Architect Jobs in London

Architect
England > London

The median Architect salary in London is £90,000 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 47 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 +46
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 733 1,924 2,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.82% 8.14% 8.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.46% 8.64% 9.40%
Number of salaries quoted 400 1,150 1,847
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £68,750
25th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year - -2.35% -2.47%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,351 22,273 31,745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.27% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,836 16,614 23,412
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,785 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.83% +1.33%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in London

Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Architect in London

Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Architect in London

Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architect within the London 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
Central London -20 138 £95,000 +5.56% 86
West London -38 19 £50,000 -41.18% 148
South London -47 5 £60,000 -27.27% 7
East London -22 1 £85,000 -29.17% 7
Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 314 (42.84%) Azure
2 238 (32.47%) Finance
3 221 (30.15%) AWS
4 219 (29.88%) Agile
5 209 (28.51%) Social Skills
6 203 (27.69%) Roadmaps
7 199 (27.15%) Degree
8 166 (22.65%) Microsoft
9 137 (18.69%) GCP
10 134 (18.28%) TOGAF
11 119 (16.23%) DevOps
12 115 (15.69%) Data Architecture
13 109 (14.87%) Migration
14 108 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (14.46%) Analytics
16 102 (13.92%) Artificial Intelligence
17 97 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
18 93 (12.69%) Microservices
19 92 (12.55%) CI/CD
19 92 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
20 90 (12.28%) Law
20 90 (12.28%) Computer Science
21 88 (12.01%) Business Strategy
22 84 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
23 83 (11.32%) Banking
24 82 (11.19%) Data Modelling
24 82 (11.19%) Security Cleared
24 82 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
24 82 (11.19%) Cloud Native
25 81 (11.05%) Data Governance

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 23 (3.14%) Confluence
2 12 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
6 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.41%) CMS
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.27%) Appian
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.41%) Maya
2 10 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.27%) Blender
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 32 (4.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.23%) Postilion
3 9 (1.23%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.41%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.41%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.27%) Magento
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.27%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 314 (42.84%) Azure
2 221 (30.15%) AWS
3 137 (18.69%) GCP
4 68 (9.28%) SaaS
5 58 (7.91%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
7 35 (4.77%) Serverless
8 27 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (3.68%) PaaS
9 25 (3.41%) Power Automate
10 24 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (3.14%) Snowflake
12 22 (3.00%) IaaS
13 20 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.59%) PowerApps
15 17 (2.32%) Azure AI
15 17 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (2.18%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.91%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.32%) Firewall
2 35 (4.77%) Network Security
3 13 (1.77%) DNS
4 10 (1.36%) Unified Communications
5 9 (1.23%) ATM
5 9 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.23%) VPN
5 9 (1.23%) WAN
6 8 (1.09%) DHCP
7 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.95%) VoIP
8 5 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.68%) ISDN
8 5 (0.68%) LAN
9 4 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.55%) Wireless
10 3 (0.41%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.41%) Data Lake
2 39 (5.32%) Power BI
3 36 (4.91%) Metadata
4 32 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.64%) Big Data
8 10 (1.36%) SAP BW
8 10 (1.36%) Tableau
9 9 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.68%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.68%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.55%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.55%) KDB
14 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (3.68%) JIRA
2 25 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.46%) Ant
3 18 (2.46%) Maven
3 18 (2.46%) SonarQube
3 18 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 18 (2.46%) TeamCity
4 11 (1.50%) GitLab
5 6 (0.82%) Git
6 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
6 1 (0.14%) NUnit
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 238 (32.47%) Finance
2 209 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 97 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (12.28%) Law
5 83 (11.32%) Banking
6 68 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 37 (5.05%) Retail
9 36 (4.91%) Marketing
10 35 (4.77%) Games
11 30 (4.09%) Retail Banking
12 27 (3.68%) Legal
13 26 (3.55%) Financial Institution
14 25 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (3.27%) Telecoms
16 19 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.91%) Manufacturing
18 9 (1.23%) Dutch Language
18 9 (1.23%) French Language
19 8 (1.09%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.05%) Kafka
2 32 (4.37%) .NET
3 29 (3.96%) REST
4 23 (3.14%) Middleware
5 16 (2.18%) SOAP
6 15 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (2.05%) RESTful
7 13 (1.77%) JSON
8 11 (1.50%) HTML
9 10 (1.36%) .NET Framework
9 10 (1.36%) CSS
10 9 (1.23%) ADO
10 9 (1.23%) WebSockets
10 9 (1.23%) XML
11 8 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (1.09%) MERN Stack
11 8 (1.09%) Web Services
12 7 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (0.82%) ARM Templates
13 6 (0.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 82 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 51 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 21 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 18 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.64%) Mainframe
10 11 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.36%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.23%) IBM Mainframe
12 9 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.09%) Mobile Games
13 8 (1.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.50%) Linux
2 17 (2.32%) Windows
3 12 (1.64%) zOS
4 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (29.88%) Agile
2 203 (27.69%) Roadmaps
3 134 (18.28%) TOGAF
4 119 (16.23%) DevOps
5 115 (15.69%) Data Architecture
6 109 (14.87%) Migration
7 108 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (14.46%) Analytics
9 102 (13.92%) Artificial Intelligence
10 93 (12.69%) Microservices
11 92 (12.55%) CI/CD
11 92 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 90 (12.28%) Computer Science
13 88 (12.01%) Business Strategy
14 82 (11.19%) Cybersecurity
14 82 (11.19%) Data Modelling
15 81 (11.05%) Data Governance
16 80 (10.91%) Enterprise Architecture
17 71 (9.69%) Technical Leadership
18 70 (9.55%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 80 (10.91%) Python
2 64 (8.73%) SQL
3 48 (6.55%) Java
4 44 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 31 (4.23%) C#
6 21 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.77%) Bash
8 12 (1.64%) TypeScript
9 11 (1.50%) Bicep
10 6 (0.82%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.68%) Scala
12 4 (0.55%) COBOL
13 3 (0.41%) JCL
14 2 (0.27%) C
14 2 (0.27%) C++
14 2 (0.27%) R
14 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 199 (27.15%) Degree
2 84 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (11.19%) Security Cleared
4 79 (10.78%) AWS Certification
5 68 (9.28%) SC Cleared
6 60 (8.19%) Azure Certification
7 38 (5.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 17 (2.32%) CISSP
10 14 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (1.23%) CISM
13 8 (1.09%) CCNP
13 8 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 8 (1.09%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.68%) CRISC
14 5 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (0.55%) CCSP
15 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.55%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.46%) GDPR
2 32 (4.37%) NIST
3 31 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (3.68%) HIPAA
5 15 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (1.77%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.50%) NCSC
8 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.23%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.82%) QA
11 4 (0.55%) COBIT
11 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.27%) PMO
13 1 (0.14%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 44 (6.00%) Docker
2 10 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) ACF2
6 1 (0.14%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (0.14%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.14%) RACF
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (6.96%) Terraform
2 50 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 20 (2.73%) Ansible
4 16 (2.18%) Grafana
4 16 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.09%) SCCM
8 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.41%) Puppet
10 2 (0.27%) Argo
10 2 (0.27%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.27%) Nessus
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco UCCX
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
11 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 166 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.19%) Google
3 48 (6.55%) SAP
4 43 (5.87%) Oracle
4 43 (5.87%) ServiceNow
5 36 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 32 (4.37%) Databricks
7 20 (2.73%) Cisco
8 19 (2.59%) IBM
9 17 (2.32%) Workday
10 14 (1.91%) Dell
10 14 (1.91%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.77%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.50%) Adobe
13 10 (1.36%) VMware
14 9 (1.23%) Ariba
14 9 (1.23%) Informatica
15 8 (1.09%) F5
16 5 (0.68%) Meraki
16 5 (0.68%) Splunk