Architect Jobs in Kent

Architect
South East > Kent

The median Architect salary in Kent is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 45 73
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 -8
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 15 26 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.26% 4.24% 3.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 4.46% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 32
10th Percentile £54,000 £57,375 £78,525
25th Percentile £66,250 £64,688 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £96,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.88% +23.87%
75th Percentile £112,000 £80,000 £100,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £82,250 £103,500
South East median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 1,152 583 1,555
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.05% 95.11% 97.37%
Number of salaries quoted 600 408 731
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £64,000 £60,800 £61,888
90th Percentile £73,075 £72,150 £80,250
South East median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +8.91%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Kent

Architect
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Architect in Kent

Architect
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Kent over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Kent

Architect
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Kent region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Chatham +4 6 £95,500 +23.23%
Maidstone -5 4 £88,750 +14.52%
Canterbury -6 1 £67,500 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £90,000 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Kent region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) TOGAF
3 7 (46.67%) AWS
4 6 (40.00%) Finance
4 6 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Java
7 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) .NET
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Terraform
7 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
7 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (20.00%) New Relic
7 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Observability

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) TOGAF
3 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (20.00%) New Relic
2 2 (13.33%) MuleSoft
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) VMware