17 (0.40%) GIS
Development Applications
1 48 (1.12%) Visual Studio
2 44 (1.03%) Git
3 28 (0.65%) GitLab
4 21 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
5 20 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.21%) JIRA
8 7 (0.16%) Maven
9 4 (0.093%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.070%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.070%) JUnit
10 3 (0.070%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.070%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.047%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.047%) ERwin
11 2 (0.047%) MLflow
12 1 (0.023%) MSI
General
1 819 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 626 (14.61%) Finance
3 309 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 198 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 181 (4.23%) Retail
7 163 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 141 (3.29%) Marketing
9 115 (2.68%) Law
10 96 (2.24%) Banking
11 87 (2.03%) Legal
12 69 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 69 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 37 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (0.65%) Games
15 28 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 24 (0.56%) Automotive
16 24 (0.56%) Military
17 23 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (4.41%) .NET
2 57 (1.33%) Spring Boot
3 55 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
4 48 (1.12%) Kafka
5 47 (1.10%) Node.js
6 44 (1.03%) React
7 39 (0.91%) REST
8 37 (0.86%) Middleware
8 37 (0.86%) Web Services
9 36 (0.84%) OAuth
10 34 (0.79%) JSON
11 30 (0.70%) .NET Framework
11 30 (0.70%) SAML
12 29 (0.68%) OpenID
13 26 (0.61%) YAML
14 25 (0.58%) RESTful
15 24 (0.56%) AngularJS
16 22 (0.51%) Django
16 22 (0.51%) XML
17 20 (0.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 320 (7.47%) Public Cloud
2 257 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 149 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 140 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 123 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 92 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 88 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 85 (1.98%) PKI
10 63 (1.47%) IoT
11 44 (1.03%) Cyberattack
12 41 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
13 38 (0.89%) PMI
13 38 (0.89%) Security Posture
14 32 (0.75%) Private Cloud
15 31 (0.72%) Mobile App
16 30 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 28 (0.65%) Credit Risk
18 25 (0.58%) Operational Technology
19 22 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 195 (4.55%) Linux
2 82 (1.91%) Windows
3 41 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (0.63%) Android
4 27 (0.63%) Unix
5 18 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
6 14 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.21%) Solaris
9 8 (0.19%) VME
10 6 (0.14%) Mesosphere
11 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.047%) CentOS
14 1 (0.023%) HPUX
14 1 (0.023%) VMS
14 1 (0.023%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (22.32%) Agile
2 856 (19.98%) TOGAF
3 708 (16.53%) Roadmaps
4 642 (14.99%) Actionable Insight
5 604 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
6 483 (11.27%) Technical Architecture
7 469 (10.95%) Mentoring
8 430 (10.04%) DevOps
9 398 (9.29%) Presales
10 380 (8.87%) Data Architecture
11 375 (8.75%) Validation
12 365 (8.52%) Requirements Management
13 361 (8.43%) Network Management
14 358 (8.36%) Enterprise Architecture
15 353 (8.24%) Network Architecture
16 349 (8.15%) Migration
17 345 (8.05%) Model Validation
18 329 (7.68%) Analytics
19 323 (7.54%) Data Modelling
20 294 (6.86%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 200 (4.67%) SQL
2 189 (4.41%) Python
3 150 (3.50%) C#
4 149 (3.48%) Java
5 102 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 59 (1.38%) C++
7 57 (1.33%) C
8 45 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 40 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 22 (0.51%) MATLAB
11 20 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 17 (0.40%) Fortran
13 12 (0.28%) Ruby
14 11 (0.26%) R
14 11 (0.26%) Scala
15 10 (0.23%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.23%) Go
16 8 (0.19%) COBOL
16 8 (0.19%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 7 (0.16%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 736 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 489 (11.41%) Degree
3 465 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 151 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 128 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 122 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 119 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
8 116 (2.71%) DV Cleared
9 97 (2.26%) CISSP
10 92 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 79 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 73 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 66 (1.54%) CCNP
14 64 (1.49%) CISM
15 58 (1.35%) CCNA
16 52 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
17 47 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 43 (1.00%) CCSP
19 41 (0.96%) PMI Certification
20 36 (0.84%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.50%) GDPR
3 75 (1.75%) NIST
4 52 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (0.98%) QA
6 32 (0.75%) COBIT
7 23 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 22 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 22 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 20 (0.47%) SLA
10 18 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.16%) ISO 13485
12 4 (0.093%) GRC
12 4 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.070%) HMG Infosec
13 3 (0.070%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.070%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.070%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.070%) PMO
13 3 (0.070%) RMADS
System Software
1 99 (2.31%) Docker
2 34 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 28 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.23%) vSphere
8 8 (0.19%) Firmware
8 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.047%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.047%) KVM
10 2 (0.047%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.047%) Xen
11 1 (0.023%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 164 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 94 (2.19%) Terraform
3 39 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 30 (0.70%) Stealthwatch
5 29 (0.68%) OpenView
6 28 (0.65%) Ansible
7 25 (0.58%) Puppet
8 15 (0.35%) CASB
9 14 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.21%) Grafana
11 9 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.14%) Endace
12 6 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.12%) SCOM
13 5 (0.12%) Suricata
13 5 (0.12%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.070%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.070%) SCCM
Vendors
1 704 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 271 (6.33%) Google
3 182 (4.25%) Oracle
4 164 (3.83%) SAP
5 126 (2.94%) Cisco
6 82 (1.91%) Sparx
7 75 (1.75%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.75%) Hyperion
8 67 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 59 (1.38%) Apple
10 52 (1.21%) Adobe
11 51 (1.19%) Juniper
11 51 (1.19%) Meraki
12 48 (1.12%) Databricks
13 46 (1.07%) VMware
14 41 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 31 (0.72%) HP
16 29 (0.68%) BMC
16 29 (0.68%) Remedy
17 28 (0.65%) IBM