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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 20 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 284 483 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.46% 10.43% 5.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.83% 10.84% 5.99%
Number of salaries quoted 176 231 328
10th Percentile £62,500 £72,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £92,500 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.33% +1.35%
75th Percentile £107,188 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £117,500 £120,750
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 3,217 4,454 6,850
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 96.18% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,556 3,739 5,629
10th Percentile £41,125 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +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 £74,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +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 11 May 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 11 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 City of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 111 (39.08%) Azure
2 85 (29.93%) TOGAF
3 68 (23.94%) Microsoft
4 59 (20.77%) Agile
4 59 (20.77%) Social Skills
5 56 (19.72%) Finance
6 55 (19.37%) Actionable Insight
7 53 (18.66%) Roadmaps
8 49 (17.25%) AWS
9 40 (14.08%) Migration
10 37 (13.03%) Technical Architecture
10 37 (13.03%) Presales
11 36 (12.68%) DevOps
11 36 (12.68%) Security Cleared
12 34 (11.97%) Validation
13 32 (11.27%) Requirements Management
13 32 (11.27%) VSAT
13 32 (11.27%) Network Architecture
13 32 (11.27%) Network Management
13 32 (11.27%) Model Validation
14 29 (10.21%) Dynamics 365
15 28 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (9.15%) Data Modelling
17 25 (8.80%) Banking
17 25 (8.80%) Degree
17 25 (8.80%) Data Strategy
18 24 (8.45%) Technology Roadmap
18 24 (8.45%) Analytics
18 24 (8.45%) SC Cleared
18 24 (8.45%) Microsoft 365

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 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.76%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.35%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (1.41%) Teamcenter
4 3 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.70%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 111 (39.08%) Azure
2 49 (17.25%) AWS
3 29 (10.21%) Dynamics 365
4 24 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.10%) Power Platform
6 21 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.39%) SaaS
7 17 (5.99%) PaaS
8 16 (5.63%) GCP
9 11 (3.87%) IaaS
9 11 (3.87%) Serverless
10 9 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.17%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.82%) Azure API Management
11 8 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.46%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.46%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.27%) VSAT
2 5 (1.76%) BGP
3 4 (1.41%) DNS
3 4 (1.41%) Network Security
3 4 (1.41%) SSL
3 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.06%) Firewall
4 3 (1.06%) VPN
5 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.70%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) HSRP
6 1 (0.35%) OSPF
6 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.23%) Power BI
3 11 (3.87%) Metadata
3 11 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 9 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.46%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.11%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.06%) MySQL
9 3 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.70%) Big Data
10 2 (0.70%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.70%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.70%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
1 5 (1.76%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.06%) MLflow
3 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.35%) Ant
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Git
4 1 (0.35%) JIRA
4 1 (0.35%) Maven
4 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.72%) Finance
3 25 (8.80%) Banking
4 20 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.34%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.23%) Law
7 10 (3.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.46%) Marketing
9 5 (1.76%) Automotive
9 5 (1.76%) Mandarin Language
9 5 (1.76%) Police
9 5 (1.76%) Retail
9 5 (1.76%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Advertising
11 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.28%) .NET
2 8 (2.82%) Web Services
3 7 (2.46%) HTML
4 5 (1.76%) XML
5 4 (1.41%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.41%) HTML5
5 4 (1.41%) JSON
5 4 (1.41%) OAuth
5 4 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.06%) Itk
6 3 (1.06%) RESTful
6 3 (1.06%) SAML
6 3 (1.06%) YAML
7 2 (0.70%) CSS
7 2 (0.70%) React
7 2 (0.70%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.35%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.35%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.10%) Public Cloud
2 16 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.87%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.82%) PKI
6 7 (2.46%) IoT
7 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.41%) FMCG
8 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.41%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.70%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.58%) Linux
2 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.93%) TOGAF
2 59 (20.77%) Agile
3 55 (19.37%) Actionable Insight
4 53 (18.66%) Roadmaps
5 40 (14.08%) Migration
6 37 (13.03%) Presales
6 37 (13.03%) Technical Architecture
7 36 (12.68%) DevOps
8 34 (11.97%) Validation
9 32 (11.27%) Model Validation
9 32 (11.27%) Network Architecture
9 32 (11.27%) Network Management
9 32 (11.27%) Requirements Management
10 28 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (9.15%) Data Modelling
12 25 (8.80%) Data Strategy
13 24 (8.45%) Analytics
13 24 (8.45%) Technology Roadmap
14 23 (8.10%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (7.75%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.39%) SQL
2 16 (5.63%) C#
2 16 (5.63%) Python
3 11 (3.87%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.46%) Java
5 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.76%) C
6 5 (1.76%) R
7 4 (1.41%) C++
8 3 (1.06%) Scala
9 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) Swift
10 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.80%) Degree
3 24 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.75%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.28%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (4.93%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.58%) CISSP
8 12 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (4.23%) CCSP
8 12 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.70%) MCAD
14 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.35%) CCA
14 1 (0.35%) CCSK
14 1 (0.35%) CEH
14 1 (0.35%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
1 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.41%) COBIT
2 4 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.70%) PMO
3 2 (0.70%) QA
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.35%) KVM
3 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.46%) Terraform
3 3 (1.06%) OpenView
4 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.93%) Databricks
2 14 (4.93%) Google
2 14 (4.93%) Oracle
3 11 (3.87%) ServiceNow
4 7 (2.46%) Sparx
5 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.11%) SAP
5 6 (2.11%) Unisys
6 3 (1.06%) Adobe
6 3 (1.06%) BMC
6 3 (1.06%) HP
6 3 (1.06%) Informatica
6 3 (1.06%) Remedy
7 2 (0.70%) Apple
7 2 (0.70%) iManage
7 2 (0.70%) Intapp
8 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.35%) Palo Alto