Architect Jobs in Kent

Architect
South East > Kent

The median Architect salary in Kent is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -35
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 18 25 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.20% 2.22% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 2.60% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile - £57,000 £59,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £60,313 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -15.49% +7.58%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £102,188
90th Percentile £115,000 £134,825 £103,750
South East median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 1,391 963 1,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 85.68% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 531 727
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,500 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,400 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Kent

Architect
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Architect in Kent

Architect
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in Kent over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Architect in Kent

Architect
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the Kent region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Chatham +11 5 £70,000 -47.86%
Dartford -6 5 £100,000 +66.67%
Westerham - 4 - -
Maidstone +8 2 £110,000 +46.67%
Tunbridge Wells -3 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 Kent region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
5 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (16.67%) Coaching
5 3 (16.67%) New Relic
5 3 (16.67%) Docker
5 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 3 (16.67%) Grafana
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Business Case
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 3 (16.67%) Coaching
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Observability
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
1 3 (16.67%) New Relic
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) VMware