Architect Job Trends in Berkshire

Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Architect salary in Berkshire is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 32 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +33 -14
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 145 149 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 7.55% 6.87% 3.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.09% 7.37% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 35 87 51
10th Percentile £61,100 £65,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +21.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,000 £100,000
South East median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year - -7.46% +4.69%

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 1,792 2,021 1,732
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 93.13% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 841 1,084 1,197
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,735
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.61% -6.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,924 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.66% -4.45%

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 21 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 21 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 -14 32 £120,000 - 2
Windsor -5 31 - -
Slough - 29 - - 2
Reading -9 19 £85,000 +6.25% 28
Bracknell +19 10 £65,000 -10.34% 1
Ascot +3 6 £82,500 -
Wokingham +1 2 - - 6
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 59 (40.69%) SAP
2 55 (37.93%) Risk Management
3 53 (36.55%) Project Management
3 53 (36.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 51 (35.17%) Source to Pay
5 49 (33.79%) Business Strategy
5 49 (33.79%) SAP MDG
6 48 (33.10%) Mentoring
7 46 (31.72%) Roadmaps
8 45 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (28.97%) Strategic Roadmap
10 41 (28.28%) GCP
11 39 (26.90%) Architectural Design
11 39 (26.90%) Data Science
12 37 (25.52%) Indirect Procurement
12 37 (25.52%) OpenText
12 37 (25.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
13 34 (23.45%) Azure
14 26 (17.93%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (17.24%) Data Governance
16 24 (16.55%) Cost Optimisation
17 23 (15.86%) AWS
18 22 (15.17%) Cloud Security
18 22 (15.17%) Java
18 22 (15.17%) Kubernetes
18 22 (15.17%) Python
19 21 (14.48%) Data Integration
20 20 (13.79%) Analytics
20 20 (13.79%) BigQuery
20 20 (13.79%) Cost Management

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 6 (4.14%) CMS
2 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 53 (36.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (33.79%) SAP MDG
3 37 (25.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 41 (28.28%) GCP
2 34 (23.45%) Azure
3 23 (15.86%) AWS
4 11 (7.59%) SaaS
5 7 (4.83%) PaaS
6 6 (4.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (4.14%) iPaaS
6 6 (4.14%) SonarCloud
7 2 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.38%) IaaS
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub
8 1 (0.69%) OCI
8 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) VPN
1 3 (2.07%) WAN
2 2 (1.38%) Junos
2 2 (1.38%) LAN
2 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.69%) 5G
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) Firewall
3 1 (0.69%) MIMO
3 1 (0.69%) NGN
3 1 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.69%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.79%) BigQuery
2 19 (13.10%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Git
2 6 (4.14%) MSBuild
2 6 (4.14%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (4.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (4.14%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 69 (47.59%) Social Skills
2 62 (42.76%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (32.41%) Marketing
4 39 (26.90%) Law
5 11 (7.59%) Finance
6 7 (4.83%) Retail
7 6 (4.14%) Legal
7 6 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.14%) .NET
1 6 (4.14%) ASP.NET
1 6 (4.14%) Bootstrap
1 6 (4.14%) CSS
1 6 (4.14%) gRPC
1 6 (4.14%) HTML
1 6 (4.14%) JSON
1 6 (4.14%) REST
1 6 (4.14%) XML
2 2 (1.38%) Node.js
2 2 (1.38%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.17%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.45%) PKI
4 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.07%) Linux
2 2 (1.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (37.93%) Risk Management
2 53 (36.55%) Project Management
3 51 (35.17%) Source to Pay
4 49 (33.79%) Business Strategy
5 48 (33.10%) Mentoring
6 46 (31.72%) Roadmaps
7 45 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (28.97%) Strategic Roadmap
9 39 (26.90%) Architectural Design
9 39 (26.90%) Data Science
10 37 (25.52%) Indirect Procurement
11 26 (17.93%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (17.24%) Data Governance
13 24 (16.55%) Cost Optimisation
14 22 (15.17%) Cloud Security
15 21 (14.48%) Data Integration
16 20 (13.79%) Analytics
16 20 (13.79%) Cost Management
16 20 (13.79%) Data Modelling
17 19 (13.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.17%) Java
1 22 (15.17%) Python
2 20 (13.79%) Go
3 7 (4.83%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.14%) C#
4 6 (4.14%) SQL
5 2 (1.38%) ABAP
6 1 (0.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.38%) CCNA
4 2 (1.38%) CCNP
4 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.38%) Degree
4 2 (1.38%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.69%) CEH
5 1 (0.69%) CISM
5 1 (0.69%) CISSP
5 1 (0.69%) GIAC
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.21%) GDPR
3 3 (2.07%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.38%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.07%) Ansible
3 2 (1.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.69%) Argo
4 1 (0.69%) Netcool
4 1 (0.69%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 59 (40.69%) SAP
2 37 (25.52%) OpenText
3 20 (13.79%) Google
4 12 (8.28%) Ariba
5 3 (2.07%) Cisco
5 3 (2.07%) Juniper
5 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.38%) VMware
6 2 (1.38%) Workday
7 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.69%) IBM
7 1 (0.69%) Pega
7 1 (0.69%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.69%) Thales
7 1 (0.69%) UiPath