Architect Jobs in the City of London

Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Architect salary in the City of London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 21 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 280 500 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.34% 10.47% 5.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.70% 10.86% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 170 251 331
10th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £70,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -2.16% -
75th Percentile £107,188 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £115,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £90,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 3,218 4,605 6,736
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.44% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 3,879 5,627
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the City of London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 City of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 106 (37.86%) Azure
2 85 (30.36%) TOGAF
3 64 (22.86%) Microsoft
4 61 (21.79%) Actionable Insight
5 60 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 59 (21.07%) Agile
7 54 (19.29%) Finance
8 53 (18.93%) Roadmaps
9 48 (17.14%) AWS
10 41 (14.64%) Presales
11 38 (13.57%) Technical Architecture
11 38 (13.57%) Security Cleared
12 36 (12.86%) Migration
13 34 (12.14%) Validation
14 33 (11.79%) DevOps
15 32 (11.43%) Model Validation
16 31 (11.07%) Requirements Management
16 31 (11.07%) VSAT
16 31 (11.07%) Network Architecture
16 31 (11.07%) Network Management
17 29 (10.36%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (10.00%) Data Modelling
19 26 (9.29%) SC Cleared
20 25 (8.93%) Data Strategy
20 25 (8.93%) Analytics
21 24 (8.57%) IT Strategy
21 24 (8.57%) Power Platform
21 24 (8.57%) Technology Roadmap
21 24 (8.57%) Degree

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.79%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (1.43%) Teamcenter
4 3 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.71%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (37.86%) Azure
2 48 (17.14%) AWS
3 29 (10.36%) Dynamics 365
4 24 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 21 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.50%) SaaS
6 16 (5.71%) GCP
6 16 (5.71%) PaaS
7 11 (3.93%) Serverless
8 10 (3.57%) IaaS
9 9 (3.21%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.21%) PowerApps
10 8 (2.86%) Azure API Management
10 8 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.50%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.50%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.07%) VSAT
2 4 (1.43%) BGP
2 4 (1.43%) DNS
2 4 (1.43%) Network Security
2 4 (1.43%) SSL
2 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.86%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (4.64%) Power BI
3 11 (3.93%) Metadata
4 10 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.50%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.07%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.07%) MySQL
9 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.71%) Big Data
10 2 (0.71%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.71%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.71%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (1.79%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.07%) MLflow
3 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.36%) Ant
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.36%) Maven
4 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.29%) Finance
3 23 (8.21%) Banking
4 20 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.64%) Law
7 11 (3.93%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.50%) Marketing
8 7 (2.50%) Retail
9 5 (1.79%) Advertising
9 5 (1.79%) Automotive
9 5 (1.79%) Mandarin Language
9 5 (1.79%) Police
10 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.07%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.36%) .NET
2 8 (2.86%) Web Services
3 7 (2.50%) HTML
4 5 (1.79%) XML
5 4 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.43%) HTML5
5 4 (1.43%) JSON
5 4 (1.43%) OAuth
5 4 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.43%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.07%) Itk
6 3 (1.07%) REST
6 3 (1.07%) RESTful
6 3 (1.07%) SAML
6 3 (1.07%) YAML
7 2 (0.71%) CSS
7 2 (0.71%) React
7 2 (0.71%) SOAP
8 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.36%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.21%) Public Cloud
2 16 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 9 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.86%) PKI
6 7 (2.50%) IoT
7 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.79%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.43%) FMCG
8 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.36%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.93%) Linux
2 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (30.36%) TOGAF
2 61 (21.79%) Actionable Insight
3 59 (21.07%) Agile
4 53 (18.93%) Roadmaps
5 41 (14.64%) Presales
6 38 (13.57%) Technical Architecture
7 36 (12.86%) Migration
8 34 (12.14%) Validation
9 33 (11.79%) DevOps
10 32 (11.43%) Model Validation
11 31 (11.07%) Network Architecture
11 31 (11.07%) Network Management
11 31 (11.07%) Requirements Management
12 29 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (10.00%) Data Modelling
14 25 (8.93%) Analytics
14 25 (8.93%) Data Strategy
15 24 (8.57%) IT Strategy
15 24 (8.57%) Technology Roadmap
16 23 (8.21%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.14%) SQL
2 16 (5.71%) C#
3 15 (5.36%) Python
4 11 (3.93%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.14%) Java
5 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.79%) C
6 5 (1.79%) R
7 4 (1.43%) C++
8 3 (1.07%) Scala
9 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) ABAP
10 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.36%) PHP
10 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.29%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.57%) Degree
4 23 (8.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 15 (5.36%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.29%) CISSP
8 11 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 11 (3.93%) CCSP
8 11 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.71%) MCAD
13 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.36%) CCA
13 1 (0.36%) CCSK
13 1 (0.36%) CEH
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.43%) COBIT
4 2 (0.71%) PMO
4 2 (0.71%) QA
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.14%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) OpenView
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.36%) Databricks
2 15 (5.36%) Google
3 12 (4.29%) Oracle
4 11 (3.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.50%) Sparx
6 6 (2.14%) SAP
6 6 (2.14%) Unisys
7 4 (1.43%) Informatica
8 3 (1.07%) Adobe
8 3 (1.07%) BMC
8 3 (1.07%) HP
8 3 (1.07%) Remedy
9 2 (0.71%) Apple
9 2 (0.71%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.71%) iManage
9 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.71%) UiPath
10 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace