Architect Jobs in the East of England

Architect
England > East of England

The median Architect salary in the East of England is £66,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 62 38
Rank change year-on-year -38 -24 +31
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 81 203 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.39% 2.96% 6.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 3.15% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 32 140 141
10th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £63,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,200 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £82,813 £94,063 £88,750
90th Percentile £88,000 £110,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £77,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% -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 3,188 6,448 3,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 94.05% 82.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 4,880 2,077
10th Percentile £27,400 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,075 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 - 36 £66,200 - 2
Hertfordshire -6 23 £67,500 -5.26% 51
Norfolk +27 8 £88,000 +38.04% 1
Cambridgeshire -1 6 £54,441 -35.95% 49
Bedfordshire -38 6 £83,750 -9.46% 19
Essex -2 3 £86,000 -11.79% 23
East Anglia - 1 £86,000 - 44
Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 28 (34.57%) Degree
2 26 (32.10%) Electronics
3 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
3 25 (30.86%) Business Enablement
4 22 (27.16%) Agile
5 21 (25.93%) Roadmaps
6 20 (24.69%) SaaS
7 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (22.22%) Business Strategy
9 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (18.52%) Performance Metrics
10 15 (18.52%) Value Proposition
10 15 (18.52%) Matrix Organization
10 15 (18.52%) Product Management
10 15 (18.52%) Portfolio Management
10 15 (18.52%) Python
10 15 (18.52%) SLA
10 15 (18.52%) Project Management
11 13 (16.05%) Service Design
12 12 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (14.81%) Azure
12 12 (14.81%) SQL
12 12 (14.81%) C#
12 12 (14.81%) Computer Science
12 12 (14.81%) Finance
12 12 (14.81%) Architectural Design
13 11 (13.58%) User Experience
14 9 (11.11%) DevOps
14 9 (11.11%) AWS
15 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared

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 6 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Appian
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.23%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.69%) SaaS
2 12 (14.81%) Azure
3 9 (11.11%) AWS
4 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.17%) IaaS
5 5 (6.17%) PaaS
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.94%) dbt
7 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.47%) MinIO
8 2 (2.47%) Serverless
8 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) MPLS
2 4 (4.94%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (4.94%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.47%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.23%) BGP
4 1 (1.23%) CDMA
4 1 (1.23%) DNS
4 1 (1.23%) GPRS
4 1 (1.23%) ISDN
4 1 (1.23%) LAN
4 1 (1.23%) OSPF
4 1 (1.23%) PPP
4 1 (1.23%) SDH
4 1 (1.23%) SS7
4 1 (1.23%) TACACS
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) VoIP
4 1 (1.23%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (4.94%) RDBMS
1 4 (4.94%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.70%) Power BI
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Hive
3 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.47%) Big Data
3 2 (2.47%) OLTP
3 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Robot Framework
1 2 (2.47%) Selenium
1 2 (2.47%) Snyk
2 1 (1.23%) ERwin
2 1 (1.23%) Git
2 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (32.10%) Electronics
2 25 (30.86%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.81%) Finance
5 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Banking
6 3 (3.70%) Law
6 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Retail
7 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Legal
7 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Kafka
2 3 (3.70%) .NET
3 2 (2.47%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.23%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.23%) COM
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) IoT
3 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) FMCG
4 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.23%) NHS
4 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.23%) PKI
4 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.86%) Business Enablement
2 22 (27.16%) Agile
3 21 (25.93%) Roadmaps
4 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 15 (18.52%) Matrix Organization
6 15 (18.52%) Performance Metrics
6 15 (18.52%) Portfolio Management
6 15 (18.52%) Product Management
6 15 (18.52%) Project Management
6 15 (18.52%) Value Proposition
7 13 (16.05%) Service Design
8 12 (14.81%) Architectural Design
8 12 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 11 (13.58%) User Experience
10 9 (11.11%) DevOps
11 8 (9.88%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (8.64%) Information Security
12 7 (8.64%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.52%) Python
2 12 (14.81%) C#
2 12 (14.81%) SQL
3 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.94%) PHP
5 2 (2.47%) C
5 2 (2.47%) C++
6 1 (1.23%) Bicep
6 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (34.57%) Degree
2 12 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (7.41%) CISSP
6 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.94%) ISSAP
8 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.52%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.23%) Firmware
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Ansible
1 2 (2.47%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 6 (7.41%) PayPal
1 6 (7.41%) VMware
2 4 (4.94%) Cisco
2 4 (4.94%) Juniper
2 4 (4.94%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.94%) SevOne
3 3 (3.70%) Databricks
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (2.47%) Black Duck
4 2 (2.47%) StreamSets
4 2 (2.47%) UiPath
5 1 (1.23%) Avaya
5 1 (1.23%) EMC
5 1 (1.23%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.23%) F5
5 1 (1.23%) Genesys
5 1 (1.23%) Informatica
5 1 (1.23%) Meraki