Architect Jobs in the City of London

Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Architect salary in the City of London is £90,000 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 41 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 113 290 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.83% 8.68% 10.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% 9.03% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 79 171 221
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £72,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.70%
75th Percentile £109,375 £105,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £125,250 £125,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,807 3,213 4,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,519 3,610
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the City of London.

Salary trend for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Architect in the City of London

Architect
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the City of 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
London Bridge - 1 £120,000 -
Architect
Central London

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 City of London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 68 (60.18%) Azure
2 42 (37.17%) Agile
3 40 (35.40%) Microsoft
4 36 (31.86%) Roadmaps
5 32 (28.32%) Degree
6 31 (27.43%) DevOps
7 27 (23.89%) Computer Science
7 27 (23.89%) TOGAF
8 26 (23.01%) Artificial Intelligence
8 26 (23.01%) Law
9 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
9 25 (22.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (21.24%) JavaScript
11 23 (20.35%) User Experience
12 22 (19.47%) ServiceNow
12 22 (19.47%) Product Roadmap
13 21 (18.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 19 (16.81%) Thought Leadership
14 19 (16.81%) Business Strategy
15 18 (15.93%) SaaS
15 18 (15.93%) CAD
16 17 (15.04%) Ant
16 17 (15.04%) Linux
16 17 (15.04%) Maven
16 17 (15.04%) JIRA
16 17 (15.04%) Workflow
16 17 (15.04%) Confluence
16 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (15.04%) Static Code Analysis
16 17 (15.04%) Continuous Integration

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (15.04%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.88%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.88%) Blender
3 1 (0.88%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.77%) Magento
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.88%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.88%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.88%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 68 (60.18%) Azure
2 18 (15.93%) SaaS
3 13 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.50%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.62%) AWS
5 10 (8.85%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (7.96%) GCP
7 8 (7.08%) IaaS
7 8 (7.08%) PaaS
8 7 (6.19%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.19%) Serverless
9 6 (5.31%) Azure AI
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.42%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.65%) GitHub
13 2 (1.77%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (1.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (2.65%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.65%) LAN
2 3 (2.65%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.65%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) H.323
3 1 (0.88%) ISDN
3 1 (0.88%) SAN
3 1 (0.88%) Softphone
3 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) WebEx
3 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.08%) Power BI
3 5 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.65%) Big Data
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.77%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.77%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.77%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (15.04%) Ant
1 17 (15.04%) Jenkins
1 17 (15.04%) JIRA
1 17 (15.04%) Maven
1 17 (15.04%) SonarQube
1 17 (15.04%) Sonatype Nexus
1 17 (15.04%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.77%) GitLab
General
1 26 (23.01%) Law
2 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.39%) Finance
4 6 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Banking
7 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Marketing
8 2 (1.77%) Advertising
8 2 (1.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Automotive
9 1 (0.88%) Front Office
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) .NET
2 7 (6.19%) JSON
3 5 (4.42%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.54%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (3.54%) CSS
4 4 (3.54%) HTML
4 4 (3.54%) Kafka
4 4 (3.54%) WCF
4 4 (3.54%) XML
5 2 (1.77%) Middleware
5 2 (1.77%) React
5 2 (1.77%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.88%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.88%) J2EE
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 1 (0.88%) Node.js
6 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Cloud Native
1 7 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.31%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.88%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.88%) Animation
7 1 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.88%) CCTV
7 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.04%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.17%) Agile
2 36 (31.86%) Roadmaps
3 31 (27.43%) DevOps
4 27 (23.89%) Computer Science
4 27 (23.89%) TOGAF
5 26 (23.01%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (20.35%) User Experience
7 22 (19.47%) Product Roadmap
8 21 (18.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 19 (16.81%) Business Strategy
9 19 (16.81%) Thought Leadership
10 18 (15.93%) CAD
11 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (15.04%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (15.04%) Static Code Analysis
11 17 (15.04%) Workflow
12 16 (14.16%) Business Agility
12 16 (14.16%) ITSM
12 16 (14.16%) Product Strategy
12 16 (14.16%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.24%) JavaScript
2 15 (13.27%) Python
3 11 (9.73%) C#
4 10 (8.85%) SQL
5 6 (5.31%) Java
6 4 (3.54%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.77%) Bash
7 2 (1.77%) Bicep
7 2 (1.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
8 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (28.32%) Degree
2 25 (22.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.08%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.19%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ACSA
7 1 (0.88%) ACSP
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA
7 1 (0.88%) CCSK
7 1 (0.88%) CCSP
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) ISSAP
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.73%) GDPR
2 6 (5.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.65%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) COBIT
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Terraform
2 5 (4.42%) Ansible
3 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.65%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 40 (35.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.47%) ServiceNow
3 12 (10.62%) Google
4 7 (6.19%) SAP
4 7 (6.19%) Workday
5 6 (5.31%) Databricks
5 6 (5.31%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.42%) Cisco
6 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle
8 3 (2.65%) Blue Coat
8 3 (2.65%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.65%) F5
8 3 (2.65%) VMware
9 2 (1.77%) Informatica
9 2 (1.77%) Talend
9 2 (1.77%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.88%) IBM
10 1 (0.88%) Teradata