IT Architect Jobs in London

IT Architect
England > London

The median IT Architect salary in London is £89,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 430 545
Rank change year-on-year +80 +115 +300
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Architect 42 62 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 17
10th Percentile £80,675 £71,000 £78,250
25th Percentile £82,438 £81,250 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,750 £92,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +12.12% -13.16%
75th Percentile £98,938 £100,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £101,825 - £101,500
England median annual salary £81,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

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 11,325 22,537 31,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.40% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,851 16,746 23,073
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,108 £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 £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

IT Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Architect in London

IT Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for IT Architect in London

IT Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Architect in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Architect in London

IT 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 IT Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +22 1 £97,500 -2.50%
IT Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, IT 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 IT Architect in the job title.

1 37 (88.10%) Law
2 35 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (83.33%) Business Strategy
3 33 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (71.43%) Degree
5 29 (69.05%) Finance
6 27 (64.29%) Games
6 27 (64.29%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (61.90%) Risk Management
8 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
8 23 (54.76%) IT Strategy
8 23 (54.76%) Maya
8 23 (54.76%) Mathematics
8 23 (54.76%) Analytics
9 22 (52.38%) Integration Patterns
10 21 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
11 20 (47.62%) ERP
12 19 (45.24%) SAP
12 19 (45.24%) Azure
12 19 (45.24%) Roadmaps
13 18 (42.86%) GCP
13 18 (42.86%) AWS
13 18 (42.86%) Agile
14 17 (40.48%) Marketing
15 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
16 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
17 14 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
17 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
17 14 (33.33%) Data Lake
17 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

IT 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 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (54.76%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (19.05%) SAP IBP
2 8 (19.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (7.14%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 19 (45.24%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 18 (42.86%) GCP
3 11 (26.19%) Boomi
3 11 (26.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 8 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 8 (19.05%) SaaS
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.52%) PaaS
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
6 3 (7.14%) IaaS
6 3 (7.14%) Miro
6 3 (7.14%) Oracle CX
6 3 (7.14%) Serverless
7 2 (4.76%) iPaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Akamai
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (19.05%) Power BI
2 8 (19.05%) SAP BW
2 8 (19.05%) Tableau
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (7.14%) Data Mining
3 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 37 (88.10%) Law
2 35 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (69.05%) Finance
4 27 (64.29%) Games
5 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
6 17 (40.48%) Marketing
7 13 (30.95%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (26.19%) Retail
9 9 (21.43%) Dutch Language
9 9 (21.43%) French Language
10 7 (16.67%) Automotive
10 7 (16.67%) Banking
10 7 (16.67%) Manufacturing
10 7 (16.67%) Telecoms
11 5 (11.90%) Legal
12 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (2.38%) Military
13 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Middleware
2 3 (7.14%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (64.29%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 11 (26.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (16.67%) PMI
4 7 (16.67%) Reinsurance
5 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (7.14%) Machine to Machine
6 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
6 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (2.38%) IoT
8 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) Business Strategy
2 33 (78.57%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (61.90%) Risk Management
4 23 (54.76%) Analytics
4 23 (54.76%) IT Strategy
4 23 (54.76%) Mathematics
5 22 (52.38%) Integration Patterns
6 21 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
7 20 (47.62%) ERP
8 19 (45.24%) Roadmaps
9 18 (42.86%) Agile
10 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
11 14 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (30.95%) Project Management
13 12 (28.57%) Project Delivery
13 12 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (26.19%) Customer Experience
14 11 (26.19%) Microservices
14 11 (26.19%) Quote-to-Cash
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Python
2 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.76%) Java
3 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (71.43%) Degree
2 7 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 5 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (9.52%) CCSP
4 4 (9.52%) CISSP
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.38%) ACSA
7 1 (2.38%) ACSP
7 1 (2.38%) CCSK
7 1 (2.38%) GIAC
7 1 (2.38%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) NIST
2 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (7.14%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.38%) COBIT
4 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 3 (7.14%) Puppet
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) SAP
2 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.19%) Adobe
3 11 (26.19%) Dell
3 11 (26.19%) MuleSoft
3 11 (26.19%) Oracle
3 11 (26.19%) Salesforce
4 9 (21.43%) Google
5 8 (19.05%) Ariba
6 3 (7.14%) Alibaba
6 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.14%) Zoho
7 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.38%) Netskope
7 1 (2.38%) Okta
7 1 (2.38%) Workday
7 1 (2.38%) Zscaler