Architect Jobs 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 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 103 228 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.04% 6.81% 9.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.79% 7.14% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64 85 80
10th Percentile £62,500 £61,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.64% +5.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £91,900 £89,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% -9.09% +10.00%

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 1,518 3,193 2,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.03% 95.43% 91.74%
Number of salaries quoted 670 2,138 1,511
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,313 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +0.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Berkshire

Architect
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Architect in Berkshire

Architect
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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
Reading -15 40 £82,500 +6.45% 94
Bracknell +39 28 £65,000 -10.34% 18
Ascot - 9 £82,500 -
Slough - 9 - - 185
Windsor -30 7 £80,000 -
Maidenhead -23 6 - - 5
Wokingham +7 2 £93,750 +33.93% 7
Architect
South East

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 51 (49.51%) Technical Leadership
2 48 (46.60%) DevOps
3 46 (44.66%) Microservices
4 43 (41.75%) REST
4 43 (41.75%) Design Patterns
5 42 (40.78%) Azure
6 40 (38.83%) Social Skills
7 36 (34.95%) Agile
8 30 (29.13%) Marketing
9 28 (27.18%) Security Cleared
10 27 (26.21%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (25.24%) Salesforce
12 25 (24.27%) SQL
12 25 (24.27%) SC Cleared
12 25 (24.27%) GDPR
12 25 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (24.27%) Docker
12 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
13 24 (23.30%) Code Quality
13 24 (23.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (23.30%) Degree
13 24 (23.30%) Computer Science
13 24 (23.30%) .NET
13 24 (23.30%) C#
14 23 (22.33%) Enterprise Architecture
14 23 (22.33%) Git
14 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (22.33%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (22.33%) Event-Driven Architecture

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 9 (8.74%) CMS
2 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.94%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 27 (26.21%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (22.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 23 (22.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (21.36%) SonarCloud
5 21 (20.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 13 (12.62%) SaaS
7 11 (10.68%) PaaS
8 9 (8.74%) iPaaS
9 5 (4.85%) AWS
10 3 (2.91%) GCP
11 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.94%) IaaS
11 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.56%) WAN
2 7 (6.80%) Junos
2 7 (6.80%) LAN
3 5 (4.85%) BGP
3 5 (4.85%) IPsec
3 5 (4.85%) MPLS
4 4 (3.88%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.91%) VPN
6 2 (1.94%) Firewall
6 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.97%) DNS
7 1 (0.97%) Internet
7 1 (0.97%) NAS
7 1 (0.97%) SAN
7 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.94%) MySQL
3 2 (1.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (22.33%) Git
2 22 (21.36%) MSBuild
2 22 (21.36%) Octopus Deploy
2 22 (21.36%) Team Foundation Server
2 22 (21.36%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.94%) JIRA
General
1 40 (38.83%) Social Skills
2 30 (29.13%) Marketing
3 22 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (20.39%) Law
4 21 (20.39%) Retail
5 20 (19.42%) Finance
6 9 (8.74%) Legal
6 9 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (8.74%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Advertising
7 2 (1.94%) Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.97%) Back Office
8 1 (0.97%) French Language
8 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (41.75%) REST
2 24 (23.30%) .NET
3 23 (22.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 22 (21.36%) ASP.NET
4 22 (21.36%) Bootstrap
4 22 (21.36%) CSS
4 22 (21.36%) gRPC
4 22 (21.36%) HTML
4 22 (21.36%) JSON
4 22 (21.36%) Middleware
4 22 (21.36%) XML
5 21 (20.39%) SOAP
6 2 (1.94%) React
7 1 (0.97%) Kafka
7 1 (0.97%) Laravel
7 1 (0.97%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.97%) SAP XI
7 1 (0.97%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.33%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (8.74%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Clustering
6 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.97%) FMCG
6 1 (0.97%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) NHS
6 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.97%) Linux
1 1 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.51%) Technical Leadership
2 48 (46.60%) DevOps
3 46 (44.66%) Microservices
4 43 (41.75%) Design Patterns
5 36 (34.95%) Agile
6 25 (24.27%) CI/CD
6 25 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (23.30%) Code Quality
7 24 (23.30%) Computer Science
8 23 (22.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 23 (22.33%) Event-Driven
8 23 (22.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 23 (22.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (21.36%) API Integration
9 22 (21.36%) Data Encryption
9 22 (21.36%) Information Security
9 22 (21.36%) Performance Optimisation
9 22 (21.36%) Software Delivery
9 22 (21.36%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.27%) SQL
2 24 (23.30%) C#
3 23 (22.33%) Apex Code
4 22 (21.36%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.94%) SOQL
6 1 (0.97%) Bicep
6 1 (0.97%) Java
6 1 (0.97%) PHP
6 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 24 (23.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (23.30%) Degree
4 21 (20.39%) Master's Degree
5 8 (7.77%) CCNA
5 8 (7.77%) CCNP
5 8 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.83%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.94%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (24.27%) GDPR
2 21 (20.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.88%) SLA
4 3 (2.91%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.91%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.97%) GMP
5 1 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (24.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.97%) Ansible
2 1 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.97%) Grafana
2 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (25.24%) Salesforce
2 21 (20.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 14 (13.59%) Cisco
3 14 (13.59%) Juniper
4 6 (5.83%) SAP
5 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.94%) Databricks
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle
7 1 (0.97%) Computacenter
7 1 (0.97%) Concur
7 1 (0.97%) Meraki
7 1 (0.97%) VMware