Architect Jobs in Oxford

Architect
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Architect salary in Oxford is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 46 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Architect 4 18 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 1.74% 2.76% 3.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.90% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £86,350 - £78,500
25th Percentile £87,250 - £83,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £60,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.17% -33.33% +16.13%
75th Percentile £96,750 - £107,500
90th Percentile £97,050 - £108,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £90,250 £81,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.42% -14.74% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 210 621 389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 95.39% 84.93%
Number of salaries quoted 126 463 274
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £69,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Architect in Oxford

Architect
Salary Trend in Oxford

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

Salary trend for Architect in Oxford

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Oxford region featuring Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) NHS
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Automotive
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) B2B
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) AWS

Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki