Architect Jobs in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect salary in the East of England is £71,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 August 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 49 32
Rank change year-on-year -63 -17 +52
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 83 172 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.14% 3.49% 7.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 3.71% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 29 134 109
10th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,563 £68,404
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.88% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £85,700 £93,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £88,400 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 3,617 4,635 2,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 94.17% 84.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,891 3,255 1,793
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,300
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Architect in the East of England.

Salary trend for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in the East of England

Architect
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Suffolk +4 33 £66,200 -8.69% 3
Hertfordshire -21 21 £71,500 -4.67% 21
Norfolk +14 13 £85,700 -4.78% 3
Cambridgeshire -23 9 £72,221 -15.03% 21
Bedfordshire -36 5 £77,500 -16.22% 6
Essex -22 3 £86,000 -14.00% 10
East Anglia - 1 £86,000 - 3
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 August 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 East of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 30 (36.14%) Agile
2 30 (36.14%) Degree
3 26 (31.33%) Electronics
4 25 (30.12%) Business Enablement
5 23 (27.71%) SaaS
6 21 (25.30%) Computer Science
7 20 (24.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (22.89%) DevOps
8 19 (22.89%) Business Strategy
8 19 (22.89%) Roadmaps
9 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.07%) Value Proposition
10 15 (18.07%) Portfolio Management
10 15 (18.07%) Product Management
10 15 (18.07%) Azure
10 15 (18.07%) Matrix Organization
10 15 (18.07%) Performance Metrics
10 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (18.07%) SLA
10 15 (18.07%) Python
11 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (15.66%) Service Design
12 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
12 12 (14.46%) C#
13 11 (13.25%) Project Management
13 11 (13.25%) TOGAF
13 11 (13.25%) User Experience
13 11 (13.25%) AWS
13 11 (13.25%) Architectural Design

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.41%) Appian
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.20%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) SaaS
2 15 (18.07%) Azure
3 11 (13.25%) AWS
4 8 (9.64%) PaaS
5 7 (8.43%) IaaS
6 6 (7.23%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.61%) Serverless
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.41%) dbt
9 2 (2.41%) MinIO
9 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.20%) Collibra
10 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.41%) VPN
1 2 (2.41%) WAN
2 1 (1.20%) 802.11
2 1 (1.20%) BGP
2 1 (1.20%) DMVPN
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) HSRP
2 1 (1.20%) IPsec
2 1 (1.20%) LTE
2 1 (1.20%) MPLS
2 1 (1.20%) OSPF
2 1 (1.20%) PPP
2 1 (1.20%) SS7
2 1 (1.20%) TACACS
2 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) VRRP
2 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Power BI
2 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.20%) MySQL
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Robot Framework
1 2 (2.41%) Selenium
1 2 (2.41%) Snyk
2 1 (1.20%) ERwin
2 1 (1.20%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (31.33%) Electronics
3 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Finance
5 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.61%) Law
7 3 (3.61%) Legal
8 2 (2.41%) Banking
8 2 (2.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.20%) Automotive
9 1 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.20%) Publishing
9 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) Middleware
2 3 (3.61%) .NET
3 2 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.20%) COM
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.61%) IoT
3 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) FMCG
4 1 (1.20%) NHS
4 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.20%) PKI
4 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.14%) Agile
2 25 (30.12%) Business Enablement
3 21 (25.30%) Computer Science
4 19 (22.89%) Business Strategy
4 19 (22.89%) DevOps
4 19 (22.89%) Roadmaps
5 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.07%) Matrix Organization
6 15 (18.07%) Performance Metrics
6 15 (18.07%) Portfolio Management
6 15 (18.07%) Product Management
6 15 (18.07%) Value Proposition
7 13 (15.66%) Service Design
7 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
9 11 (13.25%) Architectural Design
9 11 (13.25%) Project Management
9 11 (13.25%) TOGAF
9 11 (13.25%) User Experience
10 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.07%) Python
2 12 (14.46%) C#
3 9 (10.84%) SQL
4 7 (8.43%) PHP
5 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) C
6 2 (2.41%) C++
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) Degree
2 20 (24.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (10.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.64%) Chartered Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.23%) ISSAP
6 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.61%) CISSP
8 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.41%) CISM
9 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) SLA
2 8 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) GRC
3 2 (2.41%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.20%) Firmware
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Ansible
1 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.61%) Oracle
2 3 (3.61%) PayPal
3 2 (2.41%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (2.41%) Black Duck
3 2 (2.41%) StreamSets
3 2 (2.41%) UiPath
3 2 (2.41%) VMware
4 1 (1.20%) Avaya
4 1 (1.20%) Databricks
4 1 (1.20%) EMC
4 1 (1.20%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (1.20%) F5
4 1 (1.20%) Genesys
4 1 (1.20%) Informatica
4 1 (1.20%) Meraki
4 1 (1.20%) Salesforce