Architect Job Trends 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 19 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 38 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 1,325 877 1,882
As % of all permanent jobs in London 6.85% 6.79% 8.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.46% 7.50% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 799 485 1,190
10th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,750 £127,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 17,754 11,701 21,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 90.63% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11,912 7,555 16,645
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Architect job vacancy trend in London

Architect
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Architect job vacancies in London

Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architect in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

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 19 April 2026. 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 +28 359 £95,000 - 124
West London -29 28 £82,500 +65.00% 27
South London +10 15 £112,500 +87.50% 1
East London -13 8 £105,000 +23.53% 8
North London +1 3 £20,000 - 1
Architect
England

Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 April 2026, Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 377 (28.45%) Azure
2 274 (20.68%) AWS
3 268 (20.23%) Roadmaps
4 203 (15.32%) AI
5 197 (14.87%) Microsoft
6 185 (13.96%) Data Architecture
7 169 (12.75%) Agile
8 158 (11.92%) Degree
9 143 (10.79%) DevOps
10 138 (10.42%) Analytics
11 136 (10.26%) Migration
12 134 (10.11%) GCP
13 131 (9.89%) Data Governance
13 131 (9.89%) Security Cleared
14 123 (9.28%) Data Modelling
15 121 (9.13%) Enterprise Architecture
16 117 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
17 112 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
17 112 (8.45%) Microservices
18 107 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
19 106 (8.00%) TOGAF
20 104 (7.85%) Technical Leadership
21 97 (7.32%) Mentoring
22 95 (7.17%) SC Cleared
23 91 (6.87%) Data Strategy
24 90 (6.79%) Machine Learning
25 86 (6.49%) CI/CD
26 85 (6.42%) SQL
26 85 (6.42%) Technology Strategy
27 84 (6.34%) Presales

Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (1.06%) CMS
2 11 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (0.83%) JBoss
3 10 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.75%) WebSphere
4 8 (0.60%) Confluence
5 4 (0.30%) Camunda
6 3 (0.23%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.23%) Apache
7 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.075%) CICS
8 1 (0.075%) Documentum
8 1 (0.075%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.075%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (0.45%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.30%) Maya
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
3 15 (1.13%) Oracle Financials
4 14 (1.06%) Oracle Assets
4 14 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.38%) Shopify
8 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.15%) Endur
9 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.15%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.15%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.15%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 377 (28.45%) Azure
2 274 (20.68%) AWS
3 134 (10.11%) GCP
4 82 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 81 (6.11%) SaaS
6 50 (3.77%) Serverless
7 45 (3.40%) PaaS
8 43 (3.25%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.87%) Snowflake
10 37 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 28 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.66%) GitHub
14 22 (1.66%) IaaS
15 20 (1.51%) Azure AI
15 20 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (1.51%) PowerApps
16 19 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
17 17 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.02%) Firewall
2 31 (2.34%) WAN
3 30 (2.26%) Network Security
4 22 (1.66%) SD-WAN
5 19 (1.43%) LAN
6 18 (1.36%) Broadband
7 15 (1.13%) DSL
8 9 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.68%) Wireless
9 7 (0.53%) MPLS
10 6 (0.45%) Cisco Wireless
10 6 (0.45%) VLAN
10 6 (0.45%) WLAN
11 5 (0.38%) VPN
12 3 (0.23%) DHCP
12 3 (0.23%) DNS
12 3 (0.23%) Internet
12 3 (0.23%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.23%) VoIP
12 3 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (4.91%) Data Lake
2 44 (3.32%) Power BI
3 42 (3.17%) Metadata
4 33 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (2.34%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.06%) Data Vault
7 11 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.75%) Delta Lake
8 10 (0.75%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.45%) Redis
12 5 (0.38%) Big Data
12 5 (0.38%) DB2
12 5 (0.38%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.38%) Tableau
13 4 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 26 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.06%) GitLab
3 9 (0.68%) JIRA
4 7 (0.53%) Git
5 5 (0.38%) Balsamiq
5 5 (0.38%) MLflow
6 4 (0.30%) Postman
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.075%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.075%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.075%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.075%) rollup.js
8 1 (0.075%) Selenium
8 1 (0.075%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.075%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.075%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.075%) Visual Studio
General
1 307 (23.17%) Finance
2 277 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 98 (7.40%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (6.57%) Banking
6 74 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (4.98%) Law
8 47 (3.55%) Retail
9 45 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (3.25%) Legal
11 39 (2.94%) Financial Institution
12 33 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.66%) Back Office
14 20 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.36%) Games
16 16 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (1.13%) Marketing
17 15 (1.13%) Retail Banking
18 14 (1.06%) Aviation
19 12 (0.91%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.70%) Middleware
2 37 (2.79%) .NET
3 35 (2.64%) REST
4 23 (1.74%) OAuth
4 23 (1.74%) Spring
5 19 (1.43%) OpenID
5 19 (1.43%) SOAP
6 18 (1.36%) SAML
7 17 (1.28%) RESTful
8 16 (1.21%) Kafka
8 16 (1.21%) LDAP
9 15 (1.13%) GraphQL
10 14 (1.06%) AWS CDK
11 13 (0.98%) Hibernate
11 13 (0.98%) React
12 12 (0.91%) Swagger
13 11 (0.83%) Node.js
14 10 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (0.75%) Spring Boot
15 9 (0.68%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.08%) Cloud Native
2 40 (3.02%) Data Centre
3 30 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 26 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 25 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 12 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (0.75%) DataPower
11 10 (0.75%) Onboarding
12 9 (0.68%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.60%) IoT
13 8 (0.60%) PKI
13 8 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.98%) Windows
2 8 (0.60%) Linux
3 5 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.23%) Android
4 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.15%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (20.23%) Roadmaps
2 203 (15.32%) AI
3 185 (13.96%) Data Architecture
4 169 (12.75%) Agile
5 143 (10.79%) DevOps
6 138 (10.42%) Analytics
7 136 (10.26%) Migration
8 131 (9.89%) Data Governance
9 123 (9.28%) Data Modelling
10 121 (9.13%) Enterprise Architecture
11 117 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 112 (8.45%) Architectural Patterns
12 112 (8.45%) Microservices
13 107 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
14 106 (8.00%) TOGAF
15 104 (7.85%) Technical Leadership
16 97 (7.32%) Mentoring
17 91 (6.87%) Data Strategy
18 90 (6.79%) Machine Learning
19 86 (6.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 85 (6.42%) SQL
2 82 (6.19%) Python
3 50 (3.77%) Java
4 29 (2.19%) C#
5 25 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 23 (1.74%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.58%) Go
8 13 (0.98%) Rust
8 13 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.60%) Bash
10 5 (0.38%) Scala
11 4 (0.30%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.30%) Bicep
11 4 (0.30%) C++
11 4 (0.30%) Ruby
11 4 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.23%) PHP
13 2 (0.15%) C
13 2 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 158 (11.92%) Degree
2 131 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 95 (7.17%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 41 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 37 (2.79%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.72%) CISSP
8 34 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 33 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 22 (1.66%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (1.36%) CCIE
14 15 (1.13%) CCNP
15 13 (0.98%) OSCP
16 11 (0.83%) CISM
17 8 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 7 (0.53%) FFIEC
19 6 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.57%) Data Quality
2 25 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (1.66%) GDPR
3 22 (1.66%) NIST
4 14 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 12 (0.91%) NCSC
5 12 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.68%) PMO
8 8 (0.60%) QA
9 6 (0.45%) GRC
10 5 (0.38%) WCAG
11 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.23%) IFRS
11 3 (0.23%) SEPA
12 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.15%) TARGET2
13 1 (0.075%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 33 (2.49%) Docker
2 27 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.38%) IAG
4 5 (0.38%) vSphere
5 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.075%) Firmware
7 1 (0.075%) NLBS
7 1 (0.075%) vCloud
7 1 (0.075%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 52 (3.92%) Terraform
3 24 (1.81%) Ansible
4 18 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.15%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.15%) Grafana
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.15%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.15%) VxRail
7 1 (0.075%) Argo
7 1 (0.075%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.075%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.075%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.075%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 197 (14.87%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.98%) Databricks
3 57 (4.30%) Oracle
4 56 (4.23%) SAP
5 47 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.02%) Google
7 25 (1.89%) Cisco
8 21 (1.58%) Dell
9 20 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.98%) Ariba
13 11 (0.83%) Meraki
13 11 (0.83%) Workday
14 10 (0.75%) VMware
15 9 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.68%) Software AG
16 8 (0.60%) Adobe
16 8 (0.60%) Concur
16 8 (0.60%) IBM