Architect Job Trends in Berkshire

Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Architect salary in Berkshire is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 148 128 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.39% 7.10% 4.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.97% 8.20% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 32 86 60
10th Percentile £62,975 £65,000 £44,125
25th Percentile £77,188 £71,250 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £93,125 £95,000
South East median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £82,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -5.49% -0.61%

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 1,858 1,561 1,716
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 86.63% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 920 826 1,234
10th Percentile £28,725 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 - 32 £120,000 -
Windsor -9 31 - - 1
Slough - 29 - - 30
Reading -10 15 £85,000 +6.25% 22
Bracknell +17 8 £63,500 -12.41% 1
Wokingham 0 3 - - 6
Ascot 0 2 £82,500 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 18 December 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 59 (39.86%) SAP
2 53 (35.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 52 (35.14%) Project Management
4 51 (34.46%) Source to Pay
5 50 (33.78%) Risk Management
6 49 (33.11%) Business Strategy
6 49 (33.11%) SAP MDG
7 45 (30.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (29.73%) Roadmaps
9 42 (28.38%) Strategic Roadmap
10 41 (27.70%) Mentoring
11 39 (26.35%) Architectural Design
11 39 (26.35%) Data Science
11 39 (26.35%) GCP
12 37 (25.00%) Indirect Procurement
12 37 (25.00%) OpenText
12 37 (25.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 23 (15.54%) Azure
13 23 (15.54%) Cost Optimisation
14 22 (14.86%) Cloud Security
14 22 (14.86%) Java
14 22 (14.86%) Kubernetes
14 22 (14.86%) Performance Optimisation
14 22 (14.86%) Python
15 21 (14.19%) AWS
15 21 (14.19%) Data Integration
16 20 (13.51%) Analytics
16 20 (13.51%) BigQuery
16 20 (13.51%) Cost Management
16 20 (13.51%) Data Governance

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 5 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
Business Applications
1 53 (35.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (33.11%) SAP MDG
3 37 (25.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.35%) GCP
2 23 (15.54%) Azure
3 21 (14.19%) AWS
4 6 (4.05%) SaaS
5 2 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.35%) SonarCloud
6 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.68%) GitHub
6 1 (0.68%) IaaS
6 1 (0.68%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) Firewall
2 3 (2.03%) VPN
2 3 (2.03%) WAN
3 2 (1.35%) Junos
3 2 (1.35%) LAN
3 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) MIMO
4 1 (0.68%) NGN
4 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.68%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.51%) BigQuery
2 19 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.35%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Git
2 2 (1.35%) MSBuild
2 2 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (42.57%) Social Skills
2 56 (37.84%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (29.05%) Marketing
4 39 (26.35%) Law
5 10 (6.76%) Finance
6 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.03%) Retail
8 2 (1.35%) Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Games
9 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.35%) .NET
1 2 (1.35%) ASP.NET
1 2 (1.35%) Bootstrap
1 2 (1.35%) CSS
1 2 (1.35%) gRPC
1 2 (1.35%) HTML
1 2 (1.35%) JSON
1 2 (1.35%) Node.js
1 2 (1.35%) REST
1 2 (1.35%) SAPUI5
1 2 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.38%) PKI
3 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.68%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Windows
2 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.14%) Project Management
2 51 (34.46%) Source to Pay
3 50 (33.78%) Risk Management
4 49 (33.11%) Business Strategy
5 45 (30.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (29.73%) Roadmaps
7 42 (28.38%) Strategic Roadmap
8 41 (27.70%) Mentoring
9 39 (26.35%) Architectural Design
9 39 (26.35%) Data Science
10 37 (25.00%) Indirect Procurement
11 23 (15.54%) Cost Optimisation
12 22 (14.86%) Cloud Security
12 22 (14.86%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (14.19%) Data Integration
14 20 (13.51%) Analytics
14 20 (13.51%) Cost Management
14 20 (13.51%) Data Governance
14 20 (13.51%) Data Modelling
15 19 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.86%) Java
1 22 (14.86%) Python
2 20 (13.51%) Go
3 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.35%) ABAP
4 2 (1.35%) C#
4 2 (1.35%) SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.35%) CCNA
4 2 (1.35%) CCNP
4 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.35%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.68%) CEH
5 1 (0.68%) CISM
5 1 (0.68%) CISSP
5 1 (0.68%) GIAC
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (4.05%) VMware NSX
2 4 (2.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.05%) Netcool
3 5 (3.38%) vRealize
4 2 (1.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.68%) Terraform
5 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (39.86%) SAP
2 37 (25.00%) OpenText
3 20 (13.51%) Google
4 12 (8.11%) Ariba
5 6 (4.05%) VMware
6 3 (2.03%) Cisco
6 3 (2.03%) Juniper
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.35%) Workday
8 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) Pega
8 1 (0.68%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) Thales
8 1 (0.68%) UiPath