Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 39 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 306 384 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.55% 6.25% 4.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.80% 6.95% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 140 157 175
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,313 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,373 5,528 6,493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.94% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,571 3,223 4,190
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,725
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the Thames Valley

Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire -12 195 £75,000 -3.23% 25
Buckinghamshire -13 64 £80,000 - 14
Oxfordshire +8 47 £80,000 -16.67% 9
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 19 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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 94 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 78 (25.49%) Azure
3 66 (21.57%) Actionable Insight
3 66 (21.57%) Social Skills
4 60 (19.61%) AWS
4 60 (19.61%) Microsoft
5 59 (19.28%) TOGAF
5 59 (19.28%) Presales
6 55 (17.97%) SC Cleared
7 50 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (15.69%) Degree
8 48 (15.69%) Agile
9 45 (14.71%) Technical Architecture
10 41 (13.40%) Network Management
10 41 (13.40%) Data Modelling
11 40 (13.07%) Mentoring
12 36 (11.76%) Network Architecture
13 35 (11.44%) Data Architecture
13 35 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
14 33 (10.78%) Model Validation
14 33 (10.78%) Validation
15 32 (10.46%) VSAT
15 32 (10.46%) Requirements Management
16 29 (9.48%) Analytics
17 28 (9.15%) DV Cleared
18 27 (8.82%) Finance
18 27 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
18 27 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
18 27 (8.82%) GCP
18 27 (8.82%) GDPR

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.63%) Drupal
4 4 (1.31%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.98%) WordPress
6 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (25.49%) Azure
2 60 (19.61%) AWS
3 27 (8.82%) GCP
3 27 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (3.27%) SaaS
5 10 (3.27%) Serverless
6 8 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.29%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.98%) OCI
11 3 (0.98%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.46%) VSAT
2 24 (7.84%) WAN
3 22 (7.19%) SD-WAN
4 17 (5.56%) Firewall
5 15 (4.90%) Wireless
6 7 (2.29%) Intranet
7 6 (1.96%) Network Security
8 5 (1.63%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.63%) DNS
8 5 (1.63%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.31%) BGP
9 4 (1.31%) SSL
10 3 (0.98%) VPN
11 2 (0.65%) Internet
11 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.65%) LAN
12 1 (0.33%) DMZ
12 1 (0.33%) Modbus
12 1 (0.33%) NaaS
12 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (5.23%) BigQuery
2 16 (5.23%) Looker
3 12 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 9 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.31%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.31%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.98%) OLAP
8 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.98%) Power BI
8 3 (0.98%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (2.94%) GitLab
1 9 (2.94%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.65%) JIRA
3 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.33%) DbUnit
3 1 (0.33%) ERwin
3 1 (0.33%) Git
3 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.33%) jMock
3 1 (0.33%) JUnit
3 1 (0.33%) Maven
3 1 (0.33%) Mockito
3 1 (0.33%) Postman
3 1 (0.33%) Selenium
3 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.33%) TestNG
General
1 66 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.82%) Finance
4 21 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (3.27%) Billing
5 10 (3.27%) Legal
5 10 (3.27%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.27%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (2.61%) Retail
7 6 (1.96%) Automotive
8 3 (0.98%) Law
8 3 (0.98%) Marketing
9 2 (0.65%) Games
9 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.33%) Banking
10 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.96%) .NET
1 6 (1.96%) REST
1 6 (1.96%) SOAP
1 6 (1.96%) Web Services
2 5 (1.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.31%) Kafka
3 4 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (0.98%) React
5 2 (0.65%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.65%) Node.js
5 2 (0.65%) Spring
5 2 (0.65%) XML
6 1 (0.33%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.33%) EDI
6 1 (0.33%) JSON
6 1 (0.33%) OAuth
6 1 (0.33%) RESTful
6 1 (0.33%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.54%) Data Centre
1 20 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.92%) Security Posture
4 11 (3.59%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.27%) PKI
6 8 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.29%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.63%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.33%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.63%) Linux
2 4 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.65%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (21.57%) Actionable Insight
2 59 (19.28%) Presales
2 59 (19.28%) TOGAF
3 50 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (15.69%) Agile
5 45 (14.71%) Technical Architecture
6 41 (13.40%) Data Modelling
6 41 (13.40%) Network Management
7 40 (13.07%) Mentoring
8 36 (11.76%) Network Architecture
9 35 (11.44%) Data Architecture
10 33 (10.78%) Model Validation
10 33 (10.78%) Validation
11 32 (10.46%) Requirements Management
12 29 (9.48%) Analytics
13 26 (8.50%) Project Management
13 26 (8.50%) Roadmaps
14 25 (8.17%) Data Governance
15 24 (7.84%) Enterprise Architecture
16 23 (7.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.86%) SQL
2 18 (5.88%) Python
3 13 (4.25%) C#
4 9 (2.94%) Fortran
5 7 (2.29%) Java
6 6 (1.96%) C++
7 4 (1.31%) Scala
8 2 (0.65%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.65%) R
9 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (30.72%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.97%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.69%) Degree
4 28 (9.15%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (4.90%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.59%) CISSP
8 9 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (2.94%) CCSK
8 9 (2.94%) CCSP
8 9 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.61%) CCNA
9 8 (2.61%) CCNP
10 7 (2.29%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.82%) GDPR
2 26 (8.50%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.58%) NIST
4 11 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 9 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.63%) COBIT
7 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.98%) QA
9 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.31%) CASB
1 4 (1.31%) Stealthwatch
2 3 (0.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.98%) OpenView
3 2 (0.65%) Ansible
3 2 (0.65%) Suricata
4 1 (0.33%) Consul
4 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.33%) Puppet
4 1 (0.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.52%) Google
3 19 (6.21%) Cisco
4 15 (4.90%) MuleSoft
5 14 (4.58%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.59%) Juniper
7 10 (3.27%) Adobe
7 10 (3.27%) Apple
8 9 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.61%) Meraki
9 8 (2.61%) Oracle
10 7 (2.29%) Databricks
11 5 (1.63%) Sparx
12 3 (0.98%) BMC
12 3 (0.98%) HP
12 3 (0.98%) Remedy
12 3 (0.98%) SAP
12 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.65%) Dell
13 2 (0.65%) NetApp