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 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 28 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +43 -13
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 161 161 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.16% 6.67% 3.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.77% 7.01% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 42 91 44
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +17.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £92,300 £87,500 £100,000
South East median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -8.82% +9.68%

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 1,835 2,296 1,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.07% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 789 1,300 1,282
10th Percentile £27,800 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Windsor -17 36 £80,000 -3.03% 2
Maidenhead -15 35 - -
Slough - 34 - - 42
Reading -14 31 £82,500 +8.20% 12
Bracknell +25 17 £65,000 -10.34% 1
Ascot +6 7 £82,500 -
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 80 (49.69%) Social Skills
2 67 (41.61%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (39.13%) Business Strategy
4 62 (38.51%) Marketing
5 59 (36.65%) Risk Management
6 56 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 55 (34.16%) SAP
8 54 (33.54%) Mentoring
9 53 (32.92%) Law
9 53 (32.92%) Project Management
10 52 (32.30%) Azure
11 51 (31.68%) Source to Pay
11 51 (31.68%) SAP S/4HANA
12 49 (30.43%) SAP MDG
13 46 (28.57%) Roadmaps
14 42 (26.09%) Strategic Roadmap
14 42 (26.09%) GCP
15 40 (24.84%) Architectural Design
16 39 (24.22%) Data Science
17 37 (22.98%) OpenText VIM for SAP
17 37 (22.98%) Indirect Procurement
17 37 (22.98%) OpenText
18 35 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
19 33 (20.50%) Data Quality
19 33 (20.50%) DevOps
19 33 (20.50%) Technical Leadership
19 33 (20.50%) Data Modelling
20 31 (19.25%) Microservices
21 29 (18.01%) REST
21 29 (18.01%) Design Patterns

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 (5.59%) CMS
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 51 (31.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (30.43%) SAP MDG
3 37 (22.98%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.30%) Azure
2 42 (26.09%) GCP
3 23 (14.29%) AWS
4 19 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (9.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 16 (9.94%) Azure Service Bus
6 15 (9.32%) SonarCloud
7 14 (8.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 12 (7.45%) SaaS
9 11 (6.83%) PaaS
10 9 (5.59%) iPaaS
11 2 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.24%) IaaS
11 2 (1.24%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.62%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) WAN
2 3 (1.86%) VPN
3 2 (1.24%) Junos
3 2 (1.24%) LAN
3 2 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) Firewall
4 1 (0.62%) NAS
4 1 (0.62%) SAN
4 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.42%) BigQuery
2 19 (11.80%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.24%) Power BI
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.62%) MySQL
5 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (9.94%) Git
2 15 (9.32%) MSBuild
2 15 (9.32%) Octopus Deploy
2 15 (9.32%) Team Foundation Server
2 15 (9.32%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.24%) JIRA
General
1 80 (49.69%) Social Skills
2 67 (41.61%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (38.51%) Marketing
4 53 (32.92%) Law
5 15 (9.32%) Finance
6 14 (8.70%) Retail
7 9 (5.59%) Legal
7 9 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Advertising
9 1 (0.62%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.01%) REST
2 16 (9.94%) .NET
2 16 (9.94%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (9.32%) ASP.NET
3 15 (9.32%) Bootstrap
3 15 (9.32%) CSS
3 15 (9.32%) gRPC
3 15 (9.32%) HTML
3 15 (9.32%) JSON
3 15 (9.32%) Middleware
3 15 (9.32%) XML
4 14 (8.70%) SOAP
5 1 (0.62%) Kafka
5 1 (0.62%) React
5 1 (0.62%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.62%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 15 (9.32%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.62%) Clustering
6 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) NHS
6 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
1 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.13%) Business Strategy
2 59 (36.65%) Risk Management
3 56 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (33.54%) Mentoring
5 53 (32.92%) Project Management
6 51 (31.68%) Source to Pay
7 46 (28.57%) Roadmaps
8 42 (26.09%) Strategic Roadmap
9 40 (24.84%) Architectural Design
10 39 (24.22%) Data Science
11 37 (22.98%) Indirect Procurement
12 35 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
13 33 (20.50%) Data Modelling
13 33 (20.50%) DevOps
13 33 (20.50%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (19.25%) Microservices
15 29 (18.01%) Design Patterns
16 28 (17.39%) Data Governance
17 27 (16.77%) Agile
18 24 (14.91%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.04%) Java
2 20 (12.42%) Go
2 20 (12.42%) Python
3 18 (11.18%) SQL
4 16 (9.94%) Apex Code
4 16 (9.94%) C#
5 15 (9.32%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.24%) SOQL
7 1 (0.62%) Bicep
7 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (10.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (10.56%) Degree
1 17 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.70%) Master's Degree
2 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.24%) CCNA
3 2 (1.24%) CCNP
3 2 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.24%) JNCIA
3 2 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.50%) Data Quality
2 18 (11.18%) GDPR
3 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.86%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (9.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Ansible
2 1 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
2 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (34.16%) SAP
2 37 (22.98%) OpenText
3 20 (12.42%) Google
4 19 (11.80%) Salesforce
5 14 (8.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 12 (7.45%) Ariba
7 4 (2.48%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.86%) Cisco
8 3 (1.86%) Juniper
9 2 (1.24%) Databricks
9 2 (1.24%) Oracle
10 1 (0.62%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.62%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.62%) Meraki
10 1 (0.62%) VMware