Architect Jobs in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 27 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 -15
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,521 6,927 7,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.17% 8.02% 5.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.52% 8.77% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,215 3,269 3,779
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,625 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in England

Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +5 1,966 £90,000 -2.70% 431
North of England +14 1,172 £77,500 -1.59% 134
South East -1 928 £75,000 -9.64% 116
Midlands -3 706 £75,000 - 107
North West +5 627 £75,000 +3.45% 74
South West -6 522 £75,000 +3.45% 72
Yorkshire +24 472 £79,932 -0.09% 42
West Midlands +24 440 £77,500 +3.33% 67
East Midlands -21 259 £67,500 -6.90% 39
East of England -24 187 £80,000 -3.03% 46
North East +18 73 £79,842 -6.07% 18
Architect
UK

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 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 England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,635 (29.61%) Azure
2 1,431 (25.92%) Agile
3 1,344 (24.34%) Social Skills
4 1,249 (22.62%) Finance
5 1,179 (21.35%) Roadmaps
6 1,087 (19.69%) AWS
7 1,067 (19.33%) TOGAF
8 1,031 (18.67%) Microsoft
9 825 (14.94%) Security Cleared
10 719 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
11 710 (12.86%) Enterprise Architecture
12 695 (12.59%) Degree
13 598 (10.83%) Mentoring
14 579 (10.49%) DevOps
15 528 (9.56%) Data Modelling
16 520 (9.42%) GCP
17 510 (9.24%) Strategic Roadmap
18 506 (9.17%) Actionable Insight
19 503 (9.11%) SC Cleared
20 501 (9.07%) Data Architecture
21 499 (9.04%) Data Management
22 475 (8.60%) Oracle
23 474 (8.59%) ERP
24 468 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
25 460 (8.33%) SAP
26 441 (7.99%) Presales
27 439 (7.95%) Migration
28 416 (7.53%) Technical Architecture
29 411 (7.44%) Analytics
30 378 (6.85%) Microservices

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (5.45%) SAS
2 92 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 72 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 70 (1.27%) Apache
5 57 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 47 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.63%) WebLogic
8 22 (0.40%) CMS
9 15 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.22%) IIS
11 10 (0.18%) Drupal
12 8 (0.14%) Confluence
12 8 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) JBoss
13 7 (0.13%) WildFly
14 6 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.091%) Anypoint
16 4 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 4 (0.072%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.20%) Simulink
5 4 (0.072%) Revit
6 2 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 315 (5.71%) SAP ERP
2 82 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 78 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 64 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.36%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.34%) SAP BPC
8 16 (0.29%) Endur
9 12 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 10 (0.18%) SAP PP
11 8 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.14%) SAP FI
12 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
12 7 (0.13%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.13%) SAP SD
13 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 5 (0.091%) Elite 3E
14 5 (0.091%) SAP WM
15 4 (0.072%) Dynamics AX
15 4 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,635 (29.61%) Azure
2 1,087 (19.69%) AWS
3 520 (9.42%) GCP
4 344 (6.23%) SaaS
5 333 (6.03%) Power Platform
6 288 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
7 286 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
8 177 (3.21%) PaaS
9 153 (2.77%) IaaS
10 132 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 111 (2.01%) Snowflake
12 103 (1.87%) PowerApps
13 88 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 86 (1.56%) Serverless
15 81 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
16 68 (1.23%) dbt
17 43 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
18 42 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
19 38 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 37 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 310 (5.61%) Broadband
2 228 (4.13%) VSAT
3 183 (3.31%) Firewall
4 170 (3.08%) WAN
5 102 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 99 (1.79%) Network Security
7 98 (1.78%) VPN
8 87 (1.58%) DNS
9 68 (1.23%) LAN
10 53 (0.96%) BGP
11 50 (0.91%) SSL
12 49 (0.89%) Wireless
13 41 (0.74%) TCP/IP
14 40 (0.72%) Internet
15 37 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
16 31 (0.56%) MPLS
17 26 (0.47%) DHCP
18 25 (0.45%) VLAN
19 22 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
20 21 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
2 190 (3.44%) Data Lake
3 165 (2.99%) Power BI
4 147 (2.66%) Metadata
5 131 (2.37%) BigQuery
6 130 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 125 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 116 (2.10%) Looker
9 110 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 73 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
11 70 (1.27%) Big Data
12 66 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 64 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
14 59 (1.07%) Apache Arrow
14 59 (1.07%) Dremio
15 51 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
16 49 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
17 37 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
18 35 (0.63%) Data Vault
18 35 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (1.21%) Git
2 65 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 46 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 38 (0.69%) GitLab
5 27 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.31%) JIRA
8 10 (0.18%) Maven
9 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.11%) JUnit
11 5 (0.091%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.091%) Jaeger
11 5 (0.091%) MLflow
11 5 (0.091%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.072%) ERwin
12 4 (0.072%) Selenium
12 4 (0.072%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.054%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.054%) Subversion
13 3 (0.054%) TestNG
General
1 1,344 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 1,249 (22.62%) Finance
3 468 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 323 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 290 (5.25%) Retail
6 287 (5.20%) Banking
7 277 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 195 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 132 (2.39%) Marketing
10 95 (1.72%) Legal
11 92 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 86 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 82 (1.49%) Law
14 74 (1.34%) Retail Banking
15 70 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 66 (1.20%) Front Office
17 65 (1.18%) Aerospace
18 52 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 42 (0.76%) Financial Institution
20 37 (0.67%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (4.71%) .NET
2 84 (1.52%) Middleware
3 73 (1.32%) Kafka
4 60 (1.09%) gRPC
4 60 (1.09%) Protocol Buffers
5 59 (1.07%) Web Services
6 57 (1.03%) HTML
7 56 (1.01%) NumPy
7 56 (1.01%) Pandas
7 56 (1.01%) REST
7 56 (1.01%) SciPy
8 55 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 50 (0.91%) React
10 45 (0.82%) XML
11 42 (0.76%) JSON
12 40 (0.72%) CSS
13 38 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.60%) .NET Framework
14 33 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 353 (6.39%) Public Cloud
2 231 (4.18%) Cloud Native
3 217 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 183 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 162 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 120 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 104 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 102 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 94 (1.70%) PKI
10 72 (1.30%) IoT
11 63 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 61 (1.10%) Equities
12 61 (1.10%) PMI
13 60 (1.09%) Derivative
14 59 (1.07%) Fixed Income
14 59 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 59 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 59 (1.07%) Hedge funds
15 57 (1.03%) Security Posture
16 43 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 277 (5.02%) Linux
2 138 (2.50%) Windows
3 43 (0.78%) Android
3 43 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 38 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (0.65%) Unix
6 32 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 30 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.42%) VMS
9 11 (0.20%) Solaris
10 10 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.18%) SUSE
10 10 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (0.14%) VME
12 5 (0.091%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.054%) CentOS
14 1 (0.018%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.018%) tvOS
14 1 (0.018%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.018%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,431 (25.92%) Agile
2 1,179 (21.35%) Roadmaps
3 1,067 (19.33%) TOGAF
4 719 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 710 (12.86%) Enterprise Architecture
6 598 (10.83%) Mentoring
7 579 (10.49%) DevOps
8 528 (9.56%) Data Modelling
9 510 (9.24%) Strategic Roadmap
10 506 (9.17%) Actionable Insight
11 501 (9.07%) Data Architecture
12 499 (9.04%) Data Management
13 474 (8.59%) ERP
14 441 (7.99%) Presales
15 439 (7.95%) Migration
16 416 (7.53%) Technical Architecture
17 411 (7.44%) Analytics
18 378 (6.85%) Microservices
19 377 (6.83%) Change Management
20 367 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 294 (5.33%) SQL
2 287 (5.20%) Python
3 253 (4.58%) Java
4 244 (4.42%) C#
5 226 (4.09%) JavaScript
6 85 (1.54%) PowerShell
7 69 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 67 (1.21%) C
9 48 (0.87%) C++
10 43 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 27 (0.49%) Scala
12 22 (0.40%) R
13 17 (0.31%) Bicep
14 16 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 16 (0.29%) Bash
14 16 (0.29%) Fortran
14 16 (0.29%) Kotlin
14 16 (0.29%) MATLAB
14 16 (0.29%) Ruby
14 16 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 825 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 695 (12.59%) Degree
3 503 (9.11%) SC Cleared
4 231 (4.18%) Azure Certification
5 187 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 178 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 167 (3.02%) TOGAF Certification
8 161 (2.92%) DV Cleared
9 159 (2.88%) CISSP
10 153 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
11 121 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 86 (1.56%) CISM
13 84 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 83 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 80 (1.45%) Master's Degree
16 69 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 67 (1.21%) CCNP
18 64 (1.16%) PMI Certification
19 62 (1.12%) CCSP
20 58 (1.05%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 174 (3.15%) GDPR
3 96 (1.74%) NIST
4 75 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 52 (0.94%) QA
6 33 (0.60%) SLA
7 32 (0.58%) Accessibility
8 31 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.53%) COBIT
10 23 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 12 (0.22%) PMO
13 10 (0.18%) NCSC
14 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.11%) GRC
16 4 (0.072%) ISO 26262
16 4 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 3 (0.054%) HMG Infosec
17 3 (0.054%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 161 (2.92%) Docker
2 97 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.53%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
8 17 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.20%) KVM
11 10 (0.18%) vCloud
12 8 (0.14%) Firmware
13 3 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.054%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.036%) HDFS
14 2 (0.036%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.036%) Xen
15 1 (0.018%) LXC
Systems Management
1 235 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 181 (3.28%) Terraform
3 80 (1.45%) Ansible
4 44 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.72%) Puppet
6 27 (0.49%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.38%) OpenView
8 19 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 16 (0.29%) CASB
10 14 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.16%) Grafana
11 9 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.14%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.11%) Endace
14 6 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.11%) Kibana
15 5 (0.091%) Kiali
15 5 (0.091%) SCOM
15 5 (0.091%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1,031 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 475 (8.60%) Oracle
3 460 (8.33%) SAP
4 329 (5.96%) Google
5 301 (5.45%) Anaplan
6 299 (5.42%) Hyperion
7 146 (2.64%) Cisco
8 116 (2.10%) Databricks
9 112 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 111 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 81 (1.47%) Sparx
12 74 (1.34%) Juniper
13 69 (1.25%) VMware
14 58 (1.05%) Apple
15 57 (1.03%) Adobe
16 52 (0.94%) Citrix
17 48 (0.87%) Meraki
18 44 (0.80%) IBM
19 38 (0.69%) HP
20 28 (0.51%) BMC