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 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +39
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 99 195 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.15% 6.38% 9.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.79% 6.68% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 67 74 99
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,873 £60,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £90,000 £99,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +13.33%

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 1,271 2,919 2,869
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 78.99% 95.49% 92.46%
Number of salaries quoted 575 2,064 1,632
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -9.09% +0.43%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £92,500
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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -11 33 £82,500 +6.45% 50
Bracknell +36 25 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Ascot - 12 £82,500 -
Slough - 9 - - 6
Windsor -25 8 £81,250 - 2
Maidenhead - 6 - - 1
Wokingham +10 4 £105,000 +50.00% 4
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 52 (52.53%) DevOps
1 52 (52.53%) Microservices
2 51 (51.52%) Technical Leadership
3 48 (48.48%) Design Patterns
3 48 (48.48%) REST
4 39 (39.39%) Azure
5 34 (34.34%) Social Skills
6 32 (32.32%) Agile
7 30 (30.30%) SQL
7 30 (30.30%) Docker
8 29 (29.29%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (29.29%) .NET
9 28 (28.28%) C#
9 28 (28.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 28 (28.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 28 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (28.28%) Event-Driven
10 27 (27.27%) CI/CD
10 27 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
10 27 (27.27%) Git
10 27 (27.27%) GDPR
10 27 (27.27%) XML
10 27 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
10 27 (27.27%) JSON
11 26 (26.26%) Performance Testing
11 26 (26.26%) Visual Studio
11 26 (26.26%) ASP.NET
11 26 (26.26%) CSS
11 26 (26.26%) HTML
11 26 (26.26%) JavaScript

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 3 (3.03%) CMS
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 6 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.39%) Azure
2 29 (29.29%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (28.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 27 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
5 26 (26.26%) SonarCloud
6 22 (22.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 7 (7.07%) SaaS
8 5 (5.05%) AWS
8 5 (5.05%) PaaS
9 3 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.03%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.03%) Serverless
10 2 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.02%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 2 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (2.02%) IaaS
10 2 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.01%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.13%) WAN
2 7 (7.07%) MPLS
3 5 (5.05%) BGP
3 5 (5.05%) IPsec
3 5 (5.05%) Junos
3 5 (5.05%) LAN
4 4 (4.04%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.03%) Firewall
6 2 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.02%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.01%) DNS
7 1 (1.01%) Internet
7 1 (1.01%) NAS
7 1 (1.01%) SAN
7 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.26%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.02%) MySQL
3 2 (2.02%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.02%) Power BI
4 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.01%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (27.27%) Git
2 26 (26.26%) MSBuild
2 26 (26.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 26 (26.26%) Team Foundation Server
2 26 (26.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 34 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.24%) Marketing
2 24 (24.24%) Retail
3 21 (21.21%) Law
4 15 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.10%) Finance
6 6 (6.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.03%) Legal
7 3 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.01%) Back Office
9 1 (1.01%) French Language
9 1 (1.01%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (48.48%) REST
2 29 (29.29%) .NET
3 27 (27.27%) JSON
3 27 (27.27%) XML
4 26 (26.26%) ASP.NET
4 26 (26.26%) Bootstrap
4 26 (26.26%) CSS
4 26 (26.26%) gRPC
4 26 (26.26%) HTML
5 23 (23.23%) Middleware
6 22 (22.22%) Lightning Web Components
7 21 (21.21%) SOAP
8 2 (2.02%) React
8 2 (2.02%) Web Services
9 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.01%) Kafka
9 1 (1.01%) Laravel
9 1 (1.01%) SAP Basis
9 1 (1.01%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (1.01%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.23%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.01%) Clustering
4 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.01%) FMCG
4 1 (1.01%) IoT
4 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.01%) NHS
4 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.01%) Replication
4 1 (1.01%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (52.53%) DevOps
1 52 (52.53%) Microservices
2 51 (51.52%) Technical Leadership
3 48 (48.48%) Design Patterns
4 32 (32.32%) Agile
5 28 (28.28%) Event-Driven
5 28 (28.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 28 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 27 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
7 26 (26.26%) API Integration
7 26 (26.26%) Code Quality
7 26 (26.26%) Data Encryption
7 26 (26.26%) MVC
7 26 (26.26%) Performance Optimisation
7 26 (26.26%) Performance Testing
8 25 (25.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (23.23%) Software Delivery
11 22 (22.22%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.30%) SQL
2 28 (28.28%) C#
3 26 (26.26%) JavaScript
4 22 (22.22%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.01%) Bicep
5 1 (1.01%) Java
5 1 (1.01%) PHP
5 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 22 (22.22%) Degree
2 22 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 21 (21.21%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.06%) CCNA
4 6 (6.06%) CCNP
4 6 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.06%) JNCIS
5 5 (5.05%) SAP Certification
6 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.27%) GDPR
2 21 (21.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.04%) SLA
5 1 (1.01%) GMP
5 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.01%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (30.30%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.02%) Terraform
2 1 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
2 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (24.24%) Salesforce
2 21 (21.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 14 (14.14%) Cisco
3 14 (14.14%) Juniper
4 9 (9.09%) SAP
5 4 (4.04%) VMware
6 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.02%) Databricks
7 2 (2.02%) Oracle
7 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.02%) SevOne
8 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.01%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.01%) Concur
8 1 (1.01%) Meraki