Architect Job Trends in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect salary in the East of England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 79 64
Rank change year-on-year +32 -15 -20
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 179 81 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.40% 2.88% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.78% 3.28% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 106 39 114
10th Percentile £60,000 £58,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,625 £65,600 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £73,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -8.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,625 £95,000
90th Percentile - £94,000 £112,125
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -7.62%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,739 2,468 5,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.01% 87.89% 94.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,940 1,409 3,898
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Architect job vacancy trend in the East of England

Architect
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies 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 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +34 95 £80,000 +16.36% 22
Cambridgeshire +3 35 £97,500 +30.00% 14
Suffolk +16 23 £95,000 +43.50% 12
Bedfordshire +27 12 - - 11
Essex -15 8 £87,250 - 9
Norfolk -10 4 £100,000 +11.11% 11
East Anglia - 2 £95,000 - 8
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 17 March 2026, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 44 (24.58%) Azure
2 26 (14.53%) Roadmaps
3 23 (12.85%) Microsoft
4 22 (12.29%) Project Delivery
5 21 (11.73%) Agile
5 21 (11.73%) Enterprise Architecture
5 21 (11.73%) TOGAF
6 20 (11.17%) ERP
7 19 (10.61%) Analytics
7 19 (10.61%) Architectural Design
8 18 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (9.50%) Technology Roadmap
10 16 (8.94%) AWS
10 16 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.94%) Data Management
10 16 (8.94%) Degree
10 16 (8.94%) ITSM
11 15 (8.38%) Accessibility
11 15 (8.38%) Data Modelling
11 15 (8.38%) SAP
12 14 (7.82%) Presales
12 14 (7.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (7.26%) AWS Certification
13 13 (7.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 13 (7.26%) Data Architecture
13 13 (7.26%) Data Governance
13 13 (7.26%) DevOps
13 13 (7.26%) E-Commerce
13 13 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (7.26%) Workday

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.56%) Apache
1 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
1 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 44 (24.58%) Azure
2 16 (8.94%) AWS
3 12 (6.70%) Snowflake
4 10 (5.59%) SaaS
5 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.79%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.23%) Azure Event Grid
6 4 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.68%) PaaS
8 2 (1.12%) GCP
8 2 (1.12%) Serverless
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.56%) GitHub
9 1 (0.56%) IaaS
9 1 (0.56%) OCI
9 1 (0.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) AMQP
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DOCSIS
2 1 (0.56%) DSL
2 1 (0.56%) GPON
2 1 (0.56%) IPv4
2 1 (0.56%) IPv6
2 1 (0.56%) PPP
2 1 (0.56%) RTP
2 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) VoIP
2 1 (0.56%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.56%) Big Data
3 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 34 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.61%) Finance
3 16 (8.94%) Marketing
4 13 (7.26%) Publishing
5 9 (5.03%) Law
6 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.47%) Electronics
7 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.35%) Retail
9 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.12%) Kafka
2 2 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.56%) .NET
3 1 (0.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.56%) Middleware
3 1 (0.56%) Node.js
3 1 (0.56%) REST
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) Spring
3 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (3.35%) Operational Technology
3 4 (2.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (14.53%) Roadmaps
2 22 (12.29%) Project Delivery
3 21 (11.73%) Agile
3 21 (11.73%) Enterprise Architecture
3 21 (11.73%) TOGAF
4 20 (11.17%) ERP
5 19 (10.61%) Analytics
5 19 (10.61%) Architectural Design
6 18 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (9.50%) Technology Roadmap
8 16 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (8.94%) Data Management
8 16 (8.94%) ITSM
9 15 (8.38%) Data Modelling
10 14 (7.82%) Presales
11 13 (7.26%) Data Architecture
11 13 (7.26%) Data Governance
11 13 (7.26%) DevOps
11 13 (7.26%) E-Commerce
11 13 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.68%) Python
2 2 (1.12%) C#
2 2 (1.12%) PHP
2 2 (1.12%) SQL
3 1 (0.56%) C
3 1 (0.56%) C++
3 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (8.94%) Degree
2 14 (7.82%) TOGAF Certification
3 13 (7.26%) AWS Certification
3 13 (7.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (6.70%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PMP
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.23%) Ansible
2 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.38%) SAP
3 13 (7.26%) Workday
4 7 (3.91%) Oracle
5 2 (1.12%) Dell
5 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.56%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.56%) VMware