Architect Job Trends in England

Architect
UK > England

The median Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 60 29
Rank change year-on-year +33 -31 +1
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 4,484 1,836 5,086
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.12% 4.24% 5.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.43% 4.69% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,153 1,133 3,301
10th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £56,809
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

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 82,591 39,177 83,567
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,075 23,624 60,974
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,233 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Architect job vacancy trend in England

Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in England

Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 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
London +29 1,948 £95,000 +2.70% 579
North of England +94 958 £80,000 +6.67% 180
North West +102 567 £85,000 +13.33% 105
South East +10 475 £85,000 +9.68% 183
South West +44 413 £80,000 -4.48% 91
Midlands +15 403 £80,000 +10.34% 95
West Midlands +18 322 £82,500 +10.00% 71
Yorkshire +32 232 £80,000 - 42
East of England +53 178 £80,000 +14.29% 43
North East +13 159 £80,000 +23.08% 33
East Midlands -27 80 £60,000 -9.43% 24
Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 2026, 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 Architect in the job title.

1 1,002 (22.35%) Azure
2 795 (17.73%) AWS
3 699 (15.59%) Roadmaps
4 658 (14.67%) AI
5 631 (14.07%) Security Cleared
6 577 (12.87%) Microsoft
7 429 (9.57%) Agile
8 411 (9.17%) Analytics
9 403 (8.99%) Enterprise Architecture
10 399 (8.90%) SC Cleared
11 393 (8.76%) Data Architecture
12 359 (8.01%) TOGAF
13 354 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
14 334 (7.45%) Data Modelling
15 319 (7.11%) DevOps
16 313 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 295 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
18 292 (6.51%) Degree
18 292 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 281 (6.27%) CI/CD
20 263 (5.87%) Migration
21 262 (5.84%) GCP
22 256 (5.71%) Mentoring
23 252 (5.62%) Data Governance
24 246 (5.49%) Decision-Making
25 241 (5.37%) Technology Strategy
26 239 (5.33%) Presales
26 239 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
27 237 (5.29%) Architectural Patterns
28 227 (5.06%) Microservices

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 28 (0.62%) Confluence
2 26 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 18 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.40%) CMS
4 15 (0.33%) SAS
5 10 (0.22%) Apache
5 10 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.13%) Camunda
7 6 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.11%) IIS
8 5 (0.11%) JBoss
8 5 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.067%) Documentum
10 3 (0.067%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.045%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.045%) Drupal
11 2 (0.045%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (0.47%) PlantUML
2 18 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 18 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 15 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.089%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.089%) Revit
7 2 (0.045%) ArchiCAD
7 2 (0.045%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.045%) Simulink
7 2 (0.045%) Windchill
8 1 (0.022%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.022%) Maya
Business Applications
1 102 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 13 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 11 (0.25%) Endur
5 11 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 11 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 9 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 8 (0.18%) SAP MDG
8 8 (0.18%) Shopify
9 6 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
10 5 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.11%) SAP IBP
10 5 (0.11%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
11 4 (0.089%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.089%) SAP Retail
12 3 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (22.35%) Azure
2 795 (17.73%) AWS
3 262 (5.84%) GCP
4 202 (4.50%) SaaS
5 198 (4.42%) Power Platform
6 120 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
7 111 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
8 108 (2.41%) Serverless
9 95 (2.12%) PaaS
10 91 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 87 (1.94%) Snowflake
12 86 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
13 78 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 60 (1.34%) IaaS
15 48 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
16 46 (1.03%) GitHub
17 40 (0.89%) dbt
18 38 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
19 37 (0.83%) Amazon S3
20 36 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 131 (2.92%) Firewall
2 102 (2.27%) Network Security
3 85 (1.90%) WAN
4 60 (1.34%) VPN
5 57 (1.27%) SD-WAN
6 56 (1.25%) Internet
7 53 (1.18%) LAN
8 47 (1.05%) DNS
9 37 (0.83%) Broadband
10 32 (0.71%) MPLS
11 23 (0.51%) BGP
12 20 (0.45%) VLAN
13 19 (0.42%) SNMP
14 18 (0.40%) Kerberos
14 18 (0.40%) Wireless
15 16 (0.36%) HTTP
15 16 (0.36%) VoIP
16 15 (0.33%) CTI
16 15 (0.33%) WLAN
17 14 (0.31%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (2.48%) Metadata
2 108 (2.41%) Data Lake
3 78 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (1.74%) Power BI
4 45 (1.00%) SQL Server
5 39 (0.87%) Data Vault
6 36 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.58%) Delta Lake
7 26 (0.58%) MongoDB
8 22 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (0.49%) NoSQL
8 22 (0.49%) SAP HANA
9 21 (0.47%) Tableau
10 20 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 17 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
12 15 (0.33%) Big Data
12 15 (0.33%) Db2
13 13 (0.29%) Semantic Layer
14 11 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 34 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 25 (0.56%) Snyk
3 19 (0.42%) Git
4 15 (0.33%) GitLab
5 13 (0.29%) JIRA
6 10 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 8 (0.18%) MLflow
8 5 (0.11%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.11%) Toad
8 5 (0.11%) Yeoman
9 4 (0.089%) ERwin
10 3 (0.067%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.045%) Maven
11 2 (0.045%) Postman
11 2 (0.045%) rollup.js
12 1 (0.022%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.022%) JMeter
12 1 (0.022%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.022%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.022%) Selenium
General
1 669 (14.92%) Finance
2 614 (13.69%) Social Skills
3 330 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 182 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 172 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
7 110 (2.45%) Retail
8 101 (2.25%) Law
9 83 (1.85%) Legal
10 81 (1.81%) Banking
11 57 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 56 (1.25%) Marketing
13 51 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 35 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 34 (0.76%) Back Office
17 33 (0.74%) Games
18 31 (0.69%) Military
19 27 (0.60%) Aviation
20 26 (0.58%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (1.94%) .NET
2 85 (1.90%) Middleware
3 68 (1.52%) REST
4 57 (1.27%) Kafka
5 55 (1.23%) OAuth
6 48 (1.07%) Node.js
7 45 (1.00%) SAML
8 39 (0.87%) LDAP
9 38 (0.85%) SOAP
10 35 (0.78%) RESTful
11 34 (0.76%) OpenID
12 30 (0.67%) PySpark
13 27 (0.60%) Spring
14 24 (0.54%) JSON
14 24 (0.54%) Spring Boot
14 24 (0.54%) XML
15 22 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
16 20 (0.45%) React
17 18 (0.40%) Regular Expression
18 16 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 291 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 144 (3.21%) Data Centre
3 119 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 92 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
5 86 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 62 (1.38%) Product Ownership
7 56 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
8 46 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 45 (1.00%) Operational Technology
10 44 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
10 44 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 44 (0.98%) Management Information System
11 35 (0.78%) Blog
12 34 (0.76%) Cyberattack
13 33 (0.74%) Public Cloud
14 29 (0.65%) PKI
14 29 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.62%) Data Structures
16 23 (0.51%) IoT
17 20 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (1.72%) Windows
2 65 (1.45%) Linux
3 44 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.067%) Unix
6 2 (0.045%) Android
6 2 (0.045%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.045%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.022%) AIX
7 1 (0.022%) CentOS
7 1 (0.022%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (15.59%) Roadmaps
2 658 (14.67%) AI
3 429 (9.57%) Agile
4 411 (9.17%) Analytics
5 403 (8.99%) Enterprise Architecture
6 393 (8.76%) Data Architecture
7 359 (8.01%) TOGAF
8 354 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 334 (7.45%) Data Modelling
10 319 (7.11%) DevOps
11 313 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 295 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
13 292 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 281 (6.27%) CI/CD
15 263 (5.87%) Migration
16 256 (5.71%) Mentoring
17 252 (5.62%) Data Governance
18 246 (5.49%) Decision-Making
19 241 (5.37%) Technology Strategy
20 239 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 206 (4.59%) Python
1 206 (4.59%) SQL
2 83 (1.85%) C#
3 77 (1.72%) Java
4 69 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 41 (0.91%) Bicep
6 39 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 32 (0.71%) TypeScript
8 22 (0.49%) Go
9 18 (0.40%) Scala
10 16 (0.36%) C++
11 12 (0.27%) Rust
12 11 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.25%) Bash
12 11 (0.25%) C
13 10 (0.22%) RPG
14 7 (0.16%) SOQL
15 6 (0.13%) SOSL
16 5 (0.11%) Embedded C
16 5 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 631 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 399 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 292 (6.51%) Degree
4 214 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 116 (2.59%) CISSP
6 94 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 88 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 83 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 81 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 79 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 47 (1.05%) CISM
13 46 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 34 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 32 (0.71%) CCNP
17 31 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 27 (0.60%) CCIE
19 22 (0.49%) CCSP
20 17 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 134 (2.99%) NIST
3 98 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 71 (1.58%) GDPR
5 56 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 52 (1.16%) GRC
7 36 (0.80%) NCSC
8 34 (0.76%) QA
9 26 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 21 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 13 (0.29%) WCAG
12 12 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.25%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.18%) PMO
15 7 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.16%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 56 (1.25%) Docker
3 53 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (0.83%) vSphere
6 22 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.20%) Firmware
8 6 (0.13%) vCloud
9 5 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.11%) IAG
10 4 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.022%) GPFS
11 1 (0.022%) Lustre
11 1 (0.022%) NLBS
11 1 (0.022%) UAG
11 1 (0.022%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.022%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 133 (2.97%) Terraform
2 112 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 52 (1.16%) Ansible
4 50 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (0.38%) FortiGate
6 16 (0.36%) MOM
7 12 (0.27%) CASB
8 9 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.13%) Endace
10 5 (0.11%) Grafana
10 5 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.089%) vRealize
12 3 (0.067%) Argo
13 2 (0.045%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.045%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.045%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.045%) VxRail
14 1 (0.022%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.022%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.022%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 577 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 195 (4.35%) Databricks
3 171 (3.81%) SAP
4 113 (2.52%) Cisco
5 97 (2.16%) Oracle
6 96 (2.14%) VMware
7 92 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 91 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 64 (1.43%) Google
10 55 (1.23%) Palo Alto
11 38 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
12 32 (0.71%) Tenable
13 28 (0.62%) Dell
13 28 (0.62%) Fortinet
13 28 (0.62%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.54%) Workday
15 21 (0.47%) Juniper
15 21 (0.47%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.45%) Adobe
16 20 (0.45%) Genesys