Architect Job Trends in Berkshire

Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Architect salary in Berkshire is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 31 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 139 150 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.54% 6.89% 4.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.10% 7.33% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 31 87 53
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -8.82% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,715 2,045 1,756
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 93.98% 93.30%
Number of salaries quoted 788 1,091 1,195
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,982 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% -1.82%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Architect job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Architect
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Berkshire

Architect
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Berkshire

Architect
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 November 2025. 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
Maidenhead -7 31 - - 7
Windsor -10 31 - - 6
Slough - 29 - - 7
Reading -10 22 £85,000 +6.25% 23
Bracknell +25 11 £65,000 -10.34% 11
Ascot +3 7 £82,500 - 5
Wokingham 0 1 - - 12
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 11 November 2025, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 57 (41.01%) SAP
2 56 (40.29%) Risk Management
3 53 (38.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 52 (37.41%) Mentoring
4 52 (37.41%) Project Management
5 51 (36.69%) Source to Pay
6 49 (35.25%) Business Strategy
6 49 (35.25%) SAP MDG
7 46 (33.09%) Roadmaps
8 44 (31.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (30.22%) Strategic Roadmap
10 41 (29.50%) GCP
11 39 (28.06%) Architectural Design
11 39 (28.06%) Azure
11 39 (28.06%) Data Science
12 37 (26.62%) Indirect Procurement
12 37 (26.62%) OpenText
12 37 (26.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 27 (19.42%) Performance Optimisation
14 26 (18.71%) Data Governance
15 24 (17.27%) Cost Optimisation
16 23 (16.55%) AWS
17 22 (15.83%) Cloud Security
17 22 (15.83%) Java
17 22 (15.83%) Kubernetes
17 22 (15.83%) Python
18 21 (15.11%) Data Integration
19 20 (14.39%) AI
19 20 (14.39%) Analytics
19 20 (14.39%) BigQuery

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.04%) CMS
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 53 (38.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (35.25%) SAP MDG
3 37 (26.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (29.50%) GCP
2 39 (28.06%) Azure
3 23 (16.55%) AWS
4 11 (7.91%) SaaS
5 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (5.76%) PaaS
7 7 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (5.04%) iPaaS
7 7 (5.04%) SonarCloud
8 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.44%) IaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.72%) GitHub
9 1 (0.72%) OCI
9 1 (0.72%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) VPN
1 3 (2.16%) WAN
2 2 (1.44%) Junos
2 2 (1.44%) LAN
2 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.72%) 5G
3 1 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) MIMO
3 1 (0.72%) NGN
3 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.72%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.39%) BigQuery
2 19 (13.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.44%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Git
2 7 (5.04%) MSBuild
2 7 (5.04%) Octopus Deploy
2 7 (5.04%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (5.04%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.44%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (48.92%) Social Skills
2 64 (46.04%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (33.81%) Marketing
4 39 (28.06%) Law
5 15 (10.79%) Finance
6 8 (5.76%) Retail
7 7 (5.04%) Legal
7 7 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.88%) Banking
9 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.44%) Games
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.04%) .NET
1 7 (5.04%) ASP.NET
1 7 (5.04%) Bootstrap
1 7 (5.04%) CSS
1 7 (5.04%) gRPC
1 7 (5.04%) HTML
1 7 (5.04%) JSON
1 7 (5.04%) REST
1 7 (5.04%) XML
2 2 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (1.44%) Node.js
2 2 (1.44%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.72%) PKI
4 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.72%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.29%) Risk Management
2 52 (37.41%) Mentoring
2 52 (37.41%) Project Management
3 51 (36.69%) Source to Pay
4 49 (35.25%) Business Strategy
5 46 (33.09%) Roadmaps
6 44 (31.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (30.22%) Strategic Roadmap
8 39 (28.06%) Architectural Design
8 39 (28.06%) Data Science
9 37 (26.62%) Indirect Procurement
10 27 (19.42%) Performance Optimisation
11 26 (18.71%) Data Governance
12 24 (17.27%) Cost Optimisation
13 22 (15.83%) Cloud Security
14 21 (15.11%) Data Integration
15 20 (14.39%) AI
15 20 (14.39%) Analytics
15 20 (14.39%) Cost Management
15 20 (14.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.83%) Java
1 22 (15.83%) Python
2 20 (14.39%) Go
3 8 (5.76%) JavaScript
3 8 (5.76%) SQL
4 7 (5.04%) C#
5 2 (1.44%) ABAP
5 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.44%) SOQL
6 1 (0.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.44%) CCNA
4 2 (1.44%) CCNP
4 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.44%) Degree
4 2 (1.44%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.72%) CEH
5 1 (0.72%) CISM
5 1 (0.72%) CISSP
5 1 (0.72%) GIAC
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.19%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.72%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.44%) Terraform
4 1 (0.72%) Argo
4 1 (0.72%) Netcool
4 1 (0.72%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (41.01%) SAP
2 37 (26.62%) OpenText
3 20 (14.39%) Google
4 12 (8.63%) Ariba
5 5 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.16%) Cisco
6 3 (2.16%) Juniper
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.44%) VMware
7 2 (1.44%) Workday
8 1 (0.72%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.72%) Databricks
8 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.72%) IBM
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle
8 1 (0.72%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Thales
8 1 (0.72%) UiPath