Applications Architect Jobs in England

Application Architect
UK > England

The median Application Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 771 811
Rank change year-on-year +115 +40 +234
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Architect 33 70 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.081% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.086% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 85
10th Percentile £69,750 £35,000 £72,500
25th Percentile £73,625 £59,247 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £112,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £88,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year -4.23% +1.43% +2.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 45,303 81,796 81,052
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 94.56% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 24,383 60,874 51,701
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Applications Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Applications Architect in England.

Salary trend for Applications Architect in England

Applications Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Applications Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

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 20 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
South East +101 20 £82,500 +17.86% 20
London +108 10 £105,000 +5.00% 20
South West +100 1 - -
East of England - 1 £71,500 - 1
Applications Architect
UK

Applications Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Applications 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 England region featuring Applications Architect in the job title.

1 29 (87.88%) Azure
2 23 (69.70%) Finance
2 23 (69.70%) Social Skills
3 22 (66.67%) Migration
3 22 (66.67%) Agile
4 21 (63.64%) ERP
4 21 (63.64%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (57.58%) Marketing Automation
5 19 (57.58%) iPaaS
5 19 (57.58%) Regulatory Compliance
5 19 (57.58%) SaaS
5 19 (57.58%) PaaS
5 19 (57.58%) Data Governance
5 19 (57.58%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (57.58%) CMS
5 19 (57.58%) Legal
5 19 (57.58%) Risk Management
5 19 (57.58%) Practice Management
5 19 (57.58%) Marketing
5 19 (57.58%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (57.58%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (51.52%) Mentoring
6 17 (51.52%) Coaching
6 17 (51.52%) Creative Thinking
7 10 (30.30%) AWS
8 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
9 8 (24.24%) ArchiMate
9 8 (24.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making

Applications Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (57.58%) CMS
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.09%) Appian
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.03%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (87.88%) Azure
2 19 (57.58%) iPaaS
2 19 (57.58%) PaaS
2 19 (57.58%) SaaS
3 10 (30.30%) AWS
4 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) MinIO
5 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Airbyte
1 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Robot Framework
1 3 (9.09%) Selenium
1 3 (9.09%) Snyk
General
1 23 (69.70%) Finance
1 23 (69.70%) Social Skills
2 19 (57.58%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (57.58%) Legal
2 19 (57.58%) Marketing
2 19 (57.58%) Organisational Skills
2 19 (57.58%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.03%) Back Office
4 1 (3.03%) Front Office
4 1 (3.03%) Games
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) EDI
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (63.64%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.09%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.03%) Derivative
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
1 22 (66.67%) Migration
2 21 (63.64%) ERP
3 19 (57.58%) Data Governance
3 19 (57.58%) Marketing Automation
3 19 (57.58%) Practice Management
3 19 (57.58%) Regulatory Compliance
3 19 (57.58%) Risk Management
4 17 (51.52%) Coaching
4 17 (51.52%) Creative Thinking
4 17 (51.52%) Mentoring
5 9 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 8 (24.24%) ArchiMate
6 8 (24.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
8 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 6 (18.18%) DevOps
8 6 (18.18%) TOGAF
9 5 (15.15%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) Bicep
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Oracle
2 6 (18.18%) IBM
3 5 (15.15%) Google
3 5 (15.15%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (9.09%) Black Duck
4 3 (9.09%) UiPath
4 3 (9.09%) VMware
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.03%) Blue Prism
6 1 (3.03%) Coverity
6 1 (3.03%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft