Architect
UK

The median Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 26 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +39 -16
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 6,365 8,455 8,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.46% 8.16% 5.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.83% 8.92% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,521 4,047 4,558
10th Percentile £57,050 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £71,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.06% +5.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Architect in the UK

Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in the UK

Architect
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England 0 5,230 £80,000 -5.88% 986
UK excluding London -7 3,821 £75,000 -5.06% 596
Work from Home +4 2,534 £80,000 -5.88% 549
London +6 1,947 £90,000 -2.70% 406
North of England +25 1,075 £78,126 +0.81% 156
South East -1 831 £75,000 -10.98% 161
Midlands +5 628 £75,000 - 79
North West +7 571 £75,000 - 91
South West -4 530 £75,000 +3.45% 85
Yorkshire +31 446 £79,842 -0.20% 48
West Midlands +23 394 £76,000 +1.33% 41
Scotland -44 375 £75,000 -4.46% 43
East Midlands -16 226 £65,000 -10.34% 37
East of England -35 169 £79,136 -6.90% 54
Wales -12 125 £65,000 +1.96% 21
Northern Ireland +12 98 £95,000 +31.03% 15
North East +9 58 £79,842 -4.67% 17
Isle of Man - 7 £82,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Architect in the job title.

1 1,855 (29.14%) Azure
2 1,575 (24.74%) Agile
3 1,538 (24.16%) Social Skills
4 1,431 (22.48%) Finance
5 1,380 (21.68%) Roadmaps
6 1,368 (21.49%) TOGAF
7 1,268 (19.92%) AWS
8 1,130 (17.75%) Microsoft
9 1,078 (16.94%) Security Cleared
10 929 (14.60%) Actionable Insight
11 772 (12.13%) Enterprise Architecture
12 758 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
13 694 (10.90%) Degree
14 693 (10.89%) SC Cleared
15 645 (10.13%) Technical Architecture
16 610 (9.58%) DevOps
17 601 (9.44%) Presales
18 590 (9.27%) Data Architecture
19 588 (9.24%) Mentoring
20 581 (9.13%) GCP
21 573 (9.00%) Data Modelling
22 560 (8.80%) Oracle
23 559 (8.78%) Strategic Roadmap
24 546 (8.58%) SAP
25 528 (8.30%) Migration
26 519 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
27 501 (7.87%) Analytics
28 494 (7.76%) Microservices
28 494 (7.76%) Validation
28 494 (7.76%) Data Management

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 301 (4.73%) SAS
2 101 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 56 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 53 (0.83%) Apache
4 53 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 53 (0.83%) WebLogic
5 52 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 26 (0.41%) CMS
7 17 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 15 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 14 (0.22%) IIS
10 10 (0.16%) Drupal
11 8 (0.13%) Confluence
12 7 (0.11%) JBoss
12 7 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.11%) WildFly
13 6 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.063%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 33 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 18 (0.28%) Simulink
5 13 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.047%) Revit
7 2 (0.031%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 318 (5.00%) SAP ERP
2 136 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 109 (1.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 91 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 40 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
6 31 (0.49%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.30%) SAP BPC
8 18 (0.28%) SAP FI
9 17 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 15 (0.24%) Endur
11 14 (0.22%) SAP MM
12 13 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
13 12 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
13 12 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 11 (0.17%) SAP PP
15 9 (0.14%) SAP SD
15 9 (0.14%) SAP WM
16 8 (0.13%) Elite 3E
16 8 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
17 7 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1,855 (29.14%) Azure
2 1,268 (19.92%) AWS
3 581 (9.13%) GCP
4 419 (6.58%) SaaS
5 359 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
6 337 (5.29%) Power Platform
7 282 (4.43%) Dynamics 365
8 250 (3.93%) PaaS
9 222 (3.49%) IaaS
10 149 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
12 105 (1.65%) Snowflake
13 103 (1.62%) PowerApps
14 100 (1.57%) Serverless
15 82 (1.29%) Power Automate
16 56 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
16 56 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 56 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
16 56 (0.88%) dbt
17 47 (0.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 404 (6.35%) VSAT
2 306 (4.81%) Broadband
3 205 (3.22%) Firewall
4 178 (2.80%) WAN
5 124 (1.95%) DNS
6 113 (1.78%) SD-WAN
7 112 (1.76%) VPN
8 103 (1.62%) Network Security
9 93 (1.46%) LAN
10 84 (1.32%) TCP/IP
11 72 (1.13%) BGP
12 69 (1.08%) SSL
13 57 (0.90%) Wireless
14 43 (0.68%) Internet
15 40 (0.63%) DHCP
16 33 (0.52%) HTTP
17 30 (0.47%) Cisco Firepower
17 30 (0.47%) MPLS
18 29 (0.46%) VLAN
19 22 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
2 200 (3.14%) Data Lake
3 177 (2.78%) Metadata
4 154 (2.42%) Power BI
5 144 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 142 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 133 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 132 (2.07%) BigQuery
9 114 (1.79%) Looker
10 105 (1.65%) Big Data
11 79 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 71 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
13 63 (0.99%) Apache Ignite
14 53 (0.83%) Oracle Database
15 48 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
17 43 (0.68%) Apache Arrow
17 43 (0.68%) Dremio
18 41 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
19 37 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 75 (1.18%) Jenkins
2 73 (1.15%) Git
3 51 (0.80%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.53%) GitLab
5 26 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.27%) JIRA
8 15 (0.24%) Maven
9 10 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (0.13%) Jaeger
11 7 (0.11%) JUnit
12 6 (0.094%) ERwin
13 5 (0.079%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.079%) MLflow
13 5 (0.079%) Selenium
13 5 (0.079%) Subversion
13 5 (0.079%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.063%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.063%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.063%) TestNG
General
1 1,538 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 1,431 (22.48%) Finance
3 519 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 366 (5.75%) Banking
6 357 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 283 (4.45%) Retail
8 244 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
9 185 (2.91%) Marketing
10 162 (2.55%) Law
11 123 (1.93%) Legal
12 106 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 104 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 86 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 61 (0.96%) Games
16 59 (0.93%) Aerospace
17 55 (0.86%) Investment Banking
18 49 (0.77%) Front Office
19 48 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
20 45 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (4.87%) .NET
2 104 (1.63%) Kafka
3 90 (1.41%) Spring Boot
4 88 (1.38%) Web Services
5 87 (1.37%) HTML
6 83 (1.30%) Middleware
7 71 (1.12%) REST
8 60 (0.94%) React
9 59 (0.93%) JSON
9 59 (0.93%) OpenID
10 56 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
11 55 (0.86%) XML
12 51 (0.80%) CSS
13 49 (0.77%) SAML
14 47 (0.74%) RESTful
15 46 (0.72%) .NET Framework
16 45 (0.71%) Spring
17 44 (0.69%) gRPC
17 44 (0.69%) Protocol Buffers
18 42 (0.66%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 443 (6.96%) Public Cloud
2 358 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 256 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 219 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 169 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 142 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 140 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 134 (2.11%) PKI
9 79 (1.24%) IoT
10 78 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 77 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 63 (0.99%) PMI
13 62 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 59 (0.93%) Security Posture
15 56 (0.88%) Private Cloud
16 54 (0.85%) Cyberattack
17 49 (0.77%) Data Structures
18 45 (0.71%) Equities
18 45 (0.71%) Virtual Team
19 44 (0.69%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 302 (4.74%) Linux
2 162 (2.55%) Windows
3 58 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (0.80%) Unix
5 47 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 40 (0.63%) Android
7 38 (0.60%) Windows Server
8 31 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.41%) VMS
10 13 (0.20%) SUSE
10 13 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.14%) Solaris
12 7 (0.11%) VME
13 6 (0.094%) Mesosphere
14 4 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.063%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.047%) CentOS
16 2 (0.031%) AIX
17 1 (0.016%) HPUX
17 1 (0.016%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,575 (24.74%) Agile
2 1,380 (21.68%) Roadmaps
3 1,368 (21.49%) TOGAF
4 929 (14.60%) Actionable Insight
5 772 (12.13%) Enterprise Architecture
6 758 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
7 645 (10.13%) Technical Architecture
8 610 (9.58%) DevOps
9 601 (9.44%) Presales
10 590 (9.27%) Data Architecture
11 588 (9.24%) Mentoring
12 573 (9.00%) Data Modelling
13 559 (8.78%) Strategic Roadmap
14 528 (8.30%) Migration
15 501 (7.87%) Analytics
16 494 (7.76%) Data Management
16 494 (7.76%) Microservices
16 494 (7.76%) Validation
17 489 (7.68%) ERP
18 464 (7.29%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 345 (5.42%) SQL
2 330 (5.18%) Python
3 321 (5.04%) Java
4 274 (4.30%) C#
5 232 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 96 (1.51%) PowerShell
7 84 (1.32%) C
8 64 (1.01%) C++
9 56 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 44 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 29 (0.46%) Scala
12 23 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 23 (0.36%) R
13 21 (0.33%) Bicep
14 18 (0.28%) Bash
15 17 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 16 (0.25%) Go
16 16 (0.25%) Ruby
17 14 (0.22%) Apex Code
17 14 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,078 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 694 (10.90%) Degree
3 693 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 277 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 226 (3.55%) AWS Certification
6 209 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 198 (3.11%) CISSP
8 192 (3.02%) DV Cleared
9 191 (3.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 164 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
11 123 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 123 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
12 117 (1.84%) CISM
13 103 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 98 (1.54%) Master's Degree
15 78 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 69 (1.08%) CCSP
16 69 (1.08%) PMI Certification
17 63 (0.99%) CCNP
18 54 (0.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 180 (2.83%) GDPR
3 129 (2.03%) QA
4 110 (1.73%) NIST
5 97 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (0.74%) COBIT
7 36 (0.57%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (0.46%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.17%) NCSC
13 8 (0.13%) PMO
14 7 (0.11%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.11%) ISO 13485
14 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
14 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.094%) Web Application Security Consortium
System Software
1 193 (3.03%) Docker
2 126 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 88 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (0.58%) vSphere
6 27 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 25 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (0.20%) vCloud
10 12 (0.19%) KVM
11 10 (0.16%) Firmware
12 5 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.047%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.047%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.047%) Xen
14 2 (0.031%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.016%) HDFS
15 1 (0.016%) LXC
15 1 (0.016%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 282 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 225 (3.53%) Terraform
3 95 (1.49%) Ansible
4 45 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 44 (0.69%) Puppet
6 32 (0.50%) OpenView
7 23 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.28%) Stealthwatch
9 16 (0.25%) CASB
10 13 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.16%) Grafana
11 10 (0.16%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.14%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.13%) Kiali
14 6 (0.094%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.094%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.094%) Endace
14 6 (0.094%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.094%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,130 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 560 (8.80%) Oracle
3 546 (8.58%) SAP
4 388 (6.10%) Google
5 300 (4.71%) Anaplan
5 300 (4.71%) Hyperion
6 153 (2.40%) Cisco
7 151 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 136 (2.14%) Databricks
9 133 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 112 (1.76%) Sparx
11 102 (1.60%) VMware
12 81 (1.27%) Juniper
13 70 (1.10%) Citrix
14 67 (1.05%) IBM
15 54 (0.85%) HP
16 49 (0.77%) Adobe
16 49 (0.77%) Apple
17 43 (0.68%) MuleSoft
18 42 (0.66%) BMC