Architect Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Architect
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Architect salary in Cambridgeshire is £74,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 60 31
Rank change year-on-year +9 -29 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 8 41 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.59% 2.61% 7.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 2.79% 9.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 35
10th Percentile £57,453 £52,500 £73,500
25th Percentile £61,971 £65,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £79,136 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -4.08% +6.45%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £78,300 £122,500 £95,000
East of England median annual salary £66,200 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -19.76% -2.94% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 471 1,471 1,236
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 93.69% 86.49%
Number of salaries quoted 308 1,138 585
10th Percentile £28,675 £27,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £66,563 £69,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,001 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Cambridgeshire

Architect
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Peterborough +9 6 £74,000 +13.85% 9
Cambridge +18 2 - - 38
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
2 4 (50.00%) PaaS
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (50.00%) IaaS
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) ISSAP
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (37.50%) GDPR
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (25.00%) NCSC
4 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (25.00%) NIST
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) COBIT
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) IaaS
2 4 (50.00%) PaaS
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) Collibra
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
1 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security
2 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) ISMS
2 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Security Management
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) RBAC
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (37.50%) ISSAP
2 2 (25.00%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) COBIT
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Informatica
1 1 (12.50%) Meraki