Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 26 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,421 8,356 8,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.48% 8.33% 5.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% 9.10% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 3,909 4,511
10th Percentile £56,809 £60,950 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £71,500 £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 £111,625 £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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 14 May 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 14 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 -2 5,290 £80,000 -5.88% 994
UK excluding London -6 3,882 £75,000 -3.23% 578
Work from Home +3 2,480 £80,000 -5.88% 547
London +4 1,941 £90,000 -2.35% 435
North of England +22 1,097 £78,126 +0.81% 144
South East +2 872 £75,000 -11.76% 145
Midlands +4 642 £75,000 - 92
North West +9 585 £75,000 +2.62% 83
South West -8 508 £75,000 +3.45% 79
Yorkshire +30 451 £79,842 -0.20% 44
West Midlands +24 404 £77,500 +3.33% 45
Scotland -46 368 £75,200 -3.90% 35
East Midlands -16 231 £65,000 -10.34% 45
East of England -31 177 £82,500 -2.94% 56
Wales -18 126 £64,412 +2.66% 24
Northern Ireland +8 101 £95,000 +31.03% 19
North East +11 61 £79,842 -6.07% 17
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 -
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,858 (28.94%) Azure
2 1,569 (24.44%) Agile
3 1,562 (24.33%) Social Skills
4 1,405 (21.88%) Finance
5 1,367 (21.29%) Roadmaps
6 1,341 (20.88%) TOGAF
7 1,274 (19.84%) AWS
8 1,139 (17.74%) Microsoft
9 1,023 (15.93%) Security Cleared
10 829 (12.91%) Actionable Insight
11 794 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
12 769 (11.98%) Degree
13 754 (11.74%) Enterprise Architecture
14 663 (10.33%) SC Cleared
15 658 (10.25%) Mentoring
16 637 (9.92%) Technical Architecture
17 624 (9.72%) DevOps
18 589 (9.17%) GCP
19 578 (9.00%) Data Architecture
20 573 (8.92%) Presales
21 560 (8.72%) Data Modelling
21 560 (8.72%) Oracle
22 557 (8.67%) Strategic Roadmap
23 548 (8.53%) SAP
24 543 (8.46%) Migration
25 509 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
26 496 (7.72%) Data Management
27 487 (7.58%) ERP
28 479 (7.46%) Validation
29 477 (7.43%) Analytics

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
1 301 (4.69%) SAS
2 103 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 62 (0.97%) Apache
5 57 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.83%) WebLogic
7 51 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 23 (0.36%) CMS
9 15 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.22%) IIS
11 10 (0.16%) Drupal
12 7 (0.11%) Confluence
12 7 (0.11%) JBoss
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.11%) WildFly
13 6 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.078%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.062%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 24 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.047%) Revit
7 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 317 (4.94%) SAP ERP
2 133 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 107 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 91 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 39 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.48%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.30%) SAP BPC
8 17 (0.26%) Endur
8 17 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 16 (0.25%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 13 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
12 12 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 11 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
13 11 (0.17%) SAP PP
14 9 (0.14%) SAP SD
14 9 (0.14%) SAP WM
15 8 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 7 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
16 7 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1,858 (28.94%) Azure
2 1,274 (19.84%) AWS
3 589 (9.17%) GCP
4 419 (6.53%) SaaS
5 356 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
6 341 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 295 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
8 242 (3.77%) PaaS
9 217 (3.38%) IaaS
10 146 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 109 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
12 107 (1.67%) Snowflake
13 105 (1.64%) PowerApps
14 95 (1.48%) Serverless
15 85 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 64 (1.00%) dbt
17 55 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
17 55 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
18 49 (0.76%) Entra ID
19 47 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 404 (6.29%) VSAT
2 306 (4.77%) Broadband
3 201 (3.13%) Firewall
4 178 (2.77%) WAN
5 116 (1.81%) SD-WAN
6 112 (1.74%) DNS
7 108 (1.68%) Network Security
8 107 (1.67%) VPN
9 89 (1.39%) LAN
10 73 (1.14%) TCP/IP
11 71 (1.11%) BGP
12 69 (1.07%) SSL
13 57 (0.89%) Wireless
14 41 (0.64%) Internet
15 32 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
16 30 (0.47%) MPLS
17 29 (0.45%) DHCP
18 27 (0.42%) VLAN
19 23 (0.36%) SAN
20 21 (0.33%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
2 219 (3.41%) Data Lake
3 178 (2.77%) Metadata
4 153 (2.38%) Power BI
5 149 (2.32%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 133 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 132 (2.06%) BigQuery
9 114 (1.78%) Looker
10 101 (1.57%) Big Data
11 82 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 71 (1.11%) Apache Ignite
13 68 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
14 54 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
14 54 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 51 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
15 51 (0.79%) Dremio
16 46 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
17 45 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
18 41 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (1.11%) Git
2 70 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 52 (0.81%) Visual Studio
4 35 (0.55%) GitLab
5 26 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.26%) JIRA
8 14 (0.22%) Maven
9 10 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
11 6 (0.093%) JUnit
12 5 (0.078%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.078%) MLflow
12 5 (0.078%) Subversion
12 5 (0.078%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.062%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.062%) ERwin
13 4 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.062%) Selenium
13 4 (0.062%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,562 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 1,405 (21.88%) Finance
3 509 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
4 448 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 366 (5.70%) Banking
6 344 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 277 (4.31%) Retail
8 249 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 197 (3.07%) Marketing
10 158 (2.46%) Law
11 113 (1.76%) Legal
12 104 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 100 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 90 (1.40%) Retail Banking
15 75 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 63 (0.98%) Investment Banking
17 59 (0.92%) Games
18 57 (0.89%) Front Office
19 49 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
20 45 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (4.73%) .NET
2 102 (1.59%) Kafka
3 87 (1.35%) Spring Boot
3 87 (1.35%) Web Services
4 86 (1.34%) Middleware
5 73 (1.14%) HTML
6 66 (1.03%) REST
7 58 (0.90%) React
8 57 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
9 55 (0.86%) JSON
10 53 (0.83%) XML
11 52 (0.81%) gRPC
11 52 (0.81%) Protocol Buffers
12 51 (0.79%) CSS
13 49 (0.76%) NumPy
13 49 (0.76%) Pandas
14 48 (0.75%) SciPy
15 47 (0.73%) OpenID
16 45 (0.70%) .NET Framework
17 44 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 438 (6.82%) Public Cloud
2 345 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 257 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 219 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 167 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 138 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 138 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 130 (2.02%) PKI
8 98 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 80 (1.25%) IoT
10 73 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 64 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 63 (0.98%) PMI
13 59 (0.92%) Security Posture
14 53 (0.83%) Equities
15 52 (0.81%) Derivative
16 51 (0.79%) Fixed Income
16 51 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 51 (0.79%) Hedge funds
17 50 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 316 (4.92%) Linux
2 160 (2.49%) Windows
3 58 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (0.81%) Unix
5 43 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 39 (0.61%) Android
7 38 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 28 (0.44%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.36%) VMS
10 12 (0.19%) SUSE
10 12 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.16%) Solaris
12 8 (0.12%) VME
13 6 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.093%) Mesosphere
14 5 (0.078%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.047%) CentOS
16 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 1 (0.016%) HPUX
17 1 (0.016%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,569 (24.44%) Agile
2 1,367 (21.29%) Roadmaps
3 1,341 (20.88%) TOGAF
4 829 (12.91%) Actionable Insight
5 794 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
6 754 (11.74%) Enterprise Architecture
7 658 (10.25%) Mentoring
8 637 (9.92%) Technical Architecture
9 624 (9.72%) DevOps
10 578 (9.00%) Data Architecture
11 573 (8.92%) Presales
12 560 (8.72%) Data Modelling
13 557 (8.67%) Strategic Roadmap
14 543 (8.46%) Migration
15 496 (7.72%) Data Management
16 487 (7.58%) ERP
17 479 (7.46%) Validation
18 477 (7.43%) Analytics
19 474 (7.38%) Microservices
20 462 (7.20%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 345 (5.37%) SQL
2 338 (5.26%) Python
3 327 (5.09%) Java
4 276 (4.30%) C#
5 239 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 95 (1.48%) PowerShell
7 85 (1.32%) C
8 67 (1.04%) C++
9 62 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 30 (0.47%) Scala
12 23 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.36%) R
13 20 (0.31%) Bicep
14 19 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 17 (0.26%) Bash
16 16 (0.25%) Go
16 16 (0.25%) Ruby
16 16 (0.25%) VB
17 13 (0.20%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,023 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 769 (11.98%) Degree
3 663 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 277 (4.31%) Azure Certification
5 216 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 210 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 193 (3.01%) CISSP
8 176 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 172 (2.68%) DV Cleared
10 167 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
11 126 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 115 (1.79%) CISM
13 111 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 101 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
15 98 (1.53%) Master's Degree
16 77 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 69 (1.07%) PMI Certification
18 68 (1.06%) CCSP
19 67 (1.04%) CCNP
20 58 (0.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 175 (2.73%) GDPR
3 126 (1.96%) QA
4 111 (1.73%) NIST
5 93 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.73%) COBIT
7 36 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 30 (0.47%) SLA
10 21 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 11 (0.17%) PMO
12 9 (0.14%) NCSC
13 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
13 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.093%) GRC
14 6 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.093%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 185 (2.88%) Docker
2 125 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.53%) vSphere
6 26 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.19%) KVM
10 12 (0.19%) vCloud
11 10 (0.16%) Firmware
12 5 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.047%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.047%) Xen
14 2 (0.031%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.031%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.016%) HDFS
15 1 (0.016%) LXC
15 1 (0.016%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 274 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 204 (3.18%) Terraform
3 91 (1.42%) Ansible
4 46 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 45 (0.70%) Puppet
6 32 (0.50%) OpenView
7 23 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 21 (0.33%) Stealthwatch
9 16 (0.25%) CASB
10 15 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.16%) Grafana
11 10 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.12%) Kiali
13 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.093%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.093%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.093%) Endace
14 6 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.093%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,139 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 560 (8.72%) Oracle
3 548 (8.53%) SAP
4 387 (6.03%) Google
5 300 (4.67%) Anaplan
5 300 (4.67%) Hyperion
6 155 (2.41%) Cisco
7 150 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 131 (2.04%) Databricks
9 126 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 110 (1.71%) Sparx
11 98 (1.53%) VMware
12 82 (1.28%) Juniper
13 65 (1.01%) IBM
14 63 (0.98%) Citrix
15 52 (0.81%) Apple
15 52 (0.81%) HP
16 50 (0.78%) Adobe
17 43 (0.67%) Meraki
18 41 (0.64%) BMC