Architect Jobs in Kent

Architect
South East > Kent

The median Architect salary in Kent is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 87 80
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 +15
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 7 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.87% 1.18% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.27% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 8
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £94,375 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,750 £115,000 £98,900
South East median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £83,000
% change year-on-year - -9.64% +10.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 553 1,420 943
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 68.44% 93.36% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 319 1,048 512
10th Percentile £25,950 £25,850 £27,050
25th Percentile £30,375 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,063 £60,800
90th Percentile £68,750 £69,125 £70,600
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Rochester - 3 - -
Chatham +5 2 £82,500 +17.86% 4
Architect
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Kent region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (42.86%) CISSP
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
3 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Databricks
4 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Alation
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (42.86%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks