Architect Jobs in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 21 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 +49 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,037 6,515 7,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.43% 9.17% 4.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.79% 9.99% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,958 2,889 4,022
10th Percentile £56,809 £61,250 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £101,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Architect in England

Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in England

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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
London +3 1,771 £90,000 - 154
North of England -8 1,121 £75,000 -6.25% 84
South East -3 868 £75,000 -9.09% 74
North West -7 668 £75,000 -5.82% 46
Midlands -14 609 £75,439 +0.59% 44
South West -17 435 £78,273 +7.96% 34
Yorkshire -2 377 £77,500 -3.13% 24
West Midlands +9 373 £79,842 +6.46% 32
East Midlands -26 231 £70,000 -3.45% 12
East of England -17 181 £85,000 +3.03% 15
North East -1 76 £75,150 -11.59% 16
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 1,407 (27.93%) Agile
2 1,370 (27.20%) Azure
3 1,207 (23.96%) Finance
4 1,088 (21.60%) Social Skills
5 1,006 (19.97%) AWS
6 983 (19.52%) Roadmaps
7 932 (18.50%) TOGAF
8 855 (16.97%) Microsoft
9 653 (12.96%) Security Cleared
10 637 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
11 610 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
12 607 (12.05%) Degree
13 585 (11.61%) Mentoring
14 571 (11.34%) DevOps
15 494 (9.81%) GCP
16 473 (9.39%) Data Management
17 441 (8.76%) SAP
18 440 (8.74%) Oracle
19 438 (8.70%) Strategic Roadmap
20 425 (8.44%) ERP
21 407 (8.08%) Data Architecture
22 404 (8.02%) SC Cleared
23 400 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
24 396 (7.86%) Data Modelling
25 393 (7.80%) Migration
26 382 (7.58%) Presales
27 364 (7.23%) Software Engineering
28 362 (7.19%) Technical Architecture
29 361 (7.17%) Python
30 354 (7.03%) Change Management

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
1 301 (5.98%) SAS
2 127 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 126 (2.50%) Apache
4 103 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 47 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 35 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 19 (0.38%) Confluence
9 16 (0.32%) WebSphere
10 13 (0.26%) CMS
11 12 (0.24%) IIS
12 10 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.14%) JBoss
13 7 (0.14%) WildFly
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 5 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.099%) Drupal
15 5 (0.099%) nginx
15 5 (0.099%) OpenStack
16 3 (0.060%) Umbraco
Applications
1 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.14%) Simulink
5 4 (0.079%) Revit
6 3 (0.060%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.020%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 312 (6.19%) SAP ERP
2 93 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 65 (1.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 55 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
5 22 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 18 (0.36%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.22%) SAP BPC
9 10 (0.20%) Endur
10 9 (0.18%) SAP PP
11 8 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
13 6 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
13 6 (0.12%) Postilion
13 6 (0.12%) SAP CO
13 6 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
13 6 (0.12%) SAP MM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.079%) SAP APO
14 4 (0.079%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1,370 (27.20%) Azure
2 1,006 (19.97%) AWS
3 494 (9.81%) GCP
4 315 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 313 (6.21%) Power Platform
6 303 (6.02%) SaaS
7 246 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 156 (3.10%) Snowflake
9 126 (2.50%) dbt
10 125 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (2.12%) PaaS
12 106 (2.10%) PowerApps
13 92 (1.83%) IaaS
14 84 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 71 (1.41%) Serverless
16 59 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
17 47 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
18 45 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
19 44 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
20 38 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 309 (6.13%) Broadband
2 166 (3.30%) VSAT
3 144 (2.86%) WAN
4 124 (2.46%) Firewall
5 94 (1.87%) SD-WAN
6 88 (1.75%) DNS
7 83 (1.65%) Network Security
8 58 (1.15%) VPN
9 55 (1.09%) LAN
10 51 (1.01%) BGP
11 43 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 42 (0.83%) SSL
13 40 (0.79%) TCP/IP
14 35 (0.69%) Wireless
15 31 (0.62%) Internet
16 29 (0.58%) DHCP
17 17 (0.34%) MPLS
17 17 (0.34%) OSPF
18 14 (0.28%) Multicast
19 12 (0.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
2 186 (3.69%) Data Lake
3 147 (2.92%) Power BI
4 117 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
5 110 (2.18%) Apache Ignite
6 109 (2.16%) Apache Arrow
6 109 (2.16%) Dremio
6 109 (2.16%) Relational Database
7 108 (2.14%) NoSQL
8 93 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 90 (1.79%) BigQuery
9 90 (1.79%) Metadata
10 76 (1.51%) Looker
11 71 (1.41%) Big Data
12 54 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
13 50 (0.99%) RDBMS
14 43 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (0.69%) Oracle Database
16 31 (0.62%) Data Vault
17 30 (0.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (1.31%) Jenkins
2 62 (1.23%) Git
3 56 (1.11%) Visual Studio
4 34 (0.68%) GitLab
5 30 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
6 27 (0.54%) JIRA
7 13 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
8 12 (0.24%) Maven
9 10 (0.20%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.14%) MSBuild
11 7 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.14%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.12%) Ant
12 6 (0.12%) Selenium
13 5 (0.099%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.099%) ERwin
13 5 (0.099%) MLflow
13 5 (0.099%) Terragrunt
14 4 (0.079%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,207 (23.96%) Finance
2 1,088 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 400 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 341 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 320 (6.35%) Banking
6 245 (4.86%) Retail
7 227 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 157 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
9 130 (2.58%) Marketing
10 117 (2.32%) Investment Banking
11 114 (2.26%) Front Office
12 87 (1.73%) Law
13 84 (1.67%) Retail Banking
14 68 (1.35%) Legal
15 66 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 48 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
17 43 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 40 (0.79%) Aerospace
19 36 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
20 31 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (3.69%) .NET
2 116 (2.30%) gRPC
3 109 (2.16%) Protocol Buffers
4 106 (2.10%) NumPy
4 106 (2.10%) Pandas
4 106 (2.10%) SciPy
5 78 (1.55%) HTML
6 76 (1.51%) Middleware
7 72 (1.43%) React
8 66 (1.31%) REST
9 61 (1.21%) Kafka
10 56 (1.11%) CSS
11 54 (1.07%) Web Services
12 43 (0.85%) Node.js
12 43 (0.85%) Spring Boot
12 43 (0.85%) XML
13 42 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
14 40 (0.79%) PySpark
15 35 (0.69%) JSON
15 35 (0.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 289 (5.74%) Public Cloud
2 202 (4.01%) Cloud Native
3 167 (3.32%) Management Information System
4 164 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 111 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 110 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 109 (2.16%) Derivative
7 109 (2.16%) Equities
7 109 (2.16%) Fixed Income
7 109 (2.16%) Hedge funds
8 105 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 103 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 99 (1.97%) Cyberattack
11 71 (1.41%) PKI
12 70 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 65 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
14 55 (1.09%) IoT
15 44 (0.87%) Data Structures
15 44 (0.87%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 255 (5.06%) Linux
2 101 (2.01%) Windows
3 56 (1.11%) Android
4 39 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
6 26 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.48%) Unix
8 21 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 20 (0.40%) Windows Server
10 12 (0.24%) VMS
11 11 (0.22%) Solaris
12 8 (0.16%) VME
13 6 (0.12%) zOS
14 5 (0.099%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.079%) Amazon Linux
15 4 (0.079%) CentOS
16 2 (0.040%) Windows 10
17 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.020%) tvOS
17 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (27.93%) Agile
2 983 (19.52%) Roadmaps
3 932 (18.50%) TOGAF
4 637 (12.65%) Enterprise Architecture
5 610 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
6 585 (11.61%) Mentoring
7 571 (11.34%) DevOps
8 473 (9.39%) Data Management
9 438 (8.70%) Strategic Roadmap
10 425 (8.44%) ERP
11 407 (8.08%) Data Architecture
12 396 (7.86%) Data Modelling
13 393 (7.80%) Migration
14 382 (7.58%) Presales
15 364 (7.23%) Software Engineering
16 362 (7.19%) Technical Architecture
17 354 (7.03%) Change Management
18 322 (6.39%) Actionable Insight
19 309 (6.13%) Performance Management
20 305 (6.06%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 361 (7.17%) Python
2 295 (5.86%) SQL
3 293 (5.82%) Java
4 269 (5.34%) JavaScript
5 214 (4.25%) C#
6 123 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 80 (1.59%) C++
8 70 (1.39%) C
9 52 (1.03%) PowerShell
10 28 (0.56%) Scala
11 23 (0.46%) Fortran
11 23 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 22 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.28%) R
14 13 (0.26%) Ruby
15 12 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 12 (0.24%) PHP
16 11 (0.22%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.20%) Bash
17 10 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 653 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 607 (12.05%) Degree
3 404 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 184 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 152 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 144 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 140 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 130 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
9 126 (2.50%) CISSP
10 124 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
11 109 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 73 (1.45%) CCNP
13 68 (1.35%) CCNA
13 68 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 64 (1.27%) CISM
15 58 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 50 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 47 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
18 45 (0.89%) CCSP
19 38 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (3.24%) Data Quality
2 128 (2.54%) GDPR
3 82 (1.63%) NIST
4 65 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (0.99%) QA
6 41 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 28 (0.56%) COBIT
9 27 (0.54%) SLA
10 16 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.28%) PMO
12 11 (0.22%) GRC
12 11 (0.22%) NCSC
13 7 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.12%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.079%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.060%) HMG Infosec
16 3 (0.060%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 112 (2.22%) Docker
2 80 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
6 13 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.22%) vSphere
8 10 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.099%) Kamailio
11 4 (0.079%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.060%) Firmware
12 3 (0.060%) HDFS
12 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 2 (0.040%) Xen
14 1 (0.020%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.020%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.020%) vCloud
14 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 163 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 149 (2.96%) Terraform
3 57 (1.13%) Ansible
4 41 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 40 (0.79%) Puppet
6 36 (0.71%) Stealthwatch
7 21 (0.42%) OpenView
7 21 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 17 (0.34%) CASB
8 17 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.16%) Grafana
9 8 (0.16%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.14%) Consul
10 7 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.14%) SCCM
11 6 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.12%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.099%) SCOM
12 5 (0.099%) Suricata
13 4 (0.079%) Kibana
Vendors
1 855 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 441 (8.76%) SAP
3 440 (8.74%) Oracle
4 305 (6.06%) Anaplan
5 299 (5.94%) Hyperion
6 228 (4.53%) Google
7 130 (2.58%) Cisco
8 121 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 104 (2.06%) ServiceNow
10 96 (1.91%) Databricks
11 77 (1.53%) Adobe
12 70 (1.39%) Apple
13 68 (1.35%) Sparx
14 59 (1.17%) Juniper
15 55 (1.09%) Meraki
16 36 (0.71%) VMware
17 35 (0.69%) Dell
18 34 (0.68%) IBM
19 31 (0.62%) Bloomberg
19 31 (0.62%) Reuters