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 to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 29 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 -12
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 5,203 6,981 7,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.13% 7.49% 5.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.49% 8.18% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,054 3,624 3,915
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,353 £61,250
25th Percentile £67,000 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £86,549 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +1.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £101,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,117 85,349 125,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.55% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 59,992 53,990 75,607
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +6 1,952 £90,000 -2.70% 427
North of England +28 1,064 £78,126 +0.81% 137
South East +2 837 £75,000 -11.76% 143
Midlands +10 620 £75,000 - 70
North West +9 563 £75,000 - 82
South West -5 518 £75,000 +3.45% 74
Yorkshire +38 445 £79,932 -0.09% 41
West Midlands +24 389 £76,750 +2.33% 40
East Midlands -16 223 £65,000 -10.34% 30
East of England -44 166 £79,136 -6.90% 50
North East +10 58 £79,887 -6.02% 15
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 1,572 (30.21%) Azure
2 1,397 (26.85%) Agile
3 1,306 (25.10%) Social Skills
4 1,230 (23.64%) Roadmaps
4 1,230 (23.64%) Finance
5 1,076 (20.68%) TOGAF
6 1,028 (19.76%) AWS
7 972 (18.68%) Microsoft
8 866 (16.64%) Security Cleared
9 722 (13.88%) Enterprise Architecture
10 651 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
11 598 (11.49%) Degree
12 597 (11.47%) Actionable Insight
13 542 (10.42%) Data Modelling
14 533 (10.24%) Strategic Roadmap
15 522 (10.03%) DevOps
15 522 (10.03%) Mentoring
16 515 (9.90%) SC Cleared
17 504 (9.69%) Data Architecture
18 498 (9.57%) GCP
19 480 (9.23%) Oracle
20 478 (9.19%) Data Management
21 476 (9.15%) ERP
22 474 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
23 457 (8.78%) SAP
24 441 (8.48%) Presales
25 430 (8.26%) Technical Architecture
26 426 (8.19%) Microservices
27 404 (7.76%) Migration
28 398 (7.65%) Analytics

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
1 300 (5.77%) SAS
2 90 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 52 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 51 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 49 (0.94%) Apache
7 35 (0.67%) WebLogic
8 25 (0.48%) CMS
9 15 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 14 (0.27%) IIS
11 12 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 10 (0.19%) Drupal
13 7 (0.13%) Confluence
13 7 (0.13%) JBoss
13 7 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) WildFly
14 6 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.096%) BizTalk Server
16 4 (0.077%) ArcGIS
17 3 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.25%) Simulink
5 9 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.058%) Revit
7 2 (0.038%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 318 (6.11%) SAP ERP
2 81 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 78 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 67 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 30 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
6 20 (0.38%) Teamcenter
7 19 (0.37%) SAP BPC
8 15 (0.29%) Endur
9 12 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 10 (0.19%) SAP PP
11 9 (0.17%) Elite 3E
12 8 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.13%) SAP FI
13 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
13 7 (0.13%) SAP MM
13 7 (0.13%) SAP SD
14 5 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
14 5 (0.096%) SAP CX
14 5 (0.096%) SAP WM
15 4 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,572 (30.21%) Azure
2 1,028 (19.76%) AWS
3 498 (9.57%) GCP
4 347 (6.67%) SaaS
5 299 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 292 (5.61%) Power Platform
7 234 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
8 215 (4.13%) PaaS
9 189 (3.63%) IaaS
10 139 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
11 95 (1.83%) Snowflake
12 90 (1.73%) Serverless
13 88 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 80 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
15 74 (1.42%) Power Automate
16 53 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 48 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (0.90%) dbt
19 40 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 39 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 305 (5.86%) Broadband
2 228 (4.38%) VSAT
3 179 (3.44%) Firewall
4 156 (3.00%) WAN
5 109 (2.09%) VPN
6 101 (1.94%) DNS
7 87 (1.67%) SD-WAN
8 86 (1.65%) Network Security
9 68 (1.31%) LAN
10 60 (1.15%) TCP/IP
11 53 (1.02%) BGP
12 51 (0.98%) SSL
13 50 (0.96%) Wireless
14 41 (0.79%) DHCP
15 40 (0.77%) Internet
16 31 (0.60%) VLAN
17 30 (0.58%) MPLS
18 27 (0.52%) HTTP
19 26 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
20 21 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
2 186 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 147 (2.83%) Metadata
4 142 (2.73%) Power BI
5 133 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 129 (2.48%) BigQuery
7 126 (2.42%) Relational Database
8 118 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 114 (2.19%) Looker
10 76 (1.46%) Big Data
11 63 (1.21%) RDBMS
12 62 (1.19%) Apache Ignite
13 51 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
15 43 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
15 43 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
16 39 (0.75%) Apache Arrow
16 39 (0.75%) Dremio
17 32 (0.62%) Hadoop
17 32 (0.62%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 68 (1.31%) Git
1 68 (1.31%) Jenkins
2 39 (0.75%) Visual Studio
3 33 (0.63%) GitLab
4 26 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 18 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.29%) JIRA
7 11 (0.21%) Maven
8 7 (0.13%) ERwin
8 7 (0.13%) JUnit
8 7 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.096%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.096%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.096%) MLflow
9 5 (0.096%) Selenium
9 5 (0.096%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.077%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.077%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.077%) TestNG
11 3 (0.058%) CircleCI
General
1 1,306 (25.10%) Social Skills
2 1,230 (23.64%) Finance
3 474 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (5.48%) Public Sector
5 279 (5.36%) Banking
6 263 (5.05%) Retail
7 256 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 180 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
9 108 (2.08%) Legal
10 107 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 94 (1.81%) Marketing
12 89 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 76 (1.46%) Law
14 56 (1.08%) Retail Banking
15 53 (1.02%) Aerospace
16 51 (0.98%) Investment Banking
17 49 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 45 (0.86%) Front Office
19 42 (0.81%) Financial Institution
19 42 (0.81%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (5.21%) .NET
2 85 (1.63%) Kafka
3 80 (1.54%) HTML
4 74 (1.42%) Middleware
5 67 (1.29%) REST
6 66 (1.27%) Web Services
7 63 (1.21%) Spring Boot
8 56 (1.08%) JSON
9 54 (1.04%) OpenID
9 54 (1.04%) React
10 47 (0.90%) XML
11 41 (0.79%) SAML
12 40 (0.77%) .NET Core
12 40 (0.77%) gRPC
12 40 (0.77%) Protocol Buffers
13 39 (0.75%) CSS
13 39 (0.75%) RESTful
13 39 (0.75%) YAML
14 37 (0.71%) Spring
15 36 (0.69%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 363 (6.98%) Public Cloud
2 246 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 207 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 173 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 164 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
6 126 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 101 (1.94%) PKI
8 100 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 69 (1.33%) IoT
10 65 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 65 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 59 (1.13%) PMI
12 58 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 53 (1.02%) Private Cloud
13 53 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 41 (0.79%) Equities
15 40 (0.77%) Derivative
15 40 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 39 (0.75%) Fixed Income
16 39 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 254 (4.88%) Linux
2 144 (2.77%) Windows
3 47 (0.90%) Ubuntu
4 44 (0.85%) Unix
5 39 (0.75%) Android
6 38 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 36 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 30 (0.58%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.50%) VMS
10 14 (0.27%) SUSE
10 14 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.17%) Solaris
12 4 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.058%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.038%) CentOS
14 2 (0.038%) VME
14 2 (0.038%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.019%) HPUX
15 1 (0.019%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,397 (26.85%) Agile
2 1,230 (23.64%) Roadmaps
3 1,076 (20.68%) TOGAF
4 722 (13.88%) Enterprise Architecture
5 651 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
6 597 (11.47%) Actionable Insight
7 542 (10.42%) Data Modelling
8 533 (10.24%) Strategic Roadmap
9 522 (10.03%) DevOps
9 522 (10.03%) Mentoring
10 504 (9.69%) Data Architecture
11 478 (9.19%) Data Management
12 476 (9.15%) ERP
13 441 (8.48%) Presales
14 430 (8.26%) Technical Architecture
15 426 (8.19%) Microservices
16 404 (7.76%) Migration
17 398 (7.65%) Analytics
18 365 (7.02%) Change Management
19 361 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 295 (5.67%) SQL
2 263 (5.05%) Python
3 248 (4.77%) C#
4 237 (4.56%) Java
5 210 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 90 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 62 (1.19%) C
8 53 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 43 (0.83%) T-SQL
10 42 (0.81%) C++
11 22 (0.42%) Scala
12 21 (0.40%) R
13 19 (0.37%) Bicep
14 18 (0.35%) MATLAB
15 17 (0.33%) Bash
16 16 (0.31%) Ruby
17 15 (0.29%) VB
18 14 (0.27%) Go
18 14 (0.27%) Perl
19 12 (0.23%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 866 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 598 (11.49%) Degree
3 515 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 227 (4.36%) Azure Certification
5 187 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 174 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 174 (3.34%) TOGAF Certification
7 173 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 158 (3.04%) CISSP
9 135 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
10 111 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 95 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 87 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 85 (1.63%) CISM
14 77 (1.48%) Master's Degree
15 67 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 63 (1.21%) PMI Certification
17 60 (1.15%) CCSP
18 51 (0.98%) CCNP
19 45 (0.86%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 173 (3.33%) GDPR
3 90 (1.73%) NIST
4 79 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (1.36%) QA
6 32 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 30 (0.58%) COBIT
8 29 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.54%) SLA
10 18 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.21%) NCSC
13 7 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.13%) ISO 26262
13 7 (0.13%) PMO
14 6 (0.12%) GRC
14 6 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.096%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.077%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 162 (3.11%) Docker
2 94 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.75%) vSphere
5 34 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 19 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 18 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 14 (0.27%) vCloud
11 10 (0.19%) Firmware
12 9 (0.17%) KVM
13 5 (0.096%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.058%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.058%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) HDFS
15 1 (0.019%) Kamailio
15 1 (0.019%) LXC
15 1 (0.019%) OpenAM
15 1 (0.019%) RACF
Systems Management
1 244 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 207 (3.98%) Terraform
3 80 (1.54%) Ansible
4 43 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 37 (0.71%) Puppet
6 21 (0.40%) OpenView
7 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 16 (0.31%) CASB
9 15 (0.29%) Stealthwatch
10 10 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.17%) Grafana
11 9 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.17%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.12%) Endace
13 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.12%) Kibana
14 5 (0.096%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (0.096%) Microsoft Clustering
14 5 (0.096%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 972 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 480 (9.23%) Oracle
3 457 (8.78%) SAP
4 331 (6.36%) Google
5 300 (5.77%) Anaplan
5 300 (5.77%) Hyperion
6 131 (2.52%) Databricks
7 128 (2.46%) Cisco
8 115 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 109 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 86 (1.65%) VMware
11 84 (1.61%) Sparx
12 71 (1.36%) Juniper
13 70 (1.35%) Citrix
14 47 (0.90%) Adobe
15 46 (0.88%) Apple
15 46 (0.88%) IBM
16 45 (0.86%) HP
17 35 (0.67%) Meraki
17 35 (0.67%) MuleSoft