Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 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 29 25 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 +45 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,667 8,403 8,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.50% 8.63% 5.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% 9.44% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,658 3,747 4,480
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% +6.38%

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%

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 28 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 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 -1 5,484 £80,000 -5.88% 998
UK excluding London -7 4,109 £75,000 -3.23% 548
Work from Home +3 2,565 £80,000 -5.88% 474
London +4 1,955 £90,000 -2.70% 438
North of England +14 1,162 £77,500 -3.13% 141
South East +1 921 £75,000 -10.18% 125
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% 44
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 Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,954 (29.31%) Azure
2 1,614 (24.21%) Agile
3 1,590 (23.85%) Social Skills
4 1,425 (21.37%) Finance
5 1,357 (20.35%) TOGAF
6 1,351 (20.26%) AWS
7 1,324 (19.86%) Roadmaps
8 1,174 (17.61%) Microsoft
9 1,007 (15.10%) Security Cleared
10 820 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
11 788 (11.82%) Actionable Insight
12 778 (11.67%) Degree
13 755 (11.32%) Enterprise Architecture
14 690 (10.35%) DevOps
15 663 (9.94%) Mentoring
16 659 (9.88%) SC Cleared
17 624 (9.36%) Technical Architecture
18 601 (9.01%) Presales
19 593 (8.89%) GCP
20 587 (8.80%) Data Architecture
21 578 (8.67%) Migration
22 572 (8.58%) Data Modelling
23 556 (8.34%) Oracle
24 552 (8.28%) SAP
25 527 (7.90%) Strategic Roadmap
26 517 (7.75%) Data Management
27 509 (7.63%) Analytics
28 507 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
29 483 (7.24%) ERP
30 463 (6.94%) Validation

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 (4.53%) SAS
2 101 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.05%) Apache
5 58 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 53 (0.79%) WebLogic
7 49 (0.73%) Apache Spark
8 22 (0.33%) CMS
9 15 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 13 (0.19%) 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 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.075%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.060%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 53 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.27%) Simulink
5 14 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.060%) Revit
7 2 (0.030%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.030%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 315 (4.72%) SAP ERP
2 132 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 104 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 94 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 37 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.46%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.28%) SAP BPC
8 18 (0.27%) SAP CO
8 18 (0.27%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.25%) Endur
10 15 (0.22%) SAP MM
11 14 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
12 12 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
12 12 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 11 (0.16%) SAP PP
14 9 (0.13%) SAP SD
14 9 (0.13%) SAP WM
15 8 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
16 7 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
16 7 (0.10%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,954 (29.31%) Azure
2 1,351 (20.26%) AWS
3 593 (8.89%) GCP
4 424 (6.36%) SaaS
5 379 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 348 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
7 315 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
8 219 (3.28%) PaaS
9 193 (2.89%) IaaS
10 141 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (1.72%) Snowflake
12 113 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 112 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
14 96 (1.44%) Serverless
15 91 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 73 (1.09%) dbt
17 55 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
18 50 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (0.73%) Entra ID
20 47 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 392 (5.88%) VSAT
2 311 (4.66%) Broadband
3 208 (3.12%) Firewall
4 189 (2.83%) WAN
5 125 (1.87%) SD-WAN
6 113 (1.69%) Network Security
7 112 (1.68%) DNS
8 102 (1.53%) VPN
9 90 (1.35%) LAN
10 71 (1.06%) BGP
11 69 (1.03%) TCP/IP
12 68 (1.02%) SSL
13 60 (0.90%) Wireless
14 42 (0.63%) Internet
15 38 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
16 31 (0.46%) MPLS
17 26 (0.39%) DHCP
18 25 (0.37%) VLAN
19 23 (0.34%) SAN
20 22 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 377 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
2 209 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 185 (2.77%) Power BI
4 175 (2.62%) Metadata
5 153 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.13%) NoSQL
7 134 (2.01%) BigQuery
8 129 (1.93%) SQL Server
9 116 (1.74%) Looker
10 97 (1.45%) Big Data
11 85 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 84 (1.26%) Geospatial Data
13 73 (1.09%) Apache Ignite
14 68 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
15 64 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
16 59 (0.88%) Apache Arrow
16 59 (0.88%) Dremio
17 55 (0.82%) Oracle Database
18 49 (0.73%) Data Vault
19 43 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 73 (1.09%) Git
1 73 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 56 (0.84%) Visual Studio
3 39 (0.58%) GitLab
4 27 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.25%) JIRA
7 15 (0.22%) Maven
8 10 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (0.12%) Jaeger
10 6 (0.090%) JUnit
11 5 (0.075%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.075%) MLflow
11 5 (0.075%) Subversion
11 5 (0.075%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.060%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.060%) ERwin
12 4 (0.060%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.060%) Selenium
12 4 (0.060%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,590 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 1,425 (21.37%) Finance
3 507 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
4 448 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 347 (5.20%) Banking
6 345 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 308 (4.62%) Retail
8 267 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 223 (3.34%) Marketing
10 161 (2.41%) Law
11 107 (1.60%) Legal
12 104 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 96 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 92 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 76 (1.14%) Aerospace
16 70 (1.05%) Investment Banking
17 66 (0.99%) Front Office
18 52 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
18 52 (0.78%) Games
19 45 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (4.53%) .NET
2 99 (1.48%) Kafka
3 92 (1.38%) Middleware
4 84 (1.26%) Web Services
5 83 (1.24%) Spring Boot
6 66 (0.99%) REST
7 61 (0.91%) HTML
7 61 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
8 60 (0.90%) gRPC
8 60 (0.90%) Protocol Buffers
9 58 (0.87%) React
10 57 (0.85%) NumPy
10 57 (0.85%) Pandas
11 56 (0.84%) SciPy
12 53 (0.79%) XML
13 48 (0.72%) CSS
13 48 (0.72%) JSON
14 45 (0.67%) AngularJS
15 44 (0.66%) .NET Framework
15 44 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 434 (6.51%) Public Cloud
2 351 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 258 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 221 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 167 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 139 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 137 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 137 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 126 (1.89%) PKI
9 86 (1.29%) IoT
10 73 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 64 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 63 (0.94%) PMI
13 61 (0.91%) Equities
13 61 (0.91%) Security Posture
14 60 (0.90%) Derivative
15 59 (0.88%) Fixed Income
15 59 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 59 (0.88%) Hedge funds
16 50 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 321 (4.81%) Linux
2 159 (2.38%) Windows
3 58 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (0.63%) Android
4 42 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 41 (0.61%) Unix
6 35 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 29 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.34%) VMS
9 11 (0.16%) Solaris
10 10 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.15%) SUSE
10 10 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.12%) VME
12 6 (0.090%) Mesosphere
13 5 (0.075%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.045%) CentOS
15 2 (0.030%) AIX
16 1 (0.015%) HPUX
16 1 (0.015%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,614 (24.21%) Agile
2 1,357 (20.35%) TOGAF
3 1,324 (19.86%) Roadmaps
4 820 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
5 788 (11.82%) Actionable Insight
6 755 (11.32%) Enterprise Architecture
7 690 (10.35%) DevOps
8 663 (9.94%) Mentoring
9 624 (9.36%) Technical Architecture
10 601 (9.01%) Presales
11 587 (8.80%) Data Architecture
12 578 (8.67%) Migration
13 572 (8.58%) Data Modelling
14 527 (7.90%) Strategic Roadmap
15 517 (7.75%) Data Management
16 509 (7.63%) Analytics
17 483 (7.24%) ERP
18 463 (6.94%) Validation
19 449 (6.73%) Network Architecture
20 444 (6.66%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 355 (5.32%) Python
2 354 (5.31%) SQL
3 335 (5.02%) Java
4 270 (4.05%) C#
5 244 (3.66%) JavaScript
6 91 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 87 (1.30%) C
8 71 (1.06%) C++
9 70 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 43 (0.64%) T-SQL
11 32 (0.48%) Scala
12 23 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 23 (0.34%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.34%) R
13 20 (0.30%) Bicep
14 17 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.25%) Bash
15 16 (0.24%) Fortran
15 16 (0.24%) Ruby
15 16 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,007 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 778 (11.67%) Degree
3 659 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 283 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 225 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 213 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 194 (2.91%) CISSP
8 185 (2.77%) TOGAF Certification
9 177 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 160 (2.40%) DV Cleared
11 126 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 114 (1.71%) CISM
13 110 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 101 (1.51%) Master's Degree
15 96 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 79 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 75 (1.12%) CCNP
18 70 (1.05%) CCSP
19 69 (1.03%) PMI Certification
20 64 (0.96%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 177 (2.65%) GDPR
3 126 (1.89%) QA
4 113 (1.69%) NIST
5 91 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (0.69%) COBIT
7 36 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.49%) SLA
10 32 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 21 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (0.18%) PMO
13 10 (0.15%) NCSC
14 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.10%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
15 7 (0.10%) ISO 26262
16 6 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.090%) GRC
16 6 (0.090%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 190 (2.85%) Docker
2 127 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.43%) vSphere
6 27 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 13 (0.19%) KVM
11 10 (0.15%) vCloud
12 8 (0.12%) Firmware
13 4 (0.060%) Xen
14 3 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.045%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.030%) HDFS
15 2 (0.030%) Kamailio
15 2 (0.030%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.015%) LXC
Systems Management
1 273 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 197 (2.95%) Terraform
3 94 (1.41%) Ansible
4 46 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
5 45 (0.67%) Puppet
6 32 (0.48%) OpenView
7 27 (0.40%) Stealthwatch
8 25 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (0.24%) CASB
11 10 (0.15%) Grafana
11 10 (0.15%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.12%) Kiali
12 8 (0.12%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.090%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.090%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.090%) Endace
13 6 (0.090%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.090%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,174 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 556 (8.34%) Oracle
3 552 (8.28%) SAP
4 391 (5.86%) Google
5 301 (4.51%) Anaplan
6 299 (4.48%) Hyperion
7 164 (2.46%) Cisco
8 146 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 129 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 123 (1.84%) Databricks
11 107 (1.60%) Sparx
12 89 (1.33%) VMware
13 84 (1.26%) Juniper
14 67 (1.00%) IBM
15 58 (0.87%) Apple
16 57 (0.85%) Adobe
17 56 (0.84%) Citrix
18 49 (0.73%) HP
18 49 (0.73%) Meraki
19 39 (0.58%) BMC