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 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 36 29 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 4,109 4,543 3,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.55% 7.82% 4.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.85% 8.78% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,210 1,510 1,688
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,493 £64,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,075 £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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 28 May 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 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
North of England +14 1,162 £77,500 -3.13% 139
South East +1 921 £75,000 -10.18% 122
Midlands -4 703 £75,000 - 109
North West +6 621 £75,000 +2.62% 78
South West -8 516 £75,000 +3.45% 73
Yorkshire +25 469 £79,932 -0.09% 42
West Midlands +23 439 £77,500 +3.33% 69
Scotland -45 374 £75,000 -4.76% 24
East Midlands -19 257 £67,500 -6.90% 39
East of England -30 186 £80,000 -3.03% 47
Wales -14 141 £60,000 -4.37% 22
Northern Ireland +10 119 £90,000 +24.14% 14
North East +15 72 £79,842 -6.07% 19
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 28 May 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 1,102 (26.82%) Azure
2 888 (21.61%) Agile
3 872 (21.22%) TOGAF
4 830 (20.20%) AWS
5 805 (19.59%) Social Skills
6 726 (17.67%) Security Cleared
7 700 (17.04%) Roadmaps
8 681 (16.57%) Microsoft
9 656 (15.96%) Actionable Insight
10 613 (14.92%) Finance
11 552 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
12 475 (11.56%) Technical Architecture
12 475 (11.56%) Degree
13 451 (10.98%) SC Cleared
14 422 (10.27%) Mentoring
15 403 (9.81%) DevOps
16 386 (9.39%) Validation
17 377 (9.17%) Requirements Management
17 377 (9.17%) Presales
18 376 (9.15%) Data Architecture
19 372 (9.05%) Network Management
20 365 (8.88%) Network Architecture
21 356 (8.66%) Enterprise Architecture
21 356 (8.66%) Model Validation
22 337 (8.20%) Migration
23 334 (8.13%) VSAT
24 325 (7.91%) Data Modelling
25 324 (7.89%) Analytics
26 320 (7.79%) Public Cloud
27 315 (7.67%) 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 (1.87%) SAS
2 50 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 40 (0.97%) WebLogic
4 17 (0.41%) CMS
5 16 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.15%) Apache
7 6 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.12%) Drupal
9 4 (0.097%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.097%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.073%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.073%) Confluence
10 3 (0.073%) WordPress
11 2 (0.049%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.024%) Appian
12 1 (0.024%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.024%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.44%) Simulink
5 3 (0.073%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.049%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.049%) Revit
6 2 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 85 (2.07%) SAP ERP
2 83 (2.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 35 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 34 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
6 12 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 10 (0.24%) SAP PP
8 8 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.17%) SAP MM
9 7 (0.17%) SAP SD
10 6 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 6 (0.15%) SAP IBP
11 5 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 5 (0.12%) SAP WM
12 4 (0.097%) Oracle Applications
12 4 (0.097%) SAP APO
13 3 (0.073%) Dynamics AX
13 3 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
14 2 (0.049%) SAP SCM
15 1 (0.024%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (26.82%) Azure
2 830 (20.20%) AWS
3 315 (7.67%) GCP
4 271 (6.60%) SaaS
5 227 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
6 226 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 160 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
8 100 (2.43%) PaaS
9 86 (2.09%) IaaS
10 85 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 57 (1.39%) Serverless
14 49 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (1.02%) Snowflake
16 41 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
17 32 (0.78%) Power Automate
18 25 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
19 22 (0.54%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 334 (8.13%) VSAT
2 125 (3.04%) WAN
3 99 (2.41%) Firewall
4 98 (2.39%) SD-WAN
5 82 (2.00%) Broadband
6 80 (1.95%) Network Security
7 79 (1.92%) DNS
8 63 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 56 (1.36%) BGP
10 52 (1.27%) SSL
11 47 (1.14%) VPN
12 38 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
13 32 (0.78%) Wireless
14 29 (0.71%) LAN
15 17 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (0.34%) Internet
16 14 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
16 14 (0.34%) VLAN
17 12 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
17 12 (0.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (2.70%) Power BI
3 109 (2.65%) BigQuery
4 98 (2.39%) Looker
4 98 (2.39%) NoSQL
5 87 (2.12%) Metadata
5 87 (2.12%) Relational Database
6 72 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 64 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 55 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 55 (1.34%) RDBMS
8 55 (1.34%) SQL Server
9 50 (1.22%) Big Data
10 41 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 38 (0.92%) Data Vault
12 30 (0.73%) Tableau
13 22 (0.54%) MongoDB
14 21 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (0.46%) DB2
16 16 (0.39%) GIS
Development Applications
1 47 (1.14%) Visual Studio
2 43 (1.05%) Git
3 27 (0.66%) GitLab
4 21 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
5 20 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.17%) JIRA
7 7 (0.17%) Maven
8 4 (0.097%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.073%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.073%) JUnit
9 3 (0.073%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.073%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.049%) CANoe
10 2 (0.049%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.049%) ERwin
10 2 (0.049%) MLflow
10 2 (0.049%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.024%) MSI
General
1 805 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 613 (14.92%) Finance
3 304 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 192 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 181 (4.40%) Retail
7 164 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
8 137 (3.33%) Marketing
9 114 (2.77%) Law
10 100 (2.43%) Banking
11 85 (2.07%) Legal
12 69 (1.68%) Aerospace
12 69 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 37 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (0.68%) Games
15 28 (0.68%) Telecoms
16 27 (0.66%) Automotive
17 24 (0.58%) Military
18 23 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (4.50%) .NET
2 60 (1.46%) Spring Boot
3 54 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
4 46 (1.12%) Kafka
5 38 (0.92%) REST
6 37 (0.90%) Middleware
6 37 (0.90%) Web Services
7 35 (0.85%) OAuth
8 33 (0.80%) Node.js
9 32 (0.78%) JSON
9 32 (0.78%) React
10 30 (0.73%) .NET Framework
11 29 (0.71%) OpenID
11 29 (0.71%) SAML
12 25 (0.61%) YAML
13 24 (0.58%) RESTful
14 23 (0.56%) AngularJS
15 21 (0.51%) XML
16 20 (0.49%) .NET Core
17 19 (0.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 320 (7.79%) Public Cloud
2 262 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 147 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 134 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 123 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 87 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 86 (2.09%) Product Ownership
8 85 (2.07%) PKI
9 78 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 62 (1.51%) IoT
11 42 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 39 (0.95%) Security Posture
13 37 (0.90%) PMI
14 32 (0.78%) Mobile App
14 32 (0.78%) Private Cloud
15 30 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 28 (0.68%) Credit Risk
17 22 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
18 21 (0.51%) NHS
19 20 (0.49%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 188 (4.58%) Linux
2 82 (2.00%) Windows
3 41 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (0.68%) Unix
5 22 (0.54%) Android
6 18 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.22%) Solaris
9 8 (0.19%) VME
10 6 (0.15%) Mesosphere
11 5 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.049%) CentOS
13 1 (0.024%) HPUX
13 1 (0.024%) VMS
13 1 (0.024%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (21.61%) Agile
2 872 (21.22%) TOGAF
3 700 (17.04%) Roadmaps
4 656 (15.96%) Actionable Insight
5 552 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
6 475 (11.56%) Technical Architecture
7 422 (10.27%) Mentoring
8 403 (9.81%) DevOps
9 386 (9.39%) Validation
10 377 (9.17%) Presales
10 377 (9.17%) Requirements Management
11 376 (9.15%) Data Architecture
12 372 (9.05%) Network Management
13 365 (8.88%) Network Architecture
14 356 (8.66%) Enterprise Architecture
14 356 (8.66%) Model Validation
15 337 (8.20%) Migration
16 325 (7.91%) Data Modelling
17 324 (7.89%) Analytics
18 293 (7.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 196 (4.77%) SQL
2 181 (4.40%) Python
3 148 (3.60%) Java
4 147 (3.58%) C#
5 102 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 56 (1.36%) C++
7 54 (1.31%) C
8 44 (1.07%) PowerShell
9 40 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 23 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 20 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 16 (0.39%) Fortran
13 12 (0.29%) Ruby
14 11 (0.27%) R
14 11 (0.27%) Scala
15 10 (0.24%) Go
16 8 (0.19%) COBOL
16 8 (0.19%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.19%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 7 (0.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 726 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 475 (11.56%) Degree
3 451 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 151 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 126 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
6 121 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 120 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 111 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 99 (2.41%) CISSP
10 88 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 78 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 73 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 65 (1.58%) CISM
14 63 (1.53%) CCNP
15 55 (1.34%) CCNA
16 48 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 47 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
18 44 (1.07%) CCSP
19 40 (0.97%) PMI Certification
20 37 (0.90%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 150 (3.65%) GDPR
3 77 (1.87%) NIST
4 53 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (1.00%) QA
6 32 (0.78%) COBIT
7 23 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 22 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.49%) SLA
11 19 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.17%) ISO 13485
12 7 (0.17%) ISO 26262
13 5 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.097%) GRC
14 4 (0.097%) NCSC
15 3 (0.073%) HMG Infosec
15 3 (0.073%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.073%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.073%) RMADS
System Software
1 99 (2.41%) Docker
2 35 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 28 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 20 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
6 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.24%) vSphere
7 9 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.19%) Firmware
9 3 (0.073%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.049%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.049%) KVM
10 2 (0.049%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.049%) Xen
11 1 (0.024%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 165 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 89 (2.17%) Terraform
3 38 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 29 (0.71%) OpenView
5 28 (0.68%) Ansible
6 27 (0.66%) Stealthwatch
7 25 (0.61%) Puppet
8 15 (0.37%) CASB
9 13 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.22%) Grafana
10 9 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.15%) Endace
11 6 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.12%) SCOM
12 5 (0.12%) Suricata
12 5 (0.12%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.073%) MOM
13 3 (0.073%) SCCM
Vendors
1 681 (16.57%) Microsoft
2 268 (6.52%) Google
3 181 (4.40%) Oracle
4 164 (3.99%) SAP
5 122 (2.97%) Cisco
6 83 (2.02%) Sparx
7 75 (1.83%) Anaplan
7 75 (1.83%) Hyperion
8 67 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.36%) Apple
10 50 (1.22%) Juniper
11 49 (1.19%) Adobe
11 49 (1.19%) Databricks
12 48 (1.17%) Meraki
13 47 (1.14%) VMware
14 38 (0.92%) Salesforce
15 31 (0.75%) HP
16 29 (0.71%) BMC
16 29 (0.71%) Remedy
17 28 (0.68%) IBM