Applications Architect Job Trends in England

Application Architect
UK > England

The median Application Architect salary in England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 689 601 701
Rank change year-on-year -88 +100 -9
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Architect 56 45 60
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.056% 0.10% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.11% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 47 17 38
10th Percentile £40,000 £65,000 £46,200
25th Percentile £63,750 £69,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £75,625 £92,500 £97,188
90th Percentile £86,070 £124,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £82,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% -31.43%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 93,631 39,211 65,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.38% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 66,209 23,560 40,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Applications Architect job vacancy trend in England

Applications Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Applications Architect job vacancies in England

Applications Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
South East -35 29 £67,500 -18.18% 3
London -46 12 £80,000 -40.74% 15
East of England -26 7 £40,000 -44.06%
North of England -52 7 £63,500 -20.63% 2
North West - 7 £63,500 - 2
South West - 1 - -
Applications Architect
UK

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Applications 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 England region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 31 (55.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 20 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
4 19 (33.93%) Application Security
4 19 (33.93%) Windows
4 19 (33.93%) Windows Server
5 16 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
5 16 (28.57%) DNS
5 16 (28.57%) Firewall
5 16 (28.57%) Linux
5 16 (28.57%) Pattern Matching
5 16 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 16 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (28.57%) Regular Expression
5 16 (28.57%) Validation
5 16 (28.57%) VMware
5 16 (28.57%) vSphere
5 16 (28.57%) XMPP
6 12 (21.43%) Architectural Design
6 12 (21.43%) LDAP
6 12 (21.43%) McAfee
6 12 (21.43%) Resource Management
6 12 (21.43%) Server Management
6 12 (21.43%) SIEM
7 9 (16.07%) AI
8 8 (14.29%) Agile
9 7 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 3 (5.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (5.36%) Confluence
1 3 (5.36%) IIS
1 3 (5.36%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (5.36%) AWS
2 3 (5.36%) SaaS
3 1 (1.79%) GCP
3 1 (1.79%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.57%) DNS
1 16 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) NAS
2 4 (7.14%) NetScaler
2 4 (7.14%) SAN
2 4 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) Regular Expression
1 16 (28.57%) XMPP
2 12 (21.43%) LDAP
3 5 (8.93%) JSON
3 5 (8.93%) Middleware
3 5 (8.93%) REST
3 5 (8.93%) SOAP
3 5 (8.93%) XML
4 3 (5.36%) .NET
4 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.36%) Node.js
4 3 (5.36%) Web Services
5 2 (3.57%) JWT
5 2 (3.57%) Kafka
5 2 (3.57%) OAuth
5 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.79%) RESTful
6 1 (1.79%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.14%) CMDB
3 4 (7.14%) PKI
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) AS400
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Windows
1 19 (33.93%) Windows Server
2 16 (28.57%) Linux
2 16 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) Application Security
2 16 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
2 16 (28.57%) Pattern Matching
2 16 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 16 (28.57%) Validation
3 12 (21.43%) Architectural Design
3 12 (21.43%) Resource Management
3 12 (21.43%) Server Management
3 12 (21.43%) SIEM
4 9 (16.07%) AI
5 8 (14.29%) Agile
6 7 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 7 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 6 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 6 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
8 5 (8.93%) CRM
8 5 (8.93%) ERP
8 5 (8.93%) Microservices
8 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) Java
1 5 (8.93%) SQL
2 3 (5.36%) C#
2 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (55.36%) Security Cleared
2 21 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
2 16 (28.57%) vSphere
3 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 16 (28.57%) VMware
3 12 (21.43%) McAfee
4 4 (7.14%) Citrix
4 4 (7.14%) NetApp
5 3 (5.36%) Adobe
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Sparx