Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 32 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 -17
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 355 418 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.27% 7.12% 4.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.58% 7.93% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 130 155 169
10th Percentile £60,000 £61,625 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £84,688 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,125 £105,250 £95,100
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 6,366 5,270 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 89.79% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,410 3,101 4,140
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -8 198 £72,500 -4.92% 31
Buckinghamshire +1 112 £80,000 - 16
Oxfordshire +8 45 £80,000 -15.79% 13
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 Thames Valley region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 103 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 97 (27.32%) Degree
3 90 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (23.94%) Security Cleared
5 84 (23.66%) Azure
6 77 (21.69%) Microsoft
7 75 (21.13%) Mentoring
8 64 (18.03%) TOGAF
8 64 (18.03%) AWS
9 60 (16.90%) Presales
9 60 (16.90%) Actionable Insight
10 58 (16.34%) Agile
11 51 (14.37%) Line Management
12 48 (13.52%) Technical Architecture
13 47 (13.24%) SC Cleared
14 46 (12.96%) Coaching
15 45 (12.68%) Network Management
16 40 (11.27%) Prototyping
16 40 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 39 (10.99%) Network Architecture
18 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
19 36 (10.14%) Model Validation
19 36 (10.14%) Validation
19 36 (10.14%) VSAT
19 36 (10.14%) Requirements Management
20 34 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
20 34 (9.58%) Data Modelling
21 31 (8.73%) Data Architecture
22 29 (8.17%) Physics
22 29 (8.17%) WAN

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 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.41%) Drupal
4 4 (1.13%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.85%) WordPress
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.13%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.66%) Azure
2 64 (18.03%) AWS
3 27 (7.61%) GCP
4 26 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.82%) SaaS
7 9 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (2.54%) Serverless
8 7 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.97%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.13%) OCI
12 3 (0.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.85%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.14%) VSAT
2 29 (8.17%) WAN
3 27 (7.61%) SD-WAN
4 20 (5.63%) Firewall
5 14 (3.94%) Wireless
6 9 (2.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.54%) Network Security
7 7 (1.97%) Intranet
8 6 (1.69%) VPN
9 5 (1.41%) Internet
9 5 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.41%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.13%) BGP
10 4 (1.13%) DNS
10 4 (1.13%) SSL
11 2 (0.56%) LAN
12 1 (0.28%) DMZ
12 1 (0.28%) Modbus
12 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (4.51%) BigQuery
2 16 (4.51%) Looker
3 10 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.69%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (1.13%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.13%) Power BI
6 4 (1.13%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.85%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.85%) OLAP
7 3 (0.85%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.56%) Metadata
8 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.94%) GitLab
1 14 (3.94%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 103 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.89%) Finance
5 22 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (2.82%) Billing
6 10 (2.82%) Legal
6 10 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.54%) Retail
8 8 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.69%) Automotive
9 6 (1.69%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.41%) Marketing
11 3 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.25%) Web Services
2 5 (1.41%) .NET
3 4 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (1.13%) REST
3 4 (1.13%) SOAP
3 4 (1.13%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.56%) Kafka
4 2 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.56%) React
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.28%) EDI
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth
5 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.28%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.28%) OpenID
5 1 (0.28%) Swagger
5 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.76%) Data Centre
2 21 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (4.23%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.94%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.97%) Biopharmaceutical
7 7 (1.97%) PKI
7 7 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.13%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.28%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.28%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.41%) Kali Linux
1 5 (1.41%) Linux
2 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (21.13%) Mentoring
3 64 (18.03%) TOGAF
4 60 (16.90%) Actionable Insight
4 60 (16.90%) Presales
5 58 (16.34%) Agile
6 51 (14.37%) Line Management
7 48 (13.52%) Technical Architecture
8 46 (12.96%) Coaching
9 45 (12.68%) Network Management
10 40 (11.27%) Prototyping
11 39 (10.99%) Network Architecture
12 36 (10.14%) Model Validation
12 36 (10.14%) Requirements Management
12 36 (10.14%) Validation
13 34 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (9.58%) Data Modelling
14 31 (8.73%) Data Architecture
15 29 (8.17%) Migration
15 29 (8.17%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 24 (6.76%) Python
2 23 (6.48%) SQL
3 18 (5.07%) C#
4 14 (3.94%) Fortran
5 10 (2.82%) C++
6 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.13%) Java
7 4 (1.13%) Scala
8 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (27.32%) Degree
2 85 (23.94%) Security Cleared
3 47 (13.24%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.48%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 13 (3.66%) CCNA
7 13 (3.66%) CCNP
7 13 (3.66%) CISSP
8 10 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (2.25%) CCSK
9 8 (2.25%) CCSP
10 7 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.28%) ISACA
13 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.32%) GDPR
2 24 (6.76%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.51%) NIST
4 13 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 8 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.41%) COBIT
6 5 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (2.25%) Stealthwatch
2 5 (1.41%) CASB
2 5 (1.41%) Suricata
3 3 (0.85%) OpenView
4 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.28%) Puppet
5 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 77 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.61%) Cisco
3 23 (6.48%) Google
4 15 (4.23%) Adobe
4 15 (4.23%) Apple
5 14 (3.94%) Juniper
5 14 (3.94%) MuleSoft
6 13 (3.66%) Meraki
6 13 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.54%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.54%) Oracle
8 6 (1.69%) Databricks
9 5 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.41%) Sparx
9 5 (1.41%) Splunk
10 3 (0.85%) BMC
10 3 (0.85%) HP
10 3 (0.85%) Remedy
10 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.56%) NetApp