Architect Jobs in Gloucestershire

Architect
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Architect salary in Gloucestershire is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 August 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 89 26
Rank change year-on-year +46 -63 +59
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring an Architect 17 26 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.75% 1.81% 10.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 1.88% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 15
10th Percentile £81,250 £64,250 £61,560
25th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £63,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +3.03% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £90,000 £107,500
90th Percentile - £91,000 £119,000
South West median annual salary £85,700 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.27% - +3.45%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 579 1,385 981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.18% 90.08%
Number of salaries quoted 388 869 545
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,572 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,375 £78,750 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £54,361
% change year-on-year -4.63% -8.02% +8.72%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Gloucestershire

Architect
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Architect
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in Gloucestershire

Architect
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +40 13 £100,000 +25.00% 6
Gloucester +33 3 £95,000 +5.56% 11
Architect
South West

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

For the 6 months to 24 August 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) DV Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (17.65%) Linux
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Azure
7 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
7 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
7 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) GCP
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Zachman Framework
7 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
7 2 (11.76%) Google
7 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
7 2 (11.76%) Finance
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
7 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.76%) Social Skills

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
3 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.76%) ETL
4 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
4 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Microservices
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
4 2 (11.76%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
1 1 (5.88%) VB
1 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) MCP
4 1 (5.88%) MCSA
4 1 (5.88%) MCSE
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) BitLocker
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) McAfee
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Symantec
2 1 (5.88%) VMware