Architectural Design Job Trends in London

Architectural Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Architectural Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 262 314
Rank change year-on-year -9 +52 -14
Permanent jobs citing Architectural Design 100 177 138
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 1.14% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.20% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 41 102 107
10th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £59,127
25th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,750 £108,500
England median annual salary £79,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.63% - +3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Architectural Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,403 14,702 16,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.61% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,935 8,102 13,389
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Architectural Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Architectural Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Architectural Design job vacancy trend in London

Architectural Design
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Architectural Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Architectural Design

Architectural Design
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Architectural Design in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Architectural Design in London

Architectural Design
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Architectural Design within the London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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 +2 12 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Architectural Design
England

Architectural Design
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 2 (2.00%) Apache
1 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.00%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) Azure
2 27 (27.00%) AWS
3 21 (21.00%) Power Platform
4 16 (16.00%) SaaS
5 12 (12.00%) Fivetran
5 12 (12.00%) Snowflake
6 10 (10.00%) GitHub
6 10 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.00%) PowerApps
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.00%) Lucidchart
9 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (4.00%) Serverless
10 3 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.00%) GCP
10 3 (3.00%) PaaS
11 2 (2.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) Looker
1 12 (12.00%) Power BI
1 12 (12.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (12.00%) Tableau
2 3 (3.00%) Metadata
3 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) Big Data
4 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) Balsamiq
2 2 (2.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.00%) GitLab
General
1 62 (62.00%) Finance
1 62 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.00%) Banking
3 21 (21.00%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (19.00%) Law
6 14 (14.00%) Electronics
7 13 (13.00%) Aerospace
7 13 (13.00%) Automotive
7 13 (13.00%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (12.00%) Advertising
8 12 (12.00%) French Language
9 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
10 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (3.00%) Legal
12 2 (2.00%) Marketing
13 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.00%) Retail
13 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (42.00%) Architect
2 35 (35.00%) Senior
3 25 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (17.00%) Development Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Senior Development Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Software Engineer
5 13 (13.00%) Cloud Architect
5 13 (13.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 13 (13.00%) Integration Architect
6 12 (12.00%) Analyst
6 12 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (7.00%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Platform Architect
8 5 (5.00%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) REST
2 13 (13.00%) Middleware
3 5 (5.00%) Spring
4 4 (4.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (3.00%) RESTful
5 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.00%) .NET
6 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.00%) JPA
6 2 (2.00%) Kafka
6 2 (2.00%) Pandas
6 2 (2.00%) React
6 2 (2.00%) SOAP
6 2 (2.00%) Spring MVC
7 1 (1.00%) HTML
7 1 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.00%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Life Science
2 12 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.00%) Blog
5 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.00%) FMCG
7 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.00%) NHS
8 1 (1.00%) Digital Currency
8 1 (1.00%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) CentOS
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.00%) Agile
2 39 (39.00%) Mentoring
3 31 (31.00%) Roadmaps
3 31 (31.00%) Technical Leadership
4 30 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 24 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 23 (23.00%) Microservices
7 21 (21.00%) DevOps
7 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.00%) User Experience
9 18 (18.00%) Coaching
10 17 (17.00%) Code Quality
10 17 (17.00%) Creative Thinking
10 17 (17.00%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (16.00%) Data Engineering
12 15 (15.00%) Business Development
12 15 (15.00%) Decision-Making
12 15 (15.00%) Project Management
13 14 (14.00%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (14.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) Java
2 19 (19.00%) Python
3 18 (18.00%) SQL
4 7 (7.00%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.00%) C#
6 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.00%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.00%) Bash
7 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (57.00%) Degree
2 36 (36.00%) Master's Degree
3 15 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (15.00%) PhD
4 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.00%) CISSP
6 2 (2.00%) MCP
7 1 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.00%) CISM
7 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PMP
7 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) NIST
2 5 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.00%) NCSC
3 4 (4.00%) QA
4 3 (3.00%) GDPR
5 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.00%) Ansible
2 1 (1.00%) Grafana
2 1 (1.00%) Nagios
2 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.00%) Software AG
3 4 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.00%) SAP
5 2 (2.00%) Google
5 2 (2.00%) iManage
5 2 (2.00%) Intapp
6 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle
6 1 (1.00%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.00%) Splunk