Architect Jobs in Central London

Architect
London > Central London

The median Architect salary in Central London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 140 301 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.88% 7.97% 10.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.40% 8.35% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 100 182 239
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £69,750
25th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £78,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £104,750 £106,250
90th Percentile £123,750 £124,750 £117,500
London median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,186 3,603 4,826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 95.44% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 2,766 3,999
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Central London

Architect
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Architect in Central London

Architect
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Central London

Architect
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 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
City of London -20 113 £90,000 - 46
City of Westminster +12 23 - - 3
Camden -9 5 - - 5
Southwark - 1 £120,000 - 1
Architect
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Central London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 77 (55.00%) Azure
2 54 (38.57%) Degree
2 54 (38.57%) Roadmaps
3 43 (30.71%) Microsoft
3 43 (30.71%) Agile
4 32 (22.86%) Social Skills
4 32 (22.86%) Computer Science
4 32 (22.86%) Finance
5 31 (22.14%) DevOps
6 30 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (20.00%) Law
8 27 (19.29%) TOGAF
9 26 (18.57%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
11 23 (16.43%) SaaS
11 23 (16.43%) Data Strategy
11 23 (16.43%) User Experience
12 22 (15.71%) ServiceNow
12 22 (15.71%) Product Roadmap
12 22 (15.71%) Data Architecture
12 22 (15.71%) Data Governance
13 21 (15.00%) Migration
13 21 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 20 (14.29%) Analytics
15 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (13.57%) Thought Leadership
15 19 (13.57%) Business Strategy
16 18 (12.86%) AWS
16 18 (12.86%) Linux
16 18 (12.86%) CAD

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 17 (12.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) Blender
3 1 (0.71%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.71%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.71%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.71%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 77 (55.00%) Azure
2 23 (16.43%) SaaS
3 18 (12.86%) AWS
4 15 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (10.00%) GCP
5 14 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 11 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (5.71%) IaaS
7 8 (5.71%) PaaS
7 8 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 8 (5.71%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.00%) Serverless
9 6 (4.29%) Azure AI
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.86%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.14%) GitHub
13 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (2.14%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.14%) LAN
2 3 (2.14%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.14%) WAN
3 1 (0.71%) H.323
3 1 (0.71%) ISDN
3 1 (0.71%) SAN
3 1 (0.71%) Softphone
3 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.71%) WebEx
3 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.43%) Power BI
3 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.14%) Big Data
4 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.43%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Ant
1 17 (12.14%) Jenkins
1 17 (12.14%) JIRA
1 17 (12.14%) Maven
1 17 (12.14%) SonarQube
1 17 (12.14%) Sonatype Nexus
1 17 (12.14%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.43%) GitLab
General
1 32 (22.86%) Finance
1 32 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.00%) Law
3 7 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.57%) Games
6 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Banking
7 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Advertising
8 2 (1.43%) Legal
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.71%) .NET
2 9 (6.43%) Kafka
3 7 (5.00%) JSON
4 5 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.57%) OpenAPI
4 5 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (2.86%) CSS
5 4 (2.86%) HTML
5 4 (2.86%) WCF
5 4 (2.86%) XML
6 2 (1.43%) Middleware
6 2 (1.43%) React
6 2 (1.43%) RESTful
7 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.71%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.71%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.71%) J2EE
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 1 (0.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.57%) Mobile Games
4 5 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.71%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.71%) Animation
8 1 (0.71%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.71%) CCTV
8 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (38.57%) Roadmaps
2 43 (30.71%) Agile
3 32 (22.86%) Computer Science
4 31 (22.14%) DevOps
5 27 (19.29%) TOGAF
6 26 (18.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 23 (16.43%) Data Strategy
7 23 (16.43%) User Experience
8 22 (15.71%) Data Architecture
8 22 (15.71%) Data Governance
8 22 (15.71%) Product Roadmap
9 21 (15.00%) Migration
9 21 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 20 (14.29%) Analytics
11 19 (13.57%) Business Strategy
11 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (13.57%) Thought Leadership
12 18 (12.86%) CAD
13 17 (12.14%) Microservices
13 17 (12.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
2 16 (11.43%) Python
3 15 (10.71%) SQL
4 11 (7.86%) C#
5 6 (4.29%) Java
6 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.14%) Bash
7 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.43%) Bicep
8 2 (1.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.71%) Ruby
9 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (38.57%) Degree
2 30 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) ACSA
7 1 (0.71%) ACSP
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.71%) CCNA
7 1 (0.71%) CCSK
7 1 (0.71%) CCSP
7 1 (0.71%) ISSAP
7 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) GDPR
2 6 (4.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (2.86%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.14%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) COBIT
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.14%) Docker
1 3 (2.14%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Terraform
2 6 (4.29%) Ansible
3 5 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.43%) SCCM
5 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 43 (30.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.71%) ServiceNow
3 17 (12.14%) Google
4 7 (5.00%) SAP
4 7 (5.00%) Workday
5 6 (4.29%) Databricks
5 6 (4.29%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.57%) Cisco
6 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.86%) Oracle
7 4 (2.86%) VMware
8 3 (2.14%) Blue Coat
8 3 (2.14%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.14%) F5
8 3 (2.14%) iManage
9 2 (1.43%) Informatica
9 2 (1.43%) Talend
9 2 (1.43%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.71%) IBM
10 1 (0.71%) Teradata