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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +28
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 133 284 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.48% 8.46% 10.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.96% 8.83% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 102 176 231
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £72,000
25th Percentile £72,188 £72,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -1.33%
75th Percentile £107,188 £107,188 £110,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £128,750 £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 1,910 3,217 4,454
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 95.86% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,458 2,556 3,739
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 83 (62.41%) Azure
2 51 (38.35%) Microsoft
3 48 (36.09%) Agile
4 39 (29.32%) DevOps
5 32 (24.06%) Roadmaps
6 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
7 30 (22.56%) JavaScript
8 29 (21.80%) Law
9 28 (21.05%) TOGAF
9 28 (21.05%) Degree
10 24 (18.05%) Computer Science
11 23 (17.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (17.29%) Finance
11 23 (17.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 23 (17.29%) Power Platform
11 23 (17.29%) Business Strategy
12 22 (16.54%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (15.79%) Mentoring
13 21 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (15.04%) Sonatype Nexus
14 20 (15.04%) SonarQube
14 20 (15.04%) Static Code Analysis
14 20 (15.04%) Jenkins
14 20 (15.04%) SaaS
14 20 (15.04%) Confluence
14 20 (15.04%) JIRA
14 20 (15.04%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (15.04%) TeamCity
14 20 (15.04%) Security Cleared
14 20 (15.04%) Maven

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 20 (15.04%) Confluence
2 9 (6.77%) OpenEdge
3 4 (3.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.75%) Blender
3 1 (0.75%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (12.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.50%) Magento
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.75%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.75%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 83 (62.41%) Azure
2 23 (17.29%) Power Platform
3 21 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (15.04%) SaaS
5 18 (13.53%) AWS
6 15 (11.28%) GCP
7 10 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (6.77%) IaaS
8 9 (6.77%) PaaS
8 9 (6.77%) Serverless
9 8 (6.02%) PowerApps
10 7 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.51%) Azure AI
11 6 (4.51%) Azure Functions
11 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (4.51%) Power Automate
12 5 (3.76%) GitHub
13 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (1.50%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) Firewall
2 5 (3.76%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (3.76%) Ethernet
2 5 (3.76%) LAN
2 5 (3.76%) SD-WAN
2 5 (3.76%) WAN
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) H.323
3 1 (0.75%) ISDN
3 1 (0.75%) Softphone
3 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.75%) VPN
3 1 (0.75%) WebEx
3 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.77%) Power BI
3 5 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.26%) Big Data
5 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.50%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.75%) Metadata
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Ant
1 20 (15.04%) Jenkins
1 20 (15.04%) JIRA
1 20 (15.04%) Maven
1 20 (15.04%) SonarQube
1 20 (15.04%) Sonatype Nexus
1 20 (15.04%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.50%) GitLab
3 1 (0.75%) Git
General
1 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Law
3 23 (17.29%) Finance
4 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.02%) Retail
5 7 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Advertising
8 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
9 2 (1.50%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Front Office
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.78%) .NET
2 10 (7.52%) JSON
3 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.76%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (3.76%) CSS
4 5 (3.76%) HTML
4 5 (3.76%) WCF
4 5 (3.76%) XML
5 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.50%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.50%) Middleware
6 2 (1.50%) React
6 2 (1.50%) REST
6 2 (1.50%) RESTful
6 2 (1.50%) SOAP
6 2 (1.50%) Web Services
7 1 (0.75%) J2EE
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 1 (0.75%) Node.js
7 1 (0.75%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.77%) Public Cloud
2 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.51%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.50%) IoT
6 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.75%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.75%) Animation
7 1 (0.75%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.09%) Agile
2 39 (29.32%) DevOps
3 32 (24.06%) Roadmaps
4 28 (21.05%) TOGAF
5 24 (18.05%) Computer Science
6 23 (17.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 23 (17.29%) Business Strategy
6 23 (17.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 21 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 20 (15.04%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (15.04%) Static Code Analysis
9 19 (14.29%) User Experience
10 18 (13.53%) Product Roadmap
11 17 (12.78%) CRM
11 17 (12.78%) Migration
12 16 (12.03%) Decision-Making
13 15 (11.28%) Analytics
13 15 (11.28%) CI/CD
13 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (11.28%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.56%) JavaScript
2 18 (13.53%) Python
3 11 (8.27%) SQL
4 10 (7.52%) C#
5 6 (4.51%) Java
6 5 (3.76%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.50%) Bash
7 2 (1.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.75%) Go
8 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.75%) Ruby
8 1 (0.75%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) Degree
2 22 (16.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (15.04%) Security Cleared
4 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) ACSA
7 1 (0.75%) ACSP
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.75%) CCSK
7 1 (0.75%) CCSP
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.75%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) GDPR
2 6 (4.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) COBIT
5 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.01%) Docker
3 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (8.27%) Terraform
2 8 (6.02%) Ansible
3 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.76%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (38.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.53%) ServiceNow
3 16 (12.03%) Google
4 7 (5.26%) Databricks
4 7 (5.26%) SAP
4 7 (5.26%) Workday
5 6 (4.51%) Cisco
5 6 (4.51%) OpenAI
5 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.76%) Blue Coat
6 5 (3.76%) CheckPoint
6 5 (3.76%) F5
6 5 (3.76%) VMware
7 4 (3.01%) Teradata
8 2 (1.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.75%) Informatica
9 1 (0.75%) Talend