Architect Jobs

Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 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 28 22 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 +49 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,869 8,326 8,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.53% 8.78% 5.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 9.62% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 3,712 4,496
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +4.90%

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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK 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
England 0 5,661 £80,000 -5.88% 1,031
UK excluding London -9 4,284 £75,000 -3.23% 585
Work from Home 0 2,596 £80,000 -5.88% 505
London +5 1,985 £90,000 -2.70% 437
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,986 (28.91%) Azure
2 1,683 (24.50%) Agile
3 1,603 (23.34%) Social Skills
4 1,444 (21.02%) Finance
5 1,385 (20.16%) AWS
6 1,339 (19.49%) TOGAF
7 1,336 (19.45%) Roadmaps
8 1,196 (17.41%) Microsoft
9 1,021 (14.86%) Security Cleared
10 877 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
11 789 (11.49%) Degree
12 771 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
13 759 (11.05%) Enterprise Architecture
14 720 (10.48%) DevOps
15 710 (10.34%) Mentoring
16 677 (9.86%) SC Cleared
17 630 (9.17%) Technical Architecture
18 622 (9.06%) Presales
19 598 (8.71%) GCP
20 595 (8.66%) Data Architecture
21 591 (8.60%) Migration
22 568 (8.27%) Data Modelling
23 553 (8.05%) Oracle
24 537 (7.82%) SAP
25 529 (7.70%) Strategic Roadmap
26 518 (7.54%) Data Management
27 516 (7.51%) Analytics
28 514 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
29 499 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
30 480 (6.99%) ERP

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
1 302 (4.40%) SAS
2 113 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.02%) Apache
5 57 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.77%) WebLogic
7 48 (0.70%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.33%) CMS
9 15 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.17%) IIS
11 10 (0.15%) Drupal
12 8 (0.12%) Confluence
12 8 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.10%) JBoss
13 7 (0.10%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.10%) WildFly
14 6 (0.087%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.073%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.058%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 54 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.25%) Simulink
5 14 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.058%) Revit
7 2 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 314 (4.57%) SAP ERP
2 116 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 103 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 91 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 37 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.45%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.28%) SAP BPC
8 17 (0.25%) Endur
9 16 (0.23%) SAP FI
10 15 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 14 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
11 14 (0.20%) SAP CO
12 12 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 11 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.16%) SAP PP
14 9 (0.13%) SAP SD
15 8 (0.12%) SAP WM
16 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
16 7 (0.10%) SAP IBP
17 6 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1,986 (28.91%) Azure
2 1,385 (20.16%) AWS
3 598 (8.71%) GCP
4 426 (6.20%) SaaS
5 384 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 345 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
7 333 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
8 213 (3.10%) PaaS
9 187 (2.72%) IaaS
10 144 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 116 (1.69%) Snowflake
12 113 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 112 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
14 102 (1.48%) Serverless
15 90 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 79 (1.15%) dbt
17 56 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
18 53 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
19 50 (0.73%) Entra ID
20 47 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 380 (5.53%) VSAT
2 311 (4.53%) Broadband
3 208 (3.03%) Firewall
4 192 (2.80%) WAN
5 128 (1.86%) SD-WAN
6 113 (1.65%) DNS
6 113 (1.65%) Network Security
7 102 (1.48%) VPN
8 91 (1.32%) LAN
9 71 (1.03%) BGP
10 70 (1.02%) TCP/IP
11 68 (0.99%) SSL
12 59 (0.86%) Wireless
13 43 (0.63%) Internet
14 41 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
15 31 (0.45%) MPLS
16 26 (0.38%) DHCP
17 24 (0.35%) VLAN
18 22 (0.32%) SAN
18 22 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 378 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
2 208 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 187 (2.72%) Power BI
4 174 (2.53%) Metadata
5 154 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 134 (1.95%) BigQuery
8 129 (1.88%) SQL Server
9 116 (1.69%) Looker
10 100 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
11 92 (1.34%) Big Data
12 85 (1.24%) RDBMS
13 73 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
13 73 (1.06%) Apache Ignite
14 65 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
15 59 (0.86%) Apache Arrow
15 59 (0.86%) Dremio
16 55 (0.80%) Oracle Database
17 50 (0.73%) Data Vault
18 45 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 73 (1.06%) Git
2 71 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 56 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 40 (0.58%) GitLab
5 27 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 19 (0.28%) JIRA
7 18 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
8 14 (0.20%) Maven
9 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.087%) JUnit
12 5 (0.073%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.073%) MLflow
12 5 (0.073%) Subversion
12 5 (0.073%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.058%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.058%) ERwin
13 4 (0.058%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.058%) Selenium
13 4 (0.058%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,603 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 1,444 (21.02%) Finance
3 514 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 499 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 349 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 347 (5.05%) Banking
7 312 (4.54%) Retail
8 264 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
9 226 (3.29%) Marketing
10 162 (2.36%) Law
11 110 (1.60%) Legal
12 103 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 100 (1.46%) Retail Banking
14 92 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
15 76 (1.11%) Aerospace
16 70 (1.02%) Investment Banking
17 66 (0.96%) Front Office
18 52 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
18 52 (0.76%) Games
19 46 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (4.41%) .NET
2 100 (1.46%) Kafka
3 91 (1.32%) Middleware
4 83 (1.21%) Web Services
5 79 (1.15%) Spring Boot
6 70 (1.02%) React
7 67 (0.98%) REST
8 63 (0.92%) HTML
9 62 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
10 60 (0.87%) gRPC
10 60 (0.87%) Protocol Buffers
11 57 (0.83%) Node.js
11 57 (0.83%) NumPy
11 57 (0.83%) Pandas
12 56 (0.82%) SciPy
13 53 (0.77%) XML
14 49 (0.71%) CSS
14 49 (0.71%) JSON
15 46 (0.67%) AngularJS
16 45 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 430 (6.26%) Public Cloud
2 347 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 261 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 227 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 166 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 152 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 140 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 137 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 126 (1.83%) PKI
10 87 (1.27%) IoT
11 75 (1.09%) Cyberattack
12 72 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 64 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 64 (0.93%) PMI
14 61 (0.89%) Equities
15 60 (0.87%) Derivative
15 60 (0.87%) Security Posture
16 59 (0.86%) Fixed Income
16 59 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 59 (0.86%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 327 (4.76%) Linux
2 157 (2.29%) Windows
3 58 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (0.68%) Android
5 45 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 40 (0.58%) Unix
7 34 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 30 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.33%) VMS
10 14 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.16%) Solaris
12 9 (0.13%) SUSE
12 9 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.12%) VME
14 6 (0.087%) Mesosphere
15 5 (0.073%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.058%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.044%) CentOS
18 2 (0.029%) AIX
19 1 (0.015%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,683 (24.50%) Agile
2 1,339 (19.49%) TOGAF
3 1,336 (19.45%) Roadmaps
4 877 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
5 771 (11.22%) Actionable Insight
6 759 (11.05%) Enterprise Architecture
7 720 (10.48%) DevOps
8 710 (10.34%) Mentoring
9 630 (9.17%) Technical Architecture
10 622 (9.06%) Presales
11 595 (8.66%) Data Architecture
12 591 (8.60%) Migration
13 568 (8.27%) Data Modelling
14 529 (7.70%) Strategic Roadmap
15 518 (7.54%) Data Management
16 516 (7.51%) Analytics
17 480 (6.99%) ERP
18 450 (6.55%) Validation
19 447 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
20 443 (6.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 363 (5.28%) Python
2 354 (5.15%) SQL
3 335 (4.88%) Java
4 269 (3.92%) C#
5 242 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 91 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 90 (1.31%) C
8 74 (1.08%) C++
9 70 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 32 (0.47%) Scala
12 23 (0.33%) Kotlin
12 23 (0.33%) R
13 22 (0.32%) MATLAB
14 20 (0.29%) Bicep
15 17 (0.25%) Bash
15 17 (0.25%) Fortran
16 16 (0.23%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.23%) Ruby
16 16 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,021 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 789 (11.49%) Degree
3 677 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 287 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 229 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 216 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 192 (2.80%) CISSP
8 184 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 180 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
10 165 (2.40%) DV Cleared
11 127 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 113 (1.65%) CISM
13 111 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 99 (1.44%) Master's Degree
15 96 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 79 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 78 (1.14%) CCNP
18 70 (1.02%) CCSP
18 70 (1.02%) PMI Certification
19 67 (0.98%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 178 (2.59%) GDPR
3 112 (1.63%) NIST
4 111 (1.62%) QA
5 90 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (0.67%) COBIT
7 36 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 35 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 33 (0.48%) SLA
10 20 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 14 (0.20%) PMO
12 9 (0.13%) NCSC
13 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.087%) GRC
15 6 (0.087%) IASME
15 6 (0.087%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 189 (2.75%) Docker
2 128 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.41%) vSphere
6 27 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 17 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.19%) KVM
11 9 (0.13%) vCloud
12 8 (0.12%) Firmware
13 4 (0.058%) Xen
14 3 (0.044%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.044%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.029%) HDFS
15 2 (0.029%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.029%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.015%) LXC
Systems Management
1 270 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 204 (2.97%) Terraform
3 94 (1.37%) Ansible
4 47 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
5 45 (0.66%) Puppet
6 32 (0.47%) OpenView
7 30 (0.44%) Stealthwatch
8 26 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.25%) CASB
11 10 (0.15%) Grafana
11 10 (0.15%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.12%) Kiali
12 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.087%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.087%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.087%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.087%) Endace
13 6 (0.087%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.087%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,196 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 553 (8.05%) Oracle
3 537 (7.82%) SAP
4 391 (5.69%) Google
5 302 (4.40%) Anaplan
6 299 (4.35%) Hyperion
7 168 (2.45%) Cisco
8 149 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 132 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 122 (1.78%) Databricks
11 106 (1.54%) Sparx
12 87 (1.27%) VMware
13 85 (1.24%) Juniper
14 67 (0.98%) IBM
15 61 (0.89%) Apple
16 59 (0.86%) Adobe
17 55 (0.80%) Citrix
18 52 (0.76%) Meraki
19 48 (0.70%) HP
20 39 (0.57%) BMC