Architect Jobs in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 28 27
Rank change year-on-year -34 -1 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,990 5,308 6,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.08% 6.18% 7.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.50% 6.54% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,105 3,431
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,375 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% -

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 44,258 81,164 82,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 94.49% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24,638 60,585 52,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,650 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 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
London -20 795 £95,000 +5.56% 950
North of England -68 391 £65,000 -16.80% 287
South East -28 378 £75,000 - 518
North West -75 261 £60,000 -20.00% 168
Midlands -40 227 £71,571 -4.57% 219
West Midlands -26 170 £75,000 -3.23% 145
Yorkshire -34 103 £80,000 +0.14% 88
East of England -28 77 £66,200 -19.76% 130
South West -83 72 £71,991 -4.01% 189
East Midlands -57 56 £65,000 - 63
North East +13 29 £65,000 -18.59% 33
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 England region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 625 (31.41%) Azure
2 560 (28.14%) Agile
3 538 (27.04%) Social Skills
4 491 (24.67%) Finance
5 490 (24.62%) Roadmaps
6 422 (21.21%) Degree
7 387 (19.45%) AWS
8 350 (17.59%) Security Cleared
9 343 (17.24%) DevOps
10 326 (16.38%) TOGAF
11 324 (16.28%) Microsoft
12 287 (14.42%) Mentoring
13 284 (14.27%) Enterprise Architecture
14 271 (13.62%) SC Cleared
15 257 (12.91%) Microservices
16 246 (12.36%) Business Strategy
17 240 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
18 239 (12.01%) BPSS Clearance
19 238 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
20 234 (11.76%) Data Architecture
21 232 (11.66%) GCP
22 222 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
23 214 (10.75%) Analytics
24 207 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
25 202 (10.15%) Migration
26 200 (10.05%) Management Information System
27 194 (9.75%) Computer Science
28 192 (9.65%) SQL
28 192 (9.65%) ERP
29 190 (9.55%) CI/CD

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 90 (4.52%) Confluence
2 21 (1.06%) CMS
3 19 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (0.55%) SAS
6 9 (0.45%) OpenEdge
7 8 (0.40%) Apache
7 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) IIS
9 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.10%) Appian
10 2 (0.10%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.10%) nginx
10 2 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 25 (1.26%) Maya
2 18 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 14 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
7 2 (0.10%) Blender
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.10%) Windchill
8 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.55%) Postilion
4 9 (0.45%) SAP IBP
5 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.15%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.15%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.15%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.10%) Magento
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.10%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 625 (31.41%) Azure
2 387 (19.45%) AWS
3 232 (11.66%) GCP
4 173 (8.69%) SaaS
5 116 (5.83%) Power Platform
6 83 (4.17%) PaaS
7 82 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
8 80 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (3.57%) Serverless
10 63 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 56 (2.81%) IaaS
12 55 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
13 44 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 44 (2.21%) Entra ID
14 43 (2.16%) Power Automate
15 40 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
16 35 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 35 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (1.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 149 (7.49%) Firewall
2 147 (7.39%) WAN
3 85 (4.27%) LAN
4 51 (2.56%) Network Security
5 49 (2.46%) SD-WAN
6 45 (2.26%) VPN
7 39 (1.96%) MPLS
8 38 (1.91%) DNS
9 37 (1.86%) Cisco ISE
10 33 (1.66%) Ethernet
11 27 (1.36%) BGP
12 24 (1.21%) Intrusion Detection
13 23 (1.16%) IPsec
14 21 (1.06%) Junos
15 18 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (0.70%) ATM
17 12 (0.60%) TCP/IP
17 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
18 11 (0.55%) Unified Communications
18 11 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.18%) Data Lake
2 83 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 71 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (3.57%) Power BI
4 59 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.36%) Metadata
6 38 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
7 31 (1.56%) Big Data
8 27 (1.36%) MySQL
9 25 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 22 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 18 (0.90%) Tableau
12 15 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (0.75%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (0.55%) Data Vault
15 10 (0.50%) SAP BW
15 10 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 96 (4.82%) JIRA
2 64 (3.22%) Git
3 50 (2.51%) Rational DOORS
4 40 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 35 (1.76%) MSBuild
5 35 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
5 35 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 33 (1.66%) Jenkins
7 22 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 20 (1.01%) Ant
8 20 (1.01%) Maven
8 20 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 20 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 16 (0.80%) GitLab
10 10 (0.50%) MSI
11 9 (0.45%) ERwin
12 2 (0.10%) Liquibase
12 2 (0.10%) Mocha
12 2 (0.10%) Selenium
12 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 538 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 491 (24.67%) Finance
3 207 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (7.94%) Manufacturing
5 142 (7.14%) Banking
6 126 (6.33%) Law
7 103 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 99 (4.97%) Retail
9 95 (4.77%) Public Sector
10 94 (4.72%) Marketing
11 80 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 49 (2.46%) Legal
14 42 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.81%) Games
16 34 (1.71%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.56%) Retail Banking
18 28 (1.41%) Electronics
19 25 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
20 20 (1.01%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.03%) REST
2 92 (4.62%) .NET
3 83 (4.17%) Middleware
4 70 (3.52%) JSON
5 49 (2.46%) HTML
6 48 (2.41%) CSS
7 46 (2.31%) XML
8 45 (2.26%) ASP.NET
9 44 (2.21%) SOAP
10 42 (2.11%) Kafka
11 35 (1.76%) gRPC
12 34 (1.71%) Bootstrap
13 27 (1.36%) Lightning Web Components
13 27 (1.36%) RESTful
14 25 (1.26%) React
15 17 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (0.80%) Web Services
17 14 (0.70%) .NET Framework
17 14 (0.70%) AngularJS
18 12 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 200 (10.05%) Management Information System
2 126 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 100 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
4 87 (4.37%) Data Centre
5 73 (3.67%) Public Cloud
6 71 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (1.36%) Security Posture
11 26 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.21%) Operational Technology
13 21 (1.06%) IoT
14 19 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 17 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 16 (0.80%) NHS
16 16 (0.80%) Social Media
17 15 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
18 14 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 73 (3.67%) Windows
2 63 (3.17%) Linux
3 14 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (0.70%) Windows Vista
3 14 (0.70%) zOS
4 9 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.35%) Android
5 7 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.10%) Solaris
7 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.050%) Unix
8 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (28.14%) Agile
2 490 (24.62%) Roadmaps
3 343 (17.24%) DevOps
4 326 (16.38%) TOGAF
5 287 (14.42%) Mentoring
6 284 (14.27%) Enterprise Architecture
7 257 (12.91%) Microservices
8 246 (12.36%) Business Strategy
9 240 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
10 238 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
11 234 (11.76%) Data Architecture
12 222 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 214 (10.75%) Analytics
14 202 (10.15%) Migration
15 194 (9.75%) Computer Science
16 192 (9.65%) ERP
17 190 (9.55%) CI/CD
18 187 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence
19 184 (9.25%) Data Modelling
20 174 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 192 (9.65%) SQL
2 150 (7.54%) Python
3 110 (5.53%) JavaScript
4 92 (4.62%) C#
5 86 (4.32%) Java
6 62 (3.12%) PowerShell
7 29 (1.46%) Bicep
8 28 (1.41%) Apex Code
9 16 (0.80%) Bash
10 15 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.50%) R
12 9 (0.45%) Scala
13 6 (0.30%) PHP
14 5 (0.25%) C
15 4 (0.20%) C++
15 4 (0.20%) COBOL
16 3 (0.15%) JCL
16 3 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.15%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.10%) X++
Qualifications
1 422 (21.21%) Degree
2 350 (17.59%) Security Cleared
3 271 (13.62%) SC Cleared
4 239 (12.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 175 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 106 (5.33%) AWS Certification
7 99 (4.97%) CISSP
8 97 (4.87%) Azure Certification
9 83 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
10 78 (3.92%) Chartered Engineer
11 75 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 69 (3.47%) DV Cleared
13 53 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 51 (2.56%) Master's Degree
15 48 (2.41%) CCNA
16 36 (1.81%) CCNP
17 35 (1.76%) CISM
18 34 (1.71%) DBS Check
19 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
20 24 (1.21%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.58%) GDPR
2 72 (3.62%) NIST
3 67 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 44 (2.21%) Data Quality
6 30 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 29 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 27 (1.36%) SLA
9 24 (1.21%) NCSC
9 24 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 21 (1.06%) QA
11 17 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 16 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.80%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.50%) COBIT
14 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.35%) Basel II
15 7 (0.35%) Basel III
15 7 (0.35%) IFRS
System Software
1 121 (6.08%) Docker
2 43 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) KVM
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
9 2 (0.10%) SRDF
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.10%) Xen
10 1 (0.050%) Firmware
10 1 (0.050%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.050%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.050%) RACF
10 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (5.33%) Terraform
2 95 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 51 (2.56%) Ansible
4 35 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (1.46%) FortiGate
6 18 (0.90%) Grafana
6 18 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.60%) SCCM
8 12 (0.60%) WMI
9 6 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.25%) Puppet
11 3 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.10%) Argo
12 2 (0.10%) Istio
12 2 (0.10%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.10%) Nessus
12 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.050%) VxRail
Vendors
1 324 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.99%) Cisco
3 145 (7.29%) SAP
4 116 (5.83%) Google
5 106 (5.33%) Juniper
6 83 (4.17%) IBM
7 82 (4.12%) Oracle
8 78 (3.92%) Salesforce
8 78 (3.92%) VMware
9 68 (3.42%) Databricks
10 58 (2.91%) Siemens
11 50 (2.51%) ServiceNow
12 36 (1.81%) Fortinet
13 31 (1.56%) Aruba
13 31 (1.56%) Palo Alto
14 30 (1.51%) F5
15 26 (1.31%) CheckPoint
16 24 (1.21%) Meraki
17 22 (1.11%) Blue Coat
18 21 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud