Architect Jobs in Essex

Architect
East of England > Essex

The median Architect salary in Essex is £86,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 60 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 -30 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 2 19 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 0.42% 2.17% 8.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 2.29% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 31
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84,000 £50,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +18.75% -8.57%
75th Percentile £88,000 £100,000 £89,375
90th Percentile - - £102,500
East of England median annual salary £66,200 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -22.12% +3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 416 828 665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.49% 94.52% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 220 677 371
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,188 £30,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £62,813 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Essex

Architect
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Architect in Essex

Architect
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Essex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Basildon +12 1 - - 10
Chelmsford - 1 £86,000 - 3
Architect
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Essex region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) StreamSets