Architect Jobs in Reading

Architect
Berkshire > Reading

The median Architect salary in Reading is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 13 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 144 218 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.48% 13.77% 6.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.96% 14.71% 6.26%
Number of salaries quoted 48 46 75
10th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,125 £68,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £83,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +11.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,875 £80,625
90th Percentile £92,250 £100,625 £91,250
Berkshire median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,608 1,482 1,724
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 93.62% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 792 1,020
10th Percentile £29,938 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Reading

Architect
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Architect in Reading

Architect
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Reading over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 Reading region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 65 (45.14%) Actionable Insight
2 55 (38.19%) TOGAF
3 47 (32.64%) Security Cleared
4 38 (26.39%) Technical Architecture
5 36 (25.00%) Validation
5 36 (25.00%) Model Validation
6 35 (24.31%) Requirements Management
6 35 (24.31%) VSAT
6 35 (24.31%) Network Architecture
6 35 (24.31%) Network Management
7 34 (23.61%) Agile
8 30 (20.83%) Presales
9 27 (18.75%) SC Cleared
10 26 (18.06%) Azure
11 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
11 25 (17.36%) Social Skills
12 23 (15.97%) AWS
13 22 (15.28%) Physics
14 20 (13.89%) Degree
15 19 (13.19%) Migration
16 18 (12.50%) Business Development
17 17 (11.81%) Firewall
17 17 (11.81%) Analytics
18 16 (11.11%) Project Management
18 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
19 14 (9.72%) Python
20 13 (9.03%) C#
20 13 (9.03%) WAN
20 13 (9.03%) Wireless
20 13 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (2.78%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.69%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.06%) Azure
2 23 (15.97%) AWS
3 9 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.25%) SaaS
4 7 (4.86%) GCP
5 5 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.78%) OCI
7 2 (1.39%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.69%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.31%) VSAT
2 17 (11.81%) Firewall
3 13 (9.03%) SD-WAN
3 13 (9.03%) WAN
3 13 (9.03%) Wireless
4 6 (4.17%) Network Security
5 4 (2.78%) BGP
5 4 (2.78%) DNS
5 4 (2.78%) Internet
5 4 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.78%) SSL
5 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
1 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.78%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.39%) Data Vault
3 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.69%) Big Data
4 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) GitLab
1 9 (6.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.69%) DbUnit
2 1 (0.69%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) jMock
2 1 (0.69%) JUnit
2 1 (0.69%) Maven
2 1 (0.69%) Mockito
2 1 (0.69%) Postman
2 1 (0.69%) Selenium
2 1 (0.69%) SoapUI
2 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 25 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (4.86%) Finance
4 6 (4.17%) Automotive
5 4 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.08%) Legal
7 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.69%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.47%) Web Services
2 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.08%) .NET
3 3 (2.08%) React
4 2 (1.39%) Kafka
5 1 (0.69%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.69%) Celery
5 1 (0.69%) EDI
5 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.69%) Node.js
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth
5 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.69%) OpenID
5 1 (0.69%) PowerMock
5 1 (0.69%) REST
5 1 (0.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.69%) SOAP
5 1 (0.69%) Spring
5 1 (0.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.64%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.86%) PKI
4 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Kali Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (45.14%) Actionable Insight
2 55 (38.19%) TOGAF
3 38 (26.39%) Technical Architecture
4 36 (25.00%) Model Validation
4 36 (25.00%) Validation
5 35 (24.31%) Network Architecture
5 35 (24.31%) Network Management
5 35 (24.31%) Requirements Management
6 34 (23.61%) Agile
7 30 (20.83%) Presales
8 22 (15.28%) Physics
9 19 (13.19%) Migration
10 18 (12.50%) Business Development
11 17 (11.81%) Analytics
12 16 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (11.11%) Project Management
13 13 (9.03%) Computer Science
13 13 (9.03%) IT Strategy
13 13 (9.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (9.03%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.72%) Python
2 13 (9.03%) C#
3 10 (6.94%) SQL
4 9 (6.25%) Fortran
5 6 (4.17%) C++
6 5 (3.47%) Java
7 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.89%) Degree
4 8 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.78%) CISSP
5 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) ISACA
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) NIST
2 5 (3.47%) COBIT
3 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.78%) Suricata
2 3 (2.08%) OpenView
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Consul
3 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.33%) Cisco
2 12 (8.33%) Juniper
3 8 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 7 (4.86%) Google
5 5 (3.47%) Sparx
6 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.78%) Splunk
7 3 (2.08%) BMC
7 3 (2.08%) Databricks
7 3 (2.08%) HP
7 3 (2.08%) Remedy
7 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) SAP