Architect Jobs in the South East

Architect
England > South East

The median Architect salary in the South East is £75,000 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 38 40 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 -9
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 837 950 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.04% 6.30% 4.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.37% 6.95% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 438 500 464
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £86,549 £85,000
% change year-on-year -7.57% +1.82% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the South East.

Salary trend for Architect in the South East

Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the South East

Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley -10 312 £77,500 -3.13% 47
Hampshire +4 212 £70,000 -6.67% 41
Berkshire -10 197 £75,000 -3.23% 24
Surrey -31 108 £85,000 - 23
East Sussex +55 76 £80,000 +12.00% 8
Buckinghamshire -14 68 £80,000 - 17
Middlesex -4 55 - - 1
Oxfordshire +20 47 £80,000 -16.67% 7
West Sussex +50 37 £67,500 -28.00% 1
Kent -9 20 £90,000 +12.50% 7
Sussex - 8 £75,000 - 2
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 258 (30.82%) Security Cleared
2 250 (29.87%) Agile
3 249 (29.75%) Azure
4 226 (27.00%) Social Skills
5 195 (23.30%) Finance
6 181 (21.62%) Roadmaps
7 180 (21.51%) TOGAF
8 167 (19.95%) SC Cleared
9 156 (18.64%) AWS
10 152 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
11 150 (17.92%) Microsoft
12 114 (13.62%) Enterprise Architecture
13 96 (11.47%) Degree
14 93 (11.11%) Data Management
14 93 (11.11%) Presales
15 91 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
15 91 (10.87%) Change Management
16 89 (10.63%) Actionable Insight
17 88 (10.51%) Strategic Roadmap
18 87 (10.39%) Data Architecture
19 86 (10.27%) Data Modelling
19 86 (10.27%) Oracle
20 84 (10.04%) ERP
20 84 (10.04%) Microservices
21 78 (9.32%) SAP
22 75 (8.96%) SAS
22 75 (8.96%) Broadband
22 75 (8.96%) Hyperion
22 75 (8.96%) SAP ERP
22 75 (8.96%) Performance Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 75 (8.96%) SAS
2 13 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.60%) Drupal
5 4 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.48%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.36%) CMS
6 3 (0.36%) WordPress
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.24%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 75 (8.96%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 249 (29.75%) Azure
2 156 (18.64%) AWS
3 52 (6.21%) Power Platform
4 50 (5.97%) GCP
5 41 (4.90%) SaaS
6 37 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (4.42%) Serverless
7 32 (3.82%) Snowflake
8 25 (2.99%) Matillion
9 19 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
9 19 (2.27%) PowerApps
10 18 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.19%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.08%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 75 (8.96%) Broadband
2 54 (6.45%) Firewall
3 34 (4.06%) VSAT
4 33 (3.94%) WAN
5 29 (3.46%) SD-WAN
6 24 (2.87%) DNS
6 24 (2.87%) Network Security
7 19 (2.27%) BGP
8 17 (2.03%) VPN
9 15 (1.79%) VLAN
9 15 (1.79%) Wireless
10 14 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
10 14 (1.67%) SSL
11 9 (1.08%) CTI
11 9 (1.08%) OSPF
12 7 (0.84%) Intranet
12 7 (0.84%) Multicast
13 6 (0.72%) MPLS
14 5 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (4.78%) Power BI
3 39 (4.66%) Data Lake
4 32 (3.82%) BigQuery
4 32 (3.82%) Looker
5 28 (3.35%) Metadata
6 15 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.19%) SQL Server
10 7 (0.84%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.72%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.48%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.36%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.36%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 21 (2.51%) GitLab
2 18 (2.15%) Visual Studio
3 15 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.55%) Git
5 9 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.24%) JIRA
8 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.12%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.12%) ERwin
8 1 (0.12%) jMock
8 1 (0.12%) JUnit
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Mockito
8 1 (0.12%) MSI
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 226 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 195 (23.30%) Finance
3 91 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (4.18%) Retail
5 34 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (2.63%) Legal
7 21 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 16 (1.91%) Billing
10 15 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.31%) Publishing
12 9 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.08%) Police
13 6 (0.72%) Automotive
13 6 (0.72%) Law
14 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.60%) Marketing
15 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.94%) .NET
2 27 (3.23%) REST
3 26 (3.11%) OAuth
4 20 (2.39%) OpenID
5 19 (2.27%) SAML
6 15 (1.79%) Kafka
7 13 (1.55%) React
8 12 (1.43%) Node.js
9 11 (1.31%) Web Services
10 8 (0.96%) SOAP
11 7 (0.84%) OAuth2
12 5 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (0.60%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.48%) ASP.NET
13 4 (0.48%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (0.48%) Middleware
14 3 (0.36%) AWS CDK
14 3 (0.36%) RESTful
15 2 (0.24%) OSGi
15 2 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 47 (5.62%) Data Centre
3 37 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (3.11%) PMI
5 24 (2.87%) Product Ownership
5 24 (2.87%) Public Cloud
6 23 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.63%) PKI
7 22 (2.63%) Private Cloud
8 21 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.84%) Biopharmaceutical
11 7 (0.84%) IoT
12 5 (0.60%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.48%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.66%) Linux
2 33 (3.94%) Windows
3 13 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.19%) Android
4 10 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.19%) Unix
5 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.36%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (29.87%) Agile
2 181 (21.62%) Roadmaps
3 180 (21.51%) TOGAF
4 152 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
5 114 (13.62%) Enterprise Architecture
6 93 (11.11%) Data Management
6 93 (11.11%) Presales
7 91 (10.87%) Change Management
8 89 (10.63%) Actionable Insight
9 88 (10.51%) Strategic Roadmap
10 87 (10.39%) Data Architecture
11 86 (10.27%) Data Modelling
12 84 (10.04%) ERP
12 84 (10.04%) Microservices
13 75 (8.96%) DevOps
13 75 (8.96%) Performance Management
14 70 (8.36%) ETL
14 70 (8.36%) Mentoring
15 62 (7.41%) Network Management
16 59 (7.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 56 (6.69%) SQL
2 48 (5.73%) Java
3 46 (5.50%) C#
4 41 (4.90%) Python
5 25 (2.99%) T-SQL
6 19 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.43%) C++
9 10 (1.19%) Go
10 9 (1.08%) Fortran
11 7 (0.84%) C
12 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.48%) Scala
13 3 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 258 (30.82%) Security Cleared
2 167 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 96 (11.47%) Degree
4 65 (7.77%) DV Cleared
5 36 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 27 (3.23%) PMI Certification
8 22 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (2.51%) AWS Certification
10 18 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.55%) CISSP
12 12 (1.43%) CCNA
12 12 (1.43%) CCNP
13 10 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.08%) CCSK
14 9 (1.08%) CCSP
15 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.65%) GDPR
2 47 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.39%) NIST
4 17 (2.03%) QA
5 12 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (0.84%) ISO 13485
8 5 (0.60%) COBIT
8 5 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
10 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 35 (4.18%) Docker
2 19 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
3 13 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.75%) Terraform
3 6 (0.72%) Endace
4 5 (0.60%) CASB
4 5 (0.60%) Stealthwatch
5 3 (0.36%) Grafana
5 3 (0.36%) OpenView
5 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.36%) Suricata
6 2 (0.24%) Ansible
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.12%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) WMI
7 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 150 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.27%) Oracle
3 78 (9.32%) SAP
4 75 (8.96%) Anaplan
4 75 (8.96%) Hyperion
5 51 (6.09%) Google
6 49 (5.85%) Cisco
7 39 (4.66%) Juniper
8 33 (3.94%) Databricks
9 22 (2.63%) Apple
10 20 (2.39%) Salesforce
11 19 (2.27%) MuleSoft
12 14 (1.67%) Adobe
13 12 (1.43%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.19%) F5
14 10 (1.19%) Meraki
15 8 (0.96%) Guidewire
16 6 (0.72%) Dell
16 6 (0.72%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.72%) VMware